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Cognitive Radio as the Facilitator for Advanced Communications Electronic Warfare Solutions

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Throughout the 1990s, Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology was viewed almost exclusively as a solution for interoperability problems between various military standards, waveforms and devices. In the meantime, Cognitive Radio (CR) – a novel communication paradigm which embodies SDR with intelligence and self-reconfigurability properties – has emerged. Intelligence and on-the-fly self-reconfiguration abilities of CRs constitute an important next step in the Communications Electronic Warfare, as they may enable the jamming entities with the capabilities of devising and deploying advanced jamming tactics. Similarly, they may also aid the development of the advanced intelligent self-reconfigurable systems for jamming mitigation. This work outlines the development and implementation of the Spectrum Intelligence algorithm for Radio Frequency (RF) interference mitigation. The developed system is built upon the ideas of obtaining relevant spectrum-related data by using wideband energy detectors, performing narrowband waveform identification, extracting the waveforms’ parameters and properly classifying the waveforms. All relevant spectrum activities are continuously monitored and stored. Coupled with the self-reconfigurability of various transmission-related parameters, Spectrum Intelligence is the facilitator for the advanced interference mitigation strategies. The implementation is done on the Cognitive Radio test bed architecture which consists of two military Software Defined Radio terminals, each interconnected with the computationally powerful System-on-Module.

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  1. We are intentionally creating a distinction between the Temporal Frequency Maps, and the similar but more advanced concept of Radio Environment Maps [11].

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Selex ES and Sistemi Intelligenti Integrati Tecnologie (SIIT) for providing the equipment for the test bed, and the laboratory premises for the test bed assembly. Particular acknowledgments go to Virgilio Esposto of Selex ES and to Gabriele Dura of University of Genoa, for providing expertise and technical assistance.

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    Kresimir Dabcevic, Muhammad Ozair Mughal, Lucio Marcenaro & Carlo S. Regazzoni

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Dabcevic, K., Mughal, M.O., Marcenaro, L. et al. Cognitive Radio as the Facilitator for Advanced Communications Electronic Warfare Solutions. J Sign Process Syst 83, 29–44 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11265-015-1050-0

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