Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Drew, N.J.
• Dillinger, M.M.

Titel

Evolution toward reconfigurable user equipment

Ist Teil von

• IEEE communications magazine, 2001-02, Vol.39 (2), p.158-164

Ort / Verlag

New York: IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2001

Quelle

IEEE Electronic Library Online

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To date, research into reconfigurable mobile communications has predominantly focused 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 realize the potential of the concept. Other necessary developments include network/terminal cooperation for seamless interstandard handoff, QoS management, a secure software download mechanism, terminal software architecture supporting reconfiguration, configuration management, capability negotiation, and so on. Summarizing results from early project deliverables from a European Research project, IST-TRUST (Transparently Reconfigurable Ubiquitous Terminal), this article describes the likely overall system environment and the key technical challenges to be researched for realizing a reconfigurable terminal to meet the needs of users within that environment.