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PULSERS
PULSERS, Pervasive Ultra-wideband Low Spectral Energy Radio Systems, is an industry led European Commission funded Integrated Project of 30 key industrial and academic organisations. The project's strategic, scientific and technological objectives are defined to strengthen Europe's knowledge base and readiness to successfully exploit the benefits of UWB-RT. PULSERS will develop advanced systems and usage concepts and deliver innovative enabling physical layer and medium access technologies.
Our group is leader of the Multiple Antenna Systems workpackage exploring co-located and distributed
antenna techniques to establish reliability and location tracking in industrial scenarios.
The goals of our workpackage in PULSERS are to assess and quantify the gains achievable through the use of Multiple Antenna Systems (MAS) in the UWB context as well as to explore their possible benefits for the new (non-traditional) applications of MAS such as positioning, tracking, and identification. In this project new system concepts for future UWB-MAS are developed and analysed. The research activities comprise characterisation, modelling, and measurement of the UWB-MAS channel for various usage and propagation scenarios. First, a static UWB MAS channel model is derived and later on, dynamic channel measurements will enable an extension of the first channel model to dynamic environments. Further research activities concern new signalling schemes for different UWB-MAS scenarios based on the analysis of channel and system capacity and on the comparison of link and system level performance. Studies to expose new UWB-MAS capabilities as positioning, location tracking, and identification including measurement and signal processing are also performed. With input of the UWB-MAS channel model which is mainly derived by our project partners this work is continued in Phase 2 (2005-2007) where selective prototype functions are explored and defined emphasising and verifying the potential of UWB-MAS for future applications. Phase 3 (2007-2009) is mainly reserved for the implementation of selected signalling schemes and the integration of selected UWB-MAS concepts on a UWB test platform.
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