Frequency-domain GLR detection of a second-order cyclostationary signal over fading channels

Cyclostationary processes exhibit a form of frequency diversity. Based on that, we show that a digital waveform with symbol period T can be asymptotically represented as a rank-1 frequency-domain vector process which exhibits uncorrelation at different frequencies inside the Nyquist spectral support...

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Autores: Riba Sagarra, Jaume|||0000-0002-5515-8169, Font Segura, Josep|||0000-0002-0009-2545, Villares Piera, Nemesio Javier|||0000-0001-5701-9819, Vázquez Grau, Gregorio|||0000-0002-3007-6247
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/22790
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/22790
https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2014.2303433
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Signal processing
Cognitive radio networks
GLRT
LMPIT
Cognitive radio
Cyclostationarity based detection
Spectral correlation
Timing synchronization
Frequency-smoothed cyclic periodogram
Maximum-likelyhood
Component
Tests
Noise
Tractament del senyal
Ràdio cognitiva
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Processament del senyal
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Sumario:Cyclostationary processes exhibit a form of frequency diversity. Based on that, we show that a digital waveform with symbol period T can be asymptotically represented as a rank-1 frequency-domain vector process which exhibits uncorrelation at different frequencies inside the Nyquist spectral support of 1/T. By resorting to the fast Fourier transform (FFT), this formulation obviates the need of estimating a cumbersome covariance matrix to characterize the likelihood function. We then derive the generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT) for the detection of a cyclostationary signal in unknown white noise without the need of a assuming a synchronized receiver. This provides a sound theoretical basis for the exploitation of the cyclostationary feature and highlights an explicit link with classical square timing recovery schemes, which appear implicitly in the core of the GLRT. Moreover, to avoid the well-known sensitivity of cyclostationary-based detection schemes to frequency-selective fading channels, a parametric channel model based on a lower bound on the coherence bandwidth is adopted and incorporated into the GLRT. By exploiting the rank-1 structure of small spectral covariance matrices, the obtained detector outperforms the classical spectral correlation magnitude detector.