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Reliable spectrum sensing is a key functionality of a cognitive radio network. Cooperative spectrum sensing improves the detection reliability of a cognitive radio system but also increases the system energy consumption which is a critical…
This paper proposes two novel schemes of wideband compressive spectrum sensing (CSS) via block orthogonal matching pursuit (BOMP) algorithm, for achieving high sensing accuracy in real time. These schemes aim to reliably recover the…
Compressed Sensing (CS) is a signal processing technique which can accurately recover sparse signals from linear measurements with far fewer number of measurements than those required by the classical Shannon-Nyquist theorem. Block sparse…
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…
This work presents a new variation of the commonly used Least Mean Squares Algorithm (LMS) for the identification of sparse signals with an a-priori known sparsity using a hard threshold operator in every iteration. It examines some useful…
In this paper, we bring together two trends that have recently emerged in sparse signal recovery: the problem of sparse signals that stem from finite alphabets and the techniques that introduce concave penalties. Specifically, we show that…
In this work, we analyze modulated sampling schemes, such as the Nyquist Folding Receiver, which are highly efficient, readily implementable, non-uniform sampling schemes that allows for the blind estimation of a narrow-band signal's…
Orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) is a widely used algorithm for recovering sparse high dimensional vectors in linear regression models. The optimal performance of OMP requires \textit{a priori} knowledge of either the sparsity of…
This paper seeks to bridge the two major algorithmic approaches to sparse signal recovery from an incomplete set of linear measurements -- L_1-minimization methods and iterative methods (Matching Pursuits). We find a simple regularized…
Applying compressive sensing (CS) allows for sub-Nyquist sampling in several application areas in 5G and beyond. This reduces the associated training, feedback, and computation overheads in many applications. However, the applicability of…
Finding an optimal sensing policy for a particular access policy and sensing scheme is a laborious combinatorial problem that requires the system model parameters to be known. In practise the parameters or the model itself may not be…
We propose a new method for reconstruction of sparse signals with and without noisy perturbations, termed the subspace pursuit algorithm. The algorithm has two important characteristics: low computational complexity, comparable to that of…
Signal detection in environments with unknown signal bandwidth and time intervals is a fundamental problem in adversarial and spectrum-sharing scenarios. This paper addresses the problem of detecting signals occupying unknown degrees of…
Can compression algorithms be employed for recovering signals from their underdetermined set of linear measurements? Addressing this question is the first step towards applying compression algorithms for compressed sensing (CS). In this…
In Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs), unlicensed users are allowed to access the licensed spectrum when it is not currently being used by primary users (PUs). In this paper, we study the throughput maximization problem for a multi-channel CRN…
Composed of multiple interconnected pixels controlled by on/off RF switches, the pixel antenna can generate reconfigurable radiation patterns that can be further exploited to construct diverse pilot sequences for effective channel…
This paper deals with the challenging problem of spectrum sensing in cognitive radio. We consider a stochastic system model where the the Primary User (PU) transmits a periodic signal over fading channels. The effect of frequency offsets…
Cognitive radios process their sensed information collectively in order to opportunistically identify and access under-utilized spectrum segments (spectrum holes). Due to the transient and rapidly-varying nature of the spectrum occupancy,…
Highly coherent sensing matrices arise in discretization of continuum problems such as radar and medical imaging when the grid spacing is below the Rayleigh threshold as well as in using highly coherent, redundant dictionaries as…
It has been found that radar returns of extended targets are not only sparse but also exhibit a tendency to cluster into randomly located, variable sized groups. However, the standard techniques of Compressive Sensing as applied in radar…