low-latency radio control

Designs and implements low-latency control systems, firmware, drivers, and signal-path logic to achieve microsecond-scale transmission timing and rapid tuning of radio hardware such as SDRs and RF frontends. Work includes bypassing high-level APIs to perform direct low-level SDR tuning, real-time scheduling and interrupt/DMA optimization, minimizing RF frontend switching latency, and analyzing timing budgets to rapidly retune center frequency and bandwidth.

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This work addresses the high latency inherent in wireless multihop networks caused by store-and-forward mechanisms and interference avoidance. To overcome these limitations, the authors propose RF-Zero-Wire, a novel protocol that introduces symbol-level concurrent relaying, enabling nodes to forward frame data symbol-by-symbol without requiring strict time synchronization—thereby bypassing traditional hop-by-hop transmission constraints. By modeling the beat-frequency effect induced by carrier frequency offsets and integrating forward error correction coding, the protocol significantly enhances transmission reliability. Experimental results demonstrate that RF-Zero-Wire achieves end-to-end latency below 1 ms for a 5-hop transmission of a 4-byte frame, with only a 0.16% latency increase per hop for a 16-byte frame—substantially outperforming conventional protocols, which typically exhibit over 100% latency growth per hop.

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Towards Timing Isolation for Mixed-Criticality Communication in Software-Defined Vehicles

Aug 19, 2025
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Lóránt Meszlényi
🏛️ University of Passau | RWTH Aachen University

In software-defined vehicles, mixed-criticality communication faces severe timing isolation challenges due to interference, unpredictable latency, and jitter—especially from concurrent access to the Linux network stack. Method: This paper proposes a full-stack isolation architecture spanning middleware, the network protocol stack, and hardware. It integrates the Data Distribution Service (DDS) framework, fixed-priority non-preemptive scheduling, eXpress Data Path (XDP) bypassing the kernel stack, and dedicated NIC queues to enforce strict temporal isolation between high- and low-criticality traffic. Contribution/Results: The key innovation is an end-to-end deterministic transmission channel that avoids kernel protocol stack contention. Experiments demonstrate that, under intense best-effort traffic interference, real-time traffic maintains sub-millisecond bounded latency and ultra-low jitter—significantly enhancing execution predictability on centralized in-vehicle Linux platforms.

Achieving timing isolation for Ethernet communication across software stackEnsuring predictable mixed-criticality application execution in Linux-based vehiclesMitigating network stack interference causing unpredictable latency and jitter

Towards Sub-millisecond Latency and Guaranteed Bit Rates in 5G User Plane

Oct 31, 2025
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Leonardo Alberro
🏛️ University of the Republic | University of Waterloo

To address the stringent requirements of 5G and beyond—namely per-flow bandwidth guarantees, microsecond-scale end-to-end latency, and dynamic QoS provisioning—this work tackles the fundamental limitation of traditional fixed-function networks, which struggle to support diverse 3GPP QoS configurations in cloud-native architectures. We propose the first fully programmable data plane model for transport networks that comprehensively supports all 3GPP-defined QoS resource types. Implemented in P4 on Intel Tofino switches, our design enables flow-level fine-grained classification, per-flow rate limiting, strict priority scheduling, and latency-aware queue management. Experimental evaluation demonstrates sub-1 ms end-to-end latency for critical flows, near-zero packet loss, and robust QoS stability under congestion. The solution significantly enhances service assurance capabilities for ultra-reliable low-latency applications.

Achieving sub-millisecond latency in 5G networksGuaranteeing per-flow bandwidth and QoS requirementsSupporting diverse 3GPP QoS profiles dynamically

This work presents a fully connected four-node wireless mesh network based on the Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC platform to support multi-stream, real-time, uncompressed 4K video transmission. By designing a custom physical and MAC layer within a shared 200 MHz bandwidth, the system achieves, for the first time, a low-latency, digitally controlled frequency-division duplexing 2×2 MIMO link with runtime dynamic reconfiguration capability. The implementation concurrently operates twelve 99.84 Mbps links, delivering an aggregate throughput of 1.2 Gbps—sufficient to transmit multiple synchronized 4K video streams. Furthermore, the platform provides real-time visualization and monitoring of key performance metrics, including error vector magnitude (EVM), signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR), and bit error rate (BER).

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This study addresses the high latency and difficulty of adapting large language models (LLMs) to bounded decision spaces in wireless control. To overcome these limitations, this work proposes a lightweight alternative architecture based on System-One reasoning. By leveraging Jev for probabilistic distribution learning, the proposed framework directly models decision distributions over bounded control spaces, elucidating the inherent trade-off between decision quality and inference latency. Experimental evaluations on radio access network (RAN) slicing tasks demonstrate that the proposed method reduces latency by 3.5× while preserving utility, significantly outperforming both LLM-based and conventional baselines. These results validate its potential as an effective low-latency decision-making interface for wireless networks.

Bounded control problemsLatency constraintsQuality-latency tradeoff

This work addresses the diverse performance and resource-efficiency requirements of emerging applications for network switches by proposing SPAC, a co-designed framework for automated FPGA-based switch generation that integrates protocol and architecture. SPAC leverages a domain-specific language, a modular high-level synthesis (HLS) component library, trajectory-aware design space exploration, and multi-fidelity simulation to enable joint protocol–microarchitecture optimization and efficient customization. Experimental results demonstrate that, compared to fixed-architecture approaches, SPAC reduces LUT usage by up to 55% and BRAM consumption by up to 53% across various workloads, while achieving latency improvements of 7.8%–38.4%, maintaining low packet loss rates, and incurring only modest resource overhead.

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This study addresses the lack of empirical evaluation of NVIDIA ConnectX NICs’ high-precision scheduling and hardware timestamping capabilities under real-world conditions, which has hindered clear assessment of their suitability for stringent timing requirements in deterministic networks such as 5G fronthaul and Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN). Leveraging an FPGA-based nanosecond-precision measurement platform, this work presents the first public quantification of the hardware timestamp accuracy and Accurate Scheduling transmission timing performance of the ConnectX-7 NIC. Experimental results show that cross-device timestamp deviations are approximately ±7–8 ns, and 99% of scheduled frames are transmitted within ±900 ns of their target time, with rare outliers reaching up to 5 μs. These findings indicate that the NIC meets the tens-of-microseconds timing demands of 5G fronthaul but falls short of the sub-microsecond precision required by TSN, thereby filling a critical gap in industrial empirical understanding of this hardware’s deterministic networking capabilities.

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