Software-Defined 5G/B5G/6G Development

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".

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Department of Computer Science, Chungbuk National University, Chungbuk 28644, Korea
Interests: wireless communications systems; machine learning applications; Internet of Things
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Department of Electronics Engineering, Sookmyung Women`s University, Yongsan-gu, Seoul 04310, Korea
Interests: software modem; mobile communications; wireless protocol and services

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Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, we have witnessed the rapid advancement of wireless technologies, which includes fifth generation (5G) and subsequent generations. The proliferation of all forms of high-standard devices and services has driven the demand for widescale enhancements, ranging from data rate to reliability, compatibility, and flexibility, to continuously sustain the ever-increasing growth of the industry.

A salient point may lie in the softwarization for practical developments. With this in mind, in this Special Issue, we are particularly interested in describing, defining, and quantifying the potential problems and the mitigation techniques for software-defined wireless technologies which can be applied for future wireless systems and networks.

Dr. Ohyun Jo
Dr. Juyeop Kim
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • 5G/B5G/6G
  • Software-defined radio and software-defined network
  • Software modem
  • Softwareization
  • Communications systems and networks
  • System development
  • Wireless applications
  • Machine learning-based communications and networking
  • Security for future wireless communications
  • Big Data for future wireless communications
  • Network function virtualization

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An Implementation Design of Unified Protocol Architecture for Physical Layer of LoRaWAN End-Nodes
by Jean Park and Juyeop Kim
Electronics 2021, 10(20), 2550; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10202550 - 19 Oct 2021
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Abstract
LoRa Wide Area Networks (LoRaWAN) can provide a connectivity service to Internet of Things (IoT) for an extremely long run-time and with low power consumption. As the LoRaWAN is extensively applied to various IoT scenarios, LoRaWAN solutions face a flexibility issue in terms [...] Read more.
LoRa Wide Area Networks (LoRaWAN) can provide a connectivity service to Internet of Things (IoT) for an extremely long run-time and with low power consumption. As the LoRaWAN is extensively applied to various IoT scenarios, LoRaWAN solutions face a flexibility issue in terms of inter-operating with various kinds of LoRa modem hardware and protocol scenarios. In this regard, we design a unified protocol architecture for LoRaWAN physical layer, which can flexibly correspond to various deployment and operational cases. The new protocol architecture includes a hardware abstraction sub-layer, which contains generalized handlers for configuring various kinds of the LoRa modem, and a physical procedure sub-layer that structurally models the physical layer procedures of the LoRaWAN based on Finite State Machine(FSM). We illustrate the flexibility of the new protocol architecture by implementing an extensive feature that enhances the packet reception ratio based on the status of preamble detection. For evaluating the new protocol architecture, we implement the LoRaWAN physical layer protocol on real-time embedded systems and conduct experiments. The experimental results show that the proposed protocol robustly transmits and receives packets and generates little amount of additional burden compared with the conventional open source protocol provided by SemTech. Full article
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