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SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME THEME ICT

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES Grant agreement for: Collaborative Project, Large-scale integrating project

Annex I – “Description of Work”

Project acronym: EUWB

Project full title: CoExisting Short Range Radio by Advanced Ultra-WideBand Radio Technology

Grant agreement n°: 215669

Date of preparation of Annex I (initial version): 2007-11-07

Date of preparation of Annex I (revision 1): 2008-05-15 v17



Date of approval of Annex I by the Commission: 2010-06-11

List of beneficiaries

Number Name of beneficiary Short name

Country Enter

project Exit

project

01 (co-ord.)

GWT-TUD GmbH GWT DE M01 M40

03 TES Electronic Solutions GmbH TESD DE M01 M40

04 Philips Consumer Lifestyle B.V. PHI NL M01 M40

05 Robert Bosch GmbH BOSCH DE M01 M40

06 Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique CEA FR M01 M40

07 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover LUH DE M01 M40

08 CREATE-NET (Center for REsearch And Telecommunication Experimentation for NETworked communities)

CNET IT M01 M40

09 Oulun Yliopisto CWC FI M01 M40

10 EADS Deutschland GmbH EADS DE M01 M40

11 Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo Sociedad Anónima Unipersonal TID ES M01 M40

12 Thales Communications S.A. THA FR M01 M40

13 Valtion Teknillinen Tutkimuskeskus VTT FI M01 M40

14 Wisair Ltd. WIS IL M01 M40

15 Universidad de Zaragoza UZ ES M01 M40

16 ACORDE TECHNOLOGIES S.A. ACO ES M01 M40

17 TES Electronic Solutions Ltd. TESUK UK M01 M40

19 Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna UNIBO IT M01 M40

20 Universität Duisburg-Essen UDE DE M01 M40

21 Technische Universität Ilmenau UIL DE M01 M40

22 Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden HTW DE M01 M40

23 Staccato CommunicationsArtimi Ltd. STC UK M01 M40

24 FBConsulting S. à r.l. FBC LU M13 M40

25 Bitgear Wireless Design Services d.o.o. BITG RS M25 M40

26 České vysoké učení technické v Praze CTU CZ M25 M40

27 Universitatea Politehnica din Bucureşti UPB RO M25 M40

28 Wrocławskie Centrum Badań EIT+ Sp. z o.o. WRC PL M25 M40

Grant agreement n°: 215669 EUWB 2010-06-11

Approved by the Commission services on 2010-06-11 2

Table of Contents

A1 Project Summary (Copied from Part A) ........................................................................................................ 9

A1.1 Overall Budget Breakdown for the Project ......................................................................................... 9

A1.2 Project Summary ................................................................................................................................ 9

A1.3 List of Beneficiaries .......................................................................................................................... 11

B1 Concept and Objectives, Progress Beyond State-of-the-art, S/T Methodology and Work Plan ................ 12

B1.1 Concept and Objectives of the Project ............................................................................................. 12

B1.1.1 Declaration of Collaboration Within the eMobility Technology Platform .................................... 13

B1.1.2 Cognitive UWB Radio and Coexistence .................................................................................... 13

B1.1.3 Multiple Antenna UWB Systems ................................................................................................ 14

B1.1.4 UWB Enabled Advanced Localisation and Tracking .................................................................. 14

B1.1.5 UWB Multiband/Multimode Operation ....................................................................................... 15

B1.1.6 UWB in Heterogeneous Access Networks................................................................................. 15

B1.1.7 Open UWB Technology Platforms ............................................................................................. 16

B1.1.8 UWB in European Key Industry Application Areas .................................................................... 17

B1.1.9 European and Global Regulation and Standardisation .............................................................. 17

B1.1.10 Summary of Results ................................................................................................................... 18

B1.2 Progress Beyond the State-of-the-art ............................................................................................... 18

B1.2.1 Cognitive UWB Radio and Coexistence .................................................................................... 23

B1.2.2 Multiple Antenna UWB Systems ................................................................................................ 25

B1.2.3 UWB Enabled Advanced Location Tracking .............................................................................. 29

B1.2.4 UWB Multiband/Multimode Operation ....................................................................................... 32

B1.2.5 UWB in Heterogeneous Access Networks................................................................................. 34

B1.2.6 Open UWB Technology Platforms ............................................................................................. 36

B1.2.7 UWB Application Environments ................................................................................................. 36

