Title
Efficient sparse spectrum estimation for cognitive radios
Abstract
The emerging concept of cognitive radios offers a way to use the limited radio-spectrum more efficiently by allowing networks and nodes to adaptively vary their parameters. An important element in the successful implementation of cognitive radios is the ability to estimate the varying state of spectrum usage in a wide-band channel quickly and at minimum cost. In this work, we utilize a powerful non-convex optimization approach to provide sparse and unbiased estimates of the spectrum from limited non-uniformly sampled data. Simulation results for a wide-band communication scenario show that the noise floor is significantly reduced compared to other commonly used approaches. This should help in reducing the miss-identification of occupied and vacant sub-bands of the spectrum, being a key requirement in spectrum sensing cognitive radios.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/WoWMoM.2012.6263757
World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Keywords
Field
DocType
cognitive radio,concave programming,wireless channels,limited nonuniformly sampled data,limited radio-spectrum,noise floor,powerful nonconvex optimization approach,sparse spectrum estimation,spectrum sensing cognitive radios,spectrum usage varying state,unbiased estimates,vacant subbands,wideband channel,wideband communication scenario,DC programming,cognitive radios,non-uniform sampling,sparsity,spectrum sensing
Noise floor,Computer science,Concave programming,Communication channel,Dc programming,Nonuniform sampling,Distributed computing,Cognitive radio
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-1237-0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
5
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Naveed R. Butt1407.81
Andreas Jakobsson240943.32