Designing Cognitive Radio Terminals

Ubiquitous broadband communications will be a major asset of future wireless systems, requiring a further evolution of the terminal and infrastructure component design which will need to supporting multiple radio schemes in multiservice environments. Cooperative networking, which sets out from cognitive radio implementations, will facilitate unprecedented flexibility and true multimedia. However, the price pressure mandates high integration efficiency and future proofness at the same time. In this communication, the authors will illustrate the prototyping process for cognitive solutions, which has been proposed by the IST-27960 STREP URANUS (UNIVERSAL RADIO-LINK PLATFORM FOR EFFICIENT USER-CENTRIC ACCESS). URANUS investigates the design of a universal radio link platform able to be incorporated in any existing proprietary and standardized wireless system in a seamless way, to ease the introduction of future personalized communications and reconfigurable air interfaces.