Hardware platform and implementation of a real-time multi-user MIMO-OFDM testbed

Author

Wenk, M. ; Luethi, P. ; Koch, T. ; Maechler, P. ; Felber, N. ; Fichtner, W. ; Lerjen, M.

Author_Institution

Integrated Syst. Lab., ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

2009

fDate

24-27 May 2009

Firstpage

789

Lastpage

792

Abstract

This paper describes a modular hardware platform of a multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) testbed. The hardware platform is based on multiple field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), provides four integrated radio-frequency (RF) chains, and has capabilities for extension boards. The performance and modularity of the testbed enables real-time MU-MIMO-OFDM experiments as well as offline processing experiments. To this end, the MIMO physical (PHY) layer of Haene et al., IEEE J-SAC, 2008, has been adapted to the new hardware platform and extended with bi-directional communication facilities and a basic media access control (MAC) layer equipped with Ethernet connectivity.

Keywords

MIMO communication; OFDM modulation; field programmable gate arrays; Ethernet connectivity; MIMO physical layer; basic media access control layer; bidirectional communication facilities; integrated radiofrequency chain; modular hardware platform; multiple field programmable gate array; multiple-input multiple-output testbed; offline processing; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing testbed; real-time multiuser MIMO-OFDM testbed; Bidirectional control; Ethernet networks; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; MIMO; Media Access Protocol; OFDM; Physical layer; Radio frequency; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2009. ISCAS 2009. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3827-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3828-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5117872

Filename

5117872