499 research outputs found
Enhanced Compressive Wideband Frequency Spectrum Sensing for Dynamic Spectrum Access
Wideband spectrum sensing detects the unused spectrum holes for dynamic
spectrum access (DSA). Too high sampling rate is the main problem. Compressive
sensing (CS) can reconstruct sparse signal with much fewer randomized samples
than Nyquist sampling with high probability. Since survey shows that the
monitored signal is sparse in frequency domain, CS can deal with the sampling
burden. Random samples can be obtained by the analog-to-information converter.
Signal recovery can be formulated as an L0 norm minimization and a linear
measurement fitting constraint. In DSA, the static spectrum allocation of
primary radios means the bounds between different types of primary radios are
known in advance. To incorporate this a priori information, we divide the whole
spectrum into subsections according to the spectrum allocation policy. In the
new optimization model, the minimization of the L2 norm of each subsection is
used to encourage the cluster distribution locally, while the L0 norm of the L2
norms is minimized to give sparse distribution globally. Because the L0/L2
optimization is not convex, an iteratively re-weighted L1/L2 optimization is
proposed to approximate it. Simulations demonstrate the proposed method
outperforms others in accuracy, denoising ability, etc.Comment: 23 pages, 6 figures, 4 table. arXiv admin note: substantial text
overlap with arXiv:1005.180
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
Ultra Low-Complexity Detection of Spectrum Holes in Compressed Wideband Spectrum Sensing
Wideband spectrum sensing is a significant challenge in cognitive radios
(CRs) due to requiring very high-speed analog- to-digital converters (ADCs),
operating at or above the Nyquist rate. Here, we propose a very low-complexity
zero-block detection scheme that can detect a large fraction of spectrum holes
from the sub-Nyquist samples, even when the undersampling ratio is very small.
The scheme is based on a block sparse sensing matrix, which is implemented
through the design of a novel analog-to- information converter (AIC). The
proposed scheme identifies some measurements as being zero and then verifies
the sub-channels associated with them as being vacant. Analytical and
simulation results are presented that demonstrate the effectiveness of the
proposed method in reliable detection of spectrum holes with complexity much
lower than existing schemes. This work also introduces a new paradigm in
compressed sensing where one is interested in reliable detection of (some of
the) zero blocks rather than the recovery of the whole block sparse signal.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
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