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• What is a Software Radio ?

 
•  Joe Mitola's definition

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• Relevant Research Projects in Europe

 

Summary of current IST Projects on reconfigurable radios DRA (Defence Research Agency) Software Radio -- A UK Military Perspective FIRST (Flexible Integrated Radio Systems Technology) -- ACTS Project FRAMES (Future Radio Wideband Multiple Access Systems) -- ACTS Project IBMS (Integrated Broadband Mobile System) M3A -- ESPRIT Project MEDIAN (Wireless Broadband CPN/LAN for Professional and Residential Multimedia Applications -- ACTS Project PROMURA (PROgrammable Multimode Radio for Multimedia Wireless Terminals) -- ESPRIT Project RAISIN (RAINbow extenSion for trial INtegration) -- ACTS Project SINUS: Satellite Integration into Networks for UMTS Services -- ACTS Project SLATS (S/W Libraries for Advanced Terminal Solutions) -- ESPRIT Project SORT (Software Radio Technologies) -- ACTS Project SUNBEAM (Smart Universal BEAM forming) -- ACTS Project TSUNAMI II (Technology in Smart antennas for the UNiversal  Advanced Mobile Infrastructure Part II) -- ACTS Project WDL (Waveform Description Language) - UK PDR (Programmable Digital Radio) Project
Relevant Research Projects in US en Via RDRN (Rapidly Deployable Radio Networks Project) SPEAKeasy Global Mobile Information Systems Tellabs MPRG, CWT, VTAG and VISC, Virginia Tech's research groups
Conferences     List of workshops/conferences   2nd Karlsruhe Workshop on Software Radios (WSR2002) (March 2002)   MILCOM'2001 (McLean, VA, October 2001   PIMRC 2001 (San Diego, CA, Sep 30th - Oct 3rd, 2001)   SMi Software Radio Conference (London, April 2001)   Waveform Development Environment Workshop (Rome, NY, November 2000)  2000 IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference (Denver, Colorado, September 10-13, 2000)  Karlsruhe Workshop on Software Radios (Karlsruhe, Germany, March 29, 2000)  4th ACTS Mobile Communication Summit '99 (Sorrento, Italy, 8-11 June 99)  2nd IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Mobile ATM, "Technologies for Enhanced Software Definable Radio & 3G Wireless Communications", (San Francisco Bay Area, USA, 2-4 June 99)  ACTS: 2nd Software Radio Workshop (Greece, 11 June 98)  MILCOM '97 (Monterey,CA, November 97)  ACTS: Mobile Communication Summit '97 (Denmark, October 97)  ACTS 1st Software Radio Workshop (Brussels, May 97) and here.
Relevant Journals / Papers / Books   ``Software Radio Design for 3G Cellular'', Paul Burns, to be published by Artech House   ``Software Radio Architecture: Object-Oriented Approaches to Wireless Systems Engineering'', Joseph Mitola, ISBN: 0-471-38492-5, October 2000, Wiley.   IEEE Personal Communications: Special issue on Software Radios, Aug. 99, Vol. 6, No. 4.   IEEE / JSAC Special issue on Software Radios, Apr. 99, Vol. 17, No. 4   IEEE Communication Magazine, Feb. 99, Vol. 37, No. 2  DSP Architectures Power the Base Station of the Future (October 97)  Software Radios: The end of outdated cell phones (April 97)  IEEE / Communication Magazine: Special issue on Software Radios (May 95)  All-Digital Wireless Basestation (Analog Devices)  Universal Basestation / Wideband Receivers Background Information (Analog Devices)  Various Papers
Some Companies enVia Chameleon Systems, Inc. morphICs Technology, Inc. Vanu, Inc.
Innovative Products  Advanced Communications Technologies  AltoCom Software Modem  Airnet Communications Corp.  ARM Software Modem  Digital Radio DCM  PC-TEL Software Modem  Programmable digital radio boards (IXTHOS)  WA4DSY modem page  WAVE WALKER PMC  WiNRADiOS  Wireless Information Transfer System (WITS)  SeeGull-DX
Third-generation global mobile multimedia   3GPP Home Page  IMT-2000 (International Mobile Telecommunications)  IMT-2000-online.com  UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
Reconfigurable Logic Links   Integrating Processors and Reconfigurable Logic  Configurable Computing  FPGA related WWW Links  Programmable Logic Jump Station  List of FPGA-based Computing Machines
Various  The SDR Forum  Enhanced Soft Radio Forum   European Union R&D on Mobile Communications  Softradios.com