MIMO Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio-Based Internet of Things

The emerging cognitive radio-based Internet-of-Things (CR-IoT) network provides a novel paradigm solution for IoT devices to efficiently utilize spectrum resources. Spectrum sensing is a critical problem in the CR-IoT network which has been investigated extensively under the Gaussian noise/interference. Since most of the interference in an IoT network is non-Gaussian, in this article, we introduce a novel spectrum sensing method for CR-IoT with additive Gaussian mixture noise/interference. The introduced method maps the observation signal matrix from the original input space to a high-dimensional feature space by a nonlinear Gaussian kernel function and then constructs a kernelized test statistic in the feature space. The approximate analytical expressions of the false alarm and detection probability of the proposed scheme are derived under Gaussian mixture noise, and the decision threshold can be determined according to false alarm probability. The simulation results show that the introduced multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) spectrum sensing method achieves good performance under Gaussian mixture noise/interference and significantly outperforms existing detectors.