Implementation and test of a DSRC prototype on OpenAirInterface SDR platform

Author

Agostini, Philippe ; Knopp, Raymond ; Harri, Jerome ; Haziza, Nathalie

Author_Institution

Thales Commun. & Security, Gennevilliers, France

fYear

2013

fDate

9-13 June 2013

Firstpage

510

Lastpage

514

Abstract

This paper presents OpenAirITS, an open-source Software-Defined Radio platform for DSRC (802.11p) technology. We extended the Linux 802.11 subsystem, developed a soft-modem and a dedicated driver for the OpenAirInterface Express-MIMO FPGA board. The low-layer PHY functions of DSRC have not been coded on the chipset, but instead as a soft-modem, which allows the SDR platform to be easily modified according to particular experimental objectives. The RF front-end and Express-MIMO board are reconfigurable to allow a wide range of options. In this paper, we configure the prototype for a 5MHz channel bandwidth at 800MHz, and provide key performance metrics of the soft-modem, as well as the DSRC protocol stack.

Keywords

Linux; MIMO communication; field programmable gate arrays; modems; software radio; wireless LAN; 802.11p technology; DSRC protocol stack; DSRC prototype; DSRC technology; Express-MIMO FPGA board; Linux 802.11 subsystem; OpenAirITS; OpenAirInterface SDR platform; RF front-end; bandwidth 5 MHz; bandwidth 800 MHz; dedicated driver; low-layer PHY functions; open-source software-defined radio platform; soft-modem; Decision support systems; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; MIMO; Microprogramming; Modems; OFDM; DSRC; IEEE 802.11p; ITS; Linux 802.11 subsystem; OpenAirInterface; prototype; software defined radio; vehicular communications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications Workshops (ICC), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Budapest

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCW.2013.6649287

Filename

6649287