B1.2.8 Regulation and Standardisation ................................................................................................. 37

B1.3 S/T Methodology and Associated Work Plan ................................................................................... 41

B1.3.1 Overall Strategy and General Description ................................................................................. 41

B1.3.1.1 Project Implementation ........................................................................................................ 47

B1.3.1.2 Project Monitoring and Goal Oriented Management ........................................................... 62

B1.3.1.3 Project Extension and New Activities .................................................................................. 68

B1.3.2 Timing of Work Packages and Their Components .................................................................... 70

B1.3.3 List of Work Packages ............................................................................................................... 73

B1.3.4 List of Deliverables ..................................................................................................................... 75

B1.3.5 List of Milestones ....................................................................................................................... 79

B1.3.6 Description of Work Packages ................................................................................................... 81

B1.3.7 Efforts for the Full Duration of the Project ................................................................................ 117

B1.3.8 Tentative Planning of Reviews ................................................................................................. 117

B2 Implementation ......................................................................................................................................... 119

B2.1 Management Structure and Procedures ........................................................................................ 119

B2.1.1 New and Innovative Methodology of Managing IPs by Logical Clustering of inter-WP Tasks .... 119

B2.1.1.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 119



B2.1.1.2 Cluster Process ................................................................................................................. 120

B2.1.2 Organisation ............................................................................................................................. 121

B2.1.3 Co-ordination and Organisation of Consortium-wide Activities................................................ 121

B2.1.4 Control and Allocation of Resources, Control of Technical Activities, Quality Assurance ....... 121

B2.1.5 Information Flow ...................................................................................................................... 122

B2.1.6 Reporting ................................................................................................................................. 123

B2.1.7 Project’s Publications ............................................................................................................... 124

B2.1.8 Internal Evaluation ................................................................................................................... 125

B2.1.9 Decision Making Structure ....................................................................................................... 125

B2.1.9.1 Management Model ........................................................................................................... 125

B2.1.9.2 Quality Manager ................................................................................................................ 127

B2.1.9.3 Project Co-ordination Committee (PCC) ........................................................................... 127

B2.1.9.4 Panels................................................................................................................................ 128

B2.1.9.5 Knowledge Management................................................................................................... 129

B2.2 Beneficiaries ................................................................................................................................... 131

B2.2.1 GWT-TUD GmbH (GWT) ......................................................................................................... 131

B2.2.2 ................................................................................................................................................. 131

B2.2.3 TES Electronic Solutions GmbH (TESD) ................................................................................. 131

B2.2.4 Philips Consumer Lifestyle B.V. (PHI) ...................................................................................... 132

B2.2.5 Robert Bosch GmbH (BOSCH) ............................................................................................... 133

B2.2.6 Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA) .............................................................................. 134

B2.2.7 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH) ........................................................... 135

B2.2.8 CREATE-NET (CNET) ............................................................................................................. 136

B2.2.9 Oulun Yliopisto, Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC) ................................................ 136

B2.2.10 EADS Deutschland GmbH (EADS) ......................................................................................... 137

B2.2.11 Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo S.A.U. (TID) .................................................................. 138

B2.2.12 Thales Communications S.A. (THA) ........................................................................................ 139

B2.2.13 Valtion Teknillinen Tutkimuskeskus (VTT) ............................................................................... 140

B2.2.14 Wisair Ltd. (WIS) ...................................................................................................................... 141

B2.2.15 Universidad de Zaragoza (UZ) ................................................................................................ 142

B2.2.16 ACORDE TECHNOLOGIES S.A. (ACO) ................................................................................. 143

B2.2.17 TES Electronic Solutions Ltd. (TESUK) ................................................................................... 144

B2.2.18 ................................................................................................................................................. 145

B2.2.19 Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna (UNIBO) ........................................................ 145

B2.2.20 Universität Duisburg-Essen (UDE) .......................................................................................... 146

B2.2.21 Technische Universität Ilmenau (UIL) ...................................................................................... 147

B2.2.22 Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden (HTW) ......................................................... 148

B2.2.23 Staccato Communications Ltd. (STC) ...................................................................................... 149

B2.2.24 FBConsulting S. à r.l. (FBC) .................................................................................................... 149

B2.2.25 Bitgear Wireless Design Services d.o.o. (BITG) ...................................................................... 150

B2.2.26 České Vysoké Učení Technické v Praze (CTU) ...................................................................... 150

