A novel generic distributed intelligent re-configurable mobile network architecture

We present our vision of the software radio (SR) concept. To the author´s knowledge this vision of an intelligent reconfigurable network encompasses and adds to the main SR concepts presented to date, namely SR/SDR, re-configurable radio systems and networks, and cognitive radio. The newly proposed architecture and supporting technology provides a flexible way to introduce re-configurability into any network node and protocol layer of a network fixed or mobile, while simultaneously providing a structured framework in which re-configurability can be introduced and hence networks can evolve. This concept has provided a solid foundation and plays a central role in providing a suitable context in which to examine reconfigurabilty issues in the mobile terminal and base station. We believe that this concept has the potential to help the telecommunications industry in facilitating; the introduction, development and harmonization of reconfigurability within existing and future fixed and mobile networks