A SURVEY ON RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURES FOR FUTURE WIRELESS NETWORKS

Future wireless communication requires the design of a single wireless user terminal able to autonomously operate in different heterogeneous access networks. A large number of reconfigurable hardware architectures have been proposed both in academia and commercially for the efficient realization of wireless multimedia communication systems. A reconfigurable architecture has evolved from fine-grained to coarse-grained architecture due to some major advantages such as efficient area, high performance and low power. There are several shortcomings for the existing reconfigurable architectures. This paper gives a brief survey of coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures used for multimedia and wireless communications. It is also found that applying agent-based model into a suitable reconfigurable architecture, the overall system flexibility and efficiency will be significantly improved.