A flexible CSMA based MAC protocol for software defined radios

Frequenz

Volumn 66, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 261-268

  Puschmann, André ^a   Kalil, Mohamed A ^a   Mitschele Thiel, Andreas ^a  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

CSMA; GNU radio; Iris; SDR; USRP

Indexed keywords

GNU RADIO; HETEROGENEOUS HARDWARE; HOST-BASED; IRIS; MAC PROTOCOL; MODULAR ARCHITECTURES; SDR; SOFTWARE DEFINE RADIOS; SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS; SPECTRUM SENSING; STRUCTURAL DETAILS; THROUGHPUT MEASUREMENTS; USRP;

CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; RADIO COMMUNICATION;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84869404504     PISSN: 00161136     EISSN: 21916349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/freq-2012-0048     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. European Commission Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) Cognitive Radio Experimentation World (CREW), Webpage: http://www.crew-project.eu/.
2. Google Protocol Buffers, Webpage: http://code.google.com/p/ protobuf/.
3. Iperf, Webpage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf/.
4. A. Puschmann, M. A. Kalil and A. Mitschele-Thiel, Implementation and Evaluation of a Practical SDR Testbed, in: 4th International Conference on Cognitive Radio and Advanced Spectrum Management, Barcelona, Spain, October 2011.
5. J. Ansari, Xi Zhang, A. Achtzehn, M. Petrova and P. Mähönen, A Flexible MAC Development Framework for Cognitive Radio Systems, in: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), March 2011.
6. G. Bianchi, Performance Analysis of the IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function, in: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 18, March 2000.
7. Joseph D. Gaeddert, Facilitating Wireless Communications through Intelligent Resource Management on Software-Defined Radios in Dynamic Spectrum Environments, Ph.D. thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA, January 2011.
8. George Nychis, Thibaud Hottelier, Zhuochen Yang, Srinivasan Seshan and Peter Steenkiste, Enabling MAC Protocol Implementations on Software-defined Radios, in: Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, 2009.
9. IEEE Computer Society, IEEE 802.11 Standard, Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specification, (2007).
10. P. D. Sutton, J. Lotze, H. Lahlou, S. A. Fahmy, K. E. Nolan, B. Ozgul, T. W. Rondeau, J. Noguera and L. E. Doyle, Iris: An Architecture for Cognitive Radio Networking Testbeds, in: IEEE Communications Magazine, 48, September 2010.
11. Stefan Valentin, Holger von Malm and Holger Karl, Evaluating the GNU Software Radio platform for wireless testbeds, Report, 2006.
12. Thomas Schmid, Oussama Sekkat and Mani B. Srivastava, An Experimental Study of Network Performance Impact of Increased Latency in SDR, in: ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization (WINTECH), 2007.
13. W. Hu, H. Yousefizadeh and X. Li, Load Adaptive MAC: A Hybrid MAC Protocol for MIMO SDR MANETs, in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 10, November 2011.