Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Scanning Optimization

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Egyptian Armed Forces.

Abstract

Cognitive radio can intelligently detect whether any portion of the spectrum is in use or not and can temporarily use it without interfering with the transmission of licensed users. In this paper firstly a brief discussion of various option of spectrum analyzing technique has done and secondly an optimized technique of scanning spectrum, that is bilateral scanning method has been analyzed using mat lab and compared with linear scanning on the basis of time taken in scanning and allotting the free gap to cognitive radio.

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