Research Article
Architectures for cognitive radio testbeds and demonstrators - An overview
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.CROWNCOM2010.9290, author={Oscar Gustafsson and Kiarash Amiri and Dennis Andersson and Anton Blad and Christian Bonnet and Joseph R. Cavallaro and Jeroen Declerck and Antoine Dejonghe and Patrik Eliardsson and Miguel Glasse and Aawatif Hayar and Lieven Hollevoet and Chris Hunter and Madhura Joshi and Florian Kaltenberger and Raymond Knopp and Khanh Le and Zoran Miljanic and Patrick Murphy and Frederik Naessens and Navid Nikaein and Dominique Nussbaum and Renaud Pacalet and Praveen Raghavan and Ashutosh Sabharwal and Onkar Sarode and Predrag Spasojevic and Yang Sun and Hugo M. Tullberg and Tom Vander Aa and Liesbet Van der Perre and Michelle Wetterwald and Michael Wu}, title={Architectures for cognitive radio testbeds and demonstrators - An overview}, proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={CROWNCOM}, year={2010}, month={9}, keywords={Cognitive radio Computer architecture Digital signal processing Field programmable gate arrays Hardware Process control Software}, doi={10.4108/ICST.CROWNCOM2010.9290} }
- Oscar Gustafsson
Kiarash Amiri
Dennis Andersson
Anton Blad
Christian Bonnet
Joseph R. Cavallaro
Jeroen Declerck
Antoine Dejonghe
Patrik Eliardsson
Miguel Glasse
Aawatif Hayar
Lieven Hollevoet
Chris Hunter
Madhura Joshi
Florian Kaltenberger
Raymond Knopp
Khanh Le
Zoran Miljanic
Patrick Murphy
Frederik Naessens
Navid Nikaein
Dominique Nussbaum
Renaud Pacalet
Praveen Raghavan
Ashutosh Sabharwal
Onkar Sarode
Predrag Spasojevic
Yang Sun
Hugo M. Tullberg
Tom Vander Aa
Liesbet Van der Perre
Michelle Wetterwald
Michael Wu
Year: 2010
Architectures for cognitive radio testbeds and demonstrators - An overview
CROWNCOM
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.CROWNCOM2010.9290
Abstract
Wireless communication standards are developed at an ever-increasing rate of pace, and significant amounts of effort is put into research for new communication methods and concepts. On the physical layer, such topics include MIMO, cooperative communication, and error control coding, whereas research on the medium access layer includes link control, network topology, and cognitive radio. At the same time, implementations are moving from traditional fixed hardware architectures towards software, allowing more efficient development. Today, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and regular desktop computers are fast enough to handle complete baseband processing chains, and there are several platforms, both open-source and commercial, providing such solutions. The aims of this paper is to give an overview of five of the available platforms and their characteristics, and compare the features and performance measures of the different systems.