New concepts and technologies are rapidly emerging in
the fields of spectrum management, policy defined radio, adaptive radio
and software defined radio, defined in P1900.1. A primary purpose of this
initiative is to provide recommended practices that will help assure
compliance with requirements for spectrum use by using formal mathematical
concepts and methods. The methods developed in this document will provide
an initial evaluation to be used before hardware testing and will support
the evaluation being developed in P1900.2. This recommended practice will
provide guidance for validity analysis of proposed SDR terminal software
prior to programming and activation of an SDR terminal or SDR components.
This recommended practice will provide guidance on how
to estimate the conformance with relevant specifications of software
intended for deployment into a SDR terminal. Concepts and methods to be
used in these analyses will be detailed. Recommended practices will be
developed to support quality control and testing. The goal of this effort
it to assure that SDR software can be deployed with high confidence that
it will operate within prescribed regulatory and operational limits. The
guideline will apply to wireless network operators and terminal equipment
manufacturers to help them define test guidelines that conform to SDR
technologies, as described in 1900.1, to be licensed by regulatory
authorities.
