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Today I gave a short seminar on spectrum sensing at the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School. It contained a quick overview of the topic: what spectrum sensing is, what are the most common methods that are used in the context of dynamic spectrum access and how they can be implemented in practice.

I couldn't go into much detail in the short time provided, but I've written a paper that goes with the talk and covers a bit more. The version on the School's website has reasonably unreadable formatting, so I'm publishing my original copy here. Of course, you can also download the slides.

When I first attended one of these seminars, I was somewhat surprised by the format. I haven't seen anywhere else that questions from the audience are written on slips of paper that are then passed over to the speaker to read and answer.

I sometimes attend seminars on interesting topics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics across the street from IJS. For example, there the Q&A is a normal human discussion between peers. The presentations are around 45 minutes while here I've heard a comment that they should be shortened to only 15 minutes.

I'm not sure about the reasoning behind these choices at IPS, but I can say that I like the common version better. If not for anything else, because I would not be hesitant to invite people that don't need mandatory attendance to join us.