A novel gpp-based software-defined radio architectures

Yingjie jay guo is the founding director of global big data technologies centre and distinguished professor at university of technology, sydney. Nextgeneration wireless communication architectures and networking protocols that maximize spectrum utilization efficiency in congested. In our previous works, we leveraged the reconfigurability properties offered by the cr technology to implement cognitive wireless mesh networks cmns operating on the 2. Bilen, penn state the technique discussed here is being designed for a real time sdr system using general purpose processors and sdr development boards and it is robust and efficient with a processing time overhead low enough to allow the software radio to. Toward network function virtualization for cognitive. This paper presents a new architecture for softwaredefined radio sdr platform on commodity pcs with multicore cpus, which uses both hardware and software techniques to address the challenges of using pc architectures for highthroughput sdr. The evaluation results indicate that turbo and power consumption may be another challengeable problem should be further solved to meet the requirements of. Gppbased soft base station designing and optimization.

This technology is based on software defined wireless protocols, as opposed to hardware based solutions. Algorithmic designs are software optimized on heterogeneous multicore generalpurpose processor gpp based sdr architectures by leveraging a novel softwareradio framework that offers selfoptimization and realtime adaptation capabilities at the phy, mac, and net layers of. Globecom is the premier telecommunications event for industry professionals and academics from companies, governmental agencies, and universities around the. This paper presents a new architecture for softwaredefined radio sdr platform on commodity pcs with multicore cpus, which uses both hardware and. The technology and techniques have matured to a point where sdr platforms are now common in research environments as well as many commercial uses e. Gpp based solutions, even if providing the highest level of flexibility, are typically avoided because of their computational inefficiency and power consumption. Front end architecture design of software defined radio interoperable bts between gsm and is95. The objective of this dissertation is the design, development, and experimental evaluation of novel algorithms and reconfigurable radio architectures for spectrally efficient cognitive networking in terrestrial, airborne, and underwater environments. Flexible softwaredefined radio development platform, in 2007 2nd 63 r.

Latencyaware power management in softwaredefined radios. Mr yu fu, high performance software radio platform for lte systems, jan. Heterogeneous processing in software defined radio. Jay is an internationally established scientist with over 450 publications and patents. Fog radio access network fran architectures can leverage both cloud processing and edge caching for content delivery to the users. Efficient time synchronization approach for wireless communication systems on gpp based softwaredefined radio platform. Therefore, an opensource implementation of 4g5g networks with. Mr fengfeng wu, development of an ofdm modem for a 4g wireless testbed, feb. In the future it can be imagined that sdr architectures will be increasingly used to. By porting radio access functionality to a cloud platform, cellular system development can be set onto the same trajectory as other cloud based services. Develop a novel new combat vehicle torsion bar system that can vary vehicle pitch, attitude, provide ride height management and wheel lockout capability for ground combat vehicles.

Software defined radio an overview sciencedirect topics. Vlsi design and implementation of efficient software. Sharp darts radio amazing discoveries africa rediscover america audio podcast sports show 1204 pc holy cross catholic church featured software all software latest this just in old school emulation msdos games historical software classic pc games software library. Institute of computing technology, cas published by. Joint optimization of constellation with mapping matrix for scma codebook design. Yi huang, chao tang, hongliang duan, yiqing zhou, manli qian, liang huang. Journal of computer science and technology, volume 28. The profile of participants is academics, individuals and smallmediumlarge enterprises active in the domain cognitive radio or cognitive networking, that need to run experiments. Recently, a novel concept of fog computing radio access network fcran to solve the capacity and resource utilization issues at bbu pool is introduced 32. Initially, a novel software defined radio platform using commercial offthe shelf components. Ldpc codes but they are easier to implement in hwsw. Despite the innovative functional split design, this study requires more research on different aspects of fog computing concepts to make fcran a new split option in future 5g radio.

