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In this paper we consider a constant envelope pilot signal based carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The proposed algorithm performs spatial averaging on the periodogram of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-06 Sudarshan Mukherjee , Saif Khan Mohammed

Spectrum sensing in cognitive radio necessitates effective monitoring of wide bandwidths, which requires high-rate sampling. Traditional spectrum sensing methods employing high-precision analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) result in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-26 Pei-Wen Wu , Lei Huang , David Ramírez , Yu-Hang Xiao , Hing Cheung So

Conventional delay-Doppler (DD) communication and sensing systems require transmitting pilot frames at every channel coherence time interval in order to keep track of channel variations at the cost of spectral efficiency. In this paper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Nishant Mehrotra , Sandesh Rao Mattu , Robert Calderbank

Cognitive radio has been proposed to alleviate the scarcity of available spectrum caused by the significant demand for wideband services and the fragmentation of spectrum resources. However, sensing performance is quite poor due to the low…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hao Xie , Dong Li , Bowen Gu

This paper proposes novel spectrum sensing algorithms for cognitive radio networks. By assuming known transmitter pulse shaping filter, synchronous and asynchronous receiver scenarios have been considered. For each of these scenarios, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-31 Tadilo Endeshaw Bogale , Luc Vandendorpe

This paper aims at tackling the problem of signal detection in flat-fading channels. In this context, receivers based on the expectation propagation framework appear to be very promising although presenting some critical issues. We develop…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-01 Elisa Conti , Amina Piemontese , Giulio Colavolpe , Armando Vannucci

This paper presents a robust signal classification scheme for achieving comprehensive spectrum sensing of multiple coexisting wireless systems. It is built upon a group of feature-based signal detection algorithms enhanced by the proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-26 Hanwen Cao , Jürgen Peissig

Cognitive radio is a potential solution to meet the upcoming spectrum crunch issue. In a cognitive radio, spectrum holes can be identified using spectrum sensing techniques. A high resolution spectrum hole detection can ensure even the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-05 Sushmitha Sajeevu , Sakthivel Vellaisamy

Accurate multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel estimation is critical for next-generation wireless systems, enabling enhanced communication and sensing performance. Traditional model-based channel estimation methods suffer, however,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Seyed Alireza Javid , Nuria González-Prelcic

Nowadays scarcity of spectrum availability is increasing highly. Adding cognition to the existing Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) infrastructure will help in this situation. As sensor nodes in WSN are limited with some constrains like power,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-04-04 Sumit Kumar , Deepti Singhal , Rama Murthy Garimella

We consider multi-antenna cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks, when there may be multiple primary users. A noise-uncertainty-free detector that is optimal in the low signal to noise ratio regime is analyzed in such a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-29 Lu Wei , Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa , Olav Tirkkonen

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation is a promising solution to handle doubly-selective fading, but its channel estimation is a nontrivial task in terms of maximizing spectral efficiency. Conventional pilot assignment…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Yuta Kanazawa , Hiroki Iimori , Chandan Pradhan , Szabolcs Malomsoky , Naoki Ishikawa

A nonlinear detector derived within a maximum likelihood estimation framework is shown to be effective in retrieving the channel coefficients and data of users on the uplink channel of a noncooperative wireless system without the access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Guido Carlo Ferrante

The precision advantages offered by harnessing the quantum states of sensors can be readily compromised by noise. However, when the noise has a different spatial function than the signal of interest, recent theoretical work shows how the…

In this paper, superimposed pilots are introduced as an alternative to time-multiplexed pilot and data symbols for mitigating pilot contamination in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We propose a non-iterative scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Karthik Upadhya , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , Mikko Vehkapera

Radio emitter recognition in dense multi-user environments is an important tool for optimizing spectrum utilization, identifying and minimizing interference, and enforcing spectrum policy. Radio data is readily available and easy to obtain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Timothy J. O'Shea , Nathan West , Matthew Vondal , T. Charles Clancy

This paper introduces a system model called pilot-aided simultaneous communication and localisation (PASCAL) and illustrates its performance in the presence of practical gain and phase imperfections. Specifically, we consider the scenario…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Shuaishuai Han , Mohammad Ahmad Al-Jarrah , Emad Alsusa

We investigate data-aided iterative sensing in bistatic OFDM ISAC systems, focusing on scenarios with co-located sensing and communication receivers. To enhance target detection beyond pilot-only sensing methods, we propose a multi-stage…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-05 Musa Furkan Keskin , Silvia Mura , Marouan Mizmizi , Dario Tagliaferri , Henk Wymeersch

A pilot-assisted transmission (PAT) scheme is proposed for short blocklengths, where the pilots are used only to derive an initial channel estimate for the list construction step. The final decision of the message is obtained by applying a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Mustafa Cemil Coşkun , Gianluigi Liva , Johan Östman , Giuseppe Durisi

In cognitive radio, spectrum sensing is a key component to detect spectrum holes (i.e., channels not used by any primary users). Collaborative spectrum sensing among the cognitive radio nodes is expected to improve the ability of checking…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Jia , Meng , Wotao Yin , Husheng Li , Ekram Houssain , Zhu Han