“NEXWAY White Paper: Reconfigurable Antenna for Future Wireless Communication Systems”

This paper deals with the processing techniques that are known as reconfigurable antennas: these methods are foreseen to be a booster for the future high rate wireless communications, also for the capacity gain which is afforded. Main antenna processing techniques are reviewed and described, aiming to highlight performance / complexity tradeoffs and how they could implement in the future systems. The coexistence of all these different technologies in a wireless environment requires high efficiency and flexibility of the transreceiver. Future transreceiver implementation based on the Software Defined Radio technology are also described.