Workshop on Radio Access and Spectrum

• Monday, 23 June 2014, 14:00-17:50, Room Marconi 1

• Organizers:

  • Paulo Marques (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

  • Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli (University of Bologna, Italy)

  • Dominique Noguet (CEA-LETI, France)

  • Klaus Moessner (University of Surrey, UK)

  • Dionysia Triantafyllopoulou (University of Surrey, UK)

  • Michael Gundlach (NSN, Germany)

  • Simon Delaere (iMINDS, Belgium)

• Chairs:

  • Paulo Marques (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

Workshop Description

This workshop will look at novel approaches towards a more efficient use of the radio spectrum being developed by the European Commission research projects and that will contribute to the capacity improvement required by the next generation of radio access networks. Although standardization is a key enabler for market success in radio access networks, standardization is only a side aspect in EU research projects. All projects face the fact that it is difficult to achieve impact during the rather short lifetime of a three years project. In particular, standardization in Dynamic Spectrum Access is a process with low speed reaction because of many conflicting spectrum requirements and regulatory implications.

In this light, the main objective of this workshop is exchange and dissemination of EU project’s intermediate results in the Radio Access and Spectrum area, and fostering debate on the results of existing standardization work and on opportunities for future collaboration between research projects and standardization organizations. Projects updates will be accompanied by presentations from experts on the standardization streams: Cognitive radio and Licensed Shared Access (ETSI); New waveforms beyond OFDM (IEEE); Device-to-Device communications (3GPP). The workshop will end with a Panel where conclusions on project synergies and standardization strategies will be discussed.

Structure

14:00-15:40 Opening address [FP7 CRS-i project]

Potential synergies across projects with spectrum related standardization activities, Paulo Marques (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

Session 1: Cognitive Radio and White Spaces
 

Overview of the standardization work in IEEE DySPAN-SC 1900, Dominique Noguet (CEA-LETI, France)
5GNOW: Intermediate Transceiver and Frame Structure Concepts and Results, Gerhard Wunder (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany)
FP7 SOLDER intermediate results and standardization strategy, Oliver Holland (King’s College London, United Kingdom)
FP7 CORASAT intermediate results and standardization strategy: Cognitive Radio Techniques in Ka Band SatCom Context, Nicolas Chuberre (Thales Alenia Space, France)

16:10-17:50

Session 2: Device-to-Device communications and public safety

Overview of D2D Proximity Services standardization in 3GPP LTE, Michael Gundlach (NSN, Germany)
FP7 MOTO intermediate results and standardization strategy, Vania Conan (Thales Communications & Security, France)
FP7 ABSOLUTE intermediate results and standardization strategy, Isabelle Bucaille (Thales Communications & Security, France)
FP7 EMPhATiC intermediate results and standardization strategy, Xavier Mestre (CTTC, Spain)

Session 3: Licensed Shared Access (LSA)

Overview of LSA activities in ETSI, Michael Gundlach (NSN, Germany)
FP7 ADEL project intermediate results and standardization strategy, Tharm Ratnarajah (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Panel: Conclusions on project synergies and standardization strategies