Comptes rendus Académie des sciences, Physique, tome 7, fasc 7, Septembre 2006 towards reconfigurable and cognitive communications ...

Propagation channel models for mobile communication. Influence of the level of description of the indoor environment on the characteristic parameters of a MIMO channel. Wave propagation in tunnels in a MIMO context - a theoretical and experimental study. Reconfigurable architecture for MIMO systems based on CORDIC operators. Deterministic simulation of MIMO-UWB transmission channel. Statistical modeling of the ultra wide band propagation channel through the analysis of experimental measurements. Combination of OFDM and CDMA for high data rate UWB. A reconfigurable RF sampling receiver for multistandard applications. Cognitive radio: methods for the detection of free bands. Opportunistic scheduling using cognitive radio. Time reversal telecomunications in complex environments.