IEEE 802.11p Receiver Design for Software Defined Radio Platforms

Software Defined Radio platforms are a flexible and cost efficient solution to deal with the increasing number of today´s wireless communication standards. One interesting use case can be found in the automotive industry where the IEEE 802.11p standard enables Car-to-Car and Car-to-Infrastructure communication. In the context of this paper we present a physical layer implementation of the 802.11p receiver for the OpenAirInterface ExpressMIMO platform. Our results show that a real-time processing is already possible for most of the modulation schemes when applying a centralized control flow. The results are further extended by recommendations of further design improvements and the derivation of general guidelines for further standard deployment on the platform.