ETSI TS 103 641 V1.1.1 (2019-03)

Reconfigurable Radio Systems (RRS); Radio Equipment (RE) reconfiguration requirements

DTS/RRS-0217

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 04-Mar-2019
• Technical Committee: RRS 2 - REA - Reconfigurable Radio Equipment Architecture
• Current Stage: 12 - Completion
• Due Date: 12-Mar-2019
• Completion Date: 05-Mar-2019

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ETSI TS 103 641 V1.1.1 (2019-03)






TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
Reconfigurable Radio Systems (RRS);
Radio Equipment (RE) reconfiguration requirements

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Reference
DTS/RRS-0217
Keywords
CRS, mobile, SDR
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Contents
Intellectual Property Rights . 5
Foreword . 5
Modal verbs terminology . 5
1 Scope . 6
2 References . 6
2.1 Normative references . 6
2.2 Informative references . 6
3 Definition of terms, symbols and abbreviations . 6
3.1 Terms . 6
3.2 Symbols . 8
3.3 Abbreviations . 8
4 Requirement Organization and Methodology . 8
4.0 General . 8
4.1 Requirement Organization. 8
4.2 Requirement Format . 9
4.3 Requirement Formulation . 10
5 Working assumptions . 10
5.1 Assumptions . 10
5.1.1 Radio Equipment Reconfiguration Classes . 10
6 Functional Requirements . 13
6.1 Requirements on RAT Link Support and Management . 13
6.1.1 R-FUNC-RAT–01 Function for RERC-1 to RERC-7 . 13
6.1.2 R-FUNC-RAT–02 Function for RERC-1 to RERC-7 . 13
6.1.3 R-FUNC-RAT–03 Function for RERC-1 to RERC-7 . 13
6.1.4 R-FUNC-RAT–04 Function for RERC-1 to RERC-7 . 13
6.1.5 R-FUNC-RAT–05 Function for RERC-1 to RERC-7 . 13
6.1.6 R-FUNC-RAT–06 Function for RERC-1 to RERC-7 . 13
6.2 Radio Application Requirements . 13
6.2.0 General . 13
6.2.1 R-FUNC-RA-01 Radio Applications Support for RERC-1 to RERC-7 . 13
6.2.2 R-FUNC-RA-02 Composition for RERC-1 to RERC-7 . 14
6.2.3 R-FUNC-RA-03 Concurrency for RERC-1 to RERC-7 . 14
6.2.4 R-FUNC-RA-04 Data for RERC-1 to RERC-7 . 14
6.2.5 R-FUNC-RA-05 Context Information for RERC-1 to RERC-7 . 14
6.2.6 R-FUNC-RA-06 Pipelining for RERC-2 to RERC-7 . 14
6.3 Radio Application Functional Block Requirements . 14
6.3.1 R-FUNC-FB-01 Implementation for RERC-2 to RERC-7 . 14
6.3.2 R-FUNC-FB-02 Execution for RERC-2 to RERC-7 . 15
6.3.3 R-FUNC-FB-03 Side Effects for RERC-2 to RERC-7 . 15
6.3.4 R-FUNC-FB-04 Shared Data for RERC-2 to RERC-7 . 15
6.3.5 R-FUNC-FB-05 Concurrency for RERC-2 to RERC-7 . 15
6.3.6 R-FUNC-FB-06 Extendability for RERC-2 to RERC-7 . 15
6.4 Radio Equipment Reconfiguration Requirements . 16
6.4.1 R-FUNC-RER-01 Platform-specific Executable Code for RERC-2, RERC-3 or RERC-4 . 16
6.4.2 R-FUNC-RER-02 Platform-independent Source Code or IR for RERC-5, RERC-6 or RERC-7 . 16
6.4.3 R-FUNC-RER-03 Radio Configuration of Platform RERC-1 to RERC-7 . 16
6.4.4 R-FUNC-RER-04 Radio Programming for RERC-1 to RERC-7 . 16
6.4.5 R-FUNC-RER-05 Dynamic Execution for RERC-4, and RERC-7 . 17
6.4.6 R-FUNC-RER-06 Independency on Memory Model for RERC-1 to RERC-7 . 17
6.4.7 R-FUNC-RER-07 Code for RERC-2 to RERC-7 . 17
6.4.8 R-FUNC-RER-08 IR Format for RERC-5 to RERC-7 . 17
