Title
IEEE 802.11AC MIMO transmitter baseband processing on customized VLIW processor
Abstract
This paper presents a software-based implementation for the MIMO transmitter baseband processing conforming to the IEEE802.11ac standard on a DSP core with vector extensions. The transmitter is implemented in four different transmission scenarios, which include 2×2 and 4×4 MIMO configurations, yielding beyond 1Gbps transmit bit rate. The implementation is done for the frequency-domain processing and real-time operation has been achieved when running at a clock frequency of 500MHz. The proposed software solution is evaluated in terms of power consumption, number of clock cycles and memory usage. This SDR based implementation provides improved flexibility and reduced design effort compared to conventional approaches while maintaining energy consumption close to fixed-function hardware solutions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6855058
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
MIMO communication,clocks,digital signal processing chips,energy consumption,frequency-domain analysis,radio transmitters,software radio,telecommunication power management,wireless LAN,DSP core,IEEE 802.11ac MIMO transmitter baseband processing,SDR based implementation,clock cycles,clock frequency,customized VLIW processor,energy consumption,fixed-function hardware solutions,frequency 500 MHz,frequency-domain processing,memory usage,power consumption,software defined radio,MIMO,OFDM,Parallel Processing,Software Defined Radio,WLAN
Transmitter,Digital signal processing,Mathematical optimization,Baseband,Computer science,Very long instruction word,MIMO,Computer hardware,Energy consumption,Clock rate,IEEE 802.11ac,Embedded system
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1520-6149
3
0.50
References 
Authors
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aghababaeetafreshi, M.132.19
Lehtonen, L.230.50
Soleimani, M.330.50
Valkama, M.491.16