Software Defined Radio

H.W. TUTTLEBEE9780470846001, 0-470-84600-3

Software defined radio (SDR) is one of the most important topics of research, and indeed development, in the area of mobile and personal communications. SDR is viewed as an enabler of global roaming and as a unique platform for the rapid introduction of new services into existing live networks. It therefore promises mobile communication networks a major increase in flexibility and capability.SDR brings together two key technologies of the last decade – digital radio and downloadable software. It encompasses not only reconfiguration of the air interface parameters of handset and basestation products but also the whole mobile network, to facilitate the dynamic introduction of new functionality and mass-customised applications to the user’s terminal, post-purchase.This edited book, contributed by internationally respected researchers and industry practitioners, describes the current technological status of radio frequency design, data conversion, reconfigurable signal processing hardware, and software issues at all levels of the protocol stack and network.The book provides a holistic treatment of SDR addressing the full breadth of relevant technologies – radio frequency design, signal processing and software – at all levels. As such it provides a solid grounding for a new generation of wireless engineers for whom radio design in future will assume dynamic flexibility as a given.

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Table of contents :
Software Defined Radio: Enabling Technologies……Page 1
Wiley Series in Software Radio……Page 3
Copyright……Page 5
Contents……Page 6
List of Contributors……Page 14
Foreword……Page 18
Abbreviations……Page 20
Contributors’ Biographies……Page 28
Introduction……Page 36
Part1 Perspective……Page 40
Ch1 Software Based Radio……Page 42
Part2 Front End Technology……Page 62
Ch2 Radio Frequency Translation for Software Defined Radios……Page 64
Ch3 Radio Frequency Front End Implementations for Multimode SDRs……Page 118
Ch4 Data Conversion in Software Defined Radios……Page 138
Ch5 Superconductor Microelectronics: Digital RF Technology for Software Radios……Page 166
Ch6 Digital Front End–Bridge between RF & Baseband Processing……Page 190
Part3 Baseband Technology……Page 238
Ch7 Baseband Processing for SDR……Page 240
Ch8 Parametrization–Technique for SDR Implementation……Page 272
Ch9 Adaptive Computing IC Technology for 3G Software-Defined Mobile Devices……Page 296
Part4 Software Technology……Page 328
Ch10 Software Engineering for Software Radios: Experiences at MIT & Vanu Inc……Page 330
Ch11 Software Download for Mobile Terminals……Page 350
Ch12 Protocols & Network Aspects of SDR……Page 378
Ch13 Waveform Description Language……Page 404
Index……Page 438
Backcover……Page 442