6.4.9 R-FUNC-RER-09 Timing Constraints for RERC-1 to RERC-7 . 17
6.4.10 R-FUNC-RER-10 Platform Independency for RERC-5 to RERC-7 . 17
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6.4.11 R-FUNC-RER-11 Radio Application for RERC-5 to RERC-7 . 17
6.4.12 R-FUNC-RER-12 Function Granularity for RERC-1 to RERC-7 . 17
6.4.13 R-FUNC-RER-13 Radio Virtual Machine for RERC-2 to RERC-7 . 17
6.4.14 R-FUNC-RER-14 Radio Virtual Machine Structure for RERC-2 to RERC-7 . 18
6.4.15 R-FUNC-RER-15 Selection of Radio Virtual Machine Protection Class for RERC-2 to RERC-7 . 18
6.4.16 R-FUNC-RER-16 Distributed Computations for RERC-5, RERC-6, RERC-7 . 19
6.5 Radio Frequency (RF) Transceiver Requirements . 19
6.5.0 General . 19
6.5.1 R-FUNC-RFT-01 RF Configuration for RERC-1 to RERC-7 . 19
6.5.2 R-FUNC-RFT-02 Extendibility for multiple-antenna system for RERC-1 to RERC-7 . 20
6.5.3 R-FUNC-RFT-03 Capability of multiple frequency bands for RERC-1 to RERC-7. 20
6.5.4 R-FUNC-RFT-04 Reconfigurability of RF Transceiver for RERC-1 to RERC-7 . 20
6.5.5 R-FUNC-RFT-05 Interoperability of radio resources for RERC-2 to RERC-7 . 20
6.5.6 R-FUNC-RFT-06 Testability of radio equipment for RERC-1 to RERC-7 . 20
6.5.7 R-FUNC-RFT-07 Unified representation of control information for RERC-1 to RERC-7 . 20
6.5.8 R-FUNC-RFT-08 Unified representation of data payload for RERC-1 to RERC-7 . 20
6.5.9 R-FUNC-RFT-09 Selection of RF Protection Class for RERC-1 to RERC-7 . 21
6.6 Security Requirements . 21
6.6.0 General . 21
6.6.1 R-FUNC-SEC-01 REConfPol-RAP-Security . 21
6.6.2 R-FUNC-SEC-02 Administration-Security . 21
6.6.3 R-FUNC-SEC-03 Secure Management . 21
6.6.4 R-FUNC-SEC-04 Root of Trust . 21
History . 22


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Intellectual Property Rights
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Foreword
This Technical Specification (TS) has been produced by ETSI Technical Committee Reconfigurable Radio Systems
(RRS).
Modal verbs terminology
In the present document "shall", "shall not", "should", "should not", "may", "need not", "will", "will not", "can" and
"cannot" are to be interpreted as described in clause 3.2 of the ETSI Drafting Rules (Verbal forms for the expression of
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1 Scope
The scope of the present document is to define the high level system requirements for reconfigurable Radio Equipment
enabling the provision of Radio Applications. The work is based on the Use Cases defined in ETSI TR 103 062 [i.1],
ETSI TR 102 944 [i.2], ETSI TR 103 585 [i.3] and ETSI EN 302 969 [i.4].
2 References
2.1 Normative references
References are either specific (identified by date of publication and/or edition number or version number) or
non-specific. For specific references, only the cited version applies. For non-specific references, the latest version of the
referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
Referenced documents which are not found to be publicly available in the expected location might be found at
https://docbox.etsi.org/Reference.
NOTE: While any hyperlinks included in this clause were valid at the time of publication, ETSI cannot guarantee
their long term validity.
