Reconfigurable Base Station Processing and Resource Allocation

A huge research and development effort is being spent to improve the radio resources usage considering different available and upcoming radio access technologies as well as the more flexible usage of frequencies. Within this context, terminals, network and management entities/functions are considered. The scope of this paper is to identify new functions to be provided by a multi-standard base station: ways to provide software re-configuration in a generic manner which takes into consideration different situations where this re-configuration may be triggered, including through dynamic and self-adaptive means.