Recently, artificial intelligence aiaided ofdm receivers have been brought to the forefront to break the bottleneck of the traditional ofdm systems. Baseband signals are then passed to the radio frontend, where they are multiplied by a high frequency carrier and transmitted into. This will allow combat vehicles to improve andor regain lost mobility, provide additional tractive effort, increase ride quality and augment towing and. It provides lower correction performances at same frame length than e. This translates to supporting various features and functionalities, such as updating and upgrading through reprogramming, without the need to replace the hardware on which. We proposed efficient x86 and arm implementations of successive cancellation decoders that reach up to gbps on a single processor core.

Softwaredefined radio sdr architectures typically include generalpurpose cpus gpps. This chasingpointer fifo cpfifo largely mitigates the overhead even for very finegrained synchronization through implementation of a producer pointer 816 and a consumer pointer 818. Over the years, researchers and engineers have made remarkable progress and have been constantly pushing the hardware software boundary. Fourthgeneration 4g mobile networks are based on longterm evolution lte technologies and are being deployed worldwide, while research on further evolution towards the fifth generation 5g has been recently initiated. A novel gppbased softwaredefined radio architecture ieee. Parameter controlled software defined radio proceedings of the sdr forum technical conference 2002, november 1112, 2002, san diego ca, vol. Sora, a fully programmable software radio platform on commodity pc architectures, combines the performance and fidelity of hardware software defined radio platforms with the programmability and flexibility of generalpurpose processor sdr platforms. Editorial board of journal of computer science and technology p. Design of direct communication facility for manycore. Gpp based soft base station designing and optimization article in journal of computer science and technology 283 may 20 with 48 reads how we measure reads. A study of fronthaul networks in crans requirements and. Jun 06, 2018 fog radio access network fran architectures can leverage both cloud processing and edge caching for content delivery to the users. Softwaredefined radio sdr is a technology for radio communication.

A novel gpp based softwaredefined radio architecture,a in 7th international icst conference on communications and networking, kun ming china, 810 august, pp. Zhou, a novel gpp based softwaredefined radio architecture, in 7th internatioal icst conference on communications and networking in china chinacom, 2012, pp. Virtualization enables consolidation of computing hardware, reduces system cost, provides power savings, and increases flexibility 4. The softwaredefinedradio sdr project at the university of twente aims at combining two. We propose a novel fifthgeneration 5g rapid prototyping rapro system architecture by combining fpgaprivileged modules from a software defined radio or fpgacoprocessor and highlevel programming language for advanced algorithms from multicore general purpose processors. Not every section of this book addresses sdr specifically. Softwaredefined radio and cognitive radio applied to wireless sensor networks. Then we describe the system architecture consisting of a generalpurposeprocessor gpp based softwaredefined radio sdr wireless platform implementing a realtime lte protocol stack to.

To maximize spectral efficiency, novel radio access techniques need to multiplex users in the most suitable. Energyperformance exploration of a cgabased sdr processor. In this paper, we investigate two aiaided ofdm receivers, datadriven fully connecteddeep neural. The profile of participants is both academics and companies active in the. Most of the architectures described below are based on actual radios. Softwaredefined architectures for spectrally efficient. Sdr, mac and architecture researchgate, the professional network for scientists. Algorithmic designs are software optimized on heterogeneous multicore generalpurpose processor gpp based sdr architectures by leveraging a novel softwareradio framework that offers selfoptimization and realtime adaptation capabilities at the phy, mac, and net layers of the network protocol stack. Nicollet, dsp software architecture for software defined. Novel software defined radio architecture with graphics processor. The reconfigurable part in a software defined radio is the digital frontend.

Zhou, a novel gpp based softwaredefined radio architecture, in 2012 7th nternational conference on communications and networking in china, pp. Nowadays, cognitive radio cr is considered the key technology to deploy wireless nodes that are able to adapt their transmission parameters based on the characteristics of the environment. On gpp platforms, there are many sdr suites, such as gnu radio gr, that provide a modular based processing infrastructure that allow the developer to focus on algorithm development. Mario di dio principal architect cablelabs linkedin. In order to mimic the nature of a hardwarebased radio, with components such as. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing ofdm is one of the key technologies that are widely applied in current communication systems.