The following referenced documents are necessary for the application of the present document.
Not applicable.
2.2 Informative references
The following referenced documents are not necessary for the application of the present document but they assist the
user with regard to a particular subject area.
[i.1] ETSI TR 103 062: "Reconfigurable Radio Systems (RRS); Use Cases and Scenarios for Software
Defined Radio (SDR) Reference Architecture for Mobile Device".
[i.2] ETSI TR 102 944: "Reconfigurable Radio Systems (RRS); Use Cases for Baseband Interfaces for
Unified Radio Applications of Mobile Device".
[i.3] ETSI TR 103 585: "Reconfigurable Radio Systems (RRS); Radio Equipment Reconfiguration Use
Cases".
[i.4] ETSI EN 302 969: "Reconfigurable Radio Systems (RRS); Radio Reconfiguration related
Requirements for Mobile Devices".
3 Definition of terms, symbols and abbreviations
3.1 Terms
For the purposes of the present document, the following terms apply:
distributed computations: model in which components located on networked computers communicate and coordinate
their actions by passing messages interacting with each other in order to achieve a common goal
Functional Block (FB): function needed for real-time implementation of Radio Application(s)
NOTE 1: A functional block includes not only the modem functions in Layer1 (L1), Layer2 (L2), and Layer 3 (L3)
but also all the control functions that should be processed in real-time for implementing given Radio
Application(s).
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NOTE 2: Functional blocks are categorized into standard functional blocks and user defined functional blocks. In
more details:
1) Standard functional blocks can be shared by many Radio Applications. For example, Forward Error
Correction (FEC), Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)/Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT),
(de)interleaver, Turbo coding, Viterbi coding, Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO),
Beamforming, etc are the typical category of standard functional block.
2) User defined functional blocks include those functional blocks that are dependent upon a specific
Radio Application. They are used to support special function(s) required in a specific Radio
Application or to support a special algorithm used for performance improvement. In addition, a
user defined functional block can be used as a baseband controller functional block which controls
the functional blocks operating in baseband processor in real-time and to control some context
information processed in real-time.
NOTE 3: Each functional block has its unique name, Input, Output and properties.
network coding: technique in which transmitted data is encoded and decoded to improve network performance
Radio Application (RA): software which enforces the generation of the transmit RF signals or the decoding of the
receive RF signals
NOTE 1: The Software is executed on a particular radio platform or an RVM as part of the radio platform.
NOTE 2: Radio applications might have different forms of representation. They are represented as:
 source codes including Radio Library calls of Radio Library native implementation and Radio HAL
calls;
 Intermediate Representations (IRs) including Radio Library calls of Radio Library native
implementation and radio HAL calls;
 Executable codes for a particular radio platform.
radio library: library of Standard Functional Blocks (SFB) that is provided by a platform vendor in a form of platform-
specific executable code
NOTE 1: SFBs implement reference codes of functions which are typical for radio signal processing. They are not
atomic and their source codes are typed and visible for Radio Application developers.
NOTE 2: An SFB is implemented through a Radio Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) when the SFB is
implemented on dedicated HW accelerators. Radio HAL is part of ROS.
Radio Virtual Machine (RVM): abstract machine supporting reactive and concurrent executions
NOTE: A Radio Virtual Machine may be implemented as a controlled execution environment which allows the
selection of a trade-off between flexibility of base band code development and required (re-)certification
efforts.
reconfigurable radio equipment: Radio Equipment with radio communication capabilities providing support for radio
reconfiguration
NOTE: Reconfigurable Radio Equipment includes Smartphones, Feature Phones, Tablets, Laptops, Connected
Vehicle communication platform, Network platform, IoT device, etc.
resources: Hardware Resources that a Radio Application needs in active state
NOTE 1: Resources are provided by the reconfigurable Radio Equipment (RE), to be used by the Radio
Applications when they are active. Radio Applications provide their Resource needs (e.g. using
operational states) so that the multiradio computer may judge whether these Resources are available, in
order to ensure non-conflicting operation with other Radio Applications. Resources may or may not be
shared in the reconfigurable RE.
