Energy detection sensing based on GNU radio and USRP: An analysis study

Cognitive radio wireless networks are an emerging communication paradigm to effectively address spectrum scarcity challenge. Spectrum sensing plays a paramount role in cognitive radio, which is widely agreed to be the most promising method for alleviating the symptom of RF spectral scarcity. Dynamic access of unused spectrum via a cognitive radio asks for flexible radio circuits that can work at an arbitrary radio frequency. In this paper, we analyze the performance of spectrum sensing on GNU Radio system with USRP. We investigating spectrum scarcity and proposed the algorithm that performed and measuring the energy of Rx signal in a fixed bandwidth, W, over an observation time window, T. The results presented that it can detected of primary user signal over the fixed bandwidth which occupied the spectrum.

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