Compressive slow-varying wideband power spectrum sensing for cognitive radio
Wideband spectrum sensing is a critical component of a functioning cognitive radio system. Its major challenge is the too high sampling rate requirement. Compressive sensing (CS) promises to be able to deal with it. Nearly all the current CS-based compressive wideband spectrum sensing methods exploit only the frequency sparsity to perform. This paper sets up a new signal model which is sparse in both temporal and frequency domain. Motivated by the achievement of a fast and robust detection of the wideband spectrum change, total variation minimization is incorporated to exploit the temporal and frequency structure information to enhance the sparsity level. As a sparser vector is obtained, the spectrum sensing period would be shortened and sensing accuracy would be enhanced. Both theoretical analysis and numerical experiments demonstrate the performance improvement.
cognitive radio wideband spectrum sensing compressive sensing total variation minimization dynamic spectrum access