Alvarion is a global leader in wireless communications with expertise in building end-to-end 4G networks that enable a variety of high-speed broadband applications for our customers. Alvarion’s state-of-the-art wireless technologies are designed with innovations that bring the best coverage and performance based on all-IP, open architecture to the marketplace. Alvarion has customers in over 100 countries around the world.
Role attributed in BuNGee
Alvarion is the coordinator of the BuNGee Project, and is thereby responsible for the Project Management. In addition Alvarion is the leader of Workpackages 4 and 6. Alvarion's main tasks in the BuNGee project relate to leading the novel system architecture designed to enabling the change of current RAN deployment paradigm to a more efficient and cost effective one enabling cost effective high capacity density mobile broadband wireless as well as to lead the proof of concept work package.
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Created in 1987, ARTTIC is a European provider of management services for international collaborative R&D projects. The ARTTIC group comprises several companies based in France, Belgium, Germany, the UK and Israel. ARTTIC's total staff adds up to about 50 persons, all specialised in the provision of advice and practical assistance in all aspects of international R&D collaborations.
Role attributed in BuNGee
In the BuNGee project, ARTTIC (Belgium) will be involved of the day-to-day project management and be WP leader of Dissemination & Exploitation. ARTTIC will provide methods, tools and operational support for the collaboration within the consortium. ARTTIC will support the consortium in the daily management and administrative tasks to ensure the collaboration is working efficiently, the project is properly monitored and decisions and actions are prepared and taken according to the project progress. An important aspect of the role of ARTTIC is also to simplify as much as possible the work of the R&D staff and to develop a collaborative team spirit inside the consortium.
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The Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) is a non-profit private research center established in Barcelona that operates under the umbrella of the Regional Government of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya). Research activities at the CTTC, both fundamental and applied, mainly focus on the physical, data-link and network layers of communication systems. CTTC is organized into five distinctive and complementary areas, i.e. Radio Communications, Access Technologies, Communication Subsystems, IP Technologies, and Optical Networking.
Role attributed in BuNGee
In BuNGee, CTTC is actively involved in technical WPs 2-4. In WP 2, it will develop PHY algorithms using (imperfect) feedback information facilitating high capacity BuNGee links. In WP3, great emphasis is on the joint design of access and backhaul networks at link and access levels. In WP4, CTTC will carry out and support experimental validation of developed BuNGee concepts.
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CASMA (former European Antennas) has more than 15 years of experience in the design and manufacture of high performance microwave antennas, frequency sector antennas in particular, and array antennas in general. As a result of the experiences gained in these developments, and with the tools available to the company, a dual polar array using orthogonal polarisations will be simulated, optimised, built and tested. The intended configuration will cover a 90º Sector with 6 beams of nominally 15º each. The amplitude and phase weighting to each element will be chosen so as to minimise sidelobe levels.
Role attributed in BuNGee
In the BunGee project CASMA is responsible for the design of dual-polar multi-beam sector antennas and the provision of hardware for trials.
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The University of York was founded in 1963, and is based in a campus setting on the outskirts of the historic City of York, in North Yorkshire. The University comprises over 30 academic departments and research centres, spanning arts, humanities and sciences, and including Electronics and Computer Science. It is consistently rated in the top ten U.K. Universities for both teaching and research quality, and in the recent Research Assessment Exercise well over half its research activity was rated “internationally excellent” or “world leading”.
The Communications Research Group in the Department of Electronics has a strong international record of research in wireless communications, including especially turbo-codes and iterative processing, MIMO and cooperative systems, and more recently in cognitive radio/networks.
Role attributed in BuNGee
UY will lead WP2, and tasks T2.3 and 4.1. UY will work on MIMO techniques and interference cancellation in WP2 (including contribution to channel modeling), on cognitive radio and distributed intelligent resource management in WP3, and system-level simulation in WP4.
