Detection of Incumbent Radar in the 3.5 GHz CBRS Band Using Support Vector Machines

In the 3.5GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS), 100MHz of spectrum will be dynamically shared between commercial users and federal incumbents. Dynamic use of the band relies on a network of sensors dedicated to detecting the presence of federal incumbent signals and triggering protection mechanisms when necessary. This paper uses field-measured waveforms of incumbent signals in and adjacent to the band to evaluate the performance of support vector machine (SVM) classifiers for these sensors. We find that a peak analysis classifier and a higher-order statistics classifier perform comparably when the signal is in white Gaussian noise or commercial long term evolution (LTE) emissions, but with out-of-band emissions of adjacent-band systems the peak analysis classifier is far superior. This result also highlights the importance of including adjacent-band emissions in any performance evaluation of 3.5GHz sensors.