NOTE 2: Resources may include processors, accelerators, memory, Radio Frequency circuitry, etc.
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3.2 Symbols
Void.
3.3 Abbreviations
For the purposes of the present document, the following abbreviations apply:
ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit
BER Bit Error Rate
CAT CATegory
CR Cognitive Radio
FB Functional Block
FEC Forward Error Correction
FFT Fast Fourier Transform
HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer
IoT Internet of Things
IR Intermediate Representation
LTE Long Term Evolution
MAC Media Access Control
MIMO Multi-Input Multi-Output
MU-MIMO Multi User-Multi-Input Multi-Output
PER Packet Error Rate
PMI Precoding Matrix Indicator
RA Radio Application
RAT Radio Access Technology
RE Radio Equipment
RERC Radio Equipment Reconfiguration Class
RF Radio Frequency
RI Rank Indicator
ROS Radio Operating System
RRS Reconfigurable Radio Systems
RSSI Received Signal Strength Indication
RVM Radio Virtual Machine
Rx Receive
SDR Software Defined Radio
SFB Standard Functional Block
SINR Signal to Interference-plus-Noise Ratio
SU-MIMO Single User-Multi-Input Multi-Output
Tx Transmit
UDFB User Defined Functional Block
WiFi Wireless Fidelity
4 Requirement Organization and Methodology
4.0 General
This clause is containing the description of how the requirements are organized and the related format.
4.1 Requirement Organization
As shown in Figure 1, all requirements described in the present document belong to one single category (the functional
requirements category). Requirements are, in turn, organized into groups.
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Figure 1: Overall requirements structure
4.2 Requirement Format
A letter code system is defined which makes a unique identification of each requirement R---.
Each requirement is constructed as follows:
• R-: Standard requirement prefix.
•
Code Category
FUNC Functional aspects

• : Requirement group identifier. A letter code will be used for this identifier. The three first letters
will give the identifier of the group.
• : Requirement identifier within requirement group; range 01 = > 99.
EXAMPLE: R-FUNC-QOS-01.
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4.3 Requirement Formulation
A requirement is formulated in such a way that it is uniquely defined. It is built as follows:
Title: </br> • Description: the description of a requirement will be formulated using the terms as described in the clause</br> "Modal verbs terminology" above.</br> 5 Working assumptions</br> 5.1 Assumptions</br> 5.1.1 Radio Equipment Reconfiguration Classes</br> As it is expected that the reconfiguration capabilities of a Radio Equipment will evolve over time, Radio Equipment</br> Reconfiguration Classes (RERC) are introduced. As shown in Figure 2, 7 different classes of reconfigurable RE are</br> introduced (RERC-0 corresponds to a non-reconfigurable device).</br> </br> Figure 2: Definition of RERCs according to reconfiguration capabilities</br> A reconfigurable RE belongs to a defined class according to the reconfiguration capabilities, which are determined by</br> the type of Resource requirements and the form of the Radio Application Package. Reconfigurable RE classes are</br> defined as follows (see also Figure 2):</br> 1) RERC-0: No RE reconfiguration is possible.</br> RERC-0 represents legacy radio implementations and do not allow for RE reconfiguration (except for bug fixing and</br> release-updates through firmware updates) or exploitation of Cognitive Radio (CR) features. RERC-0 represents legacy</br> radio implementations and does not allow for RE reconfiguration.</br> 2) RERC-1: Radio Applications use different fixed Resources.</br> In this scenario, at least some of the radios are implemented with non-software defined radio (SDR) technology,</br> e.g. with dedicated Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), and are Resource-wise independent of each other.</br> Simple CR functionality may be supported through radio parameter management to the extent which the radio</br> implementations allow. RERC-1 implements multiple Radio Applications with fixed Resources allocation and no</br> Resource sharing.