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Multiband Spectrum Access: Great Promises for Future Cognitive Radio Networks
Cognitive radio has been widely considered as one of the prominent solutions
to tackle the spectrum scarcity. While the majority of existing research has
focused on single-band cognitive radio, multiband cognitive radio represents
great promises towards implementing efficient cognitive networks compared to
single-based networks. Multiband cognitive radio networks (MB-CRNs) are
expected to significantly enhance the network's throughput and provide better
channel maintenance by reducing handoff frequency. Nevertheless, the wideband
front-end and the multiband spectrum access impose a number of challenges yet
to overcome. This paper provides an in-depth analysis on the recent
advancements in multiband spectrum sensing techniques, their limitations, and
possible future directions to improve them. We study cooperative communications
for MB-CRNs to tackle a fundamental limit on diversity and sampling. We also
investigate several limits and tradeoffs of various design parameters for
MB-CRNs. In addition, we explore the key MB-CRNs performance metrics that
differ from the conventional metrics used for single-band based networks.Comment: 22 pages, 13 figures; published in the Proceedings of the IEEE
Journal, Special Issue on Future Radio Spectrum Access, March 201
Subspace Methods for Joint Sparse Recovery
We propose robust and efficient algorithms for the joint sparse recovery
problem in compressed sensing, which simultaneously recover the supports of
jointly sparse signals from their multiple measurement vectors obtained through
a common sensing matrix. In a favorable situation, the unknown matrix, which
consists of the jointly sparse signals, has linearly independent nonzero rows.
In this case, the MUSIC (MUltiple SIgnal Classification) algorithm, originally
proposed by Schmidt for the direction of arrival problem in sensor array
processing and later proposed and analyzed for joint sparse recovery by Feng
and Bresler, provides a guarantee with the minimum number of measurements. We
focus instead on the unfavorable but practically significant case of
rank-defect or ill-conditioning. This situation arises with limited number of
measurement vectors, or with highly correlated signal components. In this case
MUSIC fails, and in practice none of the existing methods can consistently
approach the fundamental limit. We propose subspace-augmented MUSIC (SA-MUSIC),
which improves on MUSIC so that the support is reliably recovered under such
unfavorable conditions. Combined with subspace-based greedy algorithms also
proposed and analyzed in this paper, SA-MUSIC provides a computationally
efficient algorithm with a performance guarantee. The performance guarantees
are given in terms of a version of restricted isometry property. In particular,
we also present a non-asymptotic perturbation analysis of the signal subspace
estimation that has been missing in the previous study of MUSIC.Comment: submitted to IEEE transactions on Information Theory, revised versio
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