Software Defined Radio: Origins, Drivers and International Perspectives

List of Contributors.

Foreword.

Abbreviations.

Biogrphies.

Introduction.

PART I: ORIGINS AND DRIVERS.

Setting The Scene -
The What, Why and How of (SDR) (W. Tuttlebee).

US Defense Initiative in Software Radio (W. Bonser).

The Software Defined Radio Forum (A. Margulies).

PART II: MARKET OPPORTUNITY AND REQUIREMENTS.

A Market Perspective: Software Defined Radio as the Dominant Design (J.D. Ralston).

Software Radio: The User Dimension (K. Cook).

Software Radio: The Mobile Network Operator Dimension (E. Ballesteros and C. Martinez).

PART III: THE GLOBAL CONTEXT.

Reconfigurable Radio in Europe (M. Dillinger and D. Bourse).

Software Radio in Japan (R. Kohno and S. Haruyama).

First Steps to Software Defined Radio Standards: MExE, the Mobile Execution Environment (P. Chandrasiri).

European Regulation of Software Radio (P. Bender and S. O'Fee).

Regulation of Software Defined Radio -
United States (M. Grable).

PART IV: EARLY PRODUCTS.

Defense: A Realized Software Defined Radio Family For Military Applications (R. Bott and R. Leschhorn).

Commercial: Digital Broadcast Receivers and Third-generation Products (D. Hislop and G. Ferris).

Index.