A CMOS-compatible spectrum analyzer for cognitive radio exploiting crosscorrelation to improve linearity and noise performance

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 479-492

  Oude Alink, Mark S ^a   Klumperink, Eric A M ^a   Kokkeler, André B J ^a   Soer, Michiel C M ^a   Smit, Gerard J M ^a   Nauta, Bram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive radio; Crosscorrelation; Energy detection; IIP3; Linearity; Noise figure; Phase noise; Power detection; Spectrum analyzer; Spectrum sensing; Spurious free dynamic range

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; NOISE FIGURE; PHASE NOISE; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

CROSS CORRELATIONS; ENERGY DETECTION; IIP3; LINEARITY; POWER DETECTION; SPECTRUM SENSING; SPURIOUS FREE DYNAMIC RANGE;

COGNITIVE RADIO;

EID: 84866616696     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2011.2167266     Document Type: Article

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