Publications of work performed in SENDORA project

[1] V.Fodor, R.Thobaben, B.Mercier et al, "Sensor Networks for Cognitive Radio: Theory and System Design", ICT Mobile Summit, June 2008.

[2] M. Haddad, A. Hayar, G. E. Øien, "Downlink distributed binary power allocation for cognitive radio networks", IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2008), Cannes, France, September 2008.

[3] S.Chaudhari, V.Koivunen, H.V Poor, "Distributed Autocorrelation-Based Sequential Detection of OFDM Signals in Cognitive Radios", CrownCom, May 2008.

[4] B.Zayen, A.Hayar and K.Kansanen, "Blind spectrum sensing for cognitive radio based on signal space dimension estimation", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2009.

[5] E. Axell, E. G. Larsson and D. Danev, "Capacity Considerations for Uncoordinated Communication in Geographical Spectrum Holes", Physical Communication Journal (ELSEVIER), 2009.

[6] P.Elia, J. Jalden, "Construction criteria and existence results for approximately universal linear space-time codes with reduced decoding complexity", Forty-Sixth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing September 2008, Allerton Retreat Center, Monticello, Illinois.

[7] Ragnar Thobaben, "On Distributed Codes with Noisy Relays" In Proceedings Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems & Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, Oct. 2008.

[8] Sha Yao, Majid Nasiri Khormuji, Mikael Skoglund, "Sawtooth Relaying", IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 612-614, September 2008.

[9] V.Fodor, I.Glaropoulos, L.Pescosolido, "Detecting low-power primary signals via distributed sensing to support opportunistic spectrum access", In Proceedings of IEEE ICC 2009.

[10] E. Axell, E. G. Larsson, "A bayesian approach to spectrum sensing and denoising", IEEE ICASSP 2009.

[11] B.Zayen, M.Haddad, A.Hayar, G.E.Øien "Binary Power Allocation for Cognitive Radio Networks with Centralized and Distributed User Selection Strategies", Elsevier, Phycom Journal, vol. 1, 3rd Issue.

[13] F.Kaltenberger, L.Bernardo, T.Zemen, "Characterization of measured multi-user MIMO channels using the spectral divergence measure", Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA 2009), Berlin, Germany, Feb. 2009.

[14] H.Anouar, Ch.Bonnet, F.Kaltenberger, R.Knopp, "OpenAirMesh---An Experimental Plat'form for Cooperative Mesh Networks", 1st COST2100 Workshop on MIMO and Cooperative Communications, Trondheim, Norway, 3.6.-4.6.2008.

[15] F. Abi Abdallah, R.Knopp, G.Caire, "Transmission of correlated sources over gaussian multiple access channel with phase shifts", ALLERTON 2008, 46th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, September 23-26, 2008, Monticello, Illinois, USA.

[16] B.Zayen, A. Hayar, D. Nussbaum, "Blind spectrum sensing for cognitive radio based on model selection", CrownCom 2008, 3rd International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications, Mai 15-17 2008, Singapore.

[17] S. Chaudhari, J. Lunden, V. Koivunen, "Collaborative Autocorrelation-Based Spectrum Sensing of OFDM Signals in Cognitive Radios", in Proc. Ann. 42nd Conf. on Information Science and Systems, Princeton, USA, Mar. 19-21, 2008.

[18] M.Haddad, A.Hayar and M.Debbah, "Spectral efficiency of spectrum pooling systems", IET Special Issue on Cognitive Spectrum Access, July 2008, vol. 2, No. 6, pp. 733-741.

[19] M. Haddad, A. Hayar, G. E. Øien, "Uplink distributed binary power allocation for cognitive radio networks", CrownCom 2008, 3rd International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications, Mai 15-17 2008, Singapore.

[20] S. Chaudhari, V. Koivunen, H. Vincent Poor, "Autocorrelation-Based Decentralized Sequential Detection of OFDM Signals in Cognitive Radios", in IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 57, pp. 2690-2700, July 2009.

[21] E. Axell, E. G. Larsson and J-Å Larsson, "On the Optimal K-term Approximation of a Sparse Parameter Vector MMSE Estimate", in Proc. of IEEE SSP 2009, IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, Aug.31-Sept. 3, 2009, Cardiff, Wales, UK.

[22] S. Chaudhari, V. Koivunen, "Effect of Quantization and Channel Errors on Collaborative Spectrum Sensing", 43rd Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, Nov. 1-4, 2009.

