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RTWiFi‐Lab: A real‐time Wi‐Fi laboratory platform on USRP and LabVIEW for wireless communications education and research
Author(s) -
Küçük Kerem
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
computer applications in engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.478
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1099-0542
pISSN - 1061-3773
DOI - 10.1002/cae.21865
Subject(s) - universal software radio peripheral , wireless , computer science , carrier frequency offset , multimedia , frequency offset , computer hardware , telecommunications , orthogonal frequency division multiplexing , channel (broadcasting)
The paper presents the real‐time education and research platform as an effective means for describing wireless and digital communications courses with Wi‐Fi standards. To this end, a Real‐Time Wi‐Fi Laboratory platform, called RTWiFi‐Lab is designed and implemented as part of these courses using NI USRP 2921 and LabVIEW. Laboratory experiments of these courses give benefits for utilizing a hardware platform since these experiments greatly facilitate the understanding of significant effects introduced by real‐time receivers. Hence, this platform is presented with seven experiments that provide the various concepts of these courses for different state‐of‐the‐art wireless and digital communications techniques such as signal detection, data modulation, frequency, phase offset estimation, etc. The RTWiFi‐Lab has been considered to provide computer engineering undergraduate students and qualified graduate students with the basic introduction to wireless and digital communications concepts in a short time at Kocaeli University, Turkey.