Distributed cognitive radio detection using Waspmote sensor for Windows based PC/Laptop

Abstract

All over the world, the existing spectrum is already been saturated with ever increasing demand. Every day huge number of users is joined to the existing fixed band frequency but the bandwidth is not increasing. To solve this issue the cognitive radio is the best choice. Spectrum or white space detection is an essential and very important issue in cognitive radio communication. The aim of channel detection is to find out efficiently the presence or absence of primary or licensed frequency. In this paper, we have developed a Libelium Waspmote sensor based cognitive radio detection scheme which is very easy to use, energy and cost effective. The reason for selecting this type of sensor is it supports IEEE 802.11 b/g and the Tx/Rx antenna transmission and reception sensitivity can be changed by the software. It can scan the available channel resource within its range and can store the data files. Also the security of this type of sensor supports the highest level of wireless security that is Wireless Protected Access V2 or WPA2. It is Windows based which is very common worldwide. The application runs in background without interrupting the PC/Laptop users. It is able to find efficient spectrum hole (Ideal channel) for a secondary or cognitive user to use the primary or licensed band without interrupting the primary user.