Section: Scientific Foundations

Software Radio Programming Model

Tanguy Risset (coordinator), Kevin Marquet, Guillaume Salagnac

Finally the third research axis is concerned with software aspect of the software radio terminal (left of Fig 3 ). We have currently two action in this axis, the first one concerns the programming issues in software defined radio devices, the second one focusses on low power devices: how can they be adapted to integrate some reconfigurability.

The expected contributions of Socrate in this research axis are :

• The design and implementation of a “middleware for sdr ”, probably based on a Virtual Machine.

• Prototype implementations of novel software radio systems, using chips from Leti and/or Lyrtech software radio boards(Lyrtech (http://www.lyrtech.com ) designs and sells radio card receivers with multiple antennas offering the possibility to implement a complete communication stack).

• Development of a smart node: a low-power Software-Defined Radio node adapted to wsn applications.

• Methodology clues and programming tools to program all these prototypes.