Exploring frequency tuning policies for USRP-N210 SDR platform and GNU radio

Author

Galal, Islam ; Ibrahim, Mostafa E. A. ; Ahmed, Hossam E.

Author_Institution

Commun. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Benha Univ., Benha, Egypt

fYear

2013

fDate

8-10 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

298

Lastpage

303

Abstract

Nowadays, most of communication systems are well suited for the evolving technology of Software-Defined Radios (SDR). Despite the wide variety of SDR applications, one trait is common among them which is the frequency hopping. Systems utilizing frequency hopping with high hopping rates have strong limitations on the frequency tuning time. In this paper, we assess the influences of several tuning options, offered by the GNU Radio Universal Hardware Driver (UHD), with respect to tuning time. Our target SDR platform is the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP)-N210, the highest performing class among the USRP family, paired with the RFX2400 daughterboard. Our aim is to figure out the tuning option that results in minimum tuning time allowing the realization of faster hopping rates.

Keywords

frequency hop communication; software radio; tuning; GNU radio universal hardware driver; RFX2400 daughterboard; SDR; UHD; USRP-N210; frequency hopping; frequency tuning time; universal software radio peripheral; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Manuals; Radio frequency; Software; Time-frequency analysis; Tuning; Frequency Hopping; GNU Radio/UHD; SDR; Tuning Policies; USRP-N210;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing (DASIP), 2013 Conference on

Conference_Location

Cagliari

Type

conf

Filename

6661559