Second Workshop of Software Radio Implementation Forum (SRIF 2013)
LT9 (2/F), Yasumoto International Academic Park, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Monday, August 12, 2013
Technical Program
Giuseppe Bianchi, Petri Mähönen, and Kun Tan
Software Radio — Past, Present, and the [Near] Future
Matt Ettus (Ettus Research)
Abstract: Software Radio has come a long way in the last 15 years. This talk will cover where we’ve come from, where we are, and where we’re going, from the personal perspective of the speaker. We’ll discuss what has and has not worked, what challenges remain ahead. Specific topics will include:
- Challenges in hardware for Software Radio, and a discussion of the state of the art in RF frontends and data converters
- The evolution of the various processing paradigms used in software radio (GPP, GPU, DSP, and FPGA)
- What problems we thought would be solved by now
- The basic economics of software radios in volume productionKeynote
CODIPHY - Composing On-Demand Intelligent Physical Layers
Aveek Dutta, Dola Saha, Dirk Grunwald, and Douglas Sicker
An IEEE 802.11a/g/p OFDM Receiver for GNU Radio
Bastian Bloessl, Michele Segata, Christoph Sommer, and Falko Dressler
Evaluating Dynamic OFDMA Subchannel Allocation for Wireless Mesh Networks on SDRs
Robin Klose, Adrian Loch, and Matthias Hollick
USC SDR, an Easy-to-program, High Data Rate, Real Time Software Radio Platform
Horia Vlad Balan, Marcelo Segura, Suvil Deora, Antonios Michaloliakos, Ryan Rogalin, Konstantinos Psounis, and Giuseppe Caire
Modular, Open-Source Software Transceiver for PHY/MAC Research
John Malsbury
USC SDR, an Easy-to-program, High Data Rate, Real Time Software Radio Platform
Horia Vlad Balan, Marcelo Segura, Suvil Deora, Antonios Michaloliakos, Ryan Rogalin, Konstantinos Psounis, and Giuseppe Caire
Demo
Open-Source PHY/MAC Implementation with GNU Radio and the USRP
John Malsbury
Demo
Real-time Implementation of Physical-layer Network Coding
Lu Lu, Lizhao You, Qing Yang, Taotao Wang, Minglong Zhang, Shengli Zhang, and Soung Chang Liew
Demo
Real-Time Implementation of TD-LTE based on Software Defined Radio
Yanzhao Hou, Kaidong Wang, Qimei Cui, and Xiaofeng Tao
Demo
Support MIMO and TV Whitespace Research with Sora 2.0
Jiansong Zhang, Yuan Yao, and Kun Tan
Demo
Parallelizing MAC Layer Processing with TRUMP Framework on SDR Platforms
Xi Zhang, Junaid Ansari, and Petri Mähönen
Demo
Exploring Parallelization for Medium Access Schemes on Many-core Software Defined Radio Architecture
Xi Zhang, Junaid Ansari, Manish Arya, and Petri Mähönen
Simplifying FPGA Design with a Novel Network-on-Chip Architecture
Matt Ettus
Software Radio Platform for Network-Assisted Device-to-Device (NA-D2D) Concepts
Vicknesan Ayadurai, and Mikael Prytz
Practicing a Record-and-Replay System on USRP
Jian Chen, Shengli Zhang, Hui Wang, and Xiufeng Zhang
Inspecting GNU Radio Applications with ControlPort and Performance Counters
Thomas Rondeau, Tim O’Shea, and Nathan Goergen
Real-time Implementation of Physical-layer Network Coding
Lu Lu, Lizhao You, Qing Yang, Taotao Wang, Minglong Zhang, Shengli Zhang, and Soung Chang Liew
Experimental Implementation of Asynchronous Rendezvous Protocols using Microsoft Sora
Jiseon Lee, Chulmin Kim, and Chee-Ha Kim
Software Defined Radio Implementation of Signaling Splitting in Hyper-Cellular Network
Tao Zhao, Pengkun Yang, Huimin Pan, Ruichen Deng, Sheng Zhou, and Zhisheng Niu
Introduction
The forum is intended for academic and industrial practitioners and researchers who develop software radio platforms and who implement innovative wireless systems on software radio platforms to (i) demonstrate feasibility; and (ii) identify new critical problems that demand research attention.
Although the idea of Software Defined Radio (SDR) was conceived 20 years ago, it remains today one of the most vigorous and growing research areas in wireless communications. On the one hand, the cost of radio components, chipset, and platforms with programmable features is now almost within reach of integration into consumer products. On the other hand, the very definition of Software Defined Radio has been significantly extended since its inception: from “just” reshaping of PHY waveforms to full reconfiguration of the whole protocol stack as well as virtualization of PHY/MAC/access functionalities. There has also been increased interest to explore ways to describe the radio behavior through application programming interfaces and languages independent of the underlying platform.
