Ahmedabad Faculty Receive Research Funding from Gujarat Council on Science and Technology

Faculty of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Dhaval Patel, Assistant Professor, and Sanjay Chaudhary, Professor, have received funding for a two-year duration from the Gujarat Council on Science and Technology (GUJCOST), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of Gujarat, for their research on Design and Performance Analysis of Non-parametric Detection algorithm for Cognitive Radio - MIMO Communications. The aim of the study is to develop a non-parametric detection algorithm and analyse the performance in a real-time wireless environment. The study focuses on the Monte-Carlo simulations of a new non-parametric scheme to detect the presence of the primary user without knowing its structure and channel information. It includes a detailed performance evaluation of the non-parametric detection scheme in an actual wireless environment. To achieve this, GNURADIO software and the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) hardware-based wireless testbed will be created to prepare the experimental setup of CR-MIMO (Cognitive Radio – Multiple Input Multiple Output) systems. The study aims to provide simulations and experimental performance evaluation of non-parametric detection schemes to provide opportunistic spectrum access in a cognitive radio environment.