Design of WARP: A wireless open-access research platform

Author

Murphy, Patrick ; Sabharwal, Ashu ; Aazhang, Behnaam

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Rice Univ., Houston, TX, USA

fYear

2006

fDate

4-8 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper presents the design of WARP, a custom platform for research in advanced wireless algorithms and applications. The platform consists of both custom hardware and FPGA implementations of key communications blocks. The hardware consists of FPGA-based processing boards coupled to wideband radios and other I/O interfaces; the algorithm implementations already include a flexible OFDM physical layer. Both the hardware specifications and algorithm implementations will be freely available to academic researchers to enable the development of a widely disseminated, highly capable platform for wireless research.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; field programmable gate arrays; radio networks; FPGA implementations; I/O interfaces; WARP design; academic researchers; advanced wireless algorithms; custom hardware; custom platform; flexible OFDM physical layer; hardware specifications; key communications blocks; processing boards; wideband radios; wireless open access research platform; wireless research; Algorithm design and analysis; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; OFDM; Signal processing algorithms; Transceivers; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing Conference, 2006 14th European

Conference_Location

Florence

ISSN

2219-5491

Type

conf

Filename

7071706