Title :
Study of Reconfigurable Mostly Digital Radio for MANET
Author :
Lecointre, Aubin ; Dragomirescu, Daniela ; Plana, Robert
Author_Institution :
LAAS-CNRS, Univ. of Toulouse, Toulouse
fDate :
Oct. 15 2007-Sept. 17 2007
Abstract :
We introduce the radio reconfigurability thanks to IRUWB mostly digital architecture for MANET context. This particular context implies some constraints on the radio interface such as low cost, low power, small dimensions and simplicity. Here, we propose an implementation of dynamic reconfigurable receiver on ASIC, and FPGA, after having explained the advantages of mostly digital radio for reconfigurability. In this paper, by studying our prototypes, we could prove that reconfigurability is on the contrary with MANET constraints needs. The proposed solution allows data rate, radio range, energy and spectrum occupation reconfigurability.
Keywords :
ad hoc networks; application specific integrated circuits; digital radio; field programmable gate arrays; mobile radio; ASIC; FPGA; IRUWB; MANET; digital architecture; radio interface; reconfigurable mostly digital radio; Application specific integrated circuits; Bandwidth; Digital communication; Field programmable gate arrays; Frequency; Mobile ad hoc networks; Pulse modulation; Receivers; Sampling methods; Transceivers; ASIC; FPGA; IR-UWB; MANET; mostly digital radio; reconfigurability;
Conference_Titel :
Semiconductor Conference, 2007. CAS 2007. International
Conference_Location :
Sinaia
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0847-4
DOI :
10.1109/SMICND.2007.4519690