Software routines that abstract platform-specific details, giving programs direct access to hardware resources.
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Cognitive Radio Programming Survey
Mickaël Dardaillon (Université de Lyon, INRIA, INSA-Lyon, France), Kevin Marquet (Université de Lyon, INRIA, INSA-Lyon, France), Tanguy Risset (Université de Lyon, INRIA, INSA-Lyon, France), Jérôme Martin (CEA-Leti – Minatec Campus, France), and Henri-Pierre Charles (CEA-List – Minatec Campus, France)
Copyright: © 2015
|Pages: 27
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6571-2.ch025
Abstract
Cognitive radio is based on Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology. The commercial success of smart radio applications and cognitive radio networks will be very dependent on cost, performance, and power consumption of SDR hardware platforms. SDR hardware is now available, but many issues have yet to be studied. In this chapter, the authors detail the constraints imposed by recent radio protocols and how hardware architectures support them. Then, they present existing architectures and solutions for SDR programming. Finally, the authors mention challenges related to the programming of future cognitive radio systems.