Evaluation of platforms and frameworks for high performance embedded Software Defined Radios

Abstract

This article focuses on the evaluation of embedded SDR platforms, incl uding USRP E310, Parallela Board, Jetson TK1 and Odroid XU4 for the purpose of selecting the platform with the highest symbol procaes ng speed. Additionally, the task scheduler of two frameworks are evaluated: GNU Radio and FastFIow in order to verify which one offersthe best perfor mance for software-defi ne radi 0 applications (SDR).