Enabling open-source cognitively-controlled collaboration among software-defined radio nodes

  • Authors:
  • Gregory D. Troxel;Eric Blossom;Steve Boswell;Armando Caro;Isidro Castineyra;Alex Colvin;Tad Dreier;Joseph B. Evans;Nick Goffee;Karen Zita Haigh;Talib Hussain;Vikas Kawadia;David Lapsley;Carl Livadas;Alberto Medina;Joanne Mikkelson;Gary J. Minden;Robert Morris;Craig Partridge;Vivek Raghunathan;Ram Ramanathan;Paul G. Rubel;Cesar Santivanez;Thomas Schmid;Dan Sumorok;Mani Srivastava;Robert S. Vincent;David Wiggins;Alexander M. Wyglinski;Sadaf Zahedi

  • Affiliations:
  • BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;Blossom Research, LLC, Reno, NV 89506, United States;BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States;Information and Telecommunication Technology Center, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, United States;BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;Information and Telecommunication Technology Center, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, United States;Computer Science Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States;BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States;BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States;BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;Information and Telecommunication Technology Center, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, United States;Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States

  • Venue:
  • Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Software-defined radios (SDRs) are now recognized as a key building block for future wireless communications. We have spent the past year enhancing existing open software to create a software-defined data radio. This radio extends the notion of software-defined behavior to higher layers in the protocol stack: most importantly through the media access layer. Our particular approach to the problem has been guided by the desire to allow fine-grained cognitive control of the radio. We describe our system, Adaptive Dynamic Radio Open-source Intelligent Team (ADROIT).