TD-LTE eNodeB prototype using general purpose processor

Kai Niu; Jianxing Sun; Kuilin Chen; Kok Chai

Research Article

TD-LTE eNodeB prototype using general purpose processor

Cite: BibTeX Plain Text

@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/ChinaCom.2012.6417598,
    author={Kai Niu and Jianxing Sun and Kuilin Chen and Kok Chai},
    title={TD-LTE eNodeB prototype using general purpose processor},
    proceedings={First International Workshop on C-RAN},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={C-RAN},
    year={2013},
    month={2},
    keywords={lte; signal processing; general purpose processor; real-time processing},
    doi={10.1109/ChinaCom.2012.6417598}
}

Kai Niu
Jianxing Sun
Kuilin Chen
Kok Chai
Year: 2013
TD-LTE eNodeB prototype using general purpose processor
C-RAN
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ChinaCom.2012.6417598

Kai Niu¹^,*, Jianxing Sun¹, Kuilin Chen², Kok Chai³

1: Key Laboratory of Universal Wireless Communications Ministry of Education Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
2: China Mobile Research institute
3: School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Queen Mary University of London, UK

*Contact email: niukai@bupt.edu.cn

Abstract

This paper presents a LTE eNodeB signal processing prototype on commodity PC architectures. LTE is one of the major B3G wireless communication systems with large throughput. Meanwhile, general purpose processor (GPP) techniques such as single instruction multi data technique, cache technique and many other effective techniques are developing rapidly in recent years. Thus, we apply Nehalem, one of the primary commodity PC architectures of Intel, to achieve the LTE eNodeB signal processing functions. We complete our single-core version test and reveal that the GPP platform has great potential for the development of real-time wireless signal systems.

Keywords: lte; signal processing; general purpose processor; real-time processing

Published: 2013-02-28
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ChinaCom.2012.6417598