Soft Decision Design of Spectrally Partitioned CI-SMSE Waveforms for Coexistent Applications

Abstract

Applicability of Spectrally Modulated, Spectrally Encoded (SMSE) waveform design has been expanded for future Cognitive Radio (CR)-based Software Defined Radio (SDR) applications. As previously demonstrated, the SMSE waveform design process can exploit statistical knowledge of PU spectral and temporal behavior to maximize SMSE system throughput (bits/second) while adhering to SMSE and Primary User (PU) spectral constraints. The capacity of SMSE systems is extended here using spectral partitioning with carrier-interferometry (CI) coding to increase SMSE waveform agility in the presence of a spectrally diverse transmission channel. By adaptively varying the modulation order and optimally allocating power within each spectral partition, inherent SMSE flexibility is more fully exploited and substantially increases system throughput while meeting Power Spectral Density (PSD) constraints. A coexistent scenario is provided in which the analytic optimization of the SMSE waveform is demonstrated while meeting spectral mask requirements. Results show that spectrally partitioned CI-SMSE waveforms have a significantly greater ability to adapt to varying spectral requirements.