Operational spectrum effectiveness: a performance metric for software defined radio

Author

Jones, Leo H.

Author_Institution

Center for Electromagn. Sci., IIT Res. Inst., Lanham, MD, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

6

Abstract

Advanced RF systems such as sofware-defined radio (SDR), given a high degree of agility, in spectrum access, modulation and routing discipline, offer new opportunities to achieve expanding mission requirements while optimizing spectrum utilization. Agile RF systems may be employed within a military environment to intelligently minimize the value-limiting effects of interference if we define "interference" to include all aspects of signal orthogonality. To fully exploit these opportunities, system acquisition principals need measures to evaluate alternative technical approaches and field users need a means to manage the employment of these systems. This paper suggests some directions for the development of measures of operational spectrum effectiveness (OSE) to aid the deployment of advanced wireless technology, including software-defined radio, by the DoD.

Keywords

interference suppression; land mobile radio; military communication; radio spectrum management; radiofrequency interference; SDR; advanced RF systems; advanced wireless technology; agile RF systems; expanding mission requirements; interference; military environment; operational spectrum effectiveness; performance metric; signal orthogonality; software-defined radio; spectrum access; spectrum utilization; Employment; Government; Measurement; RF signals; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency identification; Radiofrequency interference; Resource management; Routing; Software radio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2001. MILCOM 2001. Communications for Network-Centric Operations: Creating the Information Force. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7225-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2001.985754

Filename

985754