Beamforming for interference mitigation and its implementation on an SDR baseband processor

Adrian Krdu, Yann Lebrun, Ubaid Ahmad, Sofie Pollin, Prashant Agrawal, Min Li

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Abstract

We present the first implementation of a distributed beam-forming algorithm for interference mitigation on an SDR baseband processor. Co-channel interference (CCI) is becoming a major source of impairments in wireless communications and distributed beamforming is a promising technique to mitigate its negative impact. However, such schemes are challenging to implement in practical scenarios due to their complexity and synchronization requirements. In this paper, we report on implementation of a suboptimal, yet efficient, beamforming scheme for CCI mitigation and present the complexity modeling and algorithm transformations for achieving numerically stability. We also present the fixed-point quantization and the proper mapping on a parallel programmable baseband architecture aimed for software-defined radio (SDR). We optimize this algorithm for a coarse grained reconfigurable array (CGRA) processor and evaluate it in the context of the LTE standard.

Original languageBritish English
Title of host publication2011 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, SiPS 2011, Proceedings
Pages192-197
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event2011 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, SiPS 2011 - Beirut, Lebanon
Duration: 4 Oct 20117 Oct 2011

Publication series

Name2011 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, SiPS 2011, Proceedings

Conference

Conference2011 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, SiPS 2011
Country/TerritoryLebanon
CityBeirut
Period4/10/117/10/11

Keywords

  • Beamforming
  • CGRA
  • Fixed-point arithmetic
  • LTE
  • Software Defined Radio

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