An article titled Enhancing 5G Performance: A Standalone System Platform with Customizable Features has been published in the AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications.
Congratulations to my PhD student Emmanouil-Zafeirios Bozis and all my co-authors, Michael Batistatos, George Xilouris, Akis Kourtis, and Tasos Kourtis.
The paper details the experimental outcomes of the integrated 5G platform utilizing SDR hardware and the most recent OpenAir Interface software, focusing on the key performance indicators of bandwidth and latency.
Here is a brief summary:
- Flexible 5G Platform: The paper proposes a standalone 5G system platform based on Open Air Interface software, which is fully reprogrammable and customizable.
- Improved Usability: The platform uses Linux shell scripts to simplify the implementation of different connectivity scenarios, speeding up the process.
- Performance Metrics: Achieved a mean Round Trip Time (RTT) latency of 6.78 ms with a 2 ms DL/UL Transmission periodicity, suitable for low-latency applications.
- Future Work: Plans to expand the system capabilities with additional hardware and software to test MIMO transmission and wider bandwidth parts.
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Four (4) new papers were presented in the PACET 2024 conference and will be published soon in IEEE Xplore.
- I. Keramidi, D. Uzunidis, I. Moscholios, K. Yiannopoulos, N. Sagias, P. Sarigiannidis, “Performance estimation of direct and indirect transmission in V2X communications,” in Proc. 7th Panhellenic Conference on Electronics and Telecommunications (PACET), Thessaloniki, Greece, Mar. 2024.
- E.-Z. Bozis, N. Sagias, M. Batistatos, M.-A. Kourtis, G. Xilouris, An. Kourtis, “A versatile 5G standalone testbed based on commodity hardware,” in Proc. 7th Panhellenic Conference on Electronics and Telecommunications (PACET), Thessaloniki, Greece, Mar. 2024.
- M. Batistatos, A. Mazilu, M.-A. Kourtis, G. Xilouris, D. Santorinaios, A. Oikonomakis, G. Oikonomakis, P. Leonis, P. Sygrimis, K. Ntouros, E.-Z. Bozis, I. Moscholios, N. Sagias, A. Kourtis, “UAV Swarm management platform for autonomous area and infrastructure inspection,” in Proc. 7th Panhellenic Conference on Electronics and Telecommunications (PACET), Thessaloniki, Greece, Mar. 2024.
- K. Yiannopoulos, N. Sagias, I. Moscholios, “BEP of an optically pre-amplified PPM receiver with arbitrary optical filter response,” in Proc. 7th Panhellenic Conference on Electronics and Telecommunications (PACET), Thessaloniki, Greece, Mar. 2024.
The PACET 2024 was organized by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) in Thessaloniki, Greece between March 27 and 29, 2024.
I would like to thank all my co-authors for our fruitful collaboration.
All papers can be found here: Conferences Articles