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Spectrum resources management of growing demands is a challenging problem and Cognitive Radio (CR) known to be capable of improving the spectrum utilization. Recently, Power Spectral Density (PSD) map is defined to enable the CR to reuse…
Cognitive Radio requires efficient and reliable spectrum sensing of wideband signals. In order to cope with the sampling rate bottleneck, new sampling methods have been proposed that sample below the Nyquist rate. However, such techniques…
A reliable support detection is essential for a greedy algorithm to reconstruct a sparse signal accurately from compressed and noisy measurements. This paper proposes a novel support detection method for greedy algorithms, which is referred…
Growing number of wireless devices and networks has increased the demand for the scarce resource, radio spectrum. Next generation communication technologies, such as Cognitive Radio provides a promising solution to efficiently utilize radio…
The frequency spectrum is an essential resource for wireless communication. Special sections of the spectrum are used for military purposes, governments sell some frequency bands to broadcasting and mobile communications companies for…
With the advent of the 5th generation of wireless standards and an increasing demand for higher throughput, methods to improve the spectral efficiency of wireless systems have become very important. In the context of cognitive radio, a…
This paper considers a simple on-off random multiple access channel, where n users communicate simultaneously to a single receiver over m degrees of freedom. Each user transmits with probability lambda, where typically lambda n < m << n,…
Cognitive radio (CR) is a promising technology enabling efficient utilization of the spectrum resource for future wireless systems. As future CR networks are envisioned to operate over a wide frequency range, advanced wideband spectrum…
This paper considers the problem of channel sensing in cognitive radios. The system model considered is a set of N parallel (dis-similar) channels, where each channel at any given time is either available or occupied by a legitimate user.…
Spectrum sensing is an essential functionality that enables cognitive radios to detect spectral holes and opportunistically use under-utilized frequency bands without causing harmful interference to primary networks. Since individual…
In compressive sensing, the basis pursuit algorithm aims to find the sparsest solution to an underdetermined linear equation system. In this paper, we generalize basis pursuit to finding the sparsest solution to higher order nonlinear…
Spectrum scarceness is one of the major challenges that the present world is facing. The efficient use of existing licensed spectrum is becoming most critical as growing demand of the radio spectrum. Different researches show that the use…
We propose Robust Narrowest Significance Pursuit (RNSP), a methodology for detecting localized regions in data sequences which each must contain a change-point in the median, at a prescribed global significance level. RNSP works by fitting…
Cognitive Radio (CR) networks presents a paradigm shift aiming to alleviate the spectrum scarcity problem exasperated by the increasing demand on this limited resource. It promotes dynamic spectrum access, cooperation among heterogeneous…
We consider the problem of recovering a single or multiple frequency-sparse signals, which share the same frequency components, from a subset of regularly spaced samples. The problem is referred to as continuous compressed sensing (CCS) in…
Spectrum sensing is one of the enabling functionalities for cognitive radio (CR) systems to operate in the spectrum white space. To protect the primary incumbent users from interference, the CR is required to detect incumbent signals at…
Within the Compressive Sensing (CS) paradigm, sparse signals can be reconstructed based on a reduced set of measurements. Reliability of the solution is determined by the uniqueness condition. With its mathematically tractable and feasible…
Enabling low power wireless devices to adopt Nyquist sampling at high carriers is prohibitive. In spectrum sensing, this limit calls for an analog front-end that can sweep different bands quickly, in order to use the available spectrum…
Cognitive radios sense the radio spectrum in order to find unused frequency bands and use them in an agile manner. Transmission by the primary user must be detected reliably even in the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime and in the face…
Spectrum scarcity is a prevalent problem in wireless networks due to the strict allotment of the spectrum (frequency bands) to licensed users by network regulatory bodies. Such an operation implies that the unlicensed users (secondary…