Cognitive radio technique is applied to Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANET) to increase frequency bandwidth. Spectrum sensing for opportunistic spectrum access is carried out collaboratively among neighboring vehicles. For the collaborative spectrum sensing, Belief Propagation (BP) is applied to tackle the distributed observations and to exploit redundancies in both space and time. The corresponding performance is analyzed for a three-vehicle case and is demonstrated using numerical simulations.
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Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2010-Spring), 2010 IEEE 71st
Date of Conference: 16-19 May 2010