FPGA-ARM implementation of an intelligent mobile Ad-Hoc network

The Manet or Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks are capable of forming wireless networks with different topologies. The radios which form the network uses a specific band, data rate and frequency. The paper focuses on the implementation of intelligent Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork (iMANET) in which wireless networks are established using reconfigurable radios so that intelligent networks can be formed. The nodes involved in the network formation are capable of detecting spectrum holes and are self-configurable to specific bandwidth and data rate based on the channel conditions. The cooperative sensing capability of the network helps to make accurate decisions. This property of the nodes helps to form network at any frequency between 30MHz to 512MHz which is very useful in war fields and in disaster scenes. The entire iMANET is implemented in Xilinx Zynq, which is a GPU-FPGA system on chip (SoC).