Estimating the computational requirements of a software GSM base station

Author

Turletti, Thierry ; Tennenhouse, David

Author_Institution

Lab. for Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

8-12 Jun 1997

Firstpage

169

Abstract

We describe the software implementation of a GSM base station and consider the performance of each of its radio interface components. The performance of each software module is evaluated using both a % CPU metric and a processor-independent metric based on SPEC benchmarks. These results can be used to dimension systems, e.g., to estimate the number of GSM channels that can be supported by a given processor configuration, and to predict the impact of future processor enhancements on base station capacity

Keywords

cellular radio; channel capacity; telecommunication computing; % CPU metric; SPEC benchmarks; base station capacity; computational requirements; performance; processor configuration; processor enhancements; processor-independent metric; radio interface components; software GSM base station; software implementation; Bandwidth; Base stations; Digital signal processing; GSM; Hardware; Laboratories; Radio frequency; Software performance; Software systems; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1997. ICC '97 Montreal, Towards the Knowledge Millennium. 1997 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3925-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1997.605186

Filename

605186