Reconfigurable terminals for mobile communication systems

Mobile phones of the future will be the access terminals to many different types of service. This will mean that they must be able to reconfigure them selves to support the differing service requirements placed upon them. At t he root of this ability to reconfigure must be components and architectures that allow such flexibility, and so the key objective of the work programm e on terminals within the Virtual Centre of Excellence in Mobile and Person al Communications (Mobile VCE) has been the design, definition and performa nce evaluation of key components and architectures for future generation re configurable terminals.