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  In this paper we uate the performance of cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) where each cognitive radio (CR) employs an improved energy detector (IED) with multiple antennas and uses selection combining (SC) for detecting the primary user (PU) in noisy and faded sensing (S) channels. We derive an expression for the probability of false alarm and expressions for probability of missed detection in non-faded (AWGN) and Rayleigh faded sensing environments in terms of cumulative distribution function (CDF). Each CR transmits its decision about PU via noisy and faded reporting (R) channel to fusion center (FC).