Centre for Wireless Communications

Concepts for Ultra Wideband Radio Systems

(CUBS)

Steering group kick-off meetingTuesday, Jan. 27, 2004

9.15-11.00CWC, TL246

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Agenda1. Opening2. Acceptance of the agenda3. Confirmation of the steering group and nomination of

the steering group chair, vice chair and secretary4. Project organization

   -    responsible leader, project manager, project secretary    -    separate tsg, sponsors' tsg members 

5. Overall and detailed research plan for 20046. 2004 budget and financing7. Consortium agreement8. Project practices9. FUBS simulator release10.AoB11.Next meeting12.Closing

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Nomination of the steering group, chair, vice chair and

secretary• Proposal for SG members

– Defence Forces: Heikki Rantanen (chair), Tuomo Reili

– Elektrobit: Petteri Heino (vice chair), • Tommi Jämsä (deputy SG member)

– Tekes: Kari Markus – CWC: Ian Oppermann, Jari Iinatti

secretary: Matti Hämäläinen

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Project organization

Proposal

• Responsible leader: prof. Jari Iinatti• Project manager: Lich.Tech. Matti

Hämäläinen• Project secretary: M.Sc. Raffaello Tesi

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Overall and detailed research plan for 2004

• CUBS extends the research started in FUBS with – old work packages– new work packages– application of interest: military sensor network

• Planned to last three years (2004-2006)• Goal: demonstrate UWB sensor network

operation at the end of 2006• Currently, the funding is approved only for 2004

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• During 2004, the preliminary research work for sensor network demonstration will be carried out by CWC

• At 2005, a subcontractor will be involved to the project– hardware design and implementation– PJMicrowave is the most probable

candidate to be a subcontractor due to the good co-operation in FUBS

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Work packages• WP1: Multiband UWB system

– In FUBS only single-band UWB concepts have been studied

– IEEE802.15.3 promoted MB-UWB for high data rate applications

– Performance with interference in AWGN and real channels

• Models based on FUBS can be used

– Schedule: months I-XII– Work amount: 15 mm– Output: journal paper, two conference

papers

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• WP2: Single band UWB systems – the original UWB PHY approach– continues the work started in FUBS– simpler and more cost effective than

MB-UWB

– Schedule: months I-XII– Work amount: 13 mm– Output: journal paper, two conference

papers, two M.Sc. Thesis (channel modeling)

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• WP3: UWB sensor networks– LPD/LPI capable military sensor network concept– low power consumption, low PSD– aiming for demonstrator at 2006

• T-MIL: Requirement specification for the future UWB sensor communication development to be carried out on 2005-2006. (2 mm)

• T-LOC: Development of UWB based location algorithm for sensor network (7 mm)

• T-POW: Power efficient communication protocols

(8 mm)

– Schedule: months I-XII – Work amount: 17 mm– Output: journal paper, two conference papers

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• WP4: Co-existence – using the second generation UWB

transmitters• FCC capable• adjustable PRF and TX power• bipolar pulses, Tp is about 200 ps

– Schedule: months I-XII– Work amount: 8 mm– Output: one journal paper, one

conference paper

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• WP5: Capacity – single band and multi-band UWB – information theoretic approach

– Schedule: months I-XII– Work amount: 6 mm– Output: 1 journal paper, 1 conference

paper

• Administration: 1 mm

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• Channel modelling– hospital– forest

• supplementary path loss measurements

– do we need?– own WP or to be included in existing

WP?– man months need to be transferred

from somewhere else

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2004 budget and financing

BUDGET

Labour costs (60 mm) 145.678,00 €Side costs (68%) 93.234,00 €Total 238.912,00 € 238.912,00 €

Overhead (75.1%) 179.422,00 €Equipments and software 5.000,00 €Travel costs 10.000,00 €TOTAL BUDGET 433.334,00 €

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Financing for 2004Tekes (60%) 260.000,00 € 260.000,00 €Industrial partners (40%) 173.334,00 €

CWC (15,4%) 66.667,00 €

Elektrobit (9,2%) 40.000,00 €

Defence Forces (15,4%) 66.667,00 € TOTAL: 433.334,00 € 433.334,00 €

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Consortium agreement• University has a new contract form for

Tekes projects

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Project practices• Do we separate the steering group and the

technical group meetings?• Regularity• Secured directory for information dissemination

– http://www.cwc.oulu.fi/cubs– login: cubs– password:– includes:

• plans• documents• publications• admin documents• meeting slides, minutes• etc.

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• FUBS simulator

• AoB

• Next meeting