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Joint Signal Detection and Classification Based on First-Order Cyclostationarity For Cognitive Radios

O A Dobre1*, S Rajan2 and R Inkol2

Author Affiliations

1 Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 300 Prince Philip Dr., St. John's, NL, Canada, A1B 3X5

2 Defence Research and Development Canada, 3701 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1A 0Z4

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EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009, 2009:656719 doi:10.1155/2009/656719


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Received:15 February 2009
Revisions received:1 June 2009
Accepted:8 July 2009
Published:2 September 2009

© 2009 The Author(s).

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Abstract

The sensing of the radio frequency environment has important commercial and military applications and is fundamental to the concept of cognitive radio. The detection and classification of low signal-to-noise ratio signals with relaxed a priori information on their parameters are essential prerequisites to the demodulation of an intercepted signal. This paper proposes an algorithm based on first-order cyclostationarity for the joint detection and classification of frequency shift keying (FSK) and amplitude-modulated (AM) signals. A theoretical analysis of the algorithm performance is also presented and the results compared against a performance benchmark based on the use of limited assumed a priori information on signal parameters at the receive-side. The proposed algorithm has the advantage that it avoids the need for carrier and timing recovery and the estimation of signal and noise powers.

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