Reconfigurable Systems with a User-Centric Focus

Author

Bartolomeo, Giovanni ; Salsano, Stefano ; Blefari-Melazzi, Nicola

Author_Institution

Univ. di Roma "Tor Vergata", Rome

fYear

2007

fDate

15-19 Jan. 2007

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

12

Abstract

Today\´s reconfigurable radio systems have several interesting functionalities ranging from traditional reconfigurable systems operating at the physical layer only to fully fledged reconfigurability. Along this path we envisage a shift of perspective from a terminal-centric approach to a user-centric one. The main characteristics of this evolution are the provisioning of an unique user identity to be used over different RATs, and the increasing importance of profile information, needed to configure, customize and personalize terminal capabilities and. In this paper we i) examine a possible choice for a unique user identifier ii) propose a user profile and design a distributed approach to manage user profile information iii) introduce the "Dataweb" paradigm under standardization in the Oasis consortium and iv) show how it may be used to link all the expressed concepts

Keywords

radio access networks; radio access technology; reconfigurable radio system; user-centric approach; 3G mobile communication; Cellular networks; Identity management systems; Information management; Physical layer; Proposals; Rats; Software radio; Standardization; Telecommunication standards;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applications and the Internet Workshops, 2007. SAINT Workshops 2007. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Hiroshima

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2757-4

Electronic_ISBN

0-7695-2757-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SAINT-W.2007.90

Filename

4090075