1) The document proposes using Bayesian detection methods to improve spectrum utilization in cognitive radio systems without prior knowledge of primary user signals.
2) It describes developing an optimal Bayesian detector for digitally modulated primary users and approximating suboptimal detectors for low and high SNR regimes.
3) Simulation results show the Bayesian detector and its approximation in high SNR achieve higher detection probability and lower false alarm probability than energy detection, improving secondary user throughput and spectrum utilization, especially at high SNR where energy detection is suboptimal.