A robust two-stage spectrum sensing method using filter bank based energy detector and fourth order cumulants for cognitive radios

Recent years have shown a growing interest in the concept of cognitive radios (CR), in order to access the electromagnetic spectrum in an opportunistic way. Such systems require efficient spectrum detectors able to work in low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) environments, with little or no information a...

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Main Authors: Narendar, M., Madhukumar, A. S., Vinod, Achutavarrier Prasad, Krishna, Anoop Kumar
Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
Format: Conference Paper
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97378
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11952
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author Narendar, M.
Madhukumar, A. S.
Vinod, Achutavarrier Prasad
Krishna, Anoop Kumar
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Narendar, M.
Madhukumar, A. S.
Vinod, Achutavarrier Prasad
Krishna, Anoop Kumar
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description Recent years have shown a growing interest in the concept of cognitive radios (CR), in order to access the electromagnetic spectrum in an opportunistic way. Such systems require efficient spectrum detectors able to work in low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) environments, with little or no information about the signals. In this paper, using the theory of higher-order statistics (HOS), a two-stage spectrum sensing method using filter bank based energy detector and cumulants, is proposed. The method first uses a filter bank, which separates the spectral region of interest into narrow frequency bands (channels). Each subband of the filter bank is then followed by an energy detection block. The normalized power values computed in each time slot of sensing for all the subbands are used as weights for the fourth order cumulants estimated in those subbands. By employing such weights, the proposed sensing scheme is shown to perform better than the conventional cumulants method. Moreover, no a priori information about the waveform of the signal is needed. Simulation result shows 40% improvement in the detection probability of signals at a low SNR of -20 dB for a constant false alarm rate of 0.1 when compared with the conventional cumulants based method.
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spelling ntu-10356/973782020-05-28T07:18:56Z A robust two-stage spectrum sensing method using filter bank based energy detector and fourth order cumulants for cognitive radios Narendar, M. Madhukumar, A. S. Vinod, Achutavarrier Prasad Krishna, Anoop Kumar School of Computer Engineering IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems (2012 : Singapore) DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering Recent years have shown a growing interest in the concept of cognitive radios (CR), in order to access the electromagnetic spectrum in an opportunistic way. Such systems require efficient spectrum detectors able to work in low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) environments, with little or no information about the signals. In this paper, using the theory of higher-order statistics (HOS), a two-stage spectrum sensing method using filter bank based energy detector and cumulants, is proposed. The method first uses a filter bank, which separates the spectral region of interest into narrow frequency bands (channels). Each subband of the filter bank is then followed by an energy detection block. The normalized power values computed in each time slot of sensing for all the subbands are used as weights for the fourth order cumulants estimated in those subbands. By employing such weights, the proposed sensing scheme is shown to perform better than the conventional cumulants method. Moreover, no a priori information about the waveform of the signal is needed. Simulation result shows 40% improvement in the detection probability of signals at a low SNR of -20 dB for a constant false alarm rate of 0.1 when compared with the conventional cumulants based method. 2013-07-22T04:14:06Z 2019-12-06T19:42:01Z 2013-07-22T04:14:06Z 2019-12-06T19:42:01Z 2012 2012 Conference Paper Narendar, M., Vinod, A. P., Madhukumar, A. S., & Krishna, A. K. (2012). A robust two-stage spectrum sensing method using filter bank based energy detector and fourth order cumulants for cognitive radios. 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems (ICCS). https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97378 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11952 10.1109/ICCS.2012.6406186 en © 2012 IEEE.
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Narendar, M.
Madhukumar, A. S.
Vinod, Achutavarrier Prasad
Krishna, Anoop Kumar
A robust two-stage spectrum sensing method using filter bank based energy detector and fourth order cumulants for cognitive radios
title A robust two-stage spectrum sensing method using filter bank based energy detector and fourth order cumulants for cognitive radios
title_full A robust two-stage spectrum sensing method using filter bank based energy detector and fourth order cumulants for cognitive radios
title_fullStr A robust two-stage spectrum sensing method using filter bank based energy detector and fourth order cumulants for cognitive radios
title_full_unstemmed A robust two-stage spectrum sensing method using filter bank based energy detector and fourth order cumulants for cognitive radios
title_short A robust two-stage spectrum sensing method using filter bank based energy detector and fourth order cumulants for cognitive radios
title_sort robust two stage spectrum sensing method using filter bank based energy detector and fourth order cumulants for cognitive radios
topic DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
url https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97378
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11952
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