Research Article
Implementation of a Low-Rate Linear Step FM Transceiver on a Software Defined Radio Platform
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-53850-1_6, author={Yih-Min Chen and Shin-Chi Liao and Ying-Chang Chen}, title={Implementation of a Low-Rate Linear Step FM Transceiver on a Software Defined Radio Platform}, proceedings={Wireless and Satellite Systems. 8th International Conference, WiSATS 2016, Cardiff, UK, September 19-20, 2016, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={WISATS}, year={2017}, month={6}, keywords={Chirp communications Low-rate Matched-filter Linear step FM Transceiver Software-defined radio}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-53850-1_6} }- Yih-Min Chen
Shin-Chi Liao
Ying-Chang Chen
Year: 2017
Implementation of a Low-Rate Linear Step FM Transceiver on a Software Defined Radio Platform
WISATS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-53850-1_6
Abstract
Linear FM (Chirp) signals have the merits of constant envelope and insusceptibility to significant carrier frequency offset which particularly suit for low-power low-rate communications. However, the fully digital implementation of the matched filter for the chirp signals is not economically feasible. A low data-rate communication technique using linear step frequency modulated (LSFM) signal was thus proposed which exhibits a complexity reduction in the matched filter implementation with an acceptable performance loss compared to the chirp signals. This paper presents an implementation of such an LSFM transceiver on a realistic commercially available software-defined radio (SDR) platform. Specific system parameters in the LSFM are designed for a furthermore complexity reduction. Implementation cost and experimental results are presented.