</br> ETSI</br> </br> ---------------------- Page: 10 ----------------------</br> 11 ETSI TS 103 641 V1.1.1 (2019-03)</br> The rule for Resource allocation for multiple applications {A , A , …, A } can be formulated as follows: A → R ,</br> 1 2 N i i</br> ∀i∈{1, ., N}, where R denotes Resources allocated for application A and R ∩ R = ∅ for ∀i ≠ j. Note that</br> i i i j</br> applications can be run concurrently in any combination; a Resource allocation mechanism within separate applications</br> is not specified.</br> 3) RERC-2: Radio Applications use pre-defined static Resources.</br> RERC-2 implements multiple Radio Applications but no dynamic Resource management is available. The Radio</br> Applications for RERC-2 come from a single Radio Application Package which is normally provided by a</br> reconfigurable RE vendor or SDR chipset manufacturer. In this scenario, it is assumed that software radio components</br> in the Radio Application Package are provided in platform-specific executable code.</br> The rule for the Resource allocation related to multiple applications {A , A , …, A } can be formulated as follows: A</br> 1 2 N i</br> →R , ∀i∈{1, ., N}, where R denotes Resources allocated for application A , if ∃ i ≠ j so that R ∩ R ≠ ∅ then such</br> i i i i j</br> applications cannot be run concurrently, all other combinations are allowed; a Resource allocation mechanism within</br> separate applications is not specified.</br> 4) RERC-3: Radio Applications have static Resource requirements.</br> For RERC-3, a Resource budget is defined for each Radio Application. This budget contains a static Resource measure</br> that represents the worst-case Resource usage of the application, generated at Radio Application compile-time. If an</br> application is being started, the Resource manager installed in a reconfigurable RE of RERC-3 checks its Resource</br> budget and the sum of all Resource budgets of already running applications, and admits the new application only if the</br> Resources can still be guaranteed for all running applications. In this scenario, it is assumed that software radio</br> components in the Radio Application Package are provided in platform-specific executable code.</br> The rule for Resource allocation for multiple applications {A , A , …, A } can be formulated as follows:</br> 1 2 N</br> A → R(A ), where R denotes total Resources to be shared and R(A ) denotes a part of R allocated for A ; if for i1, i2, .,</br> i i i i</br> iM ∈{1, ., N}, M ≤ N, R(A ) ∪ R(A ) ∪ . ∪ R(A ) ⊂ R then applications A , A , …, A can be run concurrently;</br> i1 i2 iM i1 i2 iM</br> a Resource allocation mechanism within separate applications is not specified.</br> 5) RERC-4: Radio Applications have dynamic Resource requirements.</br> This scenario assumes a similar Resource manager in a reconfigurable RE as for MDRC-3, but in addition the Radio</br> Applications have now varying Resource demands based on their current type of activity. Applications have separate</br> operational states for different types of activity, and a Resource budget is assigned to each operational state. In this</br> scenario, it is assumed that software radio components in the Radio Application Package are provided in platform-</br> specific executable code.</br> Resource management for RERC-4 can be formulated as follows. Multiple applications {A , A , …, A } can be run and</br> 1 2 N</br> each application A is divided into tasks {t (A ), t (A ), ., t (A )}. Resource allocation is provided by the Resource</br> i 1 i 2 i k i</br> manager in a reconfigurable RE for each task t (A ) → R(t (A )).</br> j i j i</br> The rule for task running is exactly the same as for RERC-3 except that each application should be replaced by a</br> corresponding task. Therefore, if for i1, i2, ., iM ∈{1, ., N}, M ≤ N, R(t (A )) ∪ R(t (A )) ∪ . ∪ R(t (A )) ⊂ R</br> j1 i1 j2 i2 jL iM</br> then tasks t (A ), t (A ), ., t (A ) can be run concurrently; a Resource allocation mechanism within separate tasks</br> j1 i1 j2 i2 jL iM</br> is not specified.</br> 6) RERC-5: Radio Applications use pre-defined static Resources, on-device compilation of Software Radio</br> Components.</br> This class corresponds to RERC-2 with the difference that all or part of the software radio compone</br> <b>...</b>