Reconfigurable wireless handset realization based on a universal API

  • Authors:
  • Babak D. Beheshti

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Engineering and Technology, New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, NY

  • Venue:
  • ICCOM'07 Proceedings of the 11th Conference on 11th WSEAS International Conference on Communications - Volume 11
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Reconfigurable radio systems are radios that can change to different communication protocols as they move between different radio environments. An example would be moving from a wireless LAN 802.11b to 802.11a and then to EV-DO (Evolution Data - Optimized). Researching the development of a Reconfigurable Radio Architecture that will concurrently support multiple radio protocols over multiple frequency bands across multiple wireless networking environments is an active area of R&D in the industry. The Reconfigurable radio realizes the convergence of computing and communications by allowing a flexible communications for any handheld computing device. As more digital processing is applied to the radio system, the promise of a software based digital baseband processor controlling a reconfigurable RF front end approaches reality. The focus of this paper is the development and testing of a generic API (Application Program Interface) on a software based baseband processor to access and control any arbitrary RF front end.