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Reconfigurability, a concept of utmost importance in communication systems has been foreseen over two decades ago (Mitola, IEEE Aerosp. Electron Syst Mag, 8:25–36, 1993, Jondral et al., 2000 IEEE Sixth International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications, 2000). Reconfiguration of a radio to achieve higher hardware performance is turning to be not only a requirement, but also a necessity in current radio architectures for services and portable devices in the frequency spectrum below 6 GHz. Advances in software and hardware development have been targeting this idea, and thus, leading to an evolution for modern radio architectures relaying in key concepts, such as Software Defined Radio and Cognitive Radio.

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    For example, programming of baseband algorithms that reconfigure the overall communication architecture according to the capabilities of the employed hardware in the RF-Frontend.

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Gonzalez Rodriguez, E. (2016). Fundamentals. In: Reconfigurable Transceiver Architecture for Multiband RF-Frontends. Smart Sensors, Measurement and Instrumentation, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24581-2_2

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