[23] L. Xu, K. Stadius, T. Rapinoja, J. Ryynänen, "Agile Frequency Synthesizer for Cognitive Radios", Proc. European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD) 2009, pp. 275-278, Aug. 23-27, Antalya, Turkey

[24] L. Xu, K. Stadius, J. Ryynänen, "A Low-Power Wide-Band Digital Frequency Synthesizer for Cognitive Radio Sensor Units", Proc. European Solid-State Circuits Conf. (ESSCIRC) 2009, pp. 184-187, Sept. 14-18, Athens, Greece

[25] K. Kokkinen, V. Turunen, M. Kosunen, S. Chaudhari, V. Koivunen, J. Ryynänen, "FPGA Implementation of Autocorrelation-based Feature Detector for Cognitive Radio", Proc. NORCHIP 2009, Paper 2.2.3, Nov. 16-17, Trondheim, Norway.

[26] J. Ollikainen, M. Kaltiokallio, K. Stadius, V. Saari, J. Ryynänen, "A Wideband Interference Tolerant RF Receiver for Cognitive Radio Sensor Unit", Proc. NORCHIP 2009, Paper 5.1.2, Nov. 16-17, Trondheim, Norway.

[27] I. Glaropoulos and V.Fodor, "On the efficiency of distributed spectrum sensing in ad-hoc cognitive radio networks", International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Proceedings of the 2009 ACM workshop on Cognitive radio networks, Beijing, China, September 2009.

[28] Z. Si, R. Thobaben, M. Skoglund, "On Distributed Serially Concatenated Codes", IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances for Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Perugia, Italy, June 2009.

[29] Z. Si, R. Thobaben, M. Skoglund, "A Practical Approach to Adaptive Coding for the Three-Node Relay Channel", Proceedings IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Sydney, Australia, April 2010.

[30] Z. Si, R. Thobaben, M. Skoglund, "Adaptive Channel Coding for the Three-Node Relay Channel with Limited Channel-State Information", International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing (invited paper), March 2010.

[31] K. Kansanen, A. N. Kim, R.Thobaben, J. Karlsson, "Low complexity bandwidth compression mappings for sensor networks", International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing (invited paper), March 2010.

[32] R. Blasco-Serrano, R. Thobaben, and M. Skoglund, "Compress-and-forward relaying based on symbol-wise joint source-channel coding" in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications, June 2010.

[33] C. Asensio, B. Beferull-Lozano, "Accelerating consensus gossip algorithms: Sparsifying networks can be good for you", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Communications, June 2010.

[34] E. Portu-Repollés, B. Beferull-Lozano, "Joint sensor selection and Routing for Distributed Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks", Eusipco 2009, Glasgow, Scotland, August 2009.

[35] S.Barbarossa, G. Scutari, T. Battisti, "Fast Distributed Signal Subspace Projection Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks with Local Interactions", ICASSP 2009, Taipei, April 2009.

[36] S.Barbarossa, S. Sardellitti, and G. Scutari, "Joint Optimization of Detection Thresholds and Power Allocation for Opportunistic Access in Multicarrier Cognitive Radio Networks," CAMSAP 2009, Aruba, Dutch Antilles, Dec. 2009.

[37] Bassem Zayen and Aawatif Hayar, "Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Technique based on Sub Space Analysis for Cognitive Radio Networks", COGIS'09, COGnitive systems with Interactive Sensors Conference, November 16-18, 2009, Paris, France.

[38] Bassem Zayen, Aawatif Hayar and Geir E. Øien, "Resource Allocation for Cognitive Radio Networks with a Beamforming User Selection Strategy", 43rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, November 1-4, 2009, Asilomar, California, USA.

[39] Bassem Zayen, Aawatif Hayar, Hamza Debbabi and Hichem Besbes, "Application of Smoothed Estimators in Spectrum Sensing Technique Based on Model Selection", ICUMT'09, IEEE International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications: Workshop on Cognitive Wireless Communications and Networking, October 12-14, 2009, St.-Petersburg, Russia.

[40] Mohamed Ghozzi, Bassem Zayen and Aawatif Hayar, "Experimental Study of Spectrum Sensing Based on Distribution Analysis", 18th ICT-MobileSummit Conference, June 10-12, 2009, Santander, Spain.

[43] Anna N. Kim and Kimmo Kansanen, "Analogue Transmission over a Two-Hop Gaussian Cascade Network", IEEE Communication Letters

[44] V.Luxmiram, S.-S. Byun, G.E. Oien, and T.Ekman, ``Increasing sum rate in multiband cognitive radio networks by centralized power allocation schemes,'' IEEE PIMRC, Tokyo, Japan, September 2009.

[45] E. Axell and E. G. Larsson, "Spectrum Sensing of Orthogonal Space-Time Block Coded Signals with Multiple Receive Antennas", in Proc. of the 35th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'10), 2010.

[46] D. Danev, E. Axell and E. G. Larsson, "Spectrum Sensing Methods for Detection of DVB-T Signals in AWGN and Fading Channels", Proceedings of the 21st Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2010.

