Using LZMA Compression for Spectrum Sensing with SDR Samples Andre´ R. Rosete Kenneth R. Baker Yao Ma Interdisciplinary Telecom. Program Interdisciplinary Telecom. Program Communications Technology Laboratory University of Colorado Boulder University of Colorado Boulder National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, Colorado, USA Boulder, Colorado, USA Boulder, Colorado, USA
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Abstract—Successful spectrum management requires reliable [2], we can expect that communication signal samples will methods for determining whether communication signals are be more compressible than Gaussian noise samples, as the present in a spectrum portion of interest. The widely-used latter are random values. The Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain Algo- energy detection (ED), or radiometry method is only useful in determining whether a portion of radio-frequency (RF) spectrum rithm (LZMA) is a lossless, general-purpose data compression contains energy, but not whether this energy carries structured algorithm designed to achieve high compression ratios with signals such as communications. In this paper we introduce low compute time. [3] We have found that, all else held the Lempel-Ziv Markov-chain Sum Algorithm (LZMSA), a constant, SDR-collected, LZMA-compressed files containing spectrum sensing algorithm (SSA) that can detect the presence in-phase and quadrature (IQ) samples signals with higher of a structured signal by leveraging the Liv-Zempel-Markov chain algorithm (LZMA). LZMA is a lossless, general-purpose signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) show better compression ratios data compression algorithm that is widely available on many than files containing IQ samples of lower-SNR channels, or of computing platforms.