A High-Precision Spectrum-Detection Algorithm Based on the Normalized Variance of Nonreconstruction Compression Sensing

The traditional energy detection algorithm has been widely used in the field of signal detection, and a variety of improved algorithms have been derived. In the case of low signal-to-noise ratio, existing methods have shortcomings on achieving fast and accurate spectrum sensing that need to be resolved. This work proposes a normalized-variance-detection method based on compression sensing measurements of received signal. The discrete cosine transform sensing matrix is used to compress the signal, whose normalized variance is then calculated before being used as the testing variable for detecting the primary user signal. Taking the detection results as historical data into consideration, the classification model is obtained after training by applying a support vector machine for classifying and predicting test signals. Simulation results show that the proposed method outperforms the current state-of-the-art approaches by achieving faster and more accurate spectrum occupancy decisions.