SWORD: Towards a Soft and Open Radio Design for Rapid Development, Profiling, Validation and Testing

Georgis, Georgios, Filo, Marcin, Thanos, Alexios, Husmann, Christopher, De Luna Ducoing, Juan Carlos, Tafazolli, Rahim and Nikitopoulos, Konstantinos (2019) SWORD: Towards a Soft and Open Radio Design for Rapid Development, Profiling, Validation and Testing IEEE Access.

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Abstract

The vision, as we move to future wireless communication systems, embraces diverse qualities targeting significant enhancements from the spectrum, to user experience. Newly-defined air-interface features, such as large number of base station antennas and computationally complex physical layer approaches come with a non-trivial development effort, especially when scalability and flexibility need to be factored in. In addition, testing those features without commercial, off-the-shelf equipment has a high deployment, operational and maintenance cost. On one hand, industry-hardened solutions are inaccessible to the research community due to restrictive legal and financial licensing. On the other hand, researchgrade real-time solutions are either lacking versatility, modularity and a complete protocol stack, or, for those that are full-stack and modular, only the most elementary transmission modes are on offer (e.g., very low number of base station antennas). Aiming to address these shortcomings towards an ideal research platform, this paper presents SWORD, a SoftWare Open Radio Design that is flexible, open for research, low-cost, scalable and software-driven, able to support advanced large and massive Multiple-Input Multiple- Output (MIMO) approaches. Starting with just a single-input single-output air-interface and commercial off-the-shelf equipment, we create a software-intensive baseband platform that, together with an acceleration/ profiling framework, can serve as a research-grade base station for exploring advancements towards future wireless systems and beyond.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions :	Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences > Electronic Engineering
Authors :	Name Email ORCID Georgis, Georgios g.georgis@surrey.ac.uk Filo, Marcin m.l.filo@surrey.ac.uk Thanos, Alexios a.thanos@surrey.ac.uk Husmann, Christopher christopher.husmann@surrey.ac.uk De Luna Ducoing, Juan Carlos juancarlos.delunaducoing@surrey.ac.uk Tafazolli, Rahim R.Tafazolli@surrey.ac.uk Nikitopoulos, Konstantinos k.nikitopoulos@surrey.ac.uk
Date :	23 December 2019
DOI :	10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2961457
OA Location :	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8938716
Copyright Disclaimer :	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Uncontrolled Keywords :	Acceleration, multiple-input multiple-output, SIMD, software-defined radios, beamforming.
Depositing User :	James Marshall
Date Deposited :	18 Feb 2020 11:11
Last Modified :	18 Feb 2020 11:11
URI:	http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/853770

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