COST 273Towards Mobile Broadband

Multimedia Networks

Luis M. Correia

Instituto Telecomunicações/Instituto Superior TécnicoTechnical University of Lisbon, Portugal

Summary

• Objective and background• Timetable and organisation• Results• The future

Objective

• The main objective is to increase the knowledge on the radio aspects of mobile broadband multimedia networks, by exploring and developing new methods, models, techniques, strategies and tools towards the implementation of 4th generation mobile communication systems.

Background

• COST 207, Digital Land Mobile Radio Communications, Mar. 1984 – Sep. 1988.

• COST 231, Evolution of Land Mobile Radio (Including Personal) Communications, Apr. 1989 – Apr. 1996.

• COST 259, Wireless Flexible Personalised Communications, Dec. 1996 – Apr. 2000.

Timetable

• The Action started on May 2001, and is due to finish by May 2005.

• 3 MC yearly meetings are being held:• 4th - Technical University of Helsinki,

Espoo, Finland, May 2002• 5th - IST-Technical University of Lisbon,

Portugal, Sep. 2002• 6th - Polytechnical University of

Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, Jan. 2003• 7th - ENSTA, Paris, France, May 2003

Signatory Countries

• 25 countries have signed the MoU:Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia.

• 4 other countries are also participating:Canada, Japan, United States of America, Taiwan

Participating Institutions

• A total of 130 institutions are registered and active (roughly 50 % from academia and 50 % from industry)

• 344 individuals are registered and active.

Organisation Other Bodies

Management Committee Secretariat

WG 2 Propagation & Antennas

WG 1 Radio System

Aspects

WG 3 Radio Network

Aspects

SWG 2.1 MIMO Systems

SWG 2.2 Handset Antennas

SWG 2.3 Channel

Measurements

SWG 3.1 Reference Scenarios

Management (1)

• Chairman:Luis M. Correia, IST/IT – Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

• Vice-Chairman:Narcis Cardona, Polytechnical University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain(Per H. Lehne, Telenor R&D, Norway, resigned Jan. 2003)

Management (2)

• WG1 Chairman: Alister Burr, University of York, United Kingdom

• WG2 Chairman: Ernst Bonek, Technical University of Vienna, Austria

• WG3 Chairman: Roberto Verdone, University of Bologna, Italy

Management (3)

• SWG 2.1 Chairman: Andreas Molisch, University of Lund, Sweden

• SWG 2.2 Chairman: Gert Pedersen, Aalborg University, Denmark

• SWG 2.3 Chairman: Pertti Vainikainen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Management (4)

• SWG 3.1 Chairman: Silvia Ruiz, Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Spain

Meetings participation

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Results

• Some preliminary results are:• exchange of measured data and models• collaboration between institutions from

different countries• setting up 4 Sub-Working Groups• 2 workshops• Short Term Missions• presence in conferences

Website

• A web site has been created, http://www.lx.it.pt/cost273, containing information on: News, Working Groups, Meetings, Status, Temporary Documents, Official Documents, Documents Download, Related Links, Related Conferences, Contacts, Member’s Area.

• Member’s Area allows: registration to meetings, submission of documents, access to full documents.

Tutorials (1)

• Tutorials by members are being offered just before the MC meeting: • Andreas Molisch on “Channel

Modelling”, attended by 71, in Espoo.• Gerd Wölfle on “Propagation Models”,

attended by 40, and Markus Radimirschon “Game Theory”, attended by 35, in Barcelona.

Tutorials (2)

• Tad Matsumoto on “Iterative (turbo) MIMO equalization techniques”, attendedby 37, and Roberto Verdone on “Radio resource management”, attended by 33, in Paris.

Short Term Missions

• 10 STMs were approved, and already took place.

• 2 STMs were approved, but still did not take place.

• 2 STMs were not approved: two persons were applying to do the same things, and only one was approved; one application came from someone and from an institution that had never participated in COST 273.

2nd Workshop (1)

• “Broadband Wireless Local Access”.• 2003/05/21-22 (1 ½ day), Paris, France.• Proceedings were published.• 4 Invited speakers from Europe, USA and

Japan.• 15 papers.• 137 participants.

2nd Workshop (2)

Liaisons with other bodies (1)

• ITU• SG3

• URSI• Com. C

• IST• ANTIUM, ARROWS, CELLO, ESCORT, FLOWS, MATRICE, MOMENTUM, ROMANTIK, SATURN, SCOUT, SEACORN, STINGRAY, TRUST, ULTRAWAVES.

Liaisons with other bodies (2)

• 3GPP, 3GPP2• WWRF• UK MOBILE VCE.

The Future (1)

• Future meetings• 8th MCM: 2003/Sep., Prague, Czech

Republic• 9th MCM: 2004/Jan., Athens, Greece• 10th MCM: 2004/May, Goterborg,

Sweden (Workshop jointly with COST 284)

• 11th MCM: 2004/Sep., Duisburg, Germany

The Future (2)

• A proposal for a Network of Excellence within the 6FP (in order to perform activities that are not funded by the COST framework), was submitted and passed to the hearings phase.

• All the efforts will be done to continue to maintain the level of the work and of the results that have been achieved so far.