Browsing by Author "Boutellier, Jani"

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    Dataflow Modeling and Design for Cognitive Radio Networks
    (8th International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks, 2013-10-01) Wang, Lai-Huei; Bhattacharyya, Shuvra S.; Vosoughi, Aida; Cavallaro, Joseph R.; Juntti, Markku; Boutellier, Jani; Silven, Olli; Valkama, Mikko; CMC
    Cognitive radio networks present challenges at many levels of design including configuration, control, and crosslayer optimization. In this paper, we focus primarily on dataflow representations to enable flexibility and reconfigurability in many of the baseband algorithms. Dataflow modeling will be important to provide a layer of abstraction and will be applied to generate flexible baseband representations for cognitive radio testbeds, including the Rice WARP platform. As RF frequency agility and reconfiguration for carrier aggregation are important goals for 4G LTE Advanced systems, we also focus on dataflow analysis for digital pre-distortion algorithms. A new design method called parameterized multidimensional design hierarchy mapping(PMDHM) is presented, along with initial speedup results from applying PMDHM in the mapping of channel estimation onto a GPU architecture.
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    Parallel Digital Predistortion Design on Mobile GPU and Embedded Multicore CPU for Mobile Transmitters
    (Springer, 2017) Li, Kaipeng; Ghazi, Amanullah; Tarver, Chance; Juntti, Markku; Boutellier, Jani; Abdelaziz, Mahmoud; Anttila, Lauri; Juntti, Markku; Valkama, Mikko; Cavallaro, Joseph R.
    Digital predistortion (DPD) is a widely adopted baseband processing technique in current radio transmitters. While DPD can effectively suppress unwanted spurious spectrum emissions stemming from imperfections of analog RF and baseband electronics, it also introduces extra processing complexity and poses challenges on efficient and flexible implementations, especially for mobile cellular transmitters, considering their limited computing power compared to basestations. In this paper, we present high data rate implementations of broadband DPD on modern embedded processors, such as mobile GPU and multicore CPU, by taking advantage of emerging parallel computing techniques for exploiting their computing resources. We further verify the suppression effect of DPD experimentally on real radio hardware platforms. Performance evaluation results of our DPD design demonstrate the high efficacy of modern general purpose mobile processors on accelerating DPD processing for a mobile transmitter.