Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Spectrum Sensing Technologies

The spectrum sensing  technology has the following roles:

  • Provide spectrum occupancy information to MAC
  • Identify type of incoming signal
  • Fast tracking time to improve data throughput
  • Flexible resolution for adaptive and scaling searching
  • Simple computation for low power
  • Easy implementation for low cos
These functionalities are grouped into four set of categories:

  1. Spectrum sensing - responsible for detecting unused spectrum
    • In order to avoid interference the radio scans the spectrum for free channels. The most efficient way is to detect the primary users of the spectrum.
  2. Spectrum management - responsible for capturing the best spectrum available for the required QoS of communication
    • First analysis is made on the spectrum for interference, path loss, channel holding time etc and then making decisions on which channel to operate
  3. Spectrum mobility - responsible for maintaining seamless communication during spectrum transition by using the channel information exchanges between the BSs and CPEs
  4. Spectrum sharing - responsible for providing fair spectrum scheduling method for sharing the available open spectrum



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