Zeit Mittwoch, 11.11.2009
Ort Raum 5052
Referent

Milan Zivkovic

Thema

A Reconfigurable Framework for Adaptive OFDM Transmission

Abstract

The investigation and assessment of information theoretic concepts for wireless resource management in real-world scenarios requires flexible testbeds with wide range of reconfigurable parameters. These functionalities are currently offered only in Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology based on general purpose hardware.We designed a modular, GNU Radio based reconfigurable framework which treats OFDM transmission link as a black box. The control and feedback mechanism provided by framework allows for optimal assignment of predefined transmission parameters, (power and rate per subchannel) at the input and estimation of link quality at the output. High flexibility, provided by large set of reconfigurable parameters, which are normally static in real systems, enables implementation and assessment of different resource allocation strategies for various classes of system requirements.

Challenges in the design and implementation of resource allocation strategies and performance evaluation of developed framework components will be discussed during the talk.