4th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities

Research Article

Flexible Demonstrator Platform for Cooperative Joint Transmission and Detection in Next Generation Wireless MIMO-OFDM Networks

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/tridentcom.2008.3127,
        author={Andreas Ibing and David K\'{y}hling and Marcel Kuszak and Clemens v. Helmolt and Volker Jungnickel},
        title={Flexible Demonstrator Platform for Cooperative Joint Transmission and Detection in Next Generation Wireless MIMO-OFDM Networks},
        proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks \& Communities},
        publisher={ICST},
        proceedings_a={TRIDENTCOM},
        year={2010},
        month={5},
        keywords={Testbed cooperative MIMO-OFDM Software defined radio},
        doi={10.4108/tridentcom.2008.3127}
    }
    
  • Andreas Ibing
    David Kühling
    Marcel Kuszak
    Clemens v. Helmolt
    Volker Jungnickel
    Year: 2010
    Flexible Demonstrator Platform for Cooperative Joint Transmission and Detection in Next Generation Wireless MIMO-OFDM Networks
    TRIDENTCOM
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/tridentcom.2008.3127
Andreas Ibing1, David Kühling1, Marcel Kuszak1, Clemens v. Helmolt1, Volker Jungnickel1
  • 1: Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications Heinrich-Hertz-Institut Einsteinufer 37, 10587 Berlin, Germany

Abstract

This paper presents a flexible demonstrator platform for cooperative joint transmission and detection in next generation wireless networks, especially cellular networks like 3GPP LTE+. The platform is shown capable of handling computational load as well as network load of jointly processing three maximum bandwidth LTE sectors with four antennas each. The platform uses a Workstation mainboard as PCI Express backplane. Joint signal processing is done on a Cell processor, protocol handling on an IXP2350 network processor. For baseband sample exchange a 10GBit/s optical network interface card is used. First results show the Cell processor capable of computing the 12x12 modified LTE MIMO-OFDM processing concurrently for precoding (downlink) and postprocessing (uplink) with a MIMO matrix update interval of 1ms (high mobility).