Performance analysis of LTE protocol processing on an ARM based mobile platform

2009 International Symposium on System-on-Chip - Proceedings, SoC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 56-63

  Szczesny, David ^a   Showk, Anas ^a   Hessel, Sebastian ^a   Bilgic, Attila ^a   Hildebrand, Uwe ^b   Frascolla, Valerio ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b Comneon GmbH ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM PROCESSOR; CLOCK FREQUENCY; COMPUTATIONAL DEMANDS; COMPUTING POWER; CRITICAL SOFTWARE; DATA PLANES; DATA RATES; DOWN LINKS; EMBEDDED PROCESSORS; ENCRYPTION ALGORITHMS; EXECUTION TIME; HARDWARE ACCELERATION; LAYER 2; LONG TERM EVOLUTION; MOBILE HARDWARE; MOBILE PHONE PLATFORMS; MOBILE PLATFORM; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL LAYERS; PROTOCOL PROCESSING; PROTOCOL STACK; ROBUST HEADER COMPRESSION; TRANSMISSION CONDITIONS; VIRTUAL PROTOTYPING;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CRYPTOGRAPHY; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 74549138321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SOCC.2009.5335678     Document Type: Conference Paper

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