TY - GEN
T1 - A Portable GSM Base Station Solution for Military Communications in Hostile Environments
AU - Altamirano, Carlos Daniel
AU - Barragán, Santiago
AU - Grijalva, Felipe
AU - Paredes, Manolo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Emerging software-defined radio system (SDR) is a solution for new military operational concepts that require advanced communication capabilities. SDR may also provide more flexible and possibly cheaper multi-standard terminals for military communications in hostile environments. In this context, the standard of Global System of Mobile Communications (GSM) is implemented in SDR, by using a universal software radio peripheral (USRP) N-210 and the existing tools like OpenBTS and Docker. This joint implementation is suitable for laboratory experimentation. However, for practical applications, as military communications, an amplification stage is necessary. Hence, the theoretical link budget is analyzed, and experimental measurements bear out the results. Finally, a mean opinion score is performed for evaluating voice quality. The results show that OpenBTS implemented in the USRP with an adequate amplification is suitable for long-range communications with little distortion.
AB - Emerging software-defined radio system (SDR) is a solution for new military operational concepts that require advanced communication capabilities. SDR may also provide more flexible and possibly cheaper multi-standard terminals for military communications in hostile environments. In this context, the standard of Global System of Mobile Communications (GSM) is implemented in SDR, by using a universal software radio peripheral (USRP) N-210 and the existing tools like OpenBTS and Docker. This joint implementation is suitable for laboratory experimentation. However, for practical applications, as military communications, an amplification stage is necessary. Hence, the theoretical link budget is analyzed, and experimental measurements bear out the results. Finally, a mean opinion score is performed for evaluating voice quality. The results show that OpenBTS implemented in the USRP with an adequate amplification is suitable for long-range communications with little distortion.
KW - Coverage area
KW - Docker
KW - MOS
KW - OpenBTS
KW - RF amplifier
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85085160232&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-15-4875-8_28
DO - 10.1007/978-981-15-4875-8_28
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:85085160232
SN - 9789811548741
T3 - Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
SP - 319
EP - 329
BT - Developments and Advances in Defense and Security - Proceedings of MICRADS 2020
A2 - Rocha, Álvaro
A2 - Paredes-Calderón, Manolo
A2 - Guarda, Teresa
PB - Springer
T2 - Multidisciplinary International Conference of Research Applied to Defense and Security, MICRADS 2020
Y2 - 13 May 2020 through 15 May 2020
ER -