Radio devices, regulation servers, and verification servers

1. A radio device, comprising:

a reconfigurable component;

an information transmitter configured to transmit information identifying the radio device and information about a certification associated with a configuration of the reconfigurable component to a permission determiner, wherein the certification indicates that the radio device has been authorized to use the configuration;

a test case information receiver to receive, from the permission determiner based on the information identifying the radio device, information about a pre-determined test case, wherein the information about the pre-determined test case is transmitted by the permission determiner responsive to a determination that information indicating whether the radio device is permitted to use the configuration of the reconfigurable component is not stored in configuration storage; and

a permission information receiver configured to receive, from the permission determiner, information indicating whether the radio device is permitted to use the configuration of the reconfigurable component.

2. The radio device of claim 1 , further comprising:

a radio circuit;

wherein the reconfigurable component is configured to modify a property of the radio circuit.

3. The radio device of claim 1 , wherein the reconfigurable component comprises at least one of: programmable logic, a field-programmable gate array, software, firmware, application software, software of a physical layer, software of a data link layer, software of a logical link control layer, or software of a media access control layer.

4. The radio device of claim 1 , further comprising:

a further reconfigurable component;

wherein the information transmitter is further configured to transmit information about a certification associated with a configuration of the further reconfigurable component to the permission determiner; and

wherein the permission information receiver is further configured to receive, from the permission determiner, information indicating whether the radio device is permitted to use the configuration of the reconfigurable component and the configuration of the further reconfigurable component.

5. The radio device of claim 1 , further comprising:

a test case evaluator configured to determine a result of the pre-determined test case using the configuration of the reconfigurable component.

6. The radio device of claim 1 , wherein the information about the certification includes a certificate, a pointer to a certificate, or a declaration of conformity.

7. The radio device of claim 1 , wherein the configuration is affected by a software component buffered in the radio device, without installing or executing the software component, prior to transmitting the information about the certification.

8. The radio device of claim 1 , wherein the permission information receiver is further configured to receive, from the permission determiner, information to indicate whether the radio device is to use another configuration of the reconfigurable component that was previously used by the radio device and that is associated with a different certification.

9. A method to be performed by a radio device, the method comprising:

transmitting information identifying the radio device and information about a certification associated with a configuration of a reconfigurable component of the radio device to a permission determiner, wherein the certification indicates that the radio device has been authorized to use the configuration;

receiving, from the permission determiner based on the information identifying the radio device, information about a pre-determined test case, wherein the information about the pre-determined test case is transmitted by the permission determiner responsive to a determination that information indicating whether the radio device is permitted to use the configuration of the reconfigurable component is not stored in configuration storage; and

receiving, from the permission determiner, information indicating whether the radio device is permitted to use the configuration of the reconfigurable component.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the reconfigurable component comprises at least one of: programmable logic, a field-programmable gate array, software, firmware, application software, software of a physical layer, software of a data link layer, software of a logical link control layer, or software of a media access control layer.

11. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

determining a result of the pre-determined test case using the configuration of the reconfigurable component.

12. The method of claim 9 , wherein the information about the certification includes a certificate, a pointer to a certificate, or a declaration of conformity.

13. The method of claim 9 , wherein the configuration is affected by a software component buffered in the radio device prior to transmitting the information about the certification.

14. The method of claim 9 , further comprising receiving, from the permission determiner, information indicating whether the radio device is to use another configuration of the reconfigurable component that was previously used by the radio device and that is associated with a different certification instead of using the configuration.

15. A regulation server, comprising:

a configuration information receiver configured to receive information identifying a radio device and information about a certification associated with a configuration of a reconfigurable component of the radio device, wherein the certification indicates that the radio device has been authorized to use the configuration;

a permission determiner configured to determine whether the radio device is permitted to use the configuration of the reconfigurable component based on the received information identifying the radio device and the received information about the certification associated with the configuration of the reconfigurable component of the radio device;

a permission information transmitter configured to transmit information indicating whether the radio device is permitted to use the configuration of the reconfigurable component; and

a test case information transmitter configured to transmit information about a pre-determined test case to the radio device;

wherein the test case information transmitter is configured to transmit the information about the pre-determined test case in case it is determined by the configuration information availability determiner that information indicating whether the radio device is permitted to use the configuration of the reconfigurable component is not stored in configuration storage.

16. The regulation server of claim 15 , further comprising:

a configuration storage to store information about valid digital certifications and about invalid digital certifications; and

a configuration information availability determiner configured to determine whether the radio device is permitted to use the configuration of the reconfigurable component based on the information about the certification and the information stored in the configuration storage.

17. The regulation server of claim 15 ,

wherein the permission determiner is further configured to determine whether the radio device is permitted to use the configuration of the reconfigurable component based on a pre-determined test case, and wherein the regulation server further comprises:

a test case information transmitter configured to transmit information about the pre-determined test case to the radio device responsive to a determination that the configuration is unverified for a class of devices that includes the radio device; and

a test case result receiver configured to receive information about a result of the pre-determined test case from the radio device, wherein the pre-determined test case uses the configuration of the reconfigurable component.

18. The regulation server of claim 15 , wherein the configuration is affected by a software component buffered in the radio device prior to transmitting the information about the certification.

19. The regulation server of claim 15 , wherein the permission determiner is further configured to determine whether the radio device is to use another configuration of the reconfigurable component that was previously used by the radio device and that is associated with a different certification.