METIS, Mobile and wireless communications Enablers for Twenty-twenty (2020) Information Society, is co-funded by the European Commission as an Integrated Project under the Seventh Framework Programme for research and development (FP7). The project is led by Ericsson and will provide an important platform for an early global consensus on fundamental questions connected to the development of the future mobile and wireless communications system, and pave the way for future standardization of 5G.

The project objective is to lay the foundation for a future mobile and wireless communications system for 2020 and beyond. METIS is a consortium of 29 partners coordinated by Ericsson. Other participants from Sweden are KTH and Chalmers. Approximately 80 persons will be dedicated full time to METIS during its 30-month duration. The strong consortium includes manufacturers, network telecommunications operators, academic institutions, automotive industry and a research centre.

For more information see: www.metis2020.com

The Mobile Broadband Project Phase 3: "More for less"

The MBB++ project is the 2011 follow up on earlier projects on Mobile broadband carried out between 2005 and 2010. The aim of this project is to, in the context of a dramatically growing market for mobile broadband data where cost and energy efficiency are key, address the issues of optimum deployment strategy and network architecture for various operator and business scenarios, including M2M services, using LTE-Advanced and systems beyond.  

The work is organized into 4 work packages:
1.      Deployment scenarios for future MBB markets
2.      Deployment of LTE-Advance
3.      New network architectures
4.      Networked Machine-to-machine services 

Contact: Project leader Claes Beckman
Team members: Jan Markendahl, Ki Won Sun, Du Ho Kang, Mats Nilsson, Bengt Mölleryd, Miurel Isabel Tercero Vargas

Wireless@KTH  partners:  KTH, Ericsson, TeliaSonera
Funding: Wireless@KTH

More information will be provided at the MBB++ project website

COnvergent and SEmantic-aware Mobile networks and services

Providing a superior user experience is the key to success in mobile services. The recent massive success of the iPhone provides ample illustration. Increasing the data rate in the infrastructure is one way to improve user experience. However, deploying more infrastructure may take significant time, require large investments in more rural settings, and may not always be energy efficient. In this proposal we aim at providing substantial and measurable increase of the Quality of Experience – QoE for users on new and existing infrastructure by proposing a smarter, faster and convergent network that is based on deriving and exploiting extensive knowledge of the user preferences and needs. The practical question whose answer may provide a relatively large societal and business impact is: Could a smarter, faster and convergent network result in obtaining an order of magnitude increase in QoE while reducing cost and maximizing profits?  

More information about COSEM is available at the project website: http://wireless.kth.se/COSEM/

QUASAR

is an FP7 targeted research project (STREP) that brings together a highly competent team of manufacturers, operators, regulators and universities with the aim at bridging this gap between the claims made in traditional cognitive radio research and practical implementation by assessing and quantifying the “real-world” benefits of secondary (opportunistic) access to primary (licensed) spectrum. The analysis is based on two key features of cognitive radio: the ability of the secondary users to discover the opportunity to use the spectrum, and assessing the electromagnetic impact of secondary user transmissions on primary system (receivers). Novel approaches are taken as we go beyond the traditional notion of detecting “spectrum holes” into treating spectrum opportunity discovery as a data fusion problem, as well as new schemes that cope interference from multiple uncoordinated secondary users.

A key aspect of the project is to assess also the business and regulatory impact of secondary, opportunistic access. The aim is provide regulatory bodies with solid fact as base for future regulation.

Contact person KTH: Jens Zander
Wireless@KTH partners: KTH, Ericsson, PTS
Funding: EU, Industry

With the ICT industry consuming up to 10% of the world's energy and doubling every five years, there is a mounting pressure to engineer “Green ICT systems” where energy consumption is seen as a first-class system property. Although such green ICT systems certainly require efficient components, much of the wasteful energy expenditure is due to poor resource management, unfortunate protocol interactions, and a mindset of offering high throughput “at any price”. This project aims at developing energy-efficient wireless networking principles, both in terms of minimizing energy usage in current and upcoming wireless standards, and in terms of clean-slate architectures for energy-efficient wireless communication.

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Partners: KTH, ACREO
Funding: TNG Strategic Research Area