Cyclostatilonarilty-Based Test for Detection of Vacant Frequency Bands

Abstract

The problem addressed in this paper is the test for presence of any telecommunication signal within a given frequency band, which is of great importance for cognitive radios. Since a telecommunication signal is well modeled as cyclostationary, we transform this problem to the one of testing for presence of the cylostationary property over a range of cyclic frequencies and we propose a constant false alarm rate (CFAR) multicycle detector based on a chi-squared (x2) statistical test of the time varying covariance estimate