A Measurement Study of Adalm-PLUTO Software Defined Radio with IEEE 802.15.4

Software Defined Radio (SDR) enables a general purpose computer to generate, manipulate, and process various kinds of radio signals using software. It is receiving great interest from scientists and engineers to design novel communication and networking technologies without manufacturing dedicated radio chips. While USRP being the most popular one, Adalm-PLUTO is one of the most affordable SDR among those produced by several different companies. However, Adalm-PLUTO has hardly been used in research work to the best of our knowledge. In this paper, we measure the performance of Adalm-PLUTO SDR as an IEEE 802.15.4 radio, with and against a commercial off-the-shelf device, to verify that Adalm-PLUTO is capable of running IEEE 802.15.4 technology at 250 kbps datarate, at least on the radio side. Evaluation results show that Adalm-PLUTO can achieve over 95 % reliability without CSMA nor retransmissions.