Title
Spectrally efficient emission mask shaping for OFDM cognitive radios
Abstract
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing has been widely adopted in recent years due to its inherent spectral efficiency and robustness to impulsive noise and fading. For cognitive radio applications in particular, it can enable flexible and agile spectrum allocation, yet suffers from spectral leakage in the form of large side lobes, leading to inter-channel interference unless mitigated carefully. Hence, recent OFDM-based standards such as IEEE 802.11p for vehicular communication and IEEE 802.11af for TV whitespace reuse impose strict spectrum emission mask limits to combat adjacent channel interference. Stricter masks allow channels to operate closer together, improving spectral efficiency at the cost of implementation difficulty. Meeting these strict limits is a significant challenge for implementing both 802.11p and 802.11af, yet remains an important requirement for enabling cost-effective systems. This paper proposes a novel method that embeds baseband filtering within a cognitive radio architecture to meet the specification for the most stringent 802.11p and 802.11af masks, while allowing up to ten additional active 802.11af sub-carriers to occupy a single basic channel without violating SEM specifications. The proposed method, performed at baseband, relaxes otherwise strict RF filter requirements, allowing the RF subsystem to be implemented using much less stringent 802.11a designs, resulting in cost reductions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.dsp.2015.12.008
Digital Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cognitive radio,Software defined radio,OFDM,Inter-channel interference,IEEE 802.11
Mathematical optimization,Baseband,IEEE 802.11,Telecommunications,Software-defined radio,Adjacent-channel interference,Electronic engineering,Spectral efficiency,Frequency allocation,Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing,Mathematics,Cognitive radio
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
50
C
1051-2004
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
20
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thinh H. Pham1224.57
Suhaib A. Fahmy258257.16
Ian Vince McLoughlin323338.08