Proposal and Implementation of a Robust Sensing Method for DVB-T Signal

Chunyi SONG  Mohammad Azizur RAHMAN  Hiroshi HARADA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E95-B   No.4   pp.1276-1285
Publication Date: 2012/04/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E95.B.1276
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Cognitive Radio and Heterogeneous Wireless Networks in Conjunction with Main Topics of CrownCom2011)
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Keyword: 
spectrum sensing,  DVB-T,  threshold setting,  hardware implementation,  

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Summary: 
This paper proposes a sensing method for TV signals of DVB-T standard to realize effective TV White Space (TVWS) Communication. In the TVWS technology trial organized by the Infocomm Development Authority (iDA) of Singapore, with regard to the sensing level and sensing time, detecting DVB-T signal at the level of -120 dBm over an 8 MHz channel with a sensing time below 1 second is required. To fulfill such a strict sensing requirement, we propose a smart sensing method which combines feature detection and energy detection (CFED), and is also characterized by using dynamic threshold selection (DTS) based on a threshold table to improve sensing robustness to noise uncertainty. The DTS based CFED (DTS-CFED) is evaluated by computer simulations and is also implemented into a hardware sensing prototype. The results show that the DTS-CFED achieves a detection probability above 0.9 for a target false alarm probability of 0.1 for DVB-T signals at the level of -120 dBm over an 8 MHz channel with the sensing time equals to 0.1 second.