Document Type

Report

Date

1-14-2011

Keywords

Cognitive radio, spectrum sensing, non-Gaussian noise, Rayleigh fading, polarity-coincidence array detectors

Language

English

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Description/Abstract

One of the main requirements of the cognitive radio (CR) systems is the ability to perform spectrum sensing in a reliable manner in challenging environments that arise due to propagation channels which undergo multipath fading and non-Gaussian noise. While most existing literature on spectrum sensing has focused on impairments introduced by additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), this assumption fails to model the behavior of certain types of noise in practice. In this paper, the use of a non-parametric and easily implementable detection device, namely polarity-coincidence-array (PCA) detector, is proposed for the detection of weak primary signals with a cognitive radio equipped with multiple antennas. Its performance is evaluated in the presence of heavy-tailed noise. The detector performance in terms of the probabilities of detection and false alarm is derived when the communication channels between the primary user transmitter and the multiple antennas at the cognitive radio are AWGN as well as when they undergo Rayleigh fading. From the numerical results, it is observed that a significant performance enhancement is achieved by the PCA detector compared to that of the energy detector with AWGN as well as fading channels as the heaviness of the tail of the non-Gaussian noise increases.

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