Award Abstract # 1028790
IHCS: Collaborative Research: Compressive Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks

NSF Org: ECCS
Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems
Recipient: WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY
Initial Amendment Date: September 3, 2010
Latest Amendment Date: June 27, 2013
Award Number: 1028790
Award Instrument: Continuing Grant
Program Manager: George Haddad
ECCS
 Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems
ENG
 Directorate for Engineering
Start Date: September 1, 2010
End Date: August 31, 2014 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $249,972.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $255,972.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2010 = $83,003.00
FY 2011 = $89,271.00

FY 2012 = $83,698.00
History of Investigator:
  • Yin Zhang (Principal Investigator)
    yzhang@rice.edu
  • Wotao Yin (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Wotao Yin (Former Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: William Marsh Rice University
6100 MAIN ST
Houston
TX  US  77005-1827
(713)348-4820
Sponsor Congressional District: 09
Primary Place of Performance: William Marsh Rice University
6100 MAIN ST
Houston
TX  US  77005-1827
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
09
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): K51LECU1G8N3
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): CCSS-Comms Circuits & Sens Sys
Primary Program Source: 01001011DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
01001112DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT

01001213DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s): 153E, 9251
Program Element Code(s): 756400
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.041

ABSTRACT

The objective of this research is to improve design of collaboratively discovering unused spectrum in a revolutionary wireless communication paradigm, the cognitive-radio network, in which cognitive-radio users can detect and share the unused spectrum. The proposed approach is to apply collaborative compressive sensing to increase spectrum sensing bandwidth, speed, and accuracy.

Specifically, the cognitive radios, rather than sweeping a set of channels sequentially, will sense linear combinations of the powers of multiple channels and report them to the fusion center, where the occupied channels are recovered using compressive sensing algorithms. Missing and erroneous reports can be exactly recovered by matrix completion since the matrix of all reports has a low-rank. Prior knowledge of channel gains is not required. The system computes more but senses much less and faster, which will be validated by both numerical and USRP2-based simulations.

The proposed research is potentially transformative as the novel framework and algorithms will broadly apply to signal sensing involving multiple sensors, modalities, and data sources. This research will have a broader impact on several audiences. The study of the jointly-sparse signal reconstruction will contribute to researchers working in compressive sensing and wireless networks. The hardware implementation will bring fresh ideas to the industrial community. The proposed research will be integrated into the existing combined education/research effort at the University of Houston and Rice University, improve education of under-represented minorities at the two institutions, and expose students to state-of-the-art research in wireless networks and compressive sensing through the NSF sponsored VIGRE program.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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J. Laska, Z. Wen, W. Yin, and R. Baraniuk "Trust, but Verify: Fast and Accurate Signal Recovery from 1-Bit Compressive Measurements" IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , v.59 , 2011 , p.5289
J. Meng, W. Yin, Y. Li, N. Nguyen, and Z. Han "Compressive Sensing Based High Resolution Channel Estimation for OFDM System" IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Special Issue on Robust Measures and Tests Using Sparse Data for Detection and Estimation , v.6 , 2012 , p.1932
Meng, J.;Yin, W.;Li, H.;Houssain, E.;Han, Z.; "Collaborative Spectrum Sensing from Sparse Observations for Cognitive Radio Networks" IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Advances in Cognitive Radio Networking and Communications , v.29 , 2011 , p.327-337
M.-J. Lai and W. Yin "Augmented l1 and nuclear-norm models with a globally linearly convergent algorithm" SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences , v.6 , 2013 , p.1059 10.1137/120863290
M.-J. Lai, Y. Xu, and W. Yin "Improved iteratively reweighted least squares for unconstrained smoothed lq minimization" SIAM Journal on Optimization , v.5 , 2013 , p.927 10.1137/110840364
Q. Ling, Z. Wen and W. Yin "Decentralized jointly sparse optimization by reweighted lq minimization" IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , v.61 , 2012 , p.1165
W. Guo, and W. Yin "Edge Guided Reconstruction for Compressive Imaging" SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences , v.5 , 2012 , p.809
W. Guo, J. Qin, and W. Yin "A new detail-preserving regularity scheme" SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences , 2013
Y. Chen, W. W. Hager, F. Huang, D. T. Phan, X. Ye, and W. Yin "Fast Algorithms for Image Reconstruction with Application to Partially Parallel {Mr} Imaging" SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences , v.5 , 2012 , p.90
Yin, Wotao; Osher, Stanley "Error Forgetting of Bregman Iteration" JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING , v.54 , 2013 , p.684
Y. Xu and W. Yin "A block coordinate descent method for multi-convex optimization with applications to nonnegative tensor factorization and completion" SIAM Journal on Optimization , 2013
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PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT

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We are facing a "spectrum drought" today. Virtually all usable radio frequencies have been licensed. However, most of them are used ineffectively, not occupied by any so-called primary radios for long periods of time at most locations. Cognitive radios (CR) can detect licensed yet idle channels and utilize them for wireless communication. However, this requires fast spectrum sensing in a distributed manner.
To the spectrum sensing challenge, a very promising solution is compressed sensing (CS). CS senses less and covers more. From a small number of so-called incoherent measurements, CS recovers signals with certain simple structures. The structures in spectrum sensing are spectrum sparsity and spatial sparsity of active channels, since most channels are silent at most locations. Spectrum sensing involves multiple CRs at spatially distributed locations, which must collaborate, or otherwise it will take each CR too long to scan for unoccupied spectrum.
The intellectual merits of this project include (a) introduced CS methodology to wireless communication including collaborative spectrum sensing by CRs and OFDM channel estimation; (b) developed new sensing matrices for CRs and OFDM channel estimation; (c) developed a set of distributed computing methods for a set of collaborative computing tasks; (d) analyzed the performance of the proposed distributed algorithms by developing new analytic tools; (e) tested the proposed CS based methods for OFDM channel estimation in USRP2 prototype; [f] extended the transformative research results to other interdisciplinary fields such as smart grid, cloud computing, and big data.
The broader impacts include (a) novel theoretical and algorithmic contributions for researchers working in compressed sensing and wireless networks; (b) a book on the applications of compressed sensing in wireless networking: (c) exposing graduate and undergraduate students to this research through seminar and research projects; (e) REU students and under representative students for the research projects. 

 


Last Modified: 11/29/2014
Modified by: Wotao Yin

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