Design of WARP: a Wireless Open-Access Research Platform

Authors: Patrick Murphy, Ashu Sabharwal & Behnaam Aazhang

Abstract

This paper presents the design of WARP, a custom platform for research in advanced wireless algorithms and applications. The platform consists of both custom hardware and FPGA implementations of key communications blocks. The hardware consists of FPGA-based processing boards coupled to wideband radios and other I/O interfaces; the algorithm implementations already include a flexible OFDM physical layer. Both the hardware specifications and algorithm implementations are freely available to researchers to enable the development of a widely disseminated, highly capable platform for wireless research.

@inproceedings{Murphy:2006,
	Author = {P. Murphy and A. Sabharwal and B. Aazhang},
	Booktitle = {Proceedings of EUSIPCO},
	Title = {Design of WARP: A Flexible Wireless Open-Access Research Platform},
	Year = {2006}}