Power Management for Software Radio Systems

Software defined radio(SDR) technology implements wireless communication protocols as software instead of dedicated hardware. SDR enables reconfiguration of wireless communication protocols without expensive hardware modification. However, as the SDR systems are equipped with additional programmable processors, they suffer significant power dissipation. This paper proposes a novel power management technique for SDR systems, called the combined modulation and voltage scaling (CMVS). Numerical analyses were performed to evaluate the effectiveness of CMVS. The results show that CMVS minimizes power dissipation while satisfying the given data transfer rate.