An expert system approach to defining initial configurations for software-defined radios.

摘要

Software-defined radios (SDR) are being promoted as a future technology that can alleviate the spectrum allocation problem and provide a newer level of personnel communication for consumer and military users alike. Our work presents a set of mission-oriented communications (MOC) properties and the development of a software application that uses artificial intelligent techniques to determine initial configurations of a SDR developed at the University of Kansas, namely, the Kansas University Agile Radio (KUAR). The communication properties formally describe a radio's operation or performance independent of the radio component method of implementation. Using these properties and a set of user constraints describing the expected operational environment, an expert system determines a general set of implementation techniques that should be employed to best satisfy these requirements.