B2.2.27 Universitatea Politehnica din Bucureşti (UPB)......................................................................... 151

B2.2.28 Wrocławskie Centrum Badań EIT+ Sp. z o.o (WRC) ............................................................... 152



B2.3 Consortium as a Whole .................................................................................................................. 153

B2.3.1 Complemetaries of the Consortium ......................................................................................... 153

B2.3.2 Sub-contracting ........................................................................................................................ 154

B2.3.3 Funding for Beneficiaries from Third Countries ....................................................................... 154

B2.4 Resources ...................................................................................................................................... 154

B2.4.1 Resources to be Committed .................................................................................................... 154

B2.4.2 Resources to Complement the EC Contribution ...................................................................... 157

B3 Potential Impact ........................................................................................................................................ 161

B3.1 Strategic Impact .............................................................................................................................. 161

B3.1.1 Policy Impact ............................................................................................................................ 164

B3.1.1.1 Declaration of Collaboration Within the eMobility Technology Platform .............................. 165

B3.1.1.2 Contribution to EC Policies................................................................................................ 165

B3.1.1.3 Co-operation with Major National Research Programmes in Europe ............................... 169

B3.1.2 Socio-economic Impact ............................................................................................................ 169

B3.1.3 Technological Impact ............................................................................................................... 171

B3.1.4 Contributions to Regulations and Standards ........................................................................... 172

B3.1.5 Impact for the Enlarged Europe ............................................................................................... 174

B3.2 Plan for the Use and Dissemination of Foreground ....................................................................... 175

B3.2.1 Dissemination/Exploitation of Project Results ......................................................................... 175

B3.2.1.1 Use Plan ............................................................................................................................ 176

B3.2.1.2 Plan for Disseminating Knowledge ................................................................................... 176

B3.2.2 Management of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) .................................................................. 182

B3.2.3 Management of Other Innovation-related Activities ................................................................. 184

B4 Ethical Issues ........................................................................................................................................... 185

List of Tables

Table 1: Financial summary (copied from form A3.2). ...................................................................................... 99

Table 2: List of beneficiaries. ........................................................................................................................ 1111

Table 3: Frequency identification for systems using UWB technology. ........................................................ 3939

Table 4: Heterogeneous Network Cluster to multi-radio user’s terminal /access network equipment. ......... 6363

Table 5: Heterogeneous Network Cluster to location based services. ......................................................... 6363

Table 6: Public Transport Cluster: Interaction between tasks. ...................................................................... 6666

Table 7: List of work packages. .................................................................................................................... 7474

Table 8: List of deliverables. ......................................................................................................................... 7878

Table 9: List of milestones. ........................................................................................................................... 8080

Table 10: Person months per partner and work package. ........................................................................ 117117

Table 11: Tentative schedule of project reviews. ...................................................................................... 118118

Table 12: Members of the Project Co-ordination Committee and the Management Board. ..................... 129129

Table 13: Personnel vs. type of participants. ............................................................................................ 153153

Table 14: The European Commission’s UWB mandate towards ETSI. .................................................... 167167

Table 15: The European Commission’s UWB mandate towards CEPT. .................................................. 169169

Table 16: Ethical issues. ........................................................................................................................... 185185



List of Figures

Figure 1: Emission mask – Japan. ............................................................................................................... 4040

Figure 2: Emission mask – Republic of Korea. ............................................................................................ 4040

Figure 3: Emission mask – U.S.A. ................................................................................................................ 4040

Figure 4: Emission mask – Europe. .............................................................................................................. 4141

Figure 5: EUWB project history and partners excellence. ............................................................................ 4141

Figure 6: Work package structure of EUWB. ................................................................................................ 4242

Figure 7: Logical structure of regulation and standardisation related activities across various WPs........... 4343

Figure 8: The cognition cycle (Mitola, 1999). ................................................................................................ 4848

Figure 9: Schematic representation of the basic Cognitive Radio................................................................ 4848

Figure 10: Multiband/multimode protocol stack. ........................................................................................... 5252

Figure 11: UWB Multiband platform: 10 GHz and 60 GHz UWB operation.................................................. 5353

Figure 12: Proposal for UWB multiband channel distribution. ...................................................................... 5353

Figure 13: UWB integration with up-to-date heterogeneous access network scenario. .............................. 5454

Figure 14: UWB gateway using WiMAX access in a residential environment. ............................................ 5454

