Reconfigurable radio access technology: overview

An overview of software radio and reconfigurable radio is given, with a special emphasis on results from EU-funded projects. The state-of-the art in reconfigurable radio is presented, detailing architectures providing reconfigurability for networks and services. The all-software approach for reconfigurable network elements and terminals is described. Finally, the Eurecom software radio platform is presented as well as the design flow for implementing reconfigurable air-interfaces. The evolution toward reconfigurable terminal architectures targeted at SoC/SoPC (System-on-a-Chip/System-on-a-Programmable -Chip) architectures is outlined.