Open AccessPerformance evaluation of Welch's periodogram‐based energy detection for spectrum sensing
Author(s) -
Martínez Daniela M.,
Andrade Ángel G.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
iet communications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.355
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1751-8636
pISSN - 1751-8628
DOI - 10.1049/iet-com.2012.0640
Subject(s) - false alarm , statistical power , noise power , statistics , spectral density , noise (video) , energy (signal processing) , detection theory , mathematics , probability density function , statistic , test statistic , computer science , cognitive radio , algorithm , statistical hypothesis testing , power (physics) , telecommunications , detector , artificial intelligence , physics , quantum mechanics , image (mathematics) , wireless
In this work, the authors present the evaluation of energy detection (ED) based on the Welch's periodogram for spectrum sensing applied to cognitive radio networks. The authors analyse the impact of the number of points in the discrete Fourier transform and the number of averaged periodograms for power density spectrum estimation on the performance of ED. The authors identify that the inclusion of these parameters in the distribution of the test statistic used to detect the presence of primary users, improves the probability of detection. However, in the presence of noise uncertainty, the improvement on the probability of detection will come at the expense of an increased probability of false alarm. With the approach considered in this work is possible to increment the probability of detection for a given and low signal‐to‐noise ratio, without increasing the number of samples collected from primary signal. However, to maintain a constant probability of false alarm, accurate techniques for noise variance estimation are needed, because detection‐threshold value is highly dependent on the noise power present at each sensing interval.