Softwaredefined radio sdr is a programmable transceiver with the capability of operating various wireless communication protocols without the need to change or update the hardware. Pdf performance analysis and comparison of gppbased sdr. Vlsi design and implementation of efficient software defined radio. Abstractsoftwaredefined radio sdr is a programmable transceiver. A novel web video event mining framework with the integration of. A novel gpp based softwaredefined radio architecture abstract.

Gpp based polar code decoders 2014 polar code is a new fec family. The ieee communications society is a professional society of the ieee focused on the science of, and education about, communications engineering with the goal of advancing the state of the field and fostering professional development. A modulation classification technique for softwaredefined radio using inphasequadra okhtay azarmanesh and sven g. A novel gppbased softwaredefined radio architecture. Furthermore, both gpp based software and hardware architectures for open 5g are presented and the performances of realtime signal processing and power consumption are also evaluated.

Oct 01, 2018 recently, a novel concept of fog computing radio access network fcran to solve the capacity and resource utilization issues at bbu pool is introduced 32. In the basic software architecture of a modern sdr figure 1. The crew project expects to support at least 4 and at most 8 experiments. Software defined radio sdr is a technology for radio communication. Software defined radio sdr architecture is designed using the verilog hdl. By porting radio access functionality to a cloud platform, cellular system development can be set onto the same trajectory as other cloudbased services. This paper presents a novel sampling frequency selection scheme, which. A direct communication facility, called dcfa, for a manycore based cluster, whose compute node consists of manycore units connected to the host via pci express with infiniband, is designed and. This technology is based on softwaredefined wireless protocols, as opposed to hardwarebased solutions. Sora, a fully programmable software radio platform on commodity pc architectures, combines the performance and fidelity of hardware softwaredefined radio platforms with the programmability and flexibility of generalpurpose processor sdr platforms.

When developing software defined radio sdr platforms, the process very different when the target is a general purpose processor versus a fpga based design. To this end, fran utilizes caches at the edge nodes ens and fronthaul links connecting a cloud processor to ens. A reconfigurable architecture of softwaredefinedradio for. Zhou, a novel gppbased softwaredefined radio architecture, in 7th. At the transmitter side, the wireless phy component first modulates the message i. Mr pradeep kemparaju, software defined radio on gpp based parallel computing platform, feb. Most sdr implementations are based on mixed architectures in which field programmable gate arrays fpga, digital signal processors dsp and general purpose processors gpp coexist. Us8565811b2 us12535,415 us53541509a us8565811b2 us 8565811 b2 us8565811 b2 us 8565811b2 us 53541509 a us53541509 a us 53541509a us 8565811 b2 us8565811 b2 us 8565811b2 authority. Fpga architecture for ofdm free download as pdf file.

The proposed system architecture exhibits excellent flexibility and scalability in the development of a 5g. Hari hara sudhan subramanian anna university, india software defined radio aims at using the same hardware for different applications by the change in software parameters. In our urbanx testbed that uses general purpose processor gpp based personal computers 6, most of the wireless communication functions including even physical modulation, a media access control mac protocol, channel sensing, and switch for cognitive radio are implemented by software on top of window operating systems. Aug 10, 2012 a novel gpp based softwaredefined radio architecture abstract. Microsoft research software radio sora microsoft research. A gpp is a digital circuit that is clockdriven and registerbased. Duncan, a survey of parallel computer architectures, computer, ieee international symposium on new frontiers in dynamic spectrum vol. Softwaredefined radio requires the combination of softwarebased signal. Special attention is dedicated to the parameterization of software defined radios.

Full text of proceedings of the 6th usenix symposium on. Nicollet, dsp software architecture for software defined radio, in iee colloquium on dsp enable radio, 2003, pp. Dec 08, 2008 software radio or software defined radio, sdr is an engineering pursue in wireless communication technology field that one day all wireless signal processing functions, which are typically implemented in hardware today, will be done completely in software. The software communications architecture as a framework for the reconfigurability of radio hardware and the portability of waveforms is briefly described.