Title
Design and implementation of a single-frequency mesh network using OpenAirInterface
Abstract
OpenAirInterface is an experimental open-source real-time hardware and software platform for experimentation in wireless communications and signal processing. With the help of OpenAirInterface, researchers can demonstrate novel ideas quickly and verify them in a realistic environment. Its current implementation provides a full open-source software modem comprising physical and link layer functionalities for cellular and mesh network topologies. The physical (PHY) layer of the platform targets fourth generation wireless networks and thus uses orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) together with multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques. The current hardware supports 5 MHz bandwidth and two transmit/receive antennas. The media access (MAC) layer of the platform supports an abundant two-way signaling for enabling collaboration, scheduling protocols, as well as traffic and channel measurements. In this paper, we focus on the mesh topology and show how to implement a single-frequency mesh network with OpenAirInterface. The key ingredients to enable such a network are a dual-stream MIMO receiver structure and a distributed network synchronization algorithm. We show how to implement these two algorithms in real-time on the OpenAirInterface platform. Further more, we provide results from field trials and compare them to the simulation results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1155/2010/719523
EURASIP J. Wireless Comm. and Networking
Keywords
Field
DocType
current hardware,software platform,mesh topology,single-frequency mesh network,network synchronization algorithm,mesh network topology,link layer functionalities,openairinterface platform,current implementation,generation wireless network,mesh network
Mesh networking,Wireless network,Computer science,Orthogonal frequency-division multiple access,MIMO,Computer network,Link layer,Network topology,PHY,Wireless mesh network
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2010,
1
1687-1499
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
1.39
24
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Florian Kaltenberger121433.00
Rizwan Ghaffar211014.07
Raymond Knopp372590.42
Hicham Anouar4393.18
Christian Bonnet589968.13