Research Article
Design and Performance Trade-offs in Parallelized RF SDR Architecture
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.crowncom.2011.245888, author={Sami Kiminki and Ville Saari and Aarno P\aa{}rssinen and Vesa Hirvisalo and Antti Immonen and Jussi Ryyn\aa{}nen and Tommi Zetterman}, title={Design and Performance Trade-offs in Parallelized RF SDR Architecture}, proceedings={6th International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={CROWNCOM}, year={2012}, month={5}, keywords={software-defined radio; multi-standard radio; protocol co-existence; protocol co-operation; performance estimation; reconfigurable RF;}, doi={10.4108/icst.crowncom.2011.245888} }- Sami Kiminki
Ville Saari
Aarno Pärssinen
Vesa Hirvisalo
Antti Immonen
Jussi Ryynänen
Tommi Zetterman
Year: 2012
Design and Performance Trade-offs in Parallelized RF SDR Architecture
CROWNCOM
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/icst.crowncom.2011.245888
Abstract
Multi-radio platforms are an interesting design concept. Executing multiple radios on a shared platform presents opportunities not only for component re-use but also for better data throughputs, as non-active radios may dynamically yield resources for active ones. This enhances the conventional SDR approach in the RF domain and provides means to optimize resources in platform level when taking the link and network traffic issues into account. Such flexibility can provide opportunities for future cognitive radios when operating in heterogeneous networks. The downside is increased RF interference, and thus, receiver desensitization. We review the design and performance trade-offs of multi-radio platforms focusing on LTE and WLAN and present motivation for simple co-operation mechanisms to their future revisions.