Maximum minimum eigenvalues based spectrum scanner for cognitive radios

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a technique for spectrum scanning with the maximum minimum eigenvalue detection based spectrum sensing. The fundamental problem we address in this paper is the inability of using maximum minimum eigenvalue detection with filtering in time domain where the white noise becomes coloured. The solution we propose here is based on frequency domain rectangular filtering. By frequency domain rectangular filtering we take the spectral lines inside each sub-band and throw out the rest. After doing the frequency domain rectangular filtering, we generate the corresponding time domain signal and inject it to the maximum minimum eigenvalue detector. An experimental verification has been performed and the obtained results show that the technique is implementable with a performance better than the energy detector as a reference technique in terms of the probability of detection when both technique have the same probability of false alarm.