Blind Spectrum Detector for Cognitive Radio using Compressed Sensing

International audienceBased on the sparse property of the cyclic autocorrelation in the cyclic frequencies domain, this paper proposes a new blind spectrum sensing method which uses the compressed sensing technique in order to detect free bands in the radio spectrum. This new sensing method that presents a relative low complexity has the particularity to perform blind and robust detection with only few samples (short observation time) and without any knowledge about the cyclic frequency of the signal, in contrary to cyclostationary detection methods that are not robust when the sample size is small and might need some information about the signal in order to detect. ROC curves obtained by simulation show the superiority of the new proposed technique over cyclostationary detection under the same conditions, particularly the same observation time

Blind Spectrum Detector for Cognitive Radio Using Compressed Sensing and Symmetry Property of theSecond Order Cyclic Autocorrelation

International audienceBased on the use of compressed sensing applied to recover the sparse cyclic autocorrelation (CA) in the cyclic frequencies domain on the one hand, and by exploiting the symmetry property of the cyclic autocorrelation on the other hand, this paper proposes a new totally blind narrow band spectrum sensing algorithm with relatively low complexity in order to detect free bands in the radio spectrum. This new sensing method uses only few iterations of the Orthogonal Matching Pursuit algorithm and have the particularity to perform robust detection with only few samples (short observation time). This new method outperforms the totally blind method proposed in [1] that only exploited the sparse property of the CA without requiring any additional calculation complexity for the same SNR and data samples number