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==Introduction==
 
==Introduction==
By the end of the decade billions so called Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices will be connected to the Internet. IoT nodes can range from electrical energy meters to tiny positioning nodes connected to a network. While legacy 2G GPRS has long been used for cellular IoT (cIoT) applications, recent advancements in the 3GPP standardization organization address the growing need for IoT modems. In particular, Extended Coverage GSM (EC-GSM) with 20 dB coverage increase and low-power features is likely to be introduced in 2016 [1].
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By the end of the decade billions so called Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices will be connected to the Internet. IoT nodes can range from electrical energy meters to tiny positioning nodes connected to a network. While legacy 2G GPRS has long been used for cellular IoT (cIoT) applications, recent advancements in the 3GPP standardization organization address the growing need for IoT modems. In particular, Extended Coverage GSM (EC-GSM) with 20 dB coverage increase and low-power features is likely to be introduced in March 2016 [1].
  
 
==Project Description==
 
==Project Description==
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==References==  
 
==References==  
  
[1] ''Cellular system support for ultra-low complexity and low throughput Internet of Things (CIoT)'', 3GPP TR 45.820 v13.0.0, 2015.
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[1] ''Cellular system support for ultra-low complexity and low throughput Internet of Things (CIoT)'', 3GPP TR 45.820 v13.1.0, 2015.
  
 
[2] ''Virtex-6 FPGA ML605 Evaluation Kit'', http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/ek-v6-ml605-g.html, Dec 2015.
 
[2] ''Virtex-6 FPGA ML605 Evaluation Kit'', http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/ek-v6-ml605-g.html, Dec 2015.

Revision as of 14:19, 8 January 2016

Small footprint and low power nodes are indispensable for the billion devices Internet-of-Things.
2G Testbed setup with L2/L3 processing on ZedBoard (top), double RF on evalEDGE v1.0 (middle), and baseband on ML605 (bottom).

Introduction

By the end of the decade billions so called Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices will be connected to the Internet. IoT nodes can range from electrical energy meters to tiny positioning nodes connected to a network. While legacy 2G GPRS has long been used for cellular IoT (cIoT) applications, recent advancements in the 3GPP standardization organization address the growing need for IoT modems. In particular, Extended Coverage GSM (EC-GSM) with 20 dB coverage increase and low-power features is likely to be introduced in March 2016 [1].

Project Description

A complete GSM/GPRS/EDGE/Evolved EDGE physical layer is available at IIS from the razorEDGE and stoneEDGE projects. However, both project have no EC-GSM support and EC-GSM development has just begun. The goal of this project is to design a generic digital transmitter that accepts bits and configuration data from layer 2. It interleaves, encodes, punctures, and modulates the bits. The digital transmitter transfers the modulated bits to a DAC within an RF frontend. The transmitter should be versatile enough to support legacy GSM, GPRS, EDGE, and Evolved EDGE but also EC-GSM for cIoT. Furthermore, the transmitter should be generic enough that it is possible to e.g. turn off Evolved EDGE support before synthesis in order to save silicon area if Evolved EDGE is not required. The transmitter will eventually replace the transmitter in the existing stoneEDGE physical layer ASIC. There exists an FPGA based testbed which uses an ML605 FPGA board from Xilinx [2] and an evalEDGE RF board. The testbed can be used for fast prototyping. This project will involve modelling in Matlab but mostly it is HDL design, synthesis, and FPGA testing.

This project is a perfect opportunity to apply architectural design methods. The outcome is likely to be the first EC-GSM capable transmitter implementation worldwide (except for software defined prototypes).

Status: Available

Looking for interested students (Semester or Master Thesis)
Supervision: Benjamin Weber

Character

20% Theory
40% Architecture Design
40% HDL Implementation

Prerequisites

VLSI I
Matlab

Professor

Qiuting Huang

References

[1] Cellular system support for ultra-low complexity and low throughput Internet of Things (CIoT), 3GPP TR 45.820 v13.1.0, 2015.

[2] Virtex-6 FPGA ML605 Evaluation Kit, http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/ek-v6-ml605-g.html, Dec 2015.