[47] D. Danev, "On signal detection techniques for the DVB-T standard", in Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing, March 2010.

[48] E. Axell and E. G. Larsson, "Optimal and Near-Optimal Spectrum Sensing of OFDM Signals in AWGN Channels", The 2nd International Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing, 2010.

[49] E. Axell, G. Leus and E. G. Larsson, "Overview of Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio", The 2nd International Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing, 2010.

[50] E. Axell and E. G. Larsson, "Optimal and Sub-Optimal Spectrum Sensing of OFDM Signals in Known and Unknown Noise Variance", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Feb. 2011.

[51] K.Kansanen, "Sensing based interference and data queue back-pressure approach for cognitive radio", PIMRC 2010, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2010.

[52] K. Kokkinen, V. Turunen, M. Kosunen, S. Chaudhari, V. Koivunen, J. Ryynänen, "On the Implementation of Autocorrelation-based Feature Detector",Communications, Control and Signal Processing, 2010. ISCCSP 2010, 4th International Symposium on 3-5 March 2010.

[53] B. Zayen, W. Guibene and A. Hayar, "Performance Comparison for Low Complexity Blind Sensing Techniques in Cognitive Radio Systems", CIP'10, 2nd International Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing, June 14-16, 2010, Elba Island, Tuscany, Italy.

[54] L. Xu, K. Stadius, and J. Ryynänen, "A wide-band digitally controlled ring oscillator," Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits Syst., Paris, France, May 2010, pp. 1983-1986.

[55] A. Nahvi, V. Fodor, I. Glarapoulos, "Performance of deterministic local sensing aggregation under interference", in Proc. of Crowncom 2010.

[56] Mattias Andersson, Vishwambhar Rathi, Ragnar Thobaben, Jörg Kliewer, Mikael Skoglund, “Polar Codes Achieve Strong Secrecy on the Wiretap Channel,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 14, no. 8, August 2010. 2010.

[57] Zhongwei Si, Ragnar Thobaben, Mikael Skoglund, ”Instantaneous Relaying with Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation: Design and Optimization,” 6th International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Iterative Information Processing, Sept. 2010.

[58] Ricardo Blasco-Serrano, Ragnar Thobaben, Vishwambhar Rathi, Mikael Skoglund, "Polar Codes for Compress-and-Forward in Binary Relay Channels,” in Proc. 44th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, November 2010.

[59] Zhongwei Si, “On distributed coding for relay channels,” Licentiate Thesis in Telecommunications, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, June 2010.

[60] Pascale Fouillot, Christophe J. Le Martret, Ragnar Thobaben, “Adaptive Relaying Strategies for Collaborative Spectrum Sensing,” Crowncom, June 2010.

[61] B. Beferull-Lozano, R. Konsbruck, “On Multiterminal source coding for temperature sensing”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Accepted (May 2010)

[62] X. Huang, B. Beferull-Lozano, “Joint Optimization of Detection and Power Allocation for OFDM-based Cognitive Radios”, International IEEE Globecom Conference 2010

[63] C. Asensio, B. Beferull-Lozano, “Finding Sparse Connectivity Patterns in Power-Constrained Ad-hoc Networks for accelerating consensus algorithms”, in Proc. of International European Signal Processing Conference 2010.

[64] M. Mueck and A. Hayar, “A Local Cognitive Pilot Channel (LCPC) for Neighbourhood Discovery, Relaying and Cluster Based Local Cognitive Information Management”, CrownCom’2010, Cannes, France, 09-11 June 2010.

[65] M.Mueck, A. Piipponen, G. Dimitrakopoulos, K. Tsagkaris, F. Casadevall, P. Demestichas, J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, G. Baldini, S. Filin, H. Harada, M. Debbah, T. Haustein, J. Gebert, B. Deschamps, P. Bender, M. Street, K. Kalliojärvi, S. Kandeepan, J. Lota and A. Hayar, “ETSI Reconfigurable Radio Systems – Status and Future Directions on Software Defined Radio and Cognitive Radio Standards”, accepted in IEEE Communications Magazine 2010.

[66] I. Glaropoulos, V. Fodor, “Spectrum sensing efficiency in dense ad-hoc cognitive networks,” submitted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile computing, under revision, 2010.

[67] Ricardo Blasco-Serrano, Ragnar Thobaben, Vishwambhar Rathi, and Mikael Skoglund, “Q-ary Polar Codes for Compress-and-Forward Relaying”, submitted to IEEE ISIT 2011.

[68] Ricardo Blasco-Serrano, Ragnar Thobaben, and Mikael Skoglund, “Bandwidth Efficient Compress-and-Forward Relaying Based on Joint Source-Channel Coding,” IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2011), Cancun, Mexico, March 2011.

