Wideband spectrum sensing capability can be enabled in GNU Radio, which is an open source software radio platform. In order to improve the detection performance of GNU Radio in practice, we studied its approach of wideband spectrum sensing, i.e., multistep frequency-domain energy detection. We first gave a detailed analysis of the functions and implementation details in its wideband spectrum se...

Cognitive Radio (CR) is a self-monitoring wireless communication system. It can utilize the radio frequency spectrum efficiently. The CR user can opportunistically use those idle spectrum bands without causing harmful interference to the licensed/primary user. There are several spectrum sensing techniques which can serve the purpose. In this paper, non-cooperative spectrum sensing is performed ...

Cognitive radio is a novel technology that can potentially improve the utilization efficiency of the radio spectrum. Spectrum sensing is the key component of cognitive radio technology. However, detection is compromised when a user experiences shadowing or fading effects. In such cases, user cannot distinguish between an unused band and a deep fade. Thus, cooperative spectrum sensing is propose...

Spectrum sensing is a critical functionality of Cognitive Radio(CR) systems. There are number of spectrum sensing techniques. One of techniques is energy detection. Energy detection is the simplest detection method and is the most commonly used. But, energy detection has a hidden terminal problem in real wireless communication, because of SU can be affected by frequency fading and shadowing. Co...

dynamic spectrum access (DSA) that promises to alleviate the spectrum shortage problem in wireless networks. By employing spectrum sensing techniques or referring to the geolocation databases, a CR (or a CR-enabled secondary user) is able to intelligently decide which licensed spectrum band is free for use without causing harmful interference to licensed (or primary) users. Besides, the spectru...

Cognitive radio is a seemly hopeful technology for future. Spectrum sensing is the most important function of cognitive radio. Most of the spectrums sensing techniques proposed become dysfunctional at lower signal to noise ratio environments. This paper proposes a reliable spectrum sensing algorithm for cooperative cognitive network. A dynamic threshold updating method is developed for which th...

Cooperative (spectrum) sensing is a key function for dynamic spectrum access and is essential for avoiding interference with licensed primary users and identifying spectrum holes. A promising approach for effective cooperative sensing over a large geographic region is to rely on special spectrum-sensing providers (SSPs), which outsource spectrum-sensing tasks to distributed mobile users. Its fe...

In the process of spectrum sensing applied to wireless communications, it is possible to build interference maps based on acquired power spectral values. This allows the characterization of spectral occupation, which is crucial to take management spectrum decisions. However, the amount of information both in the space and frequency domains that needs to be processed generates an enormous amount...

Wideband spectrum sensing is becoming increasingly important to cognitive radio (CR) systems for exploiting spectral opportunities. This paper introduces a novel multi-rate sub-Nyquist spectrum sensing (MS) system that implements cooperative wideband spectrum sensing in a CR network. MS can detect the wideband spectrum using partial measurements without reconstructing the full frequency spectru...

This paper addresses a cyclostationarity-based spectrum sensing scheme for cognitive radios in dynamic primary user (PU) traffic environments where the PU might randomly depart or arrive during the sensing period. At first, the spectrum sensing problem in dynamic PU traffic environments is formulated as a binary hypothesis testing problem. Then, a test statistic for spectrum sensing is derived ...