Figure 15: UWB in long-term heterogeneous access network scenario. ..................................................... 5555

Figure 16: Open Technology Platforms deployment in the EUWB project. .................................................. 5555

Figure 17: Open Platform concept, (V)HDR hardware. ................................................................................ 5656

Figure 18: Existing UWB LDR-LT hardware platform (from PULSERS Phase II). ....................................... 5757

Figure 19: Illustration of the UWB LDR-LT first open platform at EUWB start (from PULSERS Phase II)... 5757

Figure 20: UWB in an aeroplane scenario.................................................................................................... 5858

Figure 21: Cabling in an aeroplane. ............................................................................................................. 5858

Figure 22: Wireless data communication from sensor to ECU. .................................................................... 5959

Figure 23: Location tracking of a tag inside the car. ..................................................................................... 5959

Figure 24: Regulatory bodies inside Europe. ............................................................................................... 6060

Figure 25: European standardisation process. ............................................................................................. 6161

Figure 26: Cluster flow in the EUWB Heterogeneous Network Cluster. ....................................................... 6464

Figure 27: Cluster flow in the EUWB Home Environment Cluster. ............................................................... 6565

Figure 28: Cluster flow in the EUWB Public Transport Cluster..................................................................... 6767

Figure 29: Cluster flow in the EUWB Automotive Cluster. ............................................................................ 6868

Figure 30: Gantt chart. .................................................................................................................................. 7171

Figure 31: Pert diagram of overall project level interaction. ......................................................................... 7272

Figure 32: Example of cluster process flow. ............................................................................................. 120120

Figure 33: Management model for EUWB. ............................................................................................... 126126

Figure 34: Relative growth of UWB enabled devices (source: ISM research). ........................................ 170170

Figure 35: EUWB driving European and international UWB related standards extension. ...................... 170170

Figure 36: UWB in the (extended) home environment. ............................................................................ 171171

Figure 37: European UWB regulation process compared to U.S.A. and Singapore after report 64. ....... 173173



List of Abbreviations

2G/3G/4G 2nd/3rd/4th generation

A.I. Artificial intelligence

ACTS Advanced Communication Technologies and Services (FP4)

AOA Angle of arrival

AP Access point

APT Asian Pacific Telecommunity

ASIC Application specific integrated circuit

ATM Asynchronous transfer mode

BAN Body area network

BiCMOS Bipolar complementary metal oxide semiconductor

CA Consortium agreement

CDMA Code division multiple access

CE Consumer electronic

CEC Commission of the European Communities; Comité Européen de Coordination

CEPT European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations

CMOS Complementary metal oxide semiconductor

CPC Cognitive pilot channel

CR Cognitive radio

CRL Communications Research Laboratory (Japan)

CSMA Carrier sense multiple access

cWUSB Certified wireless USB

DAS Dynamic spectrum access

DC Direct current

DCPC Distributed Cognitive Pilot Channel

DECT Digital European cordless telecommunication

DPM Deputy Project Manager

DSPC Dynamic SQL performance control

DSSS Direct sequence spread spectrum

DVI Digital visual interface

DVR Digital video recorder

EC European Commission

EIM Ethical Issues Manager

EMC Electromagnetic compatibility

ERM EMC and radio spectrum matters

ESA European Space Agency

ESPRIT European Strategic Programme for Research in Information Technologies (FP4)

ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute

FCC Federal Communications Commission

FDD Frequency division duplex

FDMA Frequency division multiple access

FP5/FP6/FP7 5th/6th/7th European Framework Programme for RTD and Demonstration Activities

FPGA Functionally programmable gate array

FTTx Fibre to the …

GSM Global system for mobile communications



H/W, HW Hardware

HDR High data rate

HDTV High definition television

HFC Hybrid fibre coax

HFP Hands-free profile

HSPA High speed packet access

HTS Home theatre system

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IDA Info-Communications Development Authority (Singapore)

IG Interest group

IMS IP multimedia sub-system

IMT International mobile telecommunications

IP Integrated project(s); Internet protocol

IPR Intellectual property right

IR Impulse radio

IST Information Society Technologies (FP5)

ITEA Information technology for European advancement

ITU International Telecommunication Union

LDC Low duty cycle

LDR-LT Low data rate with localisation and tracking

LT Location (and) tracking

LTE Long term evolution

MAC Medium access control

MAS Multiple antenna systems

MB Management board

MC-CDMA Multi-carrier code division multiple access

MDS Multidimesional scaling

MIMO Multiple input/multiple output

mITF mobile IT Forum (in Japan)

