Functional and Performance Analysis of CalRadio 1 Platform

Author

Manfrin, Riccardo ; Zanella, Andrea ; Zorzi, Michele

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Univ. of Padova, Padova, Italy

fYear

2009

fDate

9-11 July 2009

Firstpage

300

Lastpage

305

Abstract

CalRadio 1 is an open 802.11b-compatible development platform, designed and developed at UCSD with the aim of providing the research community with an open and fully reprogrammable board for experimental purposes. In this work we describe the hardware and software architecture of the board and we provide an accurate analysis of the limiting performance achieved by CalRadio 1 in comparison with commercial 802.11b wireless interfaces. The analysis offers a clear vision of the real potential and limitations of the CalRadio 1 board, pointing out the aspects of major concern for prospective developers.

Keywords

computer architecture; computer network performance evaluation; open systems; software architecture; wireless LAN; 802.11b wireless interfaces; CalRadio 1 platform; UCSD; fully reprogrammable board; functional analysis; hardware architecture; open 802.11b-compatible development platform; open reprogrammable board; performance analysis; software architecture; Baseband; Computer architecture; Digital signal processing; Digital signal processing chips; Hardware; Performance analysis; Physical layer; Radio frequency; Software architecture; Testing; ARM; CalRadio; DSP; MAC 802.11b;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network Computing and Applications, 2009. NCA 2009. Eighth IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3698-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3698-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NCA.2009.16

Filename

5190390