Spectrum sensing for OFDM signals using pilot induced auto-correlations

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 353-363

  Zeng, Yonghong ^a   Liang, Ying Chang ^a,b   Pham, The Hanh ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

auto correlation; Cognitive radio; covariance; cyclostationary; detection; OFDM; robust; spectrum sensing; statistics

Indexed keywords

CARRIER FREQUENCY OFFSETS; CHANNEL INFORMATION; COMMON FEATURES; COVARIANCE; CYCLOSTATIONARY; FREQUENCY OFFSETS; LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS; NOISE POWER; OFDM BLOCKS; OFDM SIGNAL; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEX; PILOT SUBCARRIERS; RECEIVED SIGNALS; ROBUST; SPECIAL PROPERTIES; SPECTRUM SENSING; SPECTRUM SHARING SYSTEMS; TIME-DELAY UNCERTAINTIES; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM;

COGNITIVE RADIO; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR DETECTION; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 84874584522     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2013.130303     Document Type: Article

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