Power Spectral Density Evaluation Based on Welch’s Periodogram for Cognitive Radio
In this paper considered spectrum sensing methods for cognitive radio that based on energy detection. The periodogram method is a DFT based method to estimate power spectral density (PSD). The name of the periodogram comes from the fact that it was first used in determining possible hidden periodicities in time series. The analysis of statistical properties of the periodogram shows its poor quality as an estimator of the PSD. The bias and variance are often used as measures to characterize the performance of an estimator.