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Implementation of MPI-based WiMAX Base Station for SDR System  

Ahn, Chi Young (한양대학교 전자컴퓨터통신공학과 통신신호처리연구실)
Kim, Hyo Han (휴맥스 개발본부)
Choi, Seung Won (한양대학교 융합전자공학부)
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Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management / v.9, no.4, 2013 , pp. 59-67 More about this Journal
Abstract
Compared to the conventional Hardware-oriented base stations, Software Defined Radio (SDR)-based base station provides various advantages especially in flexibility and expandability. It enables the multimode capability required in 4th-generation (4G) environment which aims at a convergence network of various kinds of communication standards. However, since a single base station processes all data required in various multiple waveforms, the SDR base station faces a problem of data processing speed. In this paper, we propose a new concept of SDR base station system which adopts a parallel processing technology of clustering environment. We implemented a WiMAX system with SDR concept which adopts the Message Passing Interface (MPI) technology which enables the speed-up operations. In order to maximize the efficiency of parallel processing in signal processing, we analyze how the algorithm at each of modules is related to data to be processed. Through the implemented system, we show a drastic improvement in operation time due to parallel processing using the proposed MPI technology. In addition, we demonstrate a feasibility of SDR system for 4G or even beyond-4G as well.
Keywords
MPI; Parallel Processing; GPU Cluster; SDR; WiMAX;
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