Airblue: A System for Cross-Layer Wireless Protocol Development
Over the past few years, researchers have developed many crosslayer wireless protocols to improve the performance of wireless networks. Experimental evaluations of these protocols have been carried out mostly using software-defined radios, which are typically two to three orders of magnitude slower...
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| author | Ng, Man Cheuk Fleming, Kermin Elliott Vutukuru, Mythili Gross, Samuel Mithal, Arvind Balakrishnan, Hari |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Ng, Man Cheuk Fleming, Kermin Elliott Vutukuru, Mythili Gross, Samuel Mithal, Arvind Balakrishnan, Hari |
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| description | Over the past few years, researchers have developed many crosslayer wireless protocols to improve the performance of wireless networks. Experimental evaluations of these protocols have been carried out mostly using software-defined radios, which are typically two to three orders of magnitude slower than commodity hardware. FPGA-based platforms provide much better speeds but are quite difficult to modify because of the way high-speed designs are typically implemented. Experimenting with cross-layer protocols requires a flexible way to convey information beyond the data itself from lower to higher layers, and a way for higher layers to configure lower layers dynamically and within some latency bounds. One also needs to be able to modify a layer's processing pipeline without triggering a cascade of changes. We have developed Airblue, an FPGA-based software radio platform, that has all these properties and runs at speeds comparable to commodity hardware. We discuss the design philosophy underlying Airblue that makes it relatively easy to modify it, and present early experimental results. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/718322022-10-03T09:04:58Z Airblue: A System for Cross-Layer Wireless Protocol Development Ng, Man Cheuk Fleming, Kermin Elliott Vutukuru, Mythili Gross, Samuel Mithal, Arvind Balakrishnan, Hari Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Mithal, Arvind Mithal, Arvind Ng, Man Cheuk Fleming, Kermin Elliott Vutukuru, Mythili Gross, Samuel Balakrishnan, Hari Over the past few years, researchers have developed many crosslayer wireless protocols to improve the performance of wireless networks. Experimental evaluations of these protocols have been carried out mostly using software-defined radios, which are typically two to three orders of magnitude slower than commodity hardware. FPGA-based platforms provide much better speeds but are quite difficult to modify because of the way high-speed designs are typically implemented. Experimenting with cross-layer protocols requires a flexible way to convey information beyond the data itself from lower to higher layers, and a way for higher layers to configure lower layers dynamically and within some latency bounds. One also needs to be able to modify a layer's processing pipeline without triggering a cascade of changes. We have developed Airblue, an FPGA-based software radio platform, that has all these properties and runs at speeds comparable to commodity hardware. We discuss the design philosophy underlying Airblue that makes it relatively easy to modify it, and present early experimental results. National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF grant CNS-0721702) National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF grant CCF-0541164) National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF grant CCF-0811696) 2012-07-26T14:01:58Z 2012-07-26T14:01:58Z 2010-10 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 978-1-4503-0379-8 978-1-4244-9127-8 INSPEC Accession Number: 11638128 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71832 Ng, Man Cheuk et al. "Airblue: A System for Cross-Layer Wireless Protocol Development." in Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), 2010, 25-26 Oct., La Jolla, Calif. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9737-2366 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1455-9652 en_US http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5623848 ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), 2010 Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE |
| spellingShingle | Ng, Man Cheuk Fleming, Kermin Elliott Vutukuru, Mythili Gross, Samuel Mithal, Arvind Balakrishnan, Hari Airblue: A System for Cross-Layer Wireless Protocol Development |
| title | Airblue: A System for Cross-Layer Wireless Protocol Development |
| title_full | Airblue: A System for Cross-Layer Wireless Protocol Development |
| title_fullStr | Airblue: A System for Cross-Layer Wireless Protocol Development |
| title_full_unstemmed | Airblue: A System for Cross-Layer Wireless Protocol Development |
| title_short | Airblue: A System for Cross-Layer Wireless Protocol Development |
| title_sort | airblue a system for cross layer wireless protocol development |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71832 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9737-2366 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1455-9652 |
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