SRIF 2013 aims to bring together practitioners and researchers of software-defined radio in academia and industry to share the latest development, experiences, and insights, in this exciting area. Through the exchange, the workshop aims to encourage and engender lively collaborations between academia and industry. In particular, the workshop aims to (i) reach out to industrial participants to share their best practices; and (ii) expose the state-of-the-art wireless research based on SDR to industrial participants in order to seek feedback.
Toward that end, we invite participants from the industry and academia to submit papers, demonstrations, and posters in all areas related to software radio platforms and system prototypes on them.
Although this workshop has an emphasis on implementations, not all submissions need to have the systems realized. New ideas that challenge the existing SDR methodologies and paradigms are especially welcome.
Topics
The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:- New hardware and software architectures for software radio platforms
- New programming model of SDR
- New PHY and MAC primitives and abstractions
- Prototypes of novel wireless systems on SDR
- State-of-the-art performance of wireless systems on SDR
- New applications of SDR (e.g., security, localization, RFID, biomedical applications, etc.)
- Theory versus practice (e.g., comparison of what is achievable in theory and what has been achieved in practice)
- New ideas that challenge the existing practice
- WLAN and LTE cellular networks with SDR
- Prototypes and implementations on platforms other than SDR
Submission Instructions
All submissions to SRIF 2013 must be original work that has not been submitted to any other workshop, conference, or journal. The workshop will consider two different types of papers:
Full papers: 6 to 8 double column pages (pdf format), describing relatively mature and completed work.
Short papers (for poster sessions and demos): 2 to 5 double column pages (pdf format), describing work-in-progress, experiments, challenges or positions.
You are required to use the ACM template for your papers: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
Full papers will be presented as technical talks in oral sessions. Short papers will be presented as posters and demos in a dedicated, non-overlapping, session. Authors of posters and demos will be given a 1-2 minute time slot at the beginning of the session to advertise their work. Depending on the number of accepted full papers, some may be allocated to the poster/demo session for presentation purposes.
It is responsibility of the authors to clearly indicate, in the title of the paper, the type of submission (e.g., “Full Paper: Interactions of PHY and MAC Primitives”; “Poster: Challenges Ahead for SDR”; “Demo: Terabit/s Prototype of Full-Duplex Wireless Communication”).
All submissions will be evaluated via a single-blind review process: please include author names and affiliation in the submission. All accepted papers (full and short) will be published online by ACM and/or IEEE.
Register and submit your paper at https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=13975
Email the OrganizersImportant Dates
Paper Title and Abstract Registration Due:
March 20, 2013
Paper Submissions Due:
March 28, 2013
Acceptance Notification:
April 28, 2013
Camera Ready:
May 26, 2013
Workshop Date:
August 12, 2013
Organizers
- General Chair:
Prof. Soung Chang Liew
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Steering Committee
Dr. Li Erran Li
Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Prof. Soung Chang Liew
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dr. Tom Rondeau
GNU Radio and The University of Pennsylvania, USA
Dr. Kun Tan
Microsoft Research Asia, China
- Technical Program Co-Chairs
Prof. Giuseppe Bianchi
University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Prof. Petri Mähönen
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Dr. Kun Tan
Microsoft Research Asia, China
- Technical Program Committee
Prof. Suman Banarjee
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Prof. Giuseppe Bianchi
University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Prof. Danijela Cabric
UCLA, USA
Prof. Romit Roy Choudhury
Duke University, USA
Prof. Linda Doyle
Trinity College, Ireland
Mr. Matt Ettus
Ettus Research, USA
Prof. Suhaib Fahmy
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. Rosario Garroppo
University of Pisa, Italy
Prof. Yong Liang Guan
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dr. Rahul Hariharan
MIT, USA
Prof. Dina Katabi
MIT, USA
Prof. Edward Knightly
Rice University, USA
Dr. Li Erran Li
Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Prof. Soung Chang Liew
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dr. Lu Lu
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Prof. Petri Mähönen
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Prof. Zhisheng Niu
Tsinghua University, China
Prof. Marina Petrova
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Prof. Petar Popovski
Aalborg University, Denmark
Dr. Tom Rondeau
GNU Radio and The University of Pennsylvania, USA
Prof. Ashu Sabharwal
Rice University, USA
Dr. Kun Tan
Microsoft Research Asia, China
Prof. Ilenia Tinnirello
University of Palermo
Prof. Xinbing Wang
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Prof. Yang Richard Yang
Yale University, USA
Dr. Per Zetterberg
KTH, Sweden
Prof. Qian Zhang
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Prof. Shengli Zhang
Shenzhen University, China
Prof. Lin Zhong
Rice University, USA
