Software Defined Radio Architecture Survey for Cognitive Testbeds

Mickaël Dardaillon (1) , Kevin Marquet (1) , Tanguy Risset (1) , Antoine Scherrer (1)

1 SOCRATE - Software and Cognitive radio for telecommunications

In this paper we present a survey of existing prototypes dedicated to software defined radio. We propose a classification related to the architectural organization of the pro- totypes and provide some conclusions about the most promising architectures. This study should be useful for cognitive radio testbed designers who have to choose between many possible computing platforms. We also introduce a new cognitive radio testbed currently under construction and explain how this study have influenced the test-bed designers choices.

Keywords: Cognitive radio; Computer architecture; Digital communications; Reviews; Software radio

Domains: Hardware Architecture [cs.AR]

Mickaël Dardaillon, Kevin Marquet, Tanguy Risset, Antoine Scherrer. Software Defined Radio Architecture Survey for Cognitive Testbeds. IWCMC 2012 : 8th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, Aug 2012, Limassol, Cyprus. ⟨hal-00736995⟩