Award Abstract #0321266
MRI: Development of a National University Wireless Testbed: Rice Configurable Baseband Architecture

NSF Org:	CNS Division of Computer and Network Systems
Initial Amendment Date:	August 6, 2003
Latest Amendment Date:	March 28, 2006
Award Number:	0321266
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Rita V. Rodriguez CNS Division of Computer and Network Systems CSE Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Start Date:	August 1, 2003
Expires:	July 31, 2007 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:	$401203
Investigator(s):	Joseph Cavallaro cavallar@rice.edu (Principal Investigator) Behnaam Aazhang (Co-Principal Investigator) Ashutosh Sabharwal (Co-Principal Investigator) Jeremy Frantz (Co-Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:	William Marsh Rice University 6100 MAIN ST HOUSTON, TX 77005 713/348-4820
NSF Program(s):	UNDISTRIBUTED PANEL/IPA FUNDS, COMPUTING RES INFRASTRUCTURE, MAJOR RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION
Field Application(s):	0000099 Other Applications NEC, 0000912 Computer Science
Program Reference Code(s):	HPCC, 9251, 9218, 1189
Program Element Code(s):	9199, 7359, 1189

ABSTRACT

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 a

distinct 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.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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B. Sadeghi and E. Knightly.  ""Architecture and Algorithms for Scalable Mobile QoS","  ACM Wireless Networks Journal (WINET): Special Issue on Wireless Multimedia,,  v.9(1),  2003,  p. 7.

J. Cavallaro, Z. Jianzhong, D. McCain, Y. Guo.  "Structured Parallel Architecture for Displacement MIMO Kalman Equalizer in CDMA Systems,"  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing: Express Briefs,  v.54, Iss,  2007,  p. 122.

S. Rajagopal, J. R. Cavallaro.  "Truncated On-line Arithmetic with Applications to Communication Systems,"  IEEE Transactions on Computers,  v.55, No.,  2006,  p. 1240.

S. Rajagopal, J. R. Cavallaro, and S. Rixner.  ""Design space exploration for real-time embedded stream processors,","  IEEE Micro, Special Issue on Embedded Systems,  v.24,  2004,  p. 54.

Y. Guo, J. R. Cavallaro.  "A Low Complexity And Low Power SoC Design Architecture for Adaptive MAI Suppression in CDMA Systems,"  Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image and Video Technology,  v.44, No.,  2006,  p. 195.

Y. Guo, J. Zhang, D. McCain, J. R. Cavallaro.  "An Efficient Circulant MIMO Equalizer for CDMA Downlink: Algorithm and VLSI Architecture,"  EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on Implementation Aspects and Testbeds for MIMO Systems,  v.2006,  2006, 


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