• ORCA will accelerate flexible end-to-end network experimentation by making open and modular software and hardware architectures available that smartly use novel versatile radio technology, more-specifically real-time Software Defined Radio (SDR) platforms meeting the requirements in terms of runtime latencies, throughput, and fast reconfiguration and reprogramming.
  • ORCA will offer experimental facilities, with SDR devices incorporating relevant software and hardware building blocks that allow easy design, implementation and programming, while also achieving low runtime delay allowing end-to-end networking experimentation.
  • ORCA will offer Cognitive Radio as a Service (CRaaS) to the wireless research community and wireless innovation creators by giving easy access to a worldwide, open and ready-to-go test environment with real- time, reconfigurable and reprogrammable SDR devices.
  • ORCA will extend the SDN architecture by add a high degree of flexibility on the radio level to adapt wireless networks to the dynamic nature of  today’s application
  • Thanks to the separation of planes, together with advanced radio capabilities in the data plane, ORCA will support flexibility at different levels:
    • RF Level
    • PHY Level
    • Medium Access Level
    • Network Level
  • The main target of ORCA is offering appropriate interfaces to integrate network functionality with RF, PHY and medium access functionality in SDR devices, providing a data, control and management plane at all levels (radio and network).

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