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Real Time Video Transceiver Using SDR Testbed With Directional Antennas
Real Time Video Transceiver Using SDR Testbed With Directional Antennas
Real Time Video Transceiver Using SDR Testbed With Directional Antennas
Abstract—In this paper, we propose a real-time transmission operation which can use for the development of cross layer
and reception scheme for high-quality video using the directional design across physical layer and medium access layer. The
antenna with the smart beamforming. We implemented a USRP is “Software Defined Radio” re-configurable device and
Software Defined Radio (SDR) testbed based on Universal
Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) and LabVIEW, which it can be used for many applications like Massive Multiple
can provide a cost effective solution for prototyping wireless Input Multiple Output (MIMO), spectrum monitoring, beam-
communication systems. First, the major challenge for the forming, 802.11 and Long Term Evolution (LTE) prototyping,
streaming high quality video is high data rate. In our proposed synchronization of heterogeneous networks, direction finding,
system, the high data rate up to 56 Mbps is obtained with radar, signal intelligence, Cognitive Radio (CR) and military
the directional beamforming transmission/reception. Second,
packet efficiency, i.e., successful packet reception of the system communications [7].
should be high. In our proposed system, the packet efficiency The Directional communication is part of next generation
up to 98.56% is achieved of by our developed algorithm. Third, wireless networks (5G) [8]–[10]. In our implementation, the
the frame rate of the video transmission, which should be directional antenna is used due to following advantages such
high, is attained at 30 fps in our implementation. The high as more energy in the desired direction and less energy in
power at the receiver is achieved by the use of the directional
antenna. The experimental results show that the Inter Symbol the undesired direction, better tolerance to jamming by using
Interference (ISI) is reduced to the great extent. Furthermore, nulling, better spatial reuse hence higher aggregated capacity,
the proposed solution is investigated by using high-order better link connectivity, longer transmission range implies
modulation techniques like 64-QAM and 256-QAM. lower latency and fewer hops, less impact of interference [11],
[12].
Index Terms—Beamforming, 256-QAM, Directional Antenna,
USRP, SDR, LabVIEW Real Time Video, 5G. In this paper, we are interested in obtaining high data rate,
high frame rate and efficiency of the system. Recent work in
[1], [13] have studied transmission of a video under similar
I. I NTRODUCTION condition but they has not been obtained high packet efficiency
The video traffic has become one of the main traffic in of the system. A more recent papers [14], [15] investigated the
the wireless internet networks recently. As we are moving to problem of efficiency of the system but has not been addressed
the next generation networks there is high demand of video the problem of achieving high data rate and frame rate of
traffic. Augmented reality, 3D hologram and virtual reality are the system. Different to the work in [1], [13]–[15] this paper
giving boost for the video traffic [1]–[3]. There are some of address the solutions to the problem like achieving high data
the prominent features of handling high quality video: high rate, high frame rate and efficiency of the system using USRP
data rate, successful packet reception and the higher frame and the directional antenna.
rate of the system. So our implementation have addressed The organization of the paper is as follows. Section II
all the threes issues. Furthermore, we are presenting the new overviews the system architecture designed in LabVIEW soft-
approach for handling video traffic using software defined ware using USRP testbed and directional antenna. Section III
radio technology with USRP and the directional antenna. outlines the proposed algorithm for transmitter and receiver
The hardware tools used in our implementation are as of the high quality video streaming. Section IV focuses on
follow: USRP, directional antenna, camera, and LabVIEW the experimental results like data rate of the system, power
which is used as the software tool. The USRP integration received, constellation mapping, packet efficiency and frame
with LabVIEW provides the user editing language graphically, rate. Section V is dedicated for a conclusion and future work.
which replaces text with the graphical programming code.
There are several advantages of using USRP namely high
II. S YSTEM A RCHITECTURE
In-phase/Quadrature(I/Q) rate, high sampling rate, high Radio
Frequency(RF) bandwidth and strong data processing capacity Figure 1 illustrates the beamforming procedure using the
[4]–[6]. The USRP device performs the signal processing USRP and the directional antenna. The high-quality video is
captured by the camera and transferred to the host computer
This work was supported by U.S. Department of Defense under Grant
No. FA8750-17-1-0140. Approved for public release; Distribution Unlimited: connected to USRP 2943R device via an 10Gbps Ethernet
88ABW-2017-4520, 18 Sep 2017. Cable. All the signal processing is done at the USRP device,
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of a receiver such as guard bits, sync bits, and message bits is the packet creation loop. Packets are created based on the
are same as that of transmission. The loop runs for n times. user defined packet parameters. Each packet has a guard, sync,
The frame rate and filter parameters are also inserted here. The message and pad component. The third loop is the modulation
flow of transmission and reception of the signal is explained in loop. The created packets are sent through the modulation
algorithm section. The complete block diagram of transmitter toolkit where they are translated into I and Q signals ready for
and receiver is illustrated in Figure 5 and 6. USRP transmission. The fourth loop is the transmission loop.
The modulated IQ signals are sent to the USRP and mixed
with a carrier frequency on board. Here there is a possibility
III. A LGORITHMS
of sending signal multiple times to guarantee transmission.
In this section describes our proposed algorithm for the Hence, the signal is sent over the air.
transmission and reception of video signal using USRP and
directional antennas. The explanation of receiver algorithm is as follows. The left
The explanation of transmitter algorithm is as follows. The loop in the block diagram is for the initialization of setup of the
first loop on the left side of a block diagram is the input application. The explanation of the first loop is as follows. If
parameter loop which is explained earlier. The top most loop frames of video are being lost, delay the acquisition by a small
on the right side is the data generation loop. The user defines amount to sync up the acquisition frame with the video frame.
the data type and what has to be sent. Then it is converted into The second loop is for splitting the incoming data into packets.
binary data which is ready to build the packet. The second loop The third loop is for the modulation of the data. Parameters are
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Parameters Value
RF Frequency 5.8 GHz
Sampling Frequency 2 MS/sec
Gain 23 dB
Horizontal Beamwidth 11◦
Vertical Beamwidth 11◦
Antenna Port TX1
Modulation 256-QAM or 64-QAM
Alpha 0.5
Filter Length 6
Filter Type Root Raised Cosine
Frame Rate 30 fps
TABLE I: Transmission Parameters of System
Parameters Value
RF Frequency 5.8 GHz
Sampling Frequency 2 MS/sec
Gain 23 dB
Horizontal Beamwidth 11◦ Fig. 11: Receiver Diagram with 64 QAM Modulation Scheme
Vertical Beamwidth 11◦
Antenna Port RX1, RX2
Modulation 256-QAM or 64-QAM
Alpha 0.5
Filter Length 6
Filter Type Root Raised Cosine
Frame Rate 30 fps
TABLE II: Receiver Parameters of System
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