A case study of a MIMO SDR implementation

Author

Li, Xiaolong ; Hu, Weihong ; Zadeh, Homayoun Yousefi ; Qureshi, Akber

Author_Institution

Dept. of EECS, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA

fYear

2008

fDate

16-19 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

Funded by a research contract from the Boeing Company, we report on the implementation of a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) software defined radio (SDR) platform forming an operational Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANET) node. Our SDR platform utilizes Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) including a motherboard for baseband processing, two daughter boards for RF frontend processing, and an embedded Intel Core General Purpose Processing (GPP) unit hosting Linux operating system. We use GNU Radio to program the PHY and DATA LINK layers of USRP. We also implement the TCP/IP stack on the SDR using the TAP/TUN driver of the Linux Kernel. We are able to run a variety of applications including file transfer, image delivery, stored audio delivery, and live speech. We report the results of our performance benchmarking related to these applications.

Keywords

Linux; MIMO communication; ad hoc networks; software radio; transport protocols; Linux operating system; MIMO SDR implementation; RF frontend processing; TAP/TUN driver; TCP/IP stack; baseband processing; operational mobile ad-hoc networks; software defined radio; Ad hoc networks; Baseband; Contracts; Linux; MIMO; Mobile ad hoc networks; Operating systems; Physical layer; Radio frequency; Software radio; AUDIO; Click Router Module; FTP; GNU Radio; HTTP; MAC; MIMO; PHY; Software Defined Radio; USRP;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2008. MILCOM 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2676-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2677-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2008.4753441

Filename

4753441