MM Man month(s)

MoM Minutes of Meeting

MoU Memorandum of understanding

MPHPT Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunication (Japan)

NGMN Next generation mobile networks

NICT National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Japan)

NoE Network(s) of excellence

NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Ofcom Office of communication

OFDM Orthogonal frequency division multiplex

OPP Object push profile

PA Project assembly

PAL Protocol adaptation layer

PC Project co-ordinator; Personal computer

PCB Printed circuit board

PCC Project co-ordination committee

PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

PHY Physical layer (system)



PM Project Manager; Person month(s)

PSD Power s pectral density

PULSERS Pervasive ultra-wideband low spectral energy radio systems

QM Quality Manager

QoS Quality of service(s)

R&D Research and development

RF Radio frequency

RSSI Received Signal Strength Indication

RTD Research and technological development

RTLS Real-time location system

S/W, SW Software

SAR Synthetic aperture radar

SATA Serial ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment)

SDR Software defined radio

SE24 Short range devices project team within the spectrum engineering working group

SIG Special interest group

SiGe Silicon-Germanium

SME Small and medium-sized enterprise

SoC System on chip

SQL Structured query language

SPEArTM

Structured processor enhanced architecture1

TCAM Telecommunications Conformity Assessment and Market Surveillance Committee

TDD Time division duplex

TDMA Time division multiple access

TDOA Time difference of arrival

TG Task group

TISPAN Telecoms and internet converged services and protocols for advanced networks

TOA Time of arrival

UFZ Ultra-wideband friendly zone

UMTS Universal mobile telecommunication system

USB Universal serial bus

UWB Ultra-wideband

UWB-RT UWB radio technology

(V)HDR (Very) high data rate, i.e. HDR and/or VHDR

VHDR Very high data rate

W-CDMA Wideband code division multiple access

WAN Wide area network

WBAN Wireless body area network

WiFi Wireless fidelity

WiMAX World-wide interoperability for microwave access

WiNet WiMedia network (formerly)

WLAN Wireless local area network

WP Work package

WPAN Wireless personal area network

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A1 PROJECT SUMMARY (COPIED FROM PART A)

A1.1 Overall Budget Breakdown for the Project

Table 11: Financial summary (copied from form A3.2).

A1.2 Project Summary

Key objectives of EUWB are i) to explore the enormous economic potential of the ground-breaking Ultra-

Wideband (UWB) radio technology, ii) to extend the UWB concept with advanced cognitive radio, multiband/

multimode networking, and multiple antenna system concepts, iii) to enable the introduction of advanced services

and competitive applications using the radio spectrum in a sophisticated manner.

The advanced scientific and technical project work will be accompanied by activities in European and world wide

regulation and standardisation bodies in which EUWB partners are highly committed. As a key for economic

success of UWB, the project partners will continue to devote significant efforts to participation in CEPT ECC,

IEEE, ITU, ETSI, and ECMA working towards consensus building and iterative improvement of the initial

European and world-wide UWB regulation and standardisation.

UWB technology enables gigabits per second short range communications and inherent precise real-time location

tracking. Prominent examples to be implemented in the EUWB project are the Intelligent Home environment, the

Public Transport environment, the Automotive environment and the Next Generation of Heterogeneous Public

Access Network environment, following a strong demand from the mentioned industry sectors.



EUWB is an industry-led initiative of 22 26 major industrial, excellent consulting and highly regarded highly

regarded industrial, consulting, and academic organisations. It builds on previous projects, such as PULSERS, and

take into account stakeholders of the whole value chain. Major aim is to consolidate the technology advances in

scientific areas related to UWB and to define system concepts for the envisaged four application areas. The results

will be materialised in four application platforms built on the open UWB technology developed in EUWB.

Besides integration in the AIRBUS plane, the DAIMLER car, the PHILIPS future home, and the TELEFÓNICA

access network, scientific studies will guide industry to gain competitiveness with their UWB system.

EUWB will innovate and manifest the European leadership in advanced ultra-wideband solutions for the

global village.

The key objectives of EUWB are i) to explore the enormous economic potential of the innovative and disruptive

radio technology embodied in ultra-wideband (UWB), ii) to combine the innovative UWB concept with advanced

methods of wireless technology such as cognitive signalling, intelligent multiple antenna and multiband/multimode

UWB system concepts, and finally iii) to enable the introduction of advanced services and competitive

applications using the radio spectrum in a highly sophisticated manner by applying devices based on next

generation UWB.

