Design and Validation of a Software Defined Radio Testbed for DVB-T Transmission
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2014-04
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Mark
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Společnost pro radioelektronické inženýrství
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This paper describes the design and validation of a Software Defined Radio (SDR) testbed, which can be used for Digital Television transmission using the Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial (DVB-T) standard. In order to generate a DVB-T-compliant signal with low computational complexity, we design an SDR architecture that uses the C/C++ language and exploits multithreading and vectorized instructions. Then, we transmit the generated DVB-T signal in real time, using a common PC equipped with multicore central processing units (CPUs) and a commercially available SDR modem board. The proposed SDR architecture has been validated using fixed TV sets, and portable receivers. Our results show that the proposed SDR architecture for DVB-T transmission is a low-cost low-complexity solution that, in the worst case, only requires less than 22% of CPU load and less than 170 MB of memory usage, on a 3.0 GHz Core i7 processor. In addition, using the same SDR modem board, we design an off-line software receiver that also performs time synchronization and carrier frequency offset estimation and compensation.
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Radioengineering. 2014, vol. 23, č. 1, s. 387-398. ISSN 1210-2512
http://www.radioeng.cz/fulltexts/2014/14_01_0387_0398.pdf
http://www.radioeng.cz/fulltexts/2014/14_01_0387_0398.pdf
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en