Low-power SDRs through cross-layer control: concepts at work

Author

Dejonghe, A. ; Declerck, J. ; Naessens, F. ; Glassee, M. ; Dusa, A. ; Umans, E. ; Ng, A. ; Bougard, B. ; Lenoir, G. ; Craninckx, J. ; Van der Perre, L.

Author_Institution

IMEC, Leuven

fYear

2007

fDate

1-5 July 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Wireless access schemes was implemented on software defined radios (SDRs) in the future. In mobile terminals, SDRs should couple a high functional flexibility to low power operation. A two-step approach is advocated in this context. First, energy-scalability is introduced in the SDR design. Secondly, intelligent run-time cross-layer control is introduced to enable low power operation, by exploiting this scalability as well as the dynamics in the system. As a result, SDRs can be realized achieving a power consumption which can be comparable with dedicated radios, both in standby/idle mode or when transmitting or receiving data. This concept is validated on a transaction-level model (TLM) of our SDR platform, showing architectural integration and paving the way towards chip instantiation.

Keywords

mobile radio; radio access networks; software radio; SDR; cross-layer control; energy-scalability; software defined radios; transaction-level model; wireless access; Algorithm design and analysis; Baseband; Communication standards; Energy efficiency; Energy management; Forward error correction; Radio control; Runtime; Scalability; Software radio; Platform; Reconfigurable radio; Software-defined radio; cross-layer control; demonstration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, 2007. 16th IST

Conference_Location

Budapest

Print_ISBN

963-8111-66-6

Electronic_ISBN

963-8111-66-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISTMWC.2007.4299303

Filename

4299303