A Software Defined Radio (SDR) is a radio receiver and/or transmitter, whose characteristics can to a large extent be defined by software. Thus, an SDR can receive and/or transmit a wide variety of signals, supporting many different standards. In our research, we currently focus on a demonstrator that is able to receive both Bluetooth and HiperLAN/2. This helps us to identify problems associate...

For conventional orthogonal frequencydivision multiplexing (OFDM) systems, the guard interval is disregarded in the receiver and rectangular shaped windows are used implicitly due to the discrete Fourier transform (DFT). We consider a Nyquistshaped window in the receiver, so that the transmit signal does not need to be modified, and optimize the window shape in order to suppress interference fr...

 Frequency modulation (FM) is a form of radio broadcasting which is widely used nowadays and has been in use for over a century, since 1906 when the first radio audio broadcast was made.  FM performance is severely degraded when the system noise amount exceeds a critical level, above which the traditional FM receiver breaks.  Traditional methods used in radio receivers divide the problem int...

The development of the transistor and its continuous down-scaling has allowed during the last decades the appearance of cheap wireless communication systems targeting consumer products. The complexity of these systems has increased dramatically during the last years, mainly fueled by both the Moore law and improvements in communication theory. Originally, the radio transceivers were composed of...

Recently, there has been considerable interest in using antenna arrays in wireless communication networks to increase the capacity and decrease the cochannel interference. Adaptive beamforming with smart antennas at the receiver increases the carrier-to-interference ratio (CIR) in a wireless link. This paper considers a wireless network with beamforming capabilities at the receiver which allows...

A Software Defined Radio (SDR) is a radio receiver and/or transmitter, whose characteristics can to a large extent be defined by software. Thus, an SDR can receive and/or transmit a wide variety of signals, supporting many different standards. In our research, we currently focus on a demonstrator that is able to receive both Bluetooth and HiperLAN/2. This helps us to identify problems associate...

data types: Abstraction is the act of representing something without including background or inessential detail [p.10 Gra94]. An abstract data type is an abstraction that encapsulates the components of a set of objects. Abstract data types are defined by the programmer rather than being specified in the particular programming language. The abstract data type defines both attributes and methods ...

The number of wireless communication links is witnessing tremendous growth and new standards are being introduced at high pace. However, circuit development is costly and time consuming due to mask costs and design iterations. Moreover, with ever-increasing radio standard complexity, these costs are increasing. This pleads for a Software Defined Radio approach, in which one piece of flexible ra...