A discussion on channel sensing techniques By James Xu
Presentation overview Introduction to wireless communications What is Cognitive Radio (CR)? Why do we need CR? What is energy detection Our workbench Standard energy detector Problem with the detector Our improved detection model
Wireless communications
What is Cognitive Radio (CR) Able to sense spectral environment Able to provide opportunistic access Find gaps in the spectrum Adjust system parameters to utilize it
Why do we need CR? Unlicensed spectrum is scarce Almost none available under 3GHz
Why do we need CR? Licensed to primary user only (Incumbent) We are running out of space, and higher frequency has problems We are under utilizing licensed space CR is allowed usage (guarantee interference free)
Energy detection The first step in CR is to identify free spectrum Energy detection is being used
What is energy detection? All radio transmission have energy Based on hypothesis testing
Our CR workbench
Energy detector
Problems with the detector Misdetection on Narrowband signals
Problems with the detector Misdetection on partial signals
Adaptive energy detection We proposed an improvement Introduced adaptive detection
Improved detection
Adaptive ED characteristics
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