EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF RADIO FREQUENCY SPECTRUM SENSING DETECTORS IN TV BANDS

Petr Sramek, Karel Povalac, Roman Marsalek

2010

Abstract

This paper deals with real time experiments with spectrum sensing in TV bands. First, different spectrum sensing algorithms suitable for fast signal detection of digital TV signals are reviewed. The performance of several selected detectors has been evaluated on data of real TV transmission in Brno region. Three different implementations have been setup – first using the Universal Software Radio Peripheral device, second using PC with data acquisition card sampling the DVB-T tuner intermediate frequency output and the third based on the implementation of energy detector in Xilinx Virtex IV FPGA. Moreover the experiments with decision fusion from heterogeneous detectors have been performed.

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Sramek P., Povalac K. and Marsalek R. (2010). EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF RADIO FREQUENCY SPECTRUM SENSING DETECTORS IN TV BANDS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-19-5, pages 55-60. DOI: 10.5220/0002995500550060


in Bibtex Style

@conference{sigmap10,
author={Petr Sramek and Karel Povalac and Roman Marsalek},
title={EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF RADIO FREQUENCY SPECTRUM SENSING DETECTORS IN TV BANDS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={55-60},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002995500550060},
isbn={978-989-8425-19-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2010)
TI - EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF RADIO FREQUENCY SPECTRUM SENSING DETECTORS IN TV BANDS
SN - 978-989-8425-19-5
AU - Sramek P.
AU - Povalac K.
AU - Marsalek R.
PY - 2010
SP - 55
EP - 60
DO - 10.5220/0002995500550060