Future Software-Defined Radio Platforms and Mapping Flows

Palkovic, Martin; Raghavan, Praveen; Li, Min; Dejonghe, Antoine; Perre, Liesbet Van der; Catthoor, Francky

doi:10.1109/msp.2009.935386

Cited by 49 publications

(23 citation statements)

References 19 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…The authors of [199] presented a paper that laid out the development and evolution of SDRs over the past several years and discussed the motivation behind gaining even more attention recently. Another work is the comparison conducted by the authors in [200] between the Imec Bear platform [201] and a few multicore-based SDR platforms. Other attempts include the work by [202], where the authors focused on discussing the analog end of the SDR concerning signal sampling, processing, and the hardware/software responsible for handling these tasks.…”

Section: Existing Surveysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Software-defined Radios: Architecture, state-of-the-art, and challenges

Akeela

Dezfouli

2018

Computer Communications

103

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Software-defined Radio (SDR) is a programmable transceiver with the capability of operating various wireless communication protocols without the need to change or update the hardware. Progress in the SDR field has led to the escalation of protocol development and a wide spectrum of applications, with more emphasis on programmability, flexibility, portability, and energy efficiency, in cellular, WiFi, and M2M communication. Consequently, SDR has earned a lot of attention and is of great significance to both academia and industry. SDR designers intend to simplify the realization of communication protocols while enabling researchers to experiment with prototypes on deployed networks. This paper is a survey of the state-of-theart SDR platforms in the context of wireless communication protocols. We offer an overview of SDR architecture and its basic components, then discuss the significant design trends and development tools. In addition, we highlight key contrasts between SDR architectures with regards to energy, computing power, and area, based on a set of metrics. We also review existing SDR platforms and present an analytical comparison as a guide to developers. Finally, we recognize a few of the related research topics and summarize potential solutions.

show abstract

Section: Existing Surveysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Software-defined Radios: Architecture, state-of-the-art, and challenges

Akeela

Dezfouli

2018

Computer Communications

103

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…High-end SDR solutions targeting LTE and WLAN solutions that support data rates in excess of 100 Mbps typically require heterogeneous multi-core solutions based on a combination of multiple cores consisting of DSPs, application-specific instruction processors (ASIPs) and MCUs with potentially sophisticated mapping tools [3]. Since the SUN standard supports data rates below 1 Mbps, it can be implemented using a single core DSP with an ASIP that accelerates very specific instructions [4].…”

Section: Sdr For Sunmentioning

confidence: 99%

Software defined radio for smart utility networks

Lingam

Schmidl

Batra

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Workshop on Software Radio Implementation Forum

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this paper, we describe a software defined radio (SDR) platform that can be used to implement the IEEE 802.15.4g standard for low data rate wireless smart utility networks (SUN). The SUN standard supports multiple wireless band plans, defines multiple physical (PHY) layers: FSK, OFDM and O-QPSK, each supporting a large number of data rates. Because of the flexibility allowed in the standards, an SDR approach provides the greatest flexibility in implementing the standard. We propose to use the SDR platform based on Texas Instruments C28x 32-bit MCU platform and a sub-1GHz CC1260 low power integrated radio. This platform may be used for both the smart e-meter as well as the data concentrator. We begin the paper by providing an overview of the different PHY layers and enumerating the common elements across all PHYs for both the transmitter and receiver. Next, we discuss a partitioning between software and hardware that provides the flexibility without sacrificing efficiency. Finally, we provide the details of a hardware accelerator incorporated into the C28x architecture (VCU II) that can simplify many of the complex tasks associated with these PHYs.

show abstract

“…Traditionally, DVB-T transmitters make use of hardware-based architectures, either customized or reprogrammable. However, software-defined radio (SDR) solutions are becoming attractive in order to incorporate many software-defined communication standards into a single device, which can be driven by a low-cost personal computer (PC) with multicore central processing units (CPUs) [4], [5], [6].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%