ETSI Reconfigurable Radio Systems Status and Future Directions on Software Defined Radio and Cognitive Radio Standards

This paper details the current work status of the ETSI Reconfigurable Radio Systems (RRS) Technical Committee (TC), positions the ETSI work with respect to other standards efforts (IEEE 802, IEEE SCC41) as well as the European Regulatory Framework and gives an outlook on the future evolution. In particular, Software Defined Radio (SDR) related study results are presented with a focus on SDR architectures for Mobile Devices (MD), such as mobile phones, etc. For MDs, a novel architecture and inherent interfaces are presented enabling the usage of SDR principles in a mass market context. Cognitive Radio (CR) principles within ETSI RRS are concentrated on two Manuscript received January 15, 2010. Markus Mueck is with Infineon Technologies, Neubiberg, Germany and Adj. Associate Professor at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, phone +49-89-23463149, email: MarkusDominik.Mueck@infineon.com Antti Piipponen is with Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland, email: antti.piipponen@nokia.com George Dimitrakopoulos, Kostas Tsagkaris and Panagiotis Demestichas are with the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece, emails: gdimitra@unipi.gr; ktsagk@unipi.gr ; pdemest@unipi.gr Fernando Casadevall, Oriol Sallent and Jordi Pérez-Romero are with the dept. of Signal Theory and Communications of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, emails: ferranc@tsc.upc.edu; sallent@tsc.upc.edu; jorperez@tsc.upc.edu Gianmarco Baldini is with the Joint Research Center of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy, email: gianmarco.baldini@jrc.ec.europa.eu Stanislav Filin and Hiroshi Harada are with NICT, Japan, email: sfilin@nict.go.jp; harada@nict.go.jp Merouane Debbah is with Supelec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, email: Merouane.Debbah@supelec.fr Thomas Haustein is with Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, Dept.