Kronecker-Based Fusion Rule for Cooperative Spectrum Sensing with Multi-Antenna Receivers

This paper considers a novel fusion rule for spectrum sensing scheme for a cognitive radio network with multi-antenna receivers. The proposed scheme exploits the fact that when any primary signal is present, measurements are spatially correlated due to presence of inter-antenna and inter-receiver sp...

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Autores: Ali, Sadiq, Jansson, Magnus, Seco-Granados, Gonzalo|||0000-0003-2494-6872, López-Salcedo, José A.|||0000-0002-5392-6005
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:146532
Acesso em linha:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/146532
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.3390/electronics3040675
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Spectrum sensing
GLRT
Kronecker
Cognitive radios
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Resumo:This paper considers a novel fusion rule for spectrum sensing scheme for a cognitive radio network with multi-antenna receivers. The proposed scheme exploits the fact that when any primary signal is present, measurements are spatially correlated due to presence of inter-antenna and inter-receiver spatial correlation. In order to exploit this spatial structure, the generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT) operates with the determinant of the sample covariance matrix. Therefore, it depends on the sample size N and the dimensionality of the received data (i.e., the number of receivers K and antennas L). However, when the dimensionality fK; Lg is on the order, or larger than the sample size N, the GLRT degenerates due to the ill-conditioning of the sample covariance matrix. In order to circumvent this issue, we propose two techniques that exploit the inner spatial structure of the received observations by using single pair and multi-pairs Kronecker products. The performance of the proposed detectors is evaluated by means of numerical simulations, showing important advantages with respect to the traditional (i.e., unstructured) GLRT approach.