Spectrum Sensing Based On the Cyclostationarity of PU Signals in High Traffic Environments

In cognitive radio (CR) systems, the primary user (PU) signal would randomly depart or arrive during the sensing period of a CR user, which is referred to as the high traffic environment. In this paper, we propose a novel spectrum sensing scheme based
on the cyclostationarity of PU signals in high traffic environments. Specifically, we obtain a test statistic by applying an estimate of spectral autocoherence function of the PU signal to the generalized- likelihood ratio. From numerical results, it is confirmed that the proposed scheme provides a better spectrum sensing performance compared with the conventional spectrum sensing scheme based on the energy of the PU signals in high traffic environments.

• Keunhong Chae
• Youngpo Lee
• Seokho Yoon

• Spectrum sensing
• cyclostationarity
• high traffic environments.

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