A REVIEW ON VARIOUS TYPES OF SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIOS (SDRS) IN RADIO COMMUNICATION

Vigneswara Rao Gannapathy, Ahamed Fayeez Bin Tuani Ibrahim, Zahriladha Bin Zakaria, Abdul Rani Bin Othman, Nur Qalbi Binti Jalaudin

Abstract: Software Defined Radio (SDR) promises to deliver a cost effective and flexible solution by implementing a wide variety of wireless protocols in software. The SDR became more popular in recent years because of its abilities to realize many applications without a lot of efforts in the integration of different component. This software based radio device allows engineers to add more features to the communication system and implement any number of different signal processing elements or protocols without changing the original system hardware and its architecture. It provides a customizable and portable communications platform for many applications, including the prototyping and realization of wireless protocols and their performances. It is also able to interface with a separate hardware module to communicate over a real channel. In this article we described and compared the various SDRs that currently has been using by the researchers to study the performance of wireless protocol. Among the SDRs that we focused in this article are USRP, SORA, Air blue, SODA, and WARP.

Keywords: Software Defined Radio, USRP, SORA, Air blue, SODA, WARP

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0312026