The progress at the frontier of science and technology in the several advanced scientific and technical project work

packages will be accompanied by a continuation of EUWB partners ongoing activities in the European and world

wide regulation and standardisation bodies. The goal is still to facilitate a globally compatible regulatory

framework for UWB applications, which is not yet evolved taking into account the current initial regulatory

approaches in the European Union and in Asian countries compared to the U.S.A. rules for applying UWB

devices. Major efforts will be continuously invested for further collaboration with regulatory bodies in Europe,

having started previously under the frame of CEPT ECC TG3 and the PULSERS project.

Besides wireless short range communications with data rates ranging up to Gigabit per second, UWB technology

enables precise real-time location tracking inherently due to its unique feature of ultra-wide radio frequency band

allocation. Widespread application of this new wireless technology will facilitate growth of a number of market

segments – all different, but all enabled by the unique features of UWB radio being highly scalable with regard to

complexity, range, costs and data rate as well as location precision accuracy and providing the minimum of

interference to other electronic equipment compared to existing alternative radio systems. Even if this last statement

seems to be not widely accepted by a number of national administrations yet, several European major industry

sectors are convinced of this advantage and support fully the introduction of UWB based radio services. Prominent

examples to be implemented in this project are the Intelligent Home environment, the Public Transport environment,

the Automotive environment and the Next Generation of Heterogeneous Public Access Network environment. The

project will follow the strong demand from the mentioned industry sectors and will significantly enhance the

UWB performance by major scientific efforts. EUWB will enlarge the features of the 1st generation UWB systems

(to be expected on the market by the begin of 2008) before integrating it into the envisaged target application

environments with the help of some key industrial organisations being partner and driver of this project.

EUWB is an industry-led initiative of 22 major industrial, excellent consulting and highly regarded academic

organisations. It will logically extend the successful work carried out in previous European R&D projects, while

the approach in EUWB is more comprehensive and takes into account the whole value chain stakeholders. The

basic research was performed and the basic feasibility of the concept has been proved for some primitive and

isolated applications. The approach to be taken in EUWB is to consolidate the technology advances in several

scientific areas related to the UWB-RT and define the system concepts for the envisaged four key application

areas. EUWB partners will place the advanced technologies developed into the context of the specific application

scenarios. The project will develop full system level verification platforms and integrate them into the four final

application environments. In particular, these results will materialise in four specific application platforms

building on two basic flexible UWB technology platforms, each enabling verification of advanced short-range

communication, and of innovative real-time location and tracking system concepts. Besides the practical

demonstrations in the AIRBUS plane, the BOSCH in-car system, the PHILIPS future home exhibition and the

TELEFÓNICA access network extension as an output there will be also scientific contributions describing the

most efficient way for the next generations of system implementations and thus providing a guidance for the

industry how to further develop their UWB systems towards highly competitive products and applications.

As a key for economic success of UWB the project partner will continue to devote significant efforts to

participation in CEPT ECC, IEEE, ITU, ETSI and ECMA working towards consensus building and iterative

improvement of the initial European and world-wide UWB regulation and standardisation rules.



A1.3 List of Beneficiaries

Part.

N° Participant’s organisation name

Short

name Country

01 GWT-TUD GmbH GWT DE

02

03 TES Electronic Solutions GmbH TESD DE

04 Philips Consumer Lifestyle B.V. PHI NL

05 Robert Bosch GmbH BOSCH DE

06 Commissariat à l‟Energie Atomique CEA FR

07 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover LUH DE

08 Center for REsearch And Telecommunication Experimentation for NETworked

communities (CREATE-NET) CNET IT

09 Oulun Yliopisto CWC FI

10 EADS Deutschland GmbH EADS DE

11 Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo Sociedad Anónima Unipersonal TID ES

12 Thales Communications S.A. THA FR

13 Valtion Teknillinen Tutkimuskeskus VTT FI

14 Wisair Ltd. WIS IL

15 Universidad de Zaragoza UZ ES

16 ACORDE TECHNOLOGIES S.A. ACO ES

17 TES Electronic Solutions Ltd. TESUK UK

18

19 Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna UNIBO IT

20 Universität Duisburg-Essen UDE DE

21 Technische Universität Ilmenau UIL DE

22 Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden HTW DE

23 Staccato CommunicationsArtimi Ltd. STC UK

24 FBConsulting S. à r.l. FBC LU

25 Bitgear Wireless Design Services d.o.o. BITG RS

26 České vysoké učení technické v Praze CTU CZ

27 Universitatea Politehnica din Bucureşti UPB RO

28 Wrocławskie Centrum Badań EIT+ Sp. z o.o. WRC PL

Table 22: List of beneficiaries.