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THALES Communications & Security is a subsidiary of the THALES group and is part of its Communications Business Group. Thales Communication Communications & Security is a world leader in its domain n of activity covering communications networks, satellite communications, mobile radio-communications, naval and infrastructure communication systems, airborne communication, navigation and identification systems both for civil and military aircrafts, command information systems, radio-surveillance systems and radio spectrum monitoring.
Thales Communications & Security develops a full range of telecommunication platforms and components, a range of high performance security products and has a deep skill in secure telecommunications for public and governmental organisations.
Role attributed in BuNGee
In the BuNGee project, the main contributions of Thales Communications & Security will be
• participation to the scenario definition
• system architecture definition and sub systems specification
• specification of the MAC layer and definition of optimised scheduling schemes for self organising networks
• integration testing
Thales Communications & Security will lead the Work package 3 “RRM and Joint Design of Access & Backhaul”.
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The Université catholique de Louvain is the largest university in the French speaking part of Belgium. In the Electrical Eng. Dpt, the Microwave Laboratory has an experience of more than 30 years in radio propagation, from both experimental and theoretical points of view, in the field of wireless and satellite systems. The research team, consisting in two Professors and, currently, 6 PhD students, has been or is very active in COST Actions 273, 297 and 2100 and in the Networks of Excellence NEWCOM and NEWCOM++, as well as in various MEDEA and FP6 projects. It has published over 100 publications in the last 10 years, as well as one book.
Role attributed in BuNGee
In the BuNGee project UCL is actively involved in WPs 2 and 4. In WP 2, foreseen activities are on a channel characterization and modeling (review of literature and innovative channel modeling for cross-polar channels with reduced angular beamwidth antennas), in collaboration with antenna design and advanced MIMO developments. In WP4, UCL will support the development of a system simulation tool enabling forecasting of the system performance
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Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa (PTC) is the Polish mobile telecommunications provider, one of the largest in Central and Eastern Europe. PTC began offering its services in 1996 and since then has grown to become one of the top ten Polish Companies. The PTC network covers more than 96 percent of Polish territory inhabited by more than 99.5 percent of the country’s population. PTC has brought new mobile standards to Poland. It pioneered the mobile video transmission and introduced MMS commercially. PTC has launched innovative products to secure its continued leadership, including cooperation with media, m-banking, m-commerce partners, etc. Among those projects, PTC has begun the development of third generation voice and non-voice services and applications.
Role attributed in BuNGee
In BuNGee PTC will deliver business, technical and user requirements and will participate in evaluation of the project results. PTC, as a mobile operator has an extensive experience in rollout of many wireless technologies and in business analysis of various rollout scenarios.
PTC also has a lot of information about users needs and about possible problems encountered using mobile communication. PTC will participate in the live test assessment and will contribute to placement strategy.
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Paving the way for the mobile wireless backhaul revolution, Siklu Communications delivers carrier-grade milimetric-wave Gigabit Ethernet radio solutions with paradigm-shifting price performance. Offering the industry’s lowest total cost of ownership (TCO), and incorporating on-board networking capabilities, solutions from Siklu are ideally suited for the both mobile backhaul and carrier Ethernet business services. Leveraging cutting-edge, Silicon-based Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) system technologies, Siklu offers carriers Gigabit Ethernet radio solutions with disruptive price-performance. With a TCO up to 90% lower than existing systems, and negligible E-Band frequency licensing fees - solutions from Siklu make Gigabit Ethernet radio attractive viable and cost-effective option for mobile providers. Serving providers around the world, Siklu Communications is based near Tel Aviv, Israel. Privately-held, Siklu is backed by a group of prominent and experienced international investment funds and private investors, led by Evergreen Venture Partners, DFJ Tamir Fishman and Argonaut Private Equity.
Role attributed in BuNGee
Siklu’s role in the BuNGee project is to develop a link in the unlicensed spectrum @60Ghz, and to verify that Siklu’s implementation meets the market requirements (features & cost), as will be defined by the Consortium members
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