The Radio Virtual Machine: A Solution for SDR Portability and Platform Reconfigurability

Tanguy Risset (1, 2) , Riadh Ben Abdallah (2) , Antoine Fraboulet (3) , Yves Durand (4)

1 CITI - CITI Centre of Innovation in Telecommunications and Integration of services
2 SWING - Smart Wireless Networking
3 AMAZONES - Ambient Middleware Architectures: Service-Oriented, Networked, Efficient and Secured
4 CEA-LETI - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives - Laboratoire d'Electronique et de Technologie de l'Information

In this study we have presented a software architecture based on the virtual machine concept for SDR implementation. A high level abstraction language for the specification of PHY layer configurations has been proposed. In order to validate our concept and prove its practicality we have implemented IEEE802.11a PHY transmit and receive functionalities on a software demonstrator based on the Lua VM. This experiment has shown that both programming and execution model

Domains: Computer science

Tanguy Risset, Riadh Ben Abdallah, Antoine Fraboulet, Yves Durand. The Radio Virtual Machine: A Solution for SDR Portability and Platform Reconfigurability. 16th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop, May 2009, Rome, Faroe Islands. ⟨hal-00410747⟩