A novel generic distributed intelligent re-configurable mobile network architecture

We present our vision of the software radio (SR) concept. To the author's knowledge this vision of an intelligent reconfigurable network encompasses and adds to the main SR concepts presented to date, namely SR/SDR, re-configurable radio systems and networks, and cognitive radio. The newly proposed architecture and supporting technology provides a flexible way to introduce re-configurability into any network node and protocol layer of a network fixed or mobile, while simultaneously providing a structured framework in which re-configurability can be introduced and hence networks can evolve. This concept has provided a solid foundation and plays a central role in providing a suitable context in which to examine reconfigurabilty issues in the mobile terminal and base station. We believe that this concept has the potential to help the telecommunications industry in facilitating; the introduction, development and harmonization of reconfigurability within existing and future fixed and mobile networks.