A review on spectrumsensing for cognitive radio: Challenges and solutions

Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing

Volumn 2010, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Zeng, Yonghong ^a   Liang, Ying Chang ^a   Hoang, Anh Tuan ^a   Zhang, Rui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIG BANG; COGNITIVE RADIO; COOPERATIVE SPECTRUM SENSING; CYCLOSTATIONARY; ENERGY DETECTION; FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM; LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS; MATCHED FILTERING; MULTIPLE RECEIVERS; NOISE POWER; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; PRIOR INFORMATION; PROPAGATION CHANNELS; RESEARCH AREAS; ROBUST SENSING; SOURCE SIGNALS; SPECTRUM SENSING; THRESHOLD SETTING; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; SENSORS; STATISTICAL TESTS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

RADIO;

EID: 79953195871     PISSN: 16876172     EISSN: 16876180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2010/381465     Document Type: Review

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