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Existing commercial wireless systems are mostly hardware-based, and rely on closed and inflexible designs and architectures. Moreover, despite recent significant algorithmic developments in cross-layer network adaptation and resource allocation, existing network architectures are unable to incorporate most of these advancements. While software-defined radio (SDR) was envisioned as a new paradigm promising radical runtime adaptation through all layers of the networking protocol stack, the reality of the state-of-the-art in wireless networking practice is far from having fulfilled such promise of fast and intelligent reconfigurability and adaptability. Networking research based on the “software-defined radio” paradigm has suffered almost invariably from the lack of adequate and coherently designed abstractions to (i) define networking protocols and their cross-layer interactions across all layers of the protocol stack; (ii) define decision-making algorithms to control such interactions. To address this need, we introduce RcUBe (Real-time Re-configurable Radio), a novel architectural radio framework based on abstractions that offer real-time reconfigurability and optimization capabilities at the PHY, MAC, and network layers of the protocol stack. Unlike state-of-the-art solutions, RcUBe offers a structured methodology at variable levels of abstraction to accommodate implementations of a wide range of network architectures and protocols and complex decision-making in a modular, platform-independent way. RcUBe provides these features through a design structured into four distinct, but interacting planes, namely decision, control, data, and register plane. The broad capabilities of the proposed framework are demonstrated on a network level software-defined radio setup through a range of experiments where RcUBe is used to implement various reconfigurable functionalities of a wireless system at the PHY, MAC, and network layer. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2015 | 10.1109/SAHCN.2015.7338288 | 2015 12th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON) |
Keywords | DocType | Citations |
real-time reconfigurable radio framework,RcUBe,self-optimization capabilities,wireless systems,cross-layer network adaptation,resource allocation,software-defined radio,SDR,networking protocol stack,wireless networking,decision-making algorithms,PHY layers,MAC layers,network layers | Conference | 6 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.67 | 18 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emrecan Demirors | 1 | 75 | 12.48 |
| George Sklivanitis | 2 | 49 | 7.11 |
| Tommaso Melodia | 3 | 4398 | 290.59 |
| Stella N. Batalama | 4 | 465 | 37.92 |