Performance Trade-offs of a Software Defined Radio for 2G and 3G Cellular Mobile Communication Standards

Yogita Ramesh  Dixit; Sameer  Muhammed

1st International ICST Conference on Communication System Software and MiddleWare

Research Article

Performance Trade-offs of a Software Defined Radio for 2G and 3G Cellular Mobile Communication Standards

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/COMSWA.2006.1665191,
    author={Yogita Ramesh  Dixit and Sameer  Muhammed},
    title={Performance Trade-offs of a Software Defined Radio for 2G and 3G Cellular Mobile Communication Standards},
    proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Communication System Software and MiddleWare},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={COMSWARE},
    year={2006},
    month={8},
    keywords={Code Division Multi-access Mobile Communication Reconfigurable Architectures},
    doi={10.1109/COMSWA.2006.1665191}
}

Yogita Ramesh Dixit
Sameer Muhammed
Year: 2006
Performance Trade-offs of a Software Defined Radio for 2G and 3G Cellular Mobile Communication Standards
COMSWARE
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/COMSWA.2006.1665191

Yogita Ramesh Dixit^1,2^,*, Sameer Muhammed^1,2^,*

1: Department of Electronics Engineering
2: National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala-673 601, India

*Contact email: yogitadixit@yahoo.com , sameer@nitc.ac.in

Abstract

Rapidly growing cellular wireless industry demands for global roaming and dynamic adaptation of the air interface to the time variant radio channel, the service and the cell type. This flexibility can only be achieved by a software radio, which performs all baseband functions in software and therefore totally software programmable. For realizing this, a general purpose software platform that describes the air interface components of various standards, is required. In this paper, a combined software platform for the baseband transceiver processing, which can operate in the IS-95 (2G standard) as well as CDMA2000 (3G standard) cellular environment, is implemented by considering some tradeoffs between the specifications of two standards. A common description have been developed for the implementation of the transceiver functions like channel codec, interleaver, modem, rake receiver etc using parameterized software approach. The BER performance of different radio configurations of CDMA2000 are compared with that of IS-95 against the selected trade-off parameters

Keywords: Code Division Multi-access Mobile Communication Reconfigurable Architectures

Published: 2006-08-07
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/COMSWA.2006.1665191