A Feasibility Study on Software Defined Cognitive Radio Equipment

Author

Harada, Hiroshi

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol. (NICT), Yokosuka

fYear

2008

fDate

14-17 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

12

Abstract

A small-size software defined cognitive radio equipment that is composed of a hardware platform and a software platform has been introduced. The hardware platform is composed of a multiband/tunable RF unit with multiple switching circuits, and the signal processing unit is composed of FPGA and CPU boards. The software platform is composed of several managers that manage spectrum sensing and reconfiguration of communication systems and is worked on the Linux. The developed cognitive radio prototype combined by hardware and software platforms senses the signal level (RSSI) over 400 MHz-6 GHz bands and moreover identifies the system by using reconfiguration of software packages and checks RSSI, BER, connectivity, and so on. The software packages can configure specified wireless communication systems and consist of physical layer, MAC/DLC layer, IP layer, and application layer part of the systems. This paper also describes the sensing time and reconfiguration time.

Keywords

IP networks; Linux; field programmable gate arrays; radio access networks; software packages; software radio; switching circuits; CPU boards; FPGA; IP layer; Linux; MAC/DLC layer; multiband/tunable RF unit; multiple switching circuits; signal processing unit; software defined cognitive radio; software packages; wireless communication systems; Central Processing Unit; Cognitive radio; Communication system software; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Radio frequency; Signal processing; Software packages; Switching circuits; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, 2008. DySPAN 2008. 3rd IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2016-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2017-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DYSPAN.2008.8

Filename

4658219