Establishing an Experimental Testbed With Software-defined Radios

Abstract

Software-defined radios (SDRs) provide researchers with a powerful and flexible wireless communications experimentation platform. GNU Radio is the most popular open-source software toolkit for deploying SDRs, and is frequently used with the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP). There is significant complexity involved in setting up GNU Radio with the USRP; therefore, in this report, we describe the key steps to take (and pitfalls to avoid) in order to successfully establish such an SDR testbed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA557559

Entities

People

  • Gunjan Verma
  • Paul K. L. Yu

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Program Documentation
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Directories
  • Electronic Mail
  • Frequency
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Open Source Software
  • Operating Systems
  • Signal Processing
  • Software Defined Radio
  • Software Development
  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtualization Software
  • Websites

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Radio communications and signal processing.