Transcript Purpose of this Workshop • We have a compelling new research platform – Enables research that has been difficult in the past –

Purpose of this Workshop
• We have a compelling new research platform
– Enables research that has been difficult in the past
– Already generating excitements in the community
• We are making it available to academics
– Sora Academic Kit
– Sora Academic Program
• Let’s talk about software radio and wireless
research in general
– Success stories and pitfalls, new ideas/directions
Agenda
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:20
10:20-10:40
10:40-11:00
11:00-11:20
11:20-11:30
11:30-12:15
12:15-1:30
Opening: welcome,
agenda, guest
introduction
Introduction to Sora
Tea break and Sora Demo
Research Short Talk
Research Short Talk
Research Short Talk
Research Short Talk
Panel: “bridging EE
(communications) and CS
(networking) with
software radio”
Lunch and Lunch talk:
“Sora Academic Program
announcement and Q&A”
Yongguang Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia)
Kun Tan (Microsoft Research Asia)
Ashu Sabharwal (Rice University)
Petri Mähönen (Aachen University)
Peter Steenkiste (CMU)
Hariharan Rahul (MIT)
Moderator: Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research)
Panelists:
Alhussein Abouzeid (RPI/NSF)
Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin)
Wing Lau (the Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Miran Lee and Stewart Tansley (Microsoft
Research)
Guest Introduction
• 15 from US, 4 from Europe, 35 from Asia
• Poll
1. Little or no experience in software radio
2. Use software radio on and off
3. Hack software radio upside/down
Sora
• A new way of doing software radio
– High-performance (today’s prevailing standards)
– Easy to program (high-level programming, tools)
– Low cost (e.g., commodity hardware)
• Turn a multi-core PC running Windows into a
high-performance baseband software radio
– Hardware interface card (Sora RCB)
– High-performance software (Sora SDK)
High-Performance
• Enable software implementation of today’s
high-speed wireless systems in standard PC
– We implemented WiFi (802.11/a/b/g) and LTE
– With core i7 CPU, WiFi in 1 core and LTE in 2 cores
– WiFi fully interoperable with commercial device
in equivalent performance
• A truly software radio
– Two wireless standards (WiFi and LTE) operating
simultaneously over the same RF front-end
Programmability
• Commodity platform, C programming, and a
familiar environment  productivity!
– WiFi PHY implementation: 4 student-months
– LTE UPSCH PHY: 4-5 student-months
– Oscilloscope: 2 weeks
Software Radio Reality
• Perceptions
– Software Radio is long way from reality
– PC’s general-purpose CPU is not fast enough
• Reality
– Today’s fastest PC (4-core) can do fastest wireless
– A commodity PC in 2012 may do gigabit wireless
• We are working on gigabit wireless in a 16-core PC
Wireless World Opens Up
• Currently, a wireless technology takes 10+
years from research to product
– Accelerated innovation: Rapid prototyping with
software radio
• Currently, only a few big players can do
wireless
– Grass-root innovation: Every school, lab can try
out new algorithms, new protocols, new systems
• Metaphor: the Internet revolution
Time is Now for Software Radio
• Software radio is here
• Exciting time to do research
• Microsoft Research wants to work with you
– To encourage software radio research
– New and innovative applications
– Building the future together
Agenda
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:20
10:20-10:40
10:40-11:00
11:00-11:20
11:20-11:30
11:30-12:15
12:15-1:30
Opening: welcome,
agenda, guest
introduction
Introduction to Sora
Tea break and Sora Demo
Research Short Talk
Research Short Talk
Research Short Talk
Research Short Talk
Panel: “bridging EE
(communications) and CS
(networking) with
software radio”
Lunch and Lunch talk:
“Sora Academic Program
announcement and Q&A”
Yongguang Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia)
Kun Tan (Microsoft Research Asia)
Ashu Sabharwal (Rice University)
Petri Mähönen (Aachen University)
Peter Steenkiste (CMU)
Hariharan Rahul (MIT)
Moderator: Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research)
Panelists:
Alhussein Abouzeid (RPI/NSF)
Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin)
Wing Lau (the Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Miran Lee and Stewart Tansley (Microsoft
Research)