DETERMINATION OF AN IMPROVED SPECTRUM SENSING THRESHOLD FOR COGNITIVE RADIO USING SMOOTHED PSEUDO WIGNER-VILLE DISTRIBUTION

📄 Project Abstract

Cognitive radio (CR) has been suggested as the solution to spectrum scarcity due to the fixed allocation employed worldwide by regulatory bodies.A secondary usercan opportunistically access the licensed frequency bands without causing harmful interference to the licensed user. In order to avoid interference to a primary user signal,the CR has to be aware about the spectrum usage inthe geographic area in which it wants to operate. The process of spectrumsensing is a fundamental task for obtaining this awareness and the result of this process determines the successful operation of cognitive radio. Energy detection is one of the methods of spectrum sensing with the lowest computational complexity but with low performance at low signal to noise ratio. Exploring energy detection has led to the application of many techniques one of which is the use of time-frequency analysis. This method employs distribution techniques for analyzing the energy spectral density of an observed signal with a vi...