B1 CONCEPT AND OBJECTIVES, PROGRESS BEYOND STATE-OF-THE-ART, S/T METHODOLOGY AND WORK PLAN

B1.1 Concept and Objectives of the Project

The EUWB – Coexisting Short Range Radio by Advanced Ultra-Wideband Radio Technology – proposal is

clearly addressing Objective ICT-2007.1.1: The Network of the Future within Challenge 1: Pervasive and Trusted

Network and Service Infrastructures as described in Section 3.1 of the ICT – INFORMATION AND

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES Work Programme 2007–2008. In particular the target outcome a) and b)

are corresponding to the goals of the EUWB project.

Challenge 1 addresses mainly to deliver the next generation of ubiquitous and converged network and service

infrastructures for communication, computing and media. UWB radio technology (UWB-RT) will be an important

element providing very high speed portable and cellular devices network access over short range.

In addition, UWB radio technology as planed to be developed and implemented inside the EUWB project will

enable complete networking solutions in sensitive environments such as public transport, where there are

particular strong requirements concerning EMC. As an example, explained in detail in the relevant section, an

analysis performed by a major aviation industries, AIRBUS, has shown, that UWB-RT has a competitive

advantage in terms of interference potential towards the on-board equipment compared to other wireless solutions.

Another example is the Automotive environment, where BOSCH will be leading the work package WP8b on

Automotive applications and the work package WP9 on Regulation and Standardisation. In this application case

UWB is mainly forming its own network on-board. Daimler, a leading car manufacturer, is supporting the

development of UWB based integrated networks for applications including entertainment, sensing and command

and control inside vehicles.

It is important to note that UWB-RT is developed and coming along with appropriate protocol stacks enabling it to

create own networks (based on several architectures including mesh-networking) as well as to serve as part of a

larger heterogeneous network.

Following items can be mapped to the relevant work packages objectives of the proposed EUWB project:

Convergence and interoperability of heterogeneous mobile and broadband network technologies:

UWB is able to provide high data rates in wireless personal networks meaning with a short link distance.

One of the goal of the project is to allow UWB interoperability with backhaul networks such as WiMAX

or HSPA to provide a broadband access to convergence networks.

Flexible and spectrum efficient radio access enabling ubiquitous access to broadband mobile

services for short range to wide area networking: low power emission of UWB enables an efficient use

of the radio spectrum when coexisting with other radio technologies. UWB integration in heterogeneous

networks will contribute to offer pervasive and broadband access. In the project, studies of coexistence

with future wireless technologies will be done in order to guarantee an efficient use of the spectrum.

Elimination of the barriers to broadband access and ultra high speed end to end connectivity: the

development of multi-radio interface (UWB, HSPA, WiMAX) devices will enable to make easier a

seamless broadband connectivity.

Context awareness: precise location awareness will allow operators and providers to offer novel services

based on the knowledge of user position provided by the location and tracking capabilities.

Enabling intelligent distribution of services across multiple access technologies: the provision of

services by means of platform architecture like IMS (IP Multimedia Sub-system) enables to offer services

independently on the access architecture. The services developed in the project will be integrated taking

into account the IMS recommendations.

In the following sections the detailed scientific and technical objectives are described and their relations to the

topics addressed in the work programme referred to in call 1 are highlighted.



B1.1.1 Declaration of Collaboration Within the eMobility Technology Platform

One of the major objectives of the eMobility Technology Platform is to reinforce Europe‟s leadership in mobile

and wireless communications and services and to master the future development of relevant technologies, so that

they serve Europe‟s citizens and the European economy in the most effective manner (http://www.eMobility.eu.org).

eMobility was publicly launched in March 2005. The platform supports part of the agenda set by the European

Council (A new start for the Lisbon Strategy COM (2005) 24 02.02.2005).

