Abstract

Cognitive radio (CR) systems make efficient use of the frequency spectrum by opportunistically exploiting unoccupied or under-utilized frequency bands. However, the frequency bands used by CR systems are expected to suffer from various forms of noise and interference with non-Gaussian distributions, such as narrowband and co-channel interference caused by the primary user and other CRs, respectively, and man-made impulsive noise. To mitigate the harmful effects of non-Gaussian noise and interference, we propose a robust L <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">p</sub> -norm metric for CR systems that employ the popular combination of bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). For the considered CR system we provide an approximate upper bound and an asymptotic closed-form approximation for the bit error rate (BER). Our results show that the proposed L <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">p</sub> -norm metric can achieve large performance gains compared to the conventional L <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> -norm metric in non-Gaussian noise and interference.

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