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Consequently, several spectrum sensing algorithms have been proposed in the literature. In this paper, we present a new spectrum sensing algorithm \u201cDifferential Characteristics-Based OFDM (DC-OFDM)\u201d for detecting OFDM signal on account of differential characteristics. We put the primary value on channel gain \u019f around zero to detect the presence of primary user. Furthermore, utilizing the same method of differential operation, we improve two traditional OFDM sensing algorithms (cyclic prefix and pilot tones detecting algorithms), and propose a \u201cDifferential Characteristics-Based Cyclic Prefix (DC-CP)\u201d detector and a \u201cDifferential Characteristics-Based Pilot Tones (DC-PT)\u201d detector, respectively. DC-CP detector is based on auto-correlation vector to sense the spectrum, while the DC-PT detector takes the frequency-domain cross-correlation of PT as the test statistic to detect the primary user. Moreover, the distributions of the test statistics of the three proposed methods have been derived. Simulation results illustrate that all of the three proposed methods can achieve good performance under low signal to noise ratio (SNR) with the presence of timing delay. Specifically, the DC-OFDM detector gets the best performance among the presented detectors. 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