Concept Paper on Indigenous Waveform Development of Software-Defined Radio (SDR) Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology is achieving rapidly

growing acceptance as a military communications platform because of its security advantages and its ability to be reconfigured to meet specific mission parameters. Although, we know that FPGA offers the performance, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness required for SDR systems, yet one of the challenges in implementing SDR designs is the development of indigenous radio or communications waveforms as well as their implementation in programmable logic or FPGA. Since SDR technology is comprised of both software and hardware that can be dynamically programmed to reconfigure the hardwares and softwares characteristics to transform the executing communication waveforms to enable communication between wide varieties of communication standards & protocols; the question arises here is What is Communication Waveform and how much it is tightly linked with the software and hardware modification? What are various parameters that control the particular characteristics of a waveform? The answer is that Radio or Communication Waveform is the representation of a signal in space, is a protocol that specifies the shape of an electromagnetic signal intended for transmission by a radio and the set of mission specific parameters and their predefined functionality are the characteristics of a waveform which is going to be implemented in programmable logic/or FPGA. However, the information bits being carried by the signal will not change by change in waveform shape. It is achieved by implementing a set of clearly-defined standards APIs that reside on top a flexible hardware and software platforms. Also, as all these functionalities/capabilities resides at Baseband level and hence no modification is required in RF front-end until unless we are developing the waveforms for the same frequency band the hardware is meant for. This means almost more than 8090% hardware MUST be reused on reconfiguring it for another native waveform in respective frequency band and therefore, only middleware and application software in baseband need to tweak in the given case. However, in order to make this process standardized, following criteria should meet: These radios waveforms must based on a common open standard architecture, referred to as the Software Communications Architecture (SCA) in order to provide network-centric capabilities and enable mission flexibility for the defense requirements. Implementation using SCA based development tools and middle-ware from industry leading SDR solution providers who provide every level of visibility right down to kernel aware source code debugging. Integrated modeling and development tools for waveform, protocols or specific features development in order to differentiate our product in competitive market. When a communication device is managing high value information in a high threat environment, it MUST be certified with High Robustness level of security. Therefore, RTOS technology certified to Evaluation Assurance Level 6+ (EAL 6+) security standard in order to develop reliable and secure communication platform on which applications are going to embed. The various RF parameters that control the characteristics shape of an electromagnetic signal or a particular waveform are transmitted power, carrier frequency, modulation techniques strategy, wide-band or narrow-band operation, communications security functions (such as hopping). Waveform is not solely defined by its physical layer algorithms; in fact it is specified as part of most

of the protocols and hence link layer, network layer, transport layer, and application layer algorithms will all influence the shape of the electromagnetic signal. However, not all waveforms specify algorithms at all layers. For example the FM broadcast radio waveform is a purely physical layer standard.