A comprehensive survey on spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks: Recent advances, new challenges, and future research directions

Y Arjoune, N Kaabouch - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Cognitive radio technology has the potential to address the shortage of available radio
spectrum by enabling dynamic spectrum access. Since its introduction, researchers have …

Spectrum sensing for cognitive radio: State-of-the-art and recent advances

E Axell, G Leus, EG Larsson… - IEEE signal processing …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ever-increasing demand for higher data rates in wireless communications in the face of
limited or underutilized spectral resources has motivated the introduction of cognitive radio …

Cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks: A survey

IF Akyildiz, BF Lo, R Balakrishnan - Physical communication, 2011 - Elsevier
Spectrum sensing is a key function of cognitive radio to prevent the harmful interference with
licensed users and identify the available spectrum for improving the spectrum's utilization …

Application of compressive sensing in cognitive radio communications: A survey

SK Sharma, E Lagunas, S Chatzinotas… - … surveys & tutorials, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Compressive sensing (CS) has received much attention in several fields such as digital
image processing, wireless channel estimation, radar imaging, and cognitive radio (CR) …

A user's guide to compressed sensing for communications systems

K Hayashi, M Nagahara, T Tanaka - IEICE transactions on …, 2013 - search.ieice.org
This survey provides a brief introduction to compressed sensing as well as several major
algorithms to solve it and its various applications to communications systems. We firstly …

Distributed compressive spectrum sensing in cooperative multihop cognitive networks

F Zeng, C Li, Z Tian - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In wideband cognitive radio (CR) networks, spectrum sensing is an essential task for
enabling dynamic spectrum sharing, but entails several major technical challenges: very …

Cyclic feature detection with sub-Nyquist sampling for wideband spectrum sensing

Z Tian, Y Tafesse, BM Sadler - IEEE Journal of Selected topics …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For cognitive radio networks, efficient and robust spectrum sensing is a crucial enabling step
for dynamic spectrum access. Cognitive radios need to not only rapidly identify spectrum …

Wideband spectrum sensing on real-time signals at sub-Nyquist sampling rates in single and cooperative multiple nodes

Z Qin, Y Gao, MD Plumbley… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents two new algorithms for wideband spectrum sensing at sub-Nyquist
sampling rates, for both single nodes and cooperative multiple nodes. In single-node …

Multiband spectrum access: Great promises for future cognitive radio networks

G Hattab, M Ibnkahla - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cognitive radio has been widely considered as one of the prominent solutions to tackle the
spectrum scarcity. While the majority of existing research has focused on single-band …

Reliable and efficient sub-Nyquist wideband spectrum sensing in cooperative cognitive radio networks

Y Ma, Y Gao, YC Liang, S Cui - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rising popularity of wireless services resulting in spectrum shortage has motivated
dynamic spectrum sharing to facilitate efficient usage of the underutilized spectrum …