Assess the Technological Issues Facing the Reconfigurable Radio Communication Industry.DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c51550) has announced the addition of Role of Reconfigurable Radio in Today's Telecommunications to their offering. This report addresses marketing and technological issues of reconfigurable radio communication, including SDR See software defined radio. and CR. It also stresses the importance of such radios for efficient spectrum utilization. As a practical example and illustration of CR commercial applications, this report also addresses an evolving IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802.22 standard, which the IEEE is planning to approve in 2008. SDR aims to solve the two most challenging issues facing over-the-air communications today: compatibility and spectrum usage. The base station segment of the software defined radio A wireless terminal (phone, PDA, etc.) that is reconfigurable via software. It enables wireless devices to be easily updated to new or later versions of the air interface and allows multiple interfaces to be supported. communications industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. requires flexible signal processing See DSP. capabilities to support many waveform types simultaneously, to host complex, special-purpose waveforms, and detect and cancel interference using digital techniques. As the software radio industry matures, the demand for these base stations will grow as military, civilian, and commercial users take advantage of its increased reliability and capacity. The portable SDR industry, though still behind, is expected to grow and equip first responders first responder First response personnel Emergency medicine A person employed in the public sector–EMT, fire fighter, police, volunteer EMS–whose duties include provision of immediate medical care in the event of an emergency; FRs have basic emergency and military personnel. Maybe the most important area of SDR applications is public safety radio. Governments are spending billions of dollars to equip first responders with the most advanced means of communications, and still face the problem of interoperability between various agencies. Even two prevailing standards, P25 and TETRA tetra: see characin. tetra Any of numerous attractively coloured freshwater South American and African fishes (family Characidae), often kept in home aquariums. Tetras are small, lively, hardy, and unaggressive. , still have to deal with such issues as exhaustive spectrum consumption and various frequency bands. SDR is the solution for solving these issues. We provided the SDR market analysis, supported by our research and included a number of variables. The analysis showed that the majority of the market still belongs to military, and the market is gradually shifting to commercial areas as well. Police, fire fighters, and other government agencies will benefit form SDR use in a great degree. The sufficient part of the report is an analysis of vendor strategies for SDR. The section on vendor strategies looks at relevant segments of the radio hardware industry, as well as the wireless services market, to see how SDR will affect each industry segment. CR presents a next logical step to advance digital transmission and to effectively utilize expensive spectrum. Intelligence of these devices allows "hearing" spectrum, identifying unused portions and hitless hoping to "free" windows. CR realizes an old communication dream when transmission spectrum can be reconfigured accordingly to users' demand at a particular time interval. It is expected that the cost of CR will be offset by rational use of spectrum. Coming from the military arena, the CR technology is progressing to commercial applications. The good example of this is the evolving IEEE 802.22 standard, which is using TV spectrum (that will be released by broadcasters) by effectively utilizing poorly used portions of TV bands. In the sections of this report dedicated to CR, we analyze technological specifics, architectures and advantages (as well as limitations) of intelligent radio. The market needs more time to be established, and we do not expect this market prosper in the commercial applications until 2008-2009. This time interval coincides with the IEEE plan to approve the first CR-based standard -- IEEE 802.22. By some analysts' assessment, this addressable Reachable. When something is addressable, it can be identified and manipulated independently of its surroundings. For example, screen pixels and RAM memory are addressable. Each of the screen's picture elements can be individually turned on and off, and each of the memory's bytes can be market is huge in the U.S. and other countries; CR networks will be built by utilizing released by TV broadcasters frequencies (when these broadcasters will obey the FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. requirements to release spectrum in connection with migration to digital TV.) We envision the bright future for CR communications, but many technical and regulatory hurdles should be eliminated. Target Audience This report is intended for organizations involved in the development of advanced digital communications Transmitting text, voice and video in binary form. See communications. networks. Engineers, management and sales departments will find in this report useful information that can be applied to their work. For vendors, this report also provides valuable information on technologies and competition. It also supports these vendors with the RR market assessment. Topics Covered 1.0 Introduction 2.0 SDR Technology 3.0 Cognitive Radio Cognitive radio is a paradigm for wireless communication in which either a network or a wireless node changes its transmission or reception parameters to communicate efficiently avoiding interference with licensed or unlicensed users. 4.0 IEEE 802.22 and CR 5.0 CR and Spectrum Utilization 6.0 Conclusions Figures and Tables Companies Mentioned -Adaptix (SW, Broadband Access See broadband and wireless broadband. ) -AeroStream (Consumer, Military Radio) -AirNet Communications (SDR Base Stations) -Altera (Automotive SDR) -Analog Devices (Chipsets) -Array Systems Computing (DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive ) -BitWave Semiconductor (Chipsets) -Cambridge Consultants (802.16e) -Cisco (802.11a) -CRC --Canadian Research Center (Software) -Harris (Radio Systems) -Hypres (Chipsets) -ICS (Modules, Software) -ISR Technology (Platforms) -Kaben (Chipsets) -Lyrtech (DSP and FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. development solutions) -Morpho (Software) -Mercury Computers Systems (Toolsets) -Motorola (SDR in Public Safety) -NavSys (GPS and Communications) -Nova Engineering (Platforms) -Objective Interface (Software) -Pentek (SDR Boards) -picoChip (ICs) -PrismaTech (SDR Development Environment) RadioScape (SDR Audio) -Rockwell Collins (Radios) -Spectrum Signal Processing (Platforms) -Sundance (Platforms, Modules) -Thales (Radio) -Wind River (Software) -Xilinx (Chips, SDR Development Kits) -Zeligsoft (Software Tools) For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c51550 |
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