简介:ItisgenerallyacknowledgedthatmobilecommunicationbasestationsarecomposedofhardwarecomponentssuchasFieldProgrammingGateArray(FPGA),DigitalSignalProcessor(DSP),whichpromisereliableandfluentservicesforthemobileusers.However,withtheincreasingdemandforenergy-efficiency,approachesoflowpower-consumptionandhigh-flexibilityareneededurgently.Inthiscircumstance,GeneralPurposeProcessor(GPP)attractspeople'sattentionforitslow-costandflexibility.BenefitedfromthedevelopmentofmodernGPPinmulti-core,SingleInstructionMultipleData(SIMD)instructions,largercache,etc.,GPPsarecapableofperforminghigh-densitydigitalprocessing.Inthispaper,wecompareseveralsoftware-definedradio(SDR)prototypesandproposethegeneralarchitectureofGPP-basedsoftbasestations.Then,theschematicdesignofresourceallocationandalgorithmoptimizationinsoftbasestationimplementationarestudied.Asanapplicationexample,aprototypeofGPP-basedsoftbasestationreferringtothe3rdGenerationPartnershipProject(3GPP)LongTermEvolution(LTE)isrealizedandevaluated.Tothebestofourknowledge,itisthefirstSoft-LTEprototypeeverreported.Intheend,weevaluatethetimingperformanceoftheLTEsoftbasestationandapacketlossratiooflessthan0.003isobtained.