Spectrum Sensing Enhancement Using Principal Component Analysis
Résumé
In this paper, Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
techniques are introduced in the context of Cognitive Radio to
enhance the Spectrum Sensing performance. PCA step increases
the SNR of the Primary User’s signal and, consequently, enhances
the Spectrum Sensing performance. We applied PCA as a
combination scheme of a multi-antenna Cognitive Radio system.
Analytic results will be presented to show the effectiveness of
this technique by deriving the new SNR obtained after applying
PCA, which can be considered a pre-processing step for a classical
Spectrum Sensing algorithm. The effect of PCA is examined with
well known detectors in Spectrum Sensing, where the proposed
technique shows its efficiency. The performance of the proposed
technique is corroborated through many simulations.