The eMobility Technology Platform is a representative of the mobile and wireless communications systems,

applications and services area within Europe. It is open to all organisations active in the sector in Europe. At

present, almost 500 organisations, covering the whole value chain, have joined the eMobility Technology

Platform. Specifically, collaboration between on-going R&D projects, future projects under the 7th Framework

Programme, EUREKA projects and National projects and Programmes will be supported through working groups

of the platform and the activities of the eMobility Mirror and Liaison Group and Expert Group. Existing international

links are being extended, for example, through liaisons with the National Science Foundation in the U.S.A.,

relevant universities in the Americas, the FuTURE project and FuTURE Forum in China, NiCT and mITF in

Japan, NGMC in Korea and through the Wireless World Research Forum. Collaboration with other European

Technology Platforms is at a mature stage and has been promoted by eMobility, which has organised a number of

joint platform events, activities and press releases.

Relationship of this Project with the eMobility Technology Platform

This proposed project is part of the R&D in the area of mobile and wireless technology, which will implement

parts of the eMobility Strategic Research Agenda. In this area the eMobility Technology Platform has set up a

framework of collaboration, consultation and information, which is of mutual benefit to all eMobility members

and the projects and programmes working in this domain. eMobility has developed, and published on its web site,

a Co-operation agreement for each project that intends to establish close co-operation on common overall

objectives. There are two versions, with or without access rights, depending on the intended grade of co-operation,

providing a legal basis for collaboration and the agreement supports collaborative working groups through

organising meetings, mailing lists and wiki tools. These processes will support the collaboration of projects and

programmes within the context of the vision and Strategic research agenda of the eMobility Platform.

It is the intention of this project to co-operate with other accepted projects towards common overall objectives and

to contribute to the collaborative activities and processes established within the framework of the eMobility

Technology Platform. The sets of co-operating projects will be defined after the acceptance of project proposals in

a process of consultation between relevant projects.

B1.1.2 Cognitive UWB Radio and Coexistence

The work package on Cognitive Radio and Coexistence will enable the paradigm shift for UWB communications,

supporting the transition from the conventional concept of underlay radio to a context-aware Cognitive Radio

(CR) approach. A cognitive UWB-Radio shall be capable of interacting with the surrounding wireless

environment, taking autonomous and intelligent decisions and adapting its operating behaviour to coexist with

various (heterogeneous) networks, in order to minimise the mutual interference. These are the basic functionalities

allowing effective spectrum sharing and dynamic spectrum access (DSA), as required in several present and

forthcoming application scenarios. Furthermore, the CR concept can be exploited at the networking level to

implement a number of co-operation/negotiation policies aimed at optimising the overall performance of the

network. To achieve these goals, the work within WP2 will focus on spectrum sensing techniques and the

corresponding interferers identification/classification, interference mitigation techniques, also leveraging on the

unique UWB localisation features, spectrum-agile waveform generation and more importantly on the „intelligence‟

to be embedded in each CR-UWB node to ensure coexistence both at the intra- and inter-network levels. These

goals and tasks are clearly related to the Objective ICT-2007.1.1 target outcome a) ii) “flexible and spectrum

efficient radio access” and b) “Optimised control, management and flexibility of the future network infrastructure,

supporting the evolution towards cognitive networks” and will provide also together with WP9 as expected result

contributions to the IEEE P1900.4 standardisation of cognitive pilot channel as one form of cognitive signalling,

what is clearly matching the first of the three expected impacts of this objective: “Global standards for a new

generation of ubiquitous and extremely high capacity network.”.

The CR related activities in WP2 and WP9 will furthermore hit the Objective ICT-2007.1.1 target outcome a) iv)

“context awareness” due to the fact that WP2 will develop strategies of context aware UWB systems in order to

optimise the intra and inter system coexistence of future UWB devices. The extension of the UWB centric



approaches (DAA) towards a more co-operative approach (Cognitive Pilot Channel) will be the key of Task 2.6

within WP2 and fulfils perfectly the context awareness functionality inherently.

B1.1.3 Multiple Antenna UWB Systems

The main objective of WP3 Multiple Antenna UWB Systems is to allow for innovations, evaluation of multiple

antenna specific algorithms and verification of enhanced implementation solutions developed within the EUWB

project. In detail this work package will first identify and provide system concepts, requirements and measurement

set-ups for specific application environments, in particular for UWB in home environment, UWB in automotive

environment, and UWB in public transport. Based on the developed application-specific MIMO-UWB channel

models, parameter extraction and defined scenarios, a MIMO test-