MIMO antenna schemes have the potential to greatly increase the capacity of mobile systems. In particular, they have great potential to supply both high speed links and increased capacity in the densest urban environments where the demand for capacity is at its highest. As such they are a complimentary technique to the conventional beam forming and diversity techniques used with similar antenna arrays. Therefore it is expected that advanced networks will adapt the processing of the signals to and from the antennas to operate in all modes simultaneously at a single base station site. This will optimize both the total cell capacity and the individual data rates to the terminals with different antenna arrangements as they move between different radio environments.
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Annex 6
Software defined radios
1 Introduction
This Annex gives more detailed information on the SDR system architecture concept. It is a complement to the text of § 3, which contains a definition of SDR and describes the requirements for SDR.
This Annex describes functionalities and a system architecture to fulfil the requirements stated in § 3.
Software defined radio concerns therefore basically all communication layers (from the physical layer to the application layer) of the radio interface (see Fig. 19) and impacts both the mobile terminal and the network side.
Figure 19
Communication layers subject to SDR
As key objectives, SDR shall provide means for:
- adaptation of the radio interface to varying deployment environments/radio interface standards;
- provision of possibly new applications and services;
- software updates;
- enabling full exploitation of flexible heterogeneous radio networks services.
The logical SDR-architecture has to support the following functions:
- management of terminal, user and service profiles in the network entities and the terminal;
- efficient download control and reconfiguration management for terminals and network entities;
- negotiation and adaptation functionalities for services and RATs (e.g. vertical handover);
- assurance of standard compliance.
These functions are logical functions, i.e. they can be implemented in different places in the network. Moreover they can be distributed within the network and between network and terminal.
2 Terminal system architecture
In the past user terminals for mobile communication were typically interacting with intelligent network server located in distributed network architecture. Communication services were mostly deployed at network side which meant that most of the work, for example establishing a connection has be to done by network server. Meantime capabilities of mobile terminals increased more and more and nowadays terminal capabilities are sophisticated enough to offer an acceptable counterpart for deployment of high-speed data exchange and application services at any time in any place. But the requirements necessary for the use of different services, based on different terminal resources, are flexible interfaces within a terminal architecture that provides terminal reconfiguration. In particular network and terminal application programming interfaces (APIs) have to provide mechanisms to add, replace and remove software modules or components for application and protocol layers.
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