Analysis of Varied Ambient Conditions on Energy Detection-Based Spectrum Sensing Using RTL SDR 2832U
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Abstract
Efficient utilization of spectrum has become increasingly important in the last few decades.This trend is due to the expansion of communication applications and users.This has given scope for the shift to explore technologies such as cognitive radio and software defined radio (SDR) for dynamic access.By utilizing SDR architectures to provide a programmable environment with novel detection schemes, such as energy detection (ED).Energy detection using SDR makes it appealing for real-world sensing, yet its performance is susceptible to low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), noise uncertainty, and fading.This experiment evaluates energy detection using a Realtek-based software defined radio (RTL SDR) in six diverse environments-moderately noisy urban, high-noise industrial, suburban or mixed-rural, interference-prone, deep-fading, and rural sparse signal contexts-by measuring detection probability (Pd) and false alarm probability (Pfa).The findings reveal that differences over environments, with the obtained Pd ranging from 1.37% to 67.84%, and Pfa from 8.86% to 68.32%, and the SNR ranging from -10.72 dB to -32.75 dB.These results demonstrate the detection probability in six diverse environments and the comparative study of various SNR.The results gained a better balance with the high detection rate and a reasonably low false alarm rate and a suitable SNR value of -15.69 dB in the 'Interference Prone' environment.The real-time signals were extracted using RTL SDR 2832U hardware in six diverse environments using the energy detection spectrum sensing method.Further, the results have been simulated in Matrix Laboratory 2024b, and pd and pfa performance parameters have been plotted for different SNR values obtained by the experimental analysis.
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