Cognitive radio has received considerable amount of attention as a promising technique to provide dynamic spectrum allocation. Wide-band spectrum sensing is the corner stone for cognitive radio to be functional. Most existing commercial sensing solutions lack either the required flexibility or speed. Software-defined radio (SDR) on the other hand offers very high flexibility and therefore becomes a common platform for CR implementation. Among various SDR platforms, the universal software-defined radio peripheral (USRP) gained broad popularity. This paper presents a real-time wide-band-capable spectrum sensing solution based on USRP. The concept of energy detection and the methodology for wide-band sensing are explained. Finally, the performance of the proposed sensing solution is verified and compared with another popular commercial sensing solution, Airmagnet.


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    Title :

    Real-time wide-band spectrum sensing for cognitive radio


    Contributors:
    Wei Liu, (author) / Yaron, O. (author) / Moerman, I. (author) / Bouckaert, S. (author) / Jooris, B. (author) / Demeester, P. (author)


    Publication date :

    2011-11-01


    Size :

    235141 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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