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A Universal Hardware Platform for an LTE-Advanced Base Station Prototyping

Published:2023-02-21 Issue:5 Volume:12 Page:1069
ISSN:2079-9292
Container-title:Electronics
language:en
Short-container-title:Electronics

Author:

Korpas Przemysław¹^ORCID,Rosołowski Dawid W.¹,Kajczuk Michał²,Gryglewski Daniel¹,Wojtasiak Wojciech¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Warsaw University of Technology, 00-665 Warsaw, Poland

2. IT Partners Telco Sp. z o.o., 03-679 Warsaw, Poland

Abstract

This paper presents a universal hardware platform (UHP) based on software defined radio (SDR) technology and developed to accelerate the prototyping and testing new hardware and algorithmic solutions for modern radio systems. There are two integrated transceivers and a baseband processor on the board. Thus, four complete RF transmitting and receiving channels, with observation paths for transmitted signals monitoring could be supported. Our platform can be operated in both time-division (TDD) and frequency-division (FDD) duplex schemes over a 300 MHz to 6 GHz frequency range with simultaneous synthesis and analysis in the bandwidth of up to 100 MHz. The radio system is formed by attaching an appropriate RF front-end to the UHP and uploading standard-specific software. As examples of possible UHP applications, two LTE-Advanced micro base stations for private networks with standard-defined RF front-ends operating in the LTE band B43 (3.6 GHz) with time duplex and the band B31 (450 MHz) in FDD mode are presented.

Funder

IT Partners Telco Ltd.

European Union

National Centre for Research and Development

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Computer Networks and Communications,Hardware and Architecture,Signal Processing,Control and Systems Engineering

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/5/1069/pdf

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