IST - 2001 - 34091 SCOUT D 4 . 3 . 1 Description and Specification of the SCOUT hardware validators and SCOUT Middleware

This document describes the specifications of the demonstrations to be performed in the project. 1/ Reconfigurable RF TX chain The proposed RF TX demonstrator hardware is based on commercially available components but at the same time it is near to the solution obtained during the analysis of the RF part of Scout terminal. 2/ Link adaptation on hardware validator The document provides the specifications of the demonstration to be carried out with the hardware validator: link adaptation and video demonstration. The link adaptation functionalities to be demonstrated in the physical layer are defined in a precise manner. Then the conditions required for installing the video demonstration are described. Finally the stages and expected benefits of the experimentation are briefly shown. 3/ Video demonstration The interaction between the video systems that are developed and the hardware validator is described. The aim is to provide a simple convenient and flexible interface which will allow the video systems to be demonstrated over the hardware validator, and provide meaningful results which are representative of those anticipated from a complete system. 4/ Middleware demonstration The general objectives are to adequately demonstrate a middleware concept for reconfiguration. The middleware demonstrator should support several tasks and requirements. The middleware demonstrator emulates the mobile channel according to the variation of the network bandwidths defined in WLAN, UMTS, GPRS and the delay experienced by the application. A web browsing application will be demonstrated. S C O U T