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Purpose of this Workshop

Purpose of this Workshop. We have a compelling new research platform Enables research that has been difficult in the past Already generating excitements in the community We are making it available to academics Sora Academic Kit Sora Academic Program

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Purpose of this Workshop

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  1. Purpose of this Workshop • We have a compelling new research platform • Enables research that has been difficult in the past • Already generating excitements in the community • We are making it available to academics • Sora Academic Kit • Sora Academic Program • Let’s talk about software radio and wireless research in general • Success stories and pitfalls, new ideas/directions

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  3. Guest Introduction • 15 from US, 4 from Europe, 35 from Asia • Poll • Little or no experience in software radio • Use software radio on and off • Hack software radio upside/down

  4. Sora • A new way of doing software radio • High-performance (today’s prevailing standards) • Easy to program (high-level programming, tools) • Low cost (e.g., commodity hardware) • Turn a multi-core PC running Windows into a high-performance baseband software radio • Hardware interface card (Sora RCB) • High-performance software (Sora SDK)

  5. High-Performance • Enable software implementation of today’s high-speed wireless systems in standard PC • We implemented WiFi (802.11/a/b/g) and LTE • With core i7 CPU, WiFi in 1 core and LTE in 2 cores • WiFi fully interoperable with commercial device in equivalent performance • A truly software radio • Two wireless standards (WiFiand LTE) operating simultaneously over the same RF front-end

  6. Programmability • Commodity platform, C programming, and a familiar environment  productivity! • WiFi PHY implementation: 4 student-months • LTE UPSCH PHY: 4-5 student-months • Oscilloscope: 2 weeks

  7. Software Radio Reality • Perceptions • Software Radio is long way from reality • PC’s general-purpose CPU is not fast enough • Reality • Today’s fastest PC (4-core) can do fastest wireless • A commodity PC in 2012 may do gigabit wireless • We are working on gigabit wireless in a 16-core PC

  8. Wireless World Opens Up • Currently, a wireless technology takes 10+ years from research to product • Accelerated innovation: Rapid prototyping with software radio • Currently, only a few big players can do wireless • Grass-root innovation: Every school, lab can try out new algorithms, new protocols, new systems • Metaphor: the Internet revolution

  9. Time is Now for Software Radio • Software radio is here • Exciting time to do research • Microsoft Research wants to work with you • To encourage software radio research • New and innovative applications • Building the future together

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