Sub-Nyquist Wideband Spectrum sensing for Cognitive Radio Networks: Matrix Completion via seed values

Introducción: La Radio Cognitiva (CR) hace un uso eficiente del recurso radioeléctrico, para ello realiza la Detección de Espectro (SS) con el fin de identificar el espectro disponible. Pero debido a la rápida evolución de los transceptores, la microelectrónica y las altas frecuencias de propagación, se hace necesario que en CR se apliquen algoritmos de SS en bandas de frecuencia y se realice un muestreo inferior a la tasa de Nyquist. Objetivo: Adaptar un algoritmo para Detección de Espectro Sub-Nyquist en Banda Ancha (WBSS) para redes de CR mediante la Compleción de Matrices (MC) que integra valores semilla a partir de las muestras conocidas, con el fin de completar las entradas no muestreadas de la banda a evaluar, reconstruir las señales e identificar el espectro disponible. Metodología: Se realizó una adaptación al algoritmo Aproximación Matricial de la Zona de Interés (IZMA), para ello se diseña la etapa de reconstrucción y se elige un método de detección de espectro en banda estrecha para conformar el banco de detectores; el algoritmo que se denomina IZMA_SV es evaluado a nivel de simulación, por tanto se reconstruyen señales determinísticas en diferentes SNR y se identifica el estado del canal como ocupado o libre. Resultados: Las simulaciones indican que el algoritmo adaptado presenta diferencias entre los valores conocidos de la matriz de muestreo M y la matriz recuperada X en SNR inferiores a -8 dB, mientras que la diferencia tiende a cero en SNR superiores a 2 dB. Conclusiones: El algoritmo IZMA-SV logra reducir el número de operaciones para llegar a la matriz aproximada X, reconstruyendo señales muestreadas al 75% de la tasa Nyquist y aún con un muestreo del 20% se mantienen las características de la señal que hacen posible la detección de espectro en banda ancha. Introduction: Cognitive Radio (CR) makes efficient use of the radio resource, for this it performs Spectrum Sensing (SS) in order to identify the available spectrum. But due to the rapid evolution of transceivers, microelectronics and high propagation frequencies, it is necessary for SS algorithms to be applied in frequency bands in CR and for sampling below the Nyquist rate. Objective: Adapt an algorithm for Wideband Sub-Nyquist Spectrum Detection (WBSS) for CR networks using Matrix Completion (MC) integrating seed values from known samples, in order to complete the unsampled inputs of the band to evaluate, reconstruct the signals and the identify the available spectrum. Method: An adaptation to the Interest Zone Matrix Approximation (IZMA) algorithm was carried out, for this purpose the reconstruction stage is designed and a narrow band spectrum sensing method is chosen to form the detector bank; the algorithm called IZMA_SV is evaluated at the simulation level, therefore deterministic signals are reconstructed in different SNRs and the channel status is identified as busy or free. Results: The simulations indicate that the adapted algorithm shows differences between the known values of the sampling matrix M and the recovered matrix X in SNRs lower than -8 dB, while the difference tends to zero in SNRs greater than 2 dB. Conclusions: The IZMA-SV algorithm manages to reduce the number of operations to arrive at the approximate matrix X, reconstructing signals sampled at 75% of the Nyquist rate and even with a sampling of 20% the characteristics of the signal that make possible the detection of wideband spectrum

Wideband Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks

Spectrum sensing is an essential enabling functionality for cognitive radio networks to detect spectrum holes and opportunistically use the under-utilized frequency bands without causing harmful interference to legacy networks. This paper introduces a novel wideband spectrum sensing technique, called multiband joint detection, which jointly detects the signal energy levels over multiple frequency bands rather than consider one band at a time. The proposed strategy is efficient in improving the dynamic spectrum utilization and reducing interference to the primary users. The spectrum sensing problem is formulated as a class of optimization problems in interference limited cognitive radio networks. By exploiting the hidden convexity in the seemingly non-convex problem formulations, optimal solutions for multiband joint detection are obtained under practical conditions. Simulation results show that the proposed spectrum sensing schemes can considerably improve the system performance. This paper establishes important principles for the design of wideband spectrum sensing algorithms in cognitive radio networks

Performance Evaluation of Energy Detector Based Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio using NI USRP-2930

This paper presents the performance evaluation of the Energy Detector technique, which is one of the most popular Spectrum Sensing (SS) technique for Cognitive Radio (CR). SS is the ability to detect the presence of a Primary User (PU) (i.e. licensed user) in order to allow a Secondary User (SU) (i.e unlicensed user) to access PU's frequency band using CR, so that the available frequency bands can be used efficiently. We used for implementation an Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP), which is the most used Software Defined Radio (SDR) device for research in wireless communications. Experimental measurements show that the Energy Detector can obtain good performances in low Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) values. Furthermore, computer simulations using MATLAB are closer to those of USRP measurements