Collaborative Research: CSR---EHS: Foundations for Design and Implementation of Software Radio Platforms

软件无线电通过使它们更灵活、可互操作和易于移植，为现实世界的系统带来了实质性的好处。互操作性和可移植性对于第一响应者来说尤其重要，他们需要在很短的时间内与各种可预测的机构快速建立通信。该项目正在开发软件无线电的新计算模型和架构。虽然软件无线电系统受到了相当大的关注，但今天使用的许多设计方法都是临时的。我们的目标是开发一种原则性的方法，从计算模型到综合模型，再到与架构相关的成本模型。这种方法将重新配置（在执行过程中动态地重新分配架构资源）视为一流的设计概念。新的方法提供了一个抽象的模型，软件无线电算法，是适合算法设计人员以及成本模型，允许复杂的架构优化和硬件/软件协同设计。 该项目使用现实系统验证其计算模型和实现模型。作为该项目的一部分，该团队正在开发有关软件无线电的课程材料，包括提供完整的高级顶点设计体验的讲座材料和实验室。 该项目还使乔治福克斯大学的学生和教师与马里兰州大学帕克分校和格鲁吉亚理工学院的同行之间的研究和教育合作。

Software radio promises substantial benefits to real-world systems by making them more flexible, interoperable, and easily upgradeable. Interoperability and upgradeability are particularly important to first responders, who need to quickly establish communications with a diverse and predictable set of agencies in a very short amount of time.This project is developing new computational models and architectures for software radio. While software radio systems have received considerable attention, many of the design methods in use today are ad hoc. The goal is to develop a principled approach that works from models of computation through synthesis down to architecture-related cost models. This approach treats reconfiguration, the reallocation of architectural resources on-the-fly during execution, as a first-class design concept. The new methodology provides an abstract model for software radio algorithms that is suitable for algorithm designers as well as cost models that allow sophisticated architectural optimizations and hardware/software co-design. The project validates its models of computation and implementation models using realistic systems. As part of this project, the team is developing curricular materials on software radio, including both lecture materials and labs that provide a complete, senior-level capstone design experience. This project also enables research and education collaborations between George Fox University students and faculty and their counterparts at the University of Maryland at College Park and the Georgia Institute of Technology.