FPGA Implementation of UFMC based baseband transmitter: case study for LTE 10MHz channelization

Jafri, A. R., Majid, J., Zhang, L. , Imran, M. A. and Najam-ul-islam, M. (2018) FPGA Implementation of UFMC based baseband transmitter: case study for LTE 10MHz channelization. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2018, 2139794. (doi: 10.1155/2018/2139794)

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Abstract

Universal filtered multicarrier (UFMC) is a low complexity promising waveform that provides quasi-orthogonal property among subcarriers. In addition, it can achieve much better out-of-band emission performance than orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system. Authors have proposed a hardware platform to implement a UFMC transmitter in this paper. Highly reduced complexity schemes for IFFT, filtering, and spectrum shifting are realized on actual hardware. This helps to achieve overall architecture of the transmitter at the cost of minimal FPGA resource usage. Hence, the overall design uses only 1038 slice registers, 1154 slice LUTs, and 64 multipliers of Xilinx Virtex-7 XC7VX330t device. A throughput of 773.5 Msamples/sec at an operational frequency of 364 MHz is achieved. This throughput is adequate for processing 50 Physical Resource Blocks (PRB) of LTE 10 MHz channelization in required time. The presented architecture provides a latency of only 2% of one LTE 10MHz channelization symbol due to the implementation of pipelining at different levels. Although the presented hardware design in its current form meets LTE 10MHz channelization throughput requirements, further increase in throughput is possible due to the scalable nature of the architecture. To the best of our knowledge, this work is first ever FPGA solution for UFMC transmitter presented in the literature.

Item Type:Articles
Additional Information:This work is funded by both Bahira University, Islamabad, Pakistan and University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Imran, Professor Muhammad and Zhang, Professor Lei
Authors: Jafri, A. R., Majid, J., Zhang, L., Imran, M. A., and Najam-ul-islam, M.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering > Systems Power and Energy
Journal Name:Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
Publisher:Hindawi Publishing Corporation
ISSN:1530-8669
ISSN (Online):1530-8677
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2018 The Authors
First Published:First published in Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 2018:2139794
Publisher Policy:Reproduced under a Creative Commons License

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Project CodeAward NoProject NamePrincipal InvestigatorFunder's NameFunder RefLead Dept
3007250Distributed Autonomous Resilient Emergency Management System (DARE)Muhammad ImranEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)EP/P028764/1ENG - Systems Power & Energy