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An exact definition of Software Radio (SR) or Software-Defined Radio (SDR) does not exist yet. Also the vision, outlined in the first publications, changed from just defining a widely sensed architecture denoted as canonical software radio [500], over an arbitrarily reconfigurable hardware programmed with a high-level programming language [501] to a cognitive device reacting on environmental impacts like vibrations, velocity, position, speech and so on [502]. The common denominator of all definitions is a fairly open hardware platform, which can be easily reconfigured. Some applications, e.g., mobile radios, need to be reconfigured very frequently, in contrast to satellite terminals, which have to be adapted only a few times during their lifetime. For the latter, a kind of boot-cycle solution could be appropriate, but mobile radios might be adapted on the fly.
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Ronga, L.S., Cardilli, A., Eged, B., Horvath, P., Kogler, W., Wittig, M. (2007). Software Radio. In: Corazza, G. (eds) Digital Satellite Communications. Information Technology: Transmission, Processing and Storage. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34649-6_10
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