Single-User Cyclic Spectrum Detector Design in Cognitive Radio

Cognitive radio can improve the spectrum utilization efficiency of spectrum band. So spectrum sensing is the key technology in cognitive radio network. Our main task is to design a cyclic detector with better detection performance than energy detector. This paper studies single-user spectrum detector in cognitive radio networks, including cyclic spectrum detector and energy detector. We firstly analyzed the energy spectrum sensing mathematic model for comparison, then we proposed the new simulation model and detailed simulation steps of this cyclic spectrum sensing detector. Simulation results demonstrate that the cyclic spectrum detector has better performance than energy detector while the SNR of channel condition is low.