Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio: Fundamentals and Applications

This comprehensive reference text discusses concepts of cognitive radio and the advances in the field of spectrum sensing.

This text discusses the concept of cognitive radio for next generation wireless communication and a very critical aspect of cognitive radio – that is, spectrum sensing – in detail. It covers important topics including narrowband spectrum sensing, wideband spectrum sensing, cooperative spectrum sensing, system and channel models, detection algorithms, approximation of dec...