A Robust Method Based on Deep Learning for Compressive Spectrum Sensing

In cognitive radio, compressive spectrum sensing (CSS) is critical for efficient wideband spectrum sensing (WSS). However, traditional reconstruction algorithms exhibit suboptimal performance, and conventional WSS methods fail to fully capture the inherent structural information of wideband spectrum signals. Moreover, most existing deep learning-based approaches fail to effectively exploit the sparse structures of wideband spectrum signals, resulting in limited reconstruction performance. To overcome these limitations, we propose BEISTA-Net, a deep learning-based framework for reconstructing compressed wideband signals. BEISTA-Net integrates the iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithm (ISTA) with deep learning, thereby extracting and enhancing the block sparsity features of wideband spectrum signals, which significantly improves reconstruction accuracy. Next, we propose BSWSS-Net, a lightweight network that efficiently leverages the sparse features of the reconstructed signal to enhance WSS performance. By jointly employing BEISTA-Net and BSWSS-Net, the challenges in CSS are effectively addressed. Extensive numerical experiments demonstrate that our proposed CSS method achieves state-of-the-art performance across both low and high signal-to-noise ratio scenarios.