In compressive sensing (CS)-based spectrum sensing literature most studies consider accurate reconstruction of the primary user signal rather than detection of the signal. Furthermore possible absence of the signal is not taken into account while evaluating the spectrum sensing performance. In this study Bayesian CS is studied in detail for primary user detection. In addition to assessing the signal reconstruction performance and comparing it with the conventional basis pursuit approach and the ...

In this study the authors investigate the information theoretical limits on the performance of single-carrier cooperative underwater acoustic communication systems in the presence of intersymbol interference. The authors assume decode-and-forward relaying and consider orthogonal half-duplex cooperation. Under the assumptions of sparse and frequency-selective Rician fading channel and non-white correlated Gaussian ambient noise the authors derive expressions for bounds on the individual and achievable ...

A combination of space-time block coding and spatial modulation (STBC-SM) has been recently proposed for multiple input-multiple output systems to obtain both spatial diversity gain and more capacity simultaneously while assuming the perfect channel state information (P-CSI) was available at the receiver. However in practical scenarios the CSI is unknown to the receiver and should be estimated in order to detect the transmitted data in a reliable way. Therefore channel estimation (CE) is a major ...

The performance of a multiple-input multiple-output amplify-and-forward two-way relay network with joint antenna and relay selection is analysed over Nakagami-m fading channels. Both approximate and asymptotic system outage probability expressions are derived and diversity and coding gains for an arbitrary number of antennas relays and fading severity are presented. Finally the analytical findings are verified by numerical examples.

Fifth generation (5G) communication networks can achieve high spectral efficiency using sparse code multiple access (SCMA) scheme when large number of users are trying to transmit their data simultaneously. The sparsity of SCMA codewords offers the possibility of applying a low-complexity message passing algorithm as an alternative to maximum likelihood detector. However the requirement of densely deployed 5G users is to opportunistically explore new frequencies via cognitive features to overcome ...