Petri Net Based Controller Concept For Cognitive Radios in Wireless Access Networks

This paper will give a detailed discussion about the authors view on Software Defined and Cognitive Radio. After an introduction on different aspects of software radio and a novel approach on cognitive radio is presented. As proof of concept a software defined cognitive radio demonstrator termed Falcon was built up which is described afterwards. The Falcon is entirely based on a modular signal processing concept. In particular, the receiver deploys modules which process and generate log-likelihood ratio (LLR) signals, hence, providing the capability of a plug-and-play-type reconfigurability. To the best knowledge of the authors, such a reconfigurability approach has not yet been pursued as consequently before.

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