MRI: Development of a National University Wireless Testbed: Rice Configurable Baseband Architecture

该项目与来自加州大学洛杉矶分校、马萨诸塞大学和俄亥俄州州立大学的多学科多大学团队合作开发分布式国家大学无线测试床，促进了各大学之间的资源和专业知识共享。这项工作将导致建立一个国家实验基础设施，为无线通信研究和工程界服务。该基础设施增强了Rice现有的本地无线测试平台，有助于分布式无线测试平台的开发，并使研究人员能够通过Web界面访问不同远程大学站点的无线测试平台。该平台旨在作为一个灵活的，可编程的和公开的测试平台，提供实验与理论的无缝集成，支持以下研究活动：可重构无线架构、高数据速率通信以及密集无线网络的QoS调度和建模。支持Web的测试平台允许研究人员测试、验证和设计RF、基带、VLSI、和未来系统的网络组件。在Rice，研究平台将由基于高速基带处理器的可编程和可配置多天线无线通信收发器、RF发射机和接收机、信道仿真器和可编程RF开关矩阵组成，为学生提供更全面的教育，这种实验通信研究比传统的学术/理论研究环境具有明显的优势。分布式研究和教育平台还将用于校园内和通过网络界面开展的外联活动。

This project, developing a Distributed National University Wireless Testbed in cooperation with multi-disciplinary multi-university teams from UCLA, U Mass, and Ohio State, promotes the sharing of resources and expertise among various universities. The work leads towards a national experimentation infrastructure that can serve the wireless communication research and engineering community. The infrastructure enhances the existing local wireless testbed at Rice, contributing to the development of a distributed wireless testbed, and enabling researchers to access a wireless testbed in different remote university sites through web interfaces. The platform, intended to serve as a flexible, programmable, and publicly available testbed, provides a seamless integration of experiments with theory, supporting the following research activities: Reconfigurable Wireless Architectures, High Data Rate Communication, and QoS Scheduling and Modeling for Dense Wireless Networks.The web-enabled testbed allows researchers to test, validate, and design RF, baseband, VLSI, and networking components of future systems. At Rice, the research platform will be composed of programmable and configurable multiple antenna wireless communication transceivers based in high speed baseband processors, RF transmitters and receivers, channel emulators, and a programmable RF switching matrix.Providing students a more well rounded education, this experimental communication research offers adistinct advantage over a more traditional academic/theoretical research environment. The distributed research and educational platform will also be utilized for outreach activities, both on campus and via the web interface.