[69] M. Mueck, K. Kalliojärvi, A. Piipponen, J. Gebert, G. Baldini, P.-J. Muller, L. Guang, K. Tsagkaris, P. Demestichas, S. Filin, H. Harada, S. Kandeepan, R. Abdur, M. Stamatelatos, N. Alonistioti, A. Hayar, M. Debbah, T. Haustein, "ETSI RRS - The Standardization Path to Next Generation Cognitive Radio Systems", IEEE PIMRC/COGCLOUD’2010, Istanbul, Turkey, 26-29 September 2010.

[70] X. Huang, B. Beferull-Lozano, "Joint Optimization of Detection and Power Allocation for OFDM-based Cognitive Radios", International IEEE Globecom Conference 2010

[71] I. Khalife, B. Beferull-Lozano, “Closed-form approximations for cooperative LLR-based energy detection in cognitive radios”, Submitted to IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2011.

[72] I. Khalife, B. Beferull-Lozano, “Joint Power Constrained Sensor Selection and Routing for Cooperative Detection in Cognitive Radios”, Submitted to ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2011.

[73] C. Asensio, B. Beferull-Lozano, "Network topology optimization for accelerating gossip algorithms under power constraints", Submitted to IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2011.

[74] E. Celada-Funes, B. Beferull-Lozano, "Inhibition area-based algorithms for efficient link scheduling in Wireless Networks", Submitted to IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2011.

[75] L. Pescosolido and C. Petrioli, "Wireless Sensor Networks for Spectrum Sensing to Support Opportunistic Spectrum Access Networks: Protocol Design and Fundamental Trade-offs", IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2011), Cancun, Mexico, March 2011.

[76] S. Chaudhari, J. Lunden, V. Koivunen, and H. V. Poor, ”BEP Walls for Hard Decision-Based Cooperative Sensing in Cognitive Radios,” Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Oct. 2010.

[77] S. Chaudhari, J. Lunden, and V. Koivunen, “BEP Walls for Collaborative Spectrum Sensing,” Accepted in ICASSP 2011.

[78] Ricardo Blasco Serrano, “Coding Strategies for Compress-and-Forward Relaying,” Licentiate Thesis in Telecommunications, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, December 2010.

[79] S. Shah, B. Beferull-Lozano, "In-Network Iterative Distributed Estimation for Power-constrained Wireless Sensor Networks", Submitted to IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2011.

[80] A. Erdozain, P. Crespo, B. Beferull-Lozano, "Analog Joint Source-Channel Multiple Description Coding Scheme over AWGN Parallel Channels", Submitted to IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2011.

[81] Ole Grøndalen, Markku Lähteenoja and Pål Grønsund, “Business case proposal for a Cognitive Radio Network based on Wireless Sensor Network”, CrownCom’2010, Cannes, France, 09-11 June 2010.

[82] Ole Grøndalen, Markku Lähteenoja and Pål Grønsund, “Evaluation of Business Cases for a Cognitive Radio Network based on Wireless Sensor Network”, submitted to DySPAN 2011.

[83] B. Zayen and A. Hayar, "‘Cooperative/Non-Cooperative Blind Spectrum Sensing Techniques in Cognitive Radio Networks", submitted to IEEE Trans Wireless Communication 2010.

[84] Hessam, Moussavinik; Guibene, Wael; Hayar, Aawatif, ”Centralized collaborative compressed sensing of wideband spectrum for cognitive radios”, ICUMT 2010, International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications, October 18-20, 2010, Moscow, Russia

[85] Oscar Gustafsson, R. Knopp, A. Hayar and al, "’Architectures for Cognitive Radio Testbeds and Demonstrators - An Overview"’, Crowncom 2010 5th International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications, 2010 Cannes, France.

[86] Petros Elia and Joakim Jalden, “Fundamental limits for rate, reliability and algorithmic complexity in nonergodic MIMO", in proceedings 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory.

[87] Petros Elia and Joakim Jalden, “General DMT optimality of LR-aided linear MIMO-MAC transceivers with worst-case complexity at most linear in sum-rate,’’ IEEE Information Theory Workshop ITW-10, Cairo, January 2010..

[88] S. Chaudhari, J. Lunden, V. Koivunen, and H. Vincent Poor, "Cooperative Sensing with Imperfect Reporting Channels: Hard Decisions or Soft Decisions?," Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Dec. 2010.

[89] S. Chaudhari, J. Lunden, and V. Koivunen, “Performance Constraints for Cooperative Sensing with Reporting Channel Errors,” Submitted to Crowncom 2011.

[90] E. Axell and E. G. Larsson, "A Unified Framework for GLRT-Based Spectrum Sensing of Signals with Covariance Matrices with Known Eigenvalue Multiplicities", in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'11), 2011.