Flexible Radio Design: Trends and Challenges in Digital Baseband Implementation

摘要

Fourth-generation communications systems call for a high amount of computational power due to multiantenna and multimode features. The level of flexibility required is growing rapidly with the number of modes to be supported for a single protocol and the number of protocols to be supported by a single receiver. Such high level of flexibility becomes a key feature of new and legacy radio applications in many domains (military radio, broadcast systems, aeronautic communications, etc.), which call for adopting a software-defined radio (SDR) approach, or even for incorporating additional adaptive capabilities, such as suggested by cognitive radio (CR) research.