Paper Info
Title
Reconfigurable remote radio head design and implementation for super base station applications.
Abstract
This paper proposes a reconfigurable remote radio head (RRH) software and hardware architecture and presents the results of its implementation. The implemented RRH has been designed for a centralized architecture super base station that facilitates the integration of 2G, 3G, and 4G ground base stations and geosynchronous equatorial orbit (GEO) satellite gateway stations. The reconfigurable RRH is a primary aspect of the system. By modifying the programmable software configuration from the perspective of software-defined radio, the RRH can support multiple frequency allocations. The RRH is composed of radio frequency (RF) modules, intermediate frequency (IF) modules, and some of the physical layer functions. The development of a reconfigurable IF module is emphasized. A filter-bank multiplexing technique has been employed for the IF module, which reduces the use of hardware resources. To this end, we experimentally evaluated the main key performance indicators (KPIs) of the RRH. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed design attains the goal of reducing hardware costs and improving system flexibility and stability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/s12243-018-0650-7
Annales des Télécommunications
Keywords
Field
DocType
RRH,Centralized base station architectures,Super base station,Reconfigurable,CPRI
Base station,Remote radio head,Software configuration management,Radio frequency,Electronic engineering,Physical layer,Software,Computer hardware,Multiplexing,Mathematics,Hardware architecture
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
73
9-10
0003-4347
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
4
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yingjiao Ma100.34
Jinglin Shi200.68
Jinlong Hu3354.08