Title
Design and Implementation of an Underlay Control Channel for Cognitive Radios.
Abstract
Implementation of any cognitive radio network requires an effective control channel that can operate under various modes of activity from the primary users. This paper reports the design and implementation of a filter bank multicarrier spread spectrum (FBMC-SS) system for use as the control channel in cognitive radio networks. The proposed design is based on a filtered multitone (FMT) implementation. Carrier and timing acquisition and tracking methods as well as a blind channel estimation method are developed for the proposed control channel. We also report an implementation of the proposed FBMC-SS system on a hardware platform; a FlexRIO FPGA module from National Instruments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/JSAC.2012.121104
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cognitive radio,OFDM,Receivers,Timing,Interference,Radio transmitters,Modulation
Radio resource management,Control channel,Remote radio head,White spaces,Computer science,Computer network,Underlay,Frequency allocation,Cognitive radio,Cognitive network
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
30
10
0733-8716
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-4446-3
7
0.66
References 
Authors
0
5