Title :
Estimating the computational requirements of a software GSM base station
Author :
Turletti, Thierry ; Tennenhouse, David
Author_Institution :
Lab. for Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
We describe the software implementation of a GSM base station and consider the performance of each of its radio interface components. The performance of each software module is evaluated using both a % CPU metric and a processor-independent metric based on SPEC benchmarks. These results can be used to dimension systems, e.g., to estimate the number of GSM channels that can be supported by a given processor configuration, and to predict the impact of future processor enhancements on base station capacity
Keywords :
cellular radio; channel capacity; telecommunication computing; % CPU metric; SPEC benchmarks; base station capacity; computational requirements; performance; processor configuration; processor enhancements; processor-independent metric; radio interface components; software GSM base station; software implementation; Bandwidth; Base stations; Digital signal processing; GSM; Hardware; Laboratories; Radio frequency; Software performance; Software systems; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 1997. ICC '97 Montreal, Towards the Knowledge Millennium. 1997 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3925-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.1997.605186
