Covariance Based Signal Detections for Cognitive Radio
- 1 April 2007
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- p. 202-207
- https://doi.org/10.1109/dyspan.2007.33
Abstract
Sensing (signal detection) is a fundamental problem in cognitive radio. The statistical covariances of signal and noise are usually different. In this paper, this property is used to differentiate signal from noise. The sample covariance matrix of the received signal is computed and transformed based on the receiving filter. Then two detection methods are proposed based on the transformed sample covariance matrix. One is the covariance absolute value (CAV) detection and the other is the covariance Frobenius norm (CFN) detection. Theoretical analysis and threshold setting for the algorithms are discussed. Both methods do not need any information of the signal, the channel and noise power as a priori. Simulations based on captured ATSC DTV signals are presented to verify the methods.Keywords
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