Signal Processing and Communications Group

Innovative Architectures, Wireless Technologies and Tools for High Capacity and Sustainable 5G Ultra-Dense Cellular Networks

Acronym:    5G WIRELESS
Code:    H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014-641985
Funder:    European Commission
Start date:    2015 January 1st
End date:    2018 December 31st
Keywords:    5G, ultra-dense networks, millimeter wave, stochastic geometry
Web site:    http://www.h2020-msca-etn-5gwireless.eu/
    
Partners:    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Educational OTE, Ericsson, Heriot-Watt University, Iquadrat, Linköpings Universitet, Siradel, Technische Universität Dresden and TTI Norte
SPCOM Participants:    Adrian Agustin de Dios, Alexios Aravanis, Olga Muñoz Medina, Antonio Pascual Iserte, Ahmed Raafat and Josep Vidal Manzano
SPCOM Responsible:    Antonio Pascual Iserte

Summary

5Gwireless is a multi-partner European Training Network (ETN) project, within the framework of the H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITNs).

5Gwireless was launched in January 2015, is focused on studying and designing Innovative Architectures, Wireless Technologies and Tools for High Capacity and Sustainable 5G Ultra-Dense Cellular Networks.

5Gwireless is a fully-integrated and multi-disciplinary network of 15 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) working in 10 research institutions distributed in 6 European countries. The consortium is formed by 4 Universities, 1 Research Center and 5 Private Companies.

5Gwireless offers a cross-sectoral environment to 15 ESRs, in order to shape their long-term research view and to allow them to get fundamental methodological tools on various research fields and novel concepts, such as, cell-less/device-centric architectures, ultra-dense networks and mmW communications.

Project Objectives

5Gwireless aims at proposing, studying, optimizing, quantitatively assessing and comparing advantages and disadvantages of radically-changing but little understood architectures, topologies and technologies, which will significantly shape 5G standards and will enable the targeted 1000 times increase of spectral efficiency and 90% reduction of energy consumption.

The research objectives of 5Gwireless can be summarized as follows:

  • To analyze, design and optimize radically new network architectures and topologies for ultra-dense 5G networks, based on the device-centric and cell-less concepts.
  • To analyze, design and optimize radically new transmission technologies for 5G networks, based on massive and single-RF multi-antenna concepts and mmWave communications.
  • To introduce new methodological approaches to the analysis, design and optimization of 5G networks, based on stochastic geometry, point processes and random shape theory tools.

More project information: http://futur.upc.edu/15401166

Conference publications related to the project

[1] A.Raafat, A. Agustin de Dios and J. Vidal, "Receive Antenna Selection and Hybrid Precoding for Receive Spatial Modulation in Massive MIMO Systems", International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas, IEEE ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas, March 2018.

[2] A.Raafat, A. Agustin de Dios and J. Vidal, "Receive Spatial Modulation for Massive MIMO Systems", IEEE Global Communications Conference, December 2017.

[3] A.Raafat, A. Agustin de Dios and J. Vidal, "Energy-Efficient Architecture for Receive Spatial Modulation in Large MIMO Systems", International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Cell-less Nets workshop at IEEE Intl Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, ISWCS, August 2017.

[4] Alexis I. Aravanis, O. Muñoz Medina, A. Pascual Iserte and J. Vidal, "Analysis of Downlink and Uplink Decoupling in Dense Cellular Networks", IEEE International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks , October 2016, pp. 219 - 224.