SMART ANTENNA TECHNOLOGY FOR UNIVERSAL BROADBAND WIRELESS NETWORKS

Acronym:    SATURN
Code:    ICT-99-10322
Funder:    European Commission
Start date:    2000 January 1st
End date:    2002 June 1st
Web site:    http://gps-tsc.upc.es/comm/saturn/

Partners:    CNET, Dune S.R.L., KTH, THOMSON-CSF, UH and University of Bristol
SPCOM Participants:    Adrian Agustin de Dios, Margarita Cabrera Bean, Josemanuel Huerta Guillén, Rene Jativa, Olga Muñoz Medina, Alba Pagès Zamora and Josep Vidal Manzano
SPCOM Responsible:    Josep Vidal Manzano

Summary

Introduction and exploitation of adaptive antennas in wideband mobile communications (UMTS and HIPERLAN). Geographical location of mobiles based on smart antennas and base-station/mobile transmitted signals. Implementation of a DSP demonstrator.

Conference publications

[1] J. M. Huerta Guillén and J. Vidal, "Mobile Tracking Using UKF, Timing Measures and LOS-NLOS Expert Knowledge", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, March 2005.