3G & BEYOND: HARNESSING THE POWER OF MULTICORE PROCESSORS FOR 3G, WIMAX & LTE

摘要

Multicore processors are now an increasingly common and effective tool to address the challenges of power and performance in cellular basestations. Although wireless' killer application is still voice, data is rapidly becoming a close second for 3G, a trend that will continue as operators deploy 4G technologies such as mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e) and Long Term Evolution (LTE). Between e-mail, Web browsing, music downloads and machine-to-machine (M2M) applications, all of that data traffic means additional work for each base transceiver station (BTS) or Node B, particularly those in urban areas.