Reconfigurable vehicular communication platform based on ETSI radio virtual machine

Abstract

This paper assumes an inevitable necessity for reconfigurable vehicular communication platforms to cope with the evolution of communication standards. In spite of the keen requirement of the software reconfigurability, however, the conventional Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology that is based on Software Communication Architecture (SCA) suffers from a critical hindrance of the inefficient software portability for commercial applications. This paper presents a novel technology of resolving the problem of portability between the Radio Application (RA) software and communication platform hardware. The new technology is based on Radio Virtual Machine (RVM) about which the related protocols and interfaces have been published as a standard of European Telecom. Standard Institute (ETSI).