Collaborative Learning-Based Spectrum Sensing Under Partial Observations

doi:10.1109/TCCN.2024.3391320

Collaborative Learning-Based Spectrum Sensing Under Partial Observations

2024-10-01

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DOI：10.1109/TCCN.2024.3391320

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To deal with the complex wireless cognitive radios, data-driven learning technologies have been advocated for spectrum sensing. While the existing learning-based methods are designed for basic single-band circumstances, they may not work well in practical wideband regimes. Due to the limited sensing capability and hardware constraints of practical secondary users (SUs) devices, individual SUs can only collect limited training data to observe a narrowband part of the entire wideband spectrum pool. It is known as the issue of partial observations, which leads to a heterogeneous multi-task learning problem. To overcome these challenges, this work proposes a novel framework of cooperative spectrum sensing via collaborative learning among distributed SUs. Capitalizing on the hierarchical nature of neurons of deep neural networks (DNN) in heterogeneous feature extraction, we propose a novel multi-task DNN architecture to detect wideband spectrum occupancy accurately and efficiently. By decoupling the large multi-band DNN into smaller band-specific sub-networks, these sub-networks can be jointly trained among distributed SUs even with heterogeneous local data. Simulation results indicate that our proposed method outperforms existing benchmarks in small-data regimes by achieving higher learning accuracy with less model complexity and computational cost.

Keywords:

Sensors

Wideband

Radio spectrum management

Feature extraction

Cooperative communication

Collaboration

Training

Cognitive radio

spectrum sensing

collaborative learning

partial observation

deep neural network

decoupling

Collaborative Learning-Based Spectrum Sensing Under Partial Observations

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