A light differential download algorithm for software defined radio devices

Author

Brawerman, Alessandro ; Blough, Douglas ; Bing, Benny

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comp. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

2005

fDate

3-6 Jan. 2005

Firstpage

476

Lastpage

481

Abstract

Radio configuration (R-CFG) files for software defined radio (SDR) devices can he downloaded over the air, allowing these devices to support multi-mode functionality using a single transceiver. The drawback of this is that the wireless link is constrained and downloading the entire R-CFG could take some time. In an effort to achieve efficiency, this paper presents a new algorithm for differential download, referred to as light differential download algorithm (LDDA). The LDDA is the first differential download algorithm specifically designed for SDR devices. It presents several new features that make not only R-CFG differential download a possibility, but also allows the update of any software by differential download. Experiments using Java 2 Micro Edition are performed to demonstrate the feasibility and superior performance of the LDDA when compared with other approaches.

Keywords

Java; mobile computing; radio links; software radio; transceivers; Java 2 Micro Edition; SDR; light differential download algorithm; multimode functionality; radio configuration; single transceiver; software defined radio devices; wireless link; Algorithm design and analysis; File servers; Hardware; Java; Mobile computing; Radio frequency; Software algorithms; Software radio; Software standards; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2005. CCNC. 2005 Second IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8784-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCNC.2005.1405219

Filename

1405219