IEEE 1900.4: Standard
for Optimized Radio Resource Usage in Composite Wireless Networks
Babak Siabi
Isfahan University of Technology
b.siabi@ec.iut.ac.ir
Abstract Newly published IEEE 1900.4 standard is the subject of this
article. The field of application of the IEEE 1900.4 standard is radio systems
forming a Composite Wireless Network (CWN), i.e., comprising multiple Radio
Access Networks (RANs), which may be use different Radio Access Technologies
(RATs). This composite wireless network is assumed to be operated by either a
single or several operators. End-user terminals in 1900.4 are generally assumed
to be multimode/ multihoming, supporting several RATs
and with multi-radio link capabilities, also possessing some cognitive radio capability
such as flexible operation in different frequency bands. This effort covers the
scope and purpose of the standard, reference use cases for which the standard
is applicable, system requirements, and system and functional architectures.
Keywords IEEE standardization,
cognitive radio, reconfiguration, heterogeneous radio access networks,
composite networks, distributed radio resource management.