Wilis: Architectural Modeling of Wireless Systems
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Fleming, Kermin Elliott
Ng, Man Cheuk
Gross, Samuel
Mithal, Arvind
Date Issued
May 2011
Journal
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS)
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Fleming, Kermin Elliott et al. “WiLIS: Architectural Modeling of Wireless Systems.” in Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), IEEE, 2011. 197–206. Web.
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Abstract
The performance of a wireless system depends on the wireless channel as well as the algorithms used in the transceiver pipelines. Because physical phenomena affect transceiver pipelines in difficult to predict ways, detailed simulation of the entire transceiver system is needed to evaluate even a single processing block. Further, some protocol validations require simulation of rare events (say, 1 bit error in 109 bits), which means the protocol must simulate for a long enough time for such events to materialize. This requirement coupled with the heavy computation typical of most physical-layer processing, rules out pure software solutions. In this paper we describe WiLIS, an FPGA-based hybrid hardware-software system designed to facilitate the development of wireless protocols. We then use WiLIS to evaluate several microarchitectures for measuring very low bit-error rates (BER). We demonstrate, for the first time, that the recently proposed SoftPHY can be implemented efficiently in hardware.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPASS.2011.5762736
