IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Issue on Software Radios

Call for Papers

Software radios have the potential to greatly expand the flexibility and functionality of today's communications systems. Recent advances in the areas of wide band analog-to-digital conversion and processor technology have begun to make software radios feasible.

There are two challenges that software radios present. The first is the technology required to capture widebands of RF (or IF) signal and process them in real time. The second challenge is how to use the tremendous flexibility provided by having access to widebands of raw RF information.

This issue of JSAC will address the state-of-the-art in software radio technology and cover not only applications that are realizable on today's platforms, but those that will be feasible in the near future, given the underlying technology trends. Technical papers are solicited in the following areas:

Companion papers that highlight the challenges in software radios such as wideband RF Integrated Circuits, Cosite interference mitigation (including cryogenic filters), real-time CORBA and related topics are also encouraged.

Prospective authors should prepare manuscripts in accordance with the IEEE ``Information for authors'' and send four copies of their manuscript to one of the guest editors listed below. Submissions can also be made via email, for more information send mail to softradio@sds.lcs.mit.edu
The relevant dates are

Editors:
Joe Mitola, MITRE
Barry Leiner, MCC
Vanu Bose, MIT
Thiery Turletti, INRIA France
David Tennenhouse , MIT/DARPA