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An open software-radio architecture supporting advanced 3G+ systems

UNE PLATEFORME RADIO LOGICIELLE OUVERTE POUR LES SYSTÈMES 3G+

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This paper describes a software-radio architecture developed for providing real-time wide-band radio communication capabilities in a form attractive for advanced 3G systems research. It is currently being used to implement signaling methods and protocols similar, but not limited to, evolving 3G radio standards (e.g. umts, cdma2000). An overview of the hardware system is provided along with example software implementations on both high-perfo-mance DSP systems and conventional microprocessors.

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Cet article décrit une plate-forme radio logicielle reconfigurable, permettant de réaliser ďune manière souple des traitements en temps réel sur une interface radio de type 3G. Cette plate-forme est actuellement utilisee pour implémenter des méthodes de transmission-réception ainsi que des protocoles, inspirés des normes 3G (umts, cdma2000). Une vue ďensemble de ľarchitecture matérielle est donnée dans cet article ainsi que des exemples ďimplantations logicielles, aussi bien sur processeurs de traitement du signal (dsp) que sur des processeurs classiaues.

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  1. Institut Eurécom (Eurecom’s research is partially supported by its industrial partners: Ascom, Bouygues Telecom, Cégétel, France Télécom, Hitachi, Motorola, STMicroelectronics, Swisscom, Texas Instruments, and Thomson csf), B.P. 193, 06904, Sophia-Antipolis CEDEX, France

    Christian Bonnet, Giuseppe Caire, Alain Enout, Pierre A. Humblet, Giuseppe Montalbano, Alessandro Nordio & Dominique Nussbaum

  2. Mobile Communications Laboratory (lcm—lcm was funded in part by Nokia/DiAx/SBC), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

    Thomas Höhne, Raymond Knopp & Bixio Rimoldp

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Correspondence to Christian Bonnet, Giuseppe Caire, Alain Enout, Pierre A. Humblet, Giuseppe Montalbano, Alessandro Nordio, Dominique Nussbaum, Thomas Höhne, Raymond Knopp or Bixio Rimoldp.

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A. Enout is now with UDcast, Sophia Antipolis, France.

G. Montalbano is now with Philips Semiconductors, Sophia Antipolis, France.

The authors appear in alphabetical order.

T. Hühne is now with the Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland.

R. Knopp is now with Institut Eurécom.

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Bonnet, C., Caire, G., Enout, A. et al. An open software-radio architecture supporting advanced 3G+ systems. Ann. Télécommun. 56, 332–343 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03001335

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