Multiband sparse signal reconstruction through direct one-bit sampling.

Compressive sensing (CS) aims at decreasing sampling rate to reduce the needed number of samples. On the other hand, the one-bit CS is proposed to reduce the quantization bit. In this paper, we proposed a one-bit CS system aiming at acquiring the multiband sparse signal which is a very popular signal model in wireless communication, especially in cognitive radio. This proposed system, called direct one-bit sampler (DOS), is simple in hardware implementation, and it consists of only a comparator working at Nyquist rate. In the stage of signal reconstruction, it can be equivalent to a special multicoset sampler which is a popular scheme in CS. Moreover, we propose an enhanced binary iterative hard thresholding (BIHT), a popular one-bit recovery algorithm, to deal with the multiple measurement vectors in the one-bit CS framework. Both the theoretical model and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed DOS, with the help of the enhanced BIHT, can not only accurately recover the positions of active subbands of the multiband sparse signal but also roughly estimate the power of each active subband.