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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Drew, N.J.
• Williams, D.
• Dillinger, M.
• Mangold, P.
• Farnham, T.
• Beach, M.

Titel

Reconfigurable mobile communications: compelling needs and technologies to support reconfigurable terminals

Ist Teil von

• 11th IEEE International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications. PIMRC 2000. Proceedings (Cat. No.00TH8525), 2000, Vol.1, p.484-489 vol.1

Ort / Verlag

IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2000

Quelle

IEEE Electronic Library (IEL)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To date, research into reconfigurable mobile communications has predominantly focussed on the software radio concept, and specifically on the hardware technologies required to move physical layer processing into a programmable environment. Although an interesting and necessary challenge, this only represents a fraction of the overall support and technology required to realise the potential of the concept. Other necessary developments include network/terminal cooperation for seamless inter-standard handoff, QoS management, a secure software download mechanism, terminal software architecture supporting reconfiguration, configuration management, capability negotiation. Summarising results from early IST-TRUST (Transparently Reconfigurable Ubiquitous terminal) project deliverables, this paper describes the likely overall system environment, and the key technical challenges to be researched in TRUST for realising a reconfigurable terminal to meet the needs of users within that environment.