On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Robert Dennison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A thinking SDR should be fascinating... > The word "cognitive" is kind of misleading. By convention, a Cognitive Radio is one which, without operator intervention, will reconfigure itself based on its current signal environment. That's a very limited sense of Cognitive as far as modern AI is concerned. In a lot of ways, the CompSci term "introspective" captures the more restricted SDR idea better. A full-blown Cognitive Radio might be better thought of as primarily an autonomous agent -- a particular chunk of software -- that happens to have RF transducers attached to it. The "radio" capabilities extend far beyond merely reconfiguring the transducers and protocols, which is all that's implied by the conventional name. In particular, a full-up C/SDR is also capable of, say, defining for itself completely innovative sequences of actions based on, not just the signal environment, but also on the payloads of selected signals which are identified by probability models of unconnected systems, etc. Think of a "smart" contesting SDR. It's doing a lot more than what's usually contained in the conventional definition of a Cognitive Radio. 73 Frank AB2KT -- Travelling by airplane in the US is nothing more than mass training of Americans to the requirements of the coming police state. The whole point is to make you learn to acquiesce without question, en masse, to completely absurd directives by dull functionaries wearing uniforms. -- Digby _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
