A Software-Defined Radio implementation of an 802.11 OFDM Physical Layer transceiver

This work presents our effort in developing a complete, real-time, Software-Defined Radio implementation of an OFDM transceiver, compliant with the IEEE 802.11 Physical Layer specifications. All the baseband components in both the transmitter and the receiver are implemented with fast software functions, running on a General Purpose CPU. Real-time operation is achieved on a modern CPU by means of extensive code optimization, mostly using the SIMD instruction sets which are widely available on almost every modern CPU.