User's Manual

Mobile WiMAX Indoor RAS SPI-2210 System Description/Ed.07

3.3 Software Structure

3.3.1 Basic Structure

The components of the indoor SPI-2210 software is shown below: Operating System (OS),

Device Driver (DD), Middleware (MW), Network Processor Software (NPS), IP Routing

Software (IPRS), and application. The application is divided by Call Control (CC) block

for the call processing and the OAM block for operation and maintenance of the indoor

SPI-2210.

Figure 3.10 Software Structure of Indoor SPI-2210

Operating System (OS)

OS initializes and controls the hardware device, and runs the software operation in the

hardware. To operate the software, OS uses the embedded Linux OS, and manages the dual

software processes. Then, OS provides various functions efficiently with limited resources.

Middleware (MW)

MW helps the smooth operation between OS and application under various types of

hardware environment, and to achieve this, MW provides various services: message

delivery service between applications, event notification service, High Availability (HA)

service for duplex managing and data backup, debugging utility services. In addition, the

MW provides the systematic and strong management of the account, the authority and the

authentication function.

MW IPRS

OS DD

NPS

Hardware

OAM CC

APPLICATION