English
Related papers

Related papers: Enhanced Pilot-Based Spectrum Sensing Algorithm

200 papers

Spectrum sensing is a key enabling technique for cognitive radio (CR), which provides essential information on the spectrum availability. However, due to severe wireless channel fading and path loss, the primary user (PU) signals received…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Shaoe Lin , Beixiong Zheng , Fangjiong Chen , Rui Zhang

The spectrum is a scarce resource and must utilize efficiently, the cognitive radio is a prospective solution for underutilized spectrum. The spectrum sensing is a key functionality to alleviate interference of secondary user to primary.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Dilip S. Aldar

Cognitive radio that supports a secondary and opportunistic access to licensed spectrum shows great potential to dramatically improve spectrum utilization. Spectrum sensing performed by secondary users to detect unoccupied spectrum bands,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-29 Yan Xin , Honghai Zhang

This paper tackles the challenge of wideband MIMO channel estimation within indoor millimeter-wave scenarios. Our proposed approach exploits the integrated sensing and communication paradigm, where sensing information aids in channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-27 Silvia Mura , Marouan Mizmizi , Umberto Spagnolini , Athina Petropulu

This paper investigates a novel underlaid sensing pilot signal design for integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) in an OFDM-based communication system. The proposed two-dimensional (2D) pilot signal is first generated on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Pu Yuan , Hao Liu , Junjie Tan , Dajie Jiang , Lei Yan

Accurate channel state information (CSI) acquisition is essential for modern wireless systems, which becomes increasingly difficult under large antenna arrays, strict pilot overhead constraints, and diverse deployment environments. Existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xingyu Zhou , Le Liang , Hao Ye , Jing Zhang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin

Development of smart spectrum sensing techniques is the most important task in the design of a cognitive radio system which uses the available spectrum efficiently. The adaptive SNR estimation based energy detection technique has the dual…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Jonti Talukdar , Bhavana Mehta , Kinjal Aggrawal , Mansi Kamani

Spectrum sensing is a fundamental component is a cognitive radio. In this paper, we propose new sensing methods based on the eigenvalues of the covariance matrix of signals received at the secondary users. In particular, two sensing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Yonghong Zeng , Ying-Chang Liang

Nowadays, cognitive radio is one of the most promising paradigms in the arena of wireless communications, as it aims at the proficient use of radio resources. Proper utilization of the radio spectrum requires dynamic spectrum accessing. To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Sk. Shariful Alam , Lucio Marcenaro , Carlo Regazzoni

This letter presents an adaptive spectrum sensing algorithm that detects wideband spectrum using sub-Nyquist sampling rates. By taking advantage of compressed sensing (CS), the proposed algorithm reconstructs the wideband spectrum from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-11 Hongjian Sun , Wei-Yu Chiu , A. Nallanathan

In cognitive radio mobile ad hoc networks (CR-MANETs), secondary users can cooperatively sense the spectrum to detect the presence of primary users. In this chapter, we propose a fully distributed and scalable cooperative spectrum sensing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-02 F. Richard Yu , Helen Tang , Minyi Huang , Peter Mason , Zhiqiang Li

Cognitive radio technology enables improving the utilization efficiency of the precious and scarce radio spectrum. How to maximize the overall spectrum efficiency while minimizing the conflicts with primary users is vital to cognitive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Xinran Chen , Zhe Chen , Sai Xie , Yongshuai Shao

Accurate estimation of aircraft operations, such as takeoffs and landings, is critical for effective airport management, yet remains challenging, especially at non-towered facilities lacking dedicated surveillance infrastructure. This paper…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Abdullah All Tanvir , Chenyu Huang , Moe Alahmad , Chuyang Yang , Xin Zhong

Cognitive Radio has been proposed as a key technology to significantly improve spectrum usage in wireless networks by enabling unlicensed users to access unused resource. We present new algorithms that are needed for the implementation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Hamed Mahmoudi , Georgios Rodolakis , Leonidas Georgiadis , David Saad

This paper investigates the feasibility of machine learning (ML)-based pilotless spatial multiplexing in multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems. Especially, it is shown that by training the transmitter and receiver…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Dani Korpi , Mikko Honkala , Janne M. J. Huttunen

In this paper, pilot-symbol-assisted transmission in cognitive radio systems over time selective flat fading channels is studied. It is assumed that causal and noncausal Wiener filter estimators are used at the secondary receiver with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-09 Sami Akin , Mustafa Cenk Gursoy

Cognitive radio (CR) is to detect the presence of primary users (PUs) reliably in order to reduce the interference to licensed communications. Genetic algorithms (GAs) are well suited for CR optimization problems to increase efficiency of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-12 Md. Kamal Hossain , Ayman Abd El-Saleh

In this paper, a cooperative spectrum sensing scheme based on compressive sensing is proposed. In this scheme, secondary users (SUs) are organized in clusters. In each cluster, SUs forward their compressed signals to the cluster head. Then,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Fatima Salahdine , Elias Ghribi , Naima Kaabouch

This study considers a base station equipped with sensing and communication capabilities, which serves a ground user and scans a portion of the sky via a passive reconfigurable intelligent surface. To achieve more favorable system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Georgios Mylonopoulos , Luca Venturino , Emanuele Grossi , Stefano Buzzi , Ciro D'Elia

We develop an efficient algorithm for cooperative spectrum sensing in a relay based cognitive radio network. We consider a stochastic model where data is sent from the Base Station (BS) of the Primary User (PU). The data is relayed by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-31 Chong Han , Ido Nevat , Jinhong Yuan