Efficient configuration data transmission scheme for FPGA-based downloadable software radio communication systems

Author

Honda, Makoto ; Harada, Hiroshi ; Fujise, Masayuki

Author_Institution

Sony/Tektronix Corp., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1388

Abstract

In order to quantify the performance degradation of software radio communication systems due to faults of digital circuits which are configured by over-the-air download of configuration data, a 16-QAM demodulator with LUT-based reconfigurable square root raised cosine filters is designed. After over-the-air download of configuration data and reconfiguration is completed at the 16-QAM demodulator, BER performance of the reconfigured demodulator in an AWGN channel is evaluated by computer simulations. Furthermore, we develop a new radio transmission scheme of the configuration data. Our results show that 25 percent reduction in the number of symbols to transmit configuration data can be achieved without significant BER degradations

Keywords

AWGN channels; data communication; demodulators; digital filters; error statistics; field programmable gate arrays; quadrature amplitude modulation; radio equipment; software architecture; table lookup; 16-QAM demodulator; AWGN channel; FPGA-based downloadable software radio; LUTbased raised cosine filters; computer simulations; digital circuit faults; efficient configuration data transmission; over-the-air download configuration data; reconfigurable square root raised cosine filters; software radio communication systems; AWGN channels; Bit error rate; Circuit faults; Computer simulation; Data communication; Degradation; Demodulation; Digital circuits; Digital filters; Software radio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Fall. IEEE VTS 54th

Conference_Location

Atlantic City, NJ

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7005-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTC.2001.956424

Filename

956424