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Spectrum Sensing: First Step Towards Cognitive Radio ^_^ Seth Myers Mobile Computing EE 787 May 7, 2009 Introduction The integration of wireless communications and computing power has enabled recent advances in software defined radio (SDR) such as the GNU Radio platform. The capability to use software to intelligently configure transmission parameters in response to perceived changes in the operating environment adaptive is giving further impetus to the development of ‘cognitive radio technology.’ Cognitive radio seeks to better utilize the electromagnetic ‘wifi’ spectrum, chiefly by sensing underutilized bandwidth and helping the various transmitting agents, typically mobile agents, to negotiate and most efficiently use such available bandwidth. Cognitive Radio is considered as one of the key candidates for fourth generation (4G) wireless technology [1]; the field of ‘cognitive radio’ was considered to have been launched with the 2000 thesis of J. Mittola [2]. Use of underutilized bandwidth requires a sensing of the traffic across the spectrum of available bandwidths, which will be the focus of this project. Background The author’s interest in this area stems in part from a consideration of the use of wireless communication technology in the ‘smart grid’ vision of the electric power system, in which two-way communication (and even distributed communication and processing) permeates the various devices on the electric power grid [3]-[5]. The use of distributed computing and communic