Blind spectrum sensing using symmetry property of cyclic autocorrelation function: From theory to practice

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Spectrum sensing has been identified as the key step of the cognition cycle and the most important function for the establishment of cognitive radio. In this paper, a blind cyclostationary feature detector, which is based on the symmetry property of cyclic autocorrelation function (SP-CAF), is implemented and tested using universal software radio peripheral platform and GNU Radio open-source software development toolkit. Performance of the SP-CAF is compared to the classical energy detector via various tests conducted in real scenarios where both detection algorithms are employed to blindly sense the spectrum for opportunistic access. This study shows that the blind cyclostationary feature detector outperforms the classical energy detector while guaranteeing acceptable complexity and low sensing time. Moreover, different experimental results indicate that the blind sensing detector can achieve high detection probability at a low false alarm probability under real channel conditions and low signal-to-noise ratio. © 2014 Safatly et al.; licensee Springer.

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Safatly, L., Aziz, B., Nafkha, A., Louet, Y., Nasser, Y., El-Hajj, A., & Kabalan, K. Y. (2014). Blind spectrum sensing using symmetry property of cyclic autocorrelation function: From theory to practice. Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-1499-2014-26

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