A Real Time Cognitive Radio Test Platform for Public Safety Physical Layer Experiments

Author

Green, Peter J. ; Taylor, Desmond P.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Canterbury, Christchurch

fYear

2007

fDate

3-7 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper describes the concept, architecture and development of a real time, cognitive radio testbed for physical layer, interoperability and spectrum sensing experiments. It is based on a reconfigured wireless 4-transmit 4-receiver multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) smart antenna software radio test system (SASRATS) platform using the the Xilinx University Program (XUP) Virtex-II Pro development boards as the heart of the system. We discuss various cognitive experiments in the context of public safety applications and show that cyclo- stationarity can be used for spectrum sensing and recognition applications.

Keywords

MIMO communication; adaptive antenna arrays; cognitive radio; open systems; MIMO; SASRATS; cognitive radio test platform; interoperability; multiple input and multiple output platform; physical layer; public safety; smart antenna software radio test system; spectrum sensing; Application software; Cognitive radio; Computer architecture; MIMO; Physical layer; Safety; Software radio; Software testing; System testing; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2007. PIMRC 2007. IEEE 18th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1144-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1144-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2007.4394205

Filename

4394205