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OBJECTIVES:
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Definition of technical visions on all aspects related to reconfigurability (end-to-end reconfigurable
wireless networks)
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Facilitation of worldwide technical interactions, with industry and academia, on all aspects related to
reconfigurability (end-to-end reconfigurable
wireless networks)
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Realization of white papers
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Dissemination of scientific results in the WWRF community during meetings, and establishment of
information flows with other WWRF WGs and SIGs
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Promotion of activities and results outside WWRF, through the presentation of white papers and
contributions
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Provision of forum for discussion and harmonization on standardization and regulation work
FURTHER DETAILS:
WG6 addresses research aspects that will expose the full benefits of the valuable diversity within the Radio Eco - Space,
composed of wide range of technologies such as mobile, broadband radio access (wireless local area) networks. WG6 will address
research issues relevant to reconfigurable devices and supporting system functions, which will offer an expanded set of
operational choices to the users, application service providers, operators, regulators in the context of heterogeneous radio
access systems.
WG6 addresses the following groups of research areas:
Application Scenarios, System Requirements, Roadmaps
Network Architecture and Support Services.
Cognitive Radio, Spectrum and Radio Resource Management
Reconfigurable Elements, Flexible Air-Interfaces, SDR
Proof of concept
Application Scenarios, System Requirements, Roadmaps
Contributions on the following main points are anticipated and will be
solicited.
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Elaboration on scenarios aggregating technical, business and regulatory
visions.
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Collection of system requirements and definition of reference
architectures for realizing end-to-end reconfigurability.
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Identification of technical challenges and research directions for
end-to-end reconfigurability.
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Elaboration on business paths and technology roadmaps for the
realization of reconfigurability.
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Network Architecture and Support Services.
Contributions on the following main points are anticipated and will be
solicited.
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Reconfiguration policies. Strategies for deriving best reconfiguration
patterns. Evaluation of gains, in terms of capacity/QoS, and
feasibility, in terms of signaling load and delay.
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Reconfiguration services, e.g., components for download, security,
error/fault tolerance, etc.
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Reconfiguration management plane, encompassing policies and services,
and interworking with legacy control, management, user-data planes.
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Network
architectures supporting reconfigurability. Identification of functional
entities and deployment in physical infrastructures.
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Reconfiguration profiles.
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Flexible
network elements.
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Cognitive Radio, Spectrum and Radio Resource Management
Contributions on the following main points are anticipated and will be
solicited.
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Cognitive
radio.
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Spectrum
management (ASM) in a reconfigurability context. Definition, development
and performance assessment.
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Radio
resource management schemes for composite reconfigurable wireless
networks. Definition, development and performance assessment.
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Network
planning for segments based on reconfigurable elements.
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Network
architectures supporting advanced spectrum and radio resource management
schemes.
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Reconfigurable Elements, Flexible Air-Interfaces, SDR
Research issues for the configuration/reconfiguration of equipment,
i.e., terminals and network elements, will be addressed.
Contributions on the following main points are anticipated and will be
solicited.
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Frameworks and functionality for equipment local reconfiguration
management.
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Open
interfaces for reconfiguration support.
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Flexible
protocol stacks, requiring minimal alterations between successive
reconfigurations.
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Extended
execution environments capable of supporting the reconfigurability
context.
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Physical
layer hardware architectures and software environments enabling
end-to-end reconfigurable radio.
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Abstract
models of physical layer resources (RF and baseband).
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Reconfigurable RF and baseband. Receiver and transmitter architectures,
critical components, design choices. Transceiver algorithms,
interworking with the reconfigurable RF part, software and hardware
architectures, critical components.
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Control entities
offering interfaces towards the equipment management components.
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Proof of concept
Contributions on the
following main points are anticipated and will be solicited.
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Specification of
criteria and experiments for proof-of-concept.
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Architectures,
platforms and models for proof-of-concept.
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Results and feedback
from proof-of-concept activities
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