TY - JOUR A2 - Pérez-Jiménez, Rafael AU - Elahi, Atif AU - Qureshi, Ijaz Mansoor AU - Zaman, Fawad AU - Gul, Noor AU - Saleem, Tahir PY - 2017 DA - 2017/01/16 TI - Suppression of Mutual Interference in Noncontiguous Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Based Cognitive Radio Systems SP - 1860134 VL - 2017 AB - Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a favourable technology for dynamic spectrum access (DSA) due to the flexibility in spectrum shaping. In spite of that, high sidelobes of OFDM subcarriers bring in considerable interference to the nearby users, particularly in OFDM based cognitive radio (CR) networks, where the secondary users (SUs) are capable of accessing the spectrum opportunistically. In this paper, two new techniques for the suppression of high sidelobes are proposed. The proposed techniques composed of an optimization scheme are followed by generalized sidelobe canceller. The proposed techniques can be considered as a two-level suppression technique in the sense that in the first level the sidelobe is reduced by using cancellation carriers (CCs), whose amplitudes are determined using genetic algorithm (GA) and differential evolution (DE), while in the second level further reduction of sidelobe is achieved using generalized sidelobe canceller (GSC). Simulation results show the power spectral density (PSD) performance of the proposed techniques in comparison with already existing techniques, demonstrating that the proposed techniques minimize the out-of-band radiation (OOBR) significantly, thus qualifying for more effective spectrum sharing. SN - 1530-8669 UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/1860134 DO - 10.1155/2017/1860134 JF - Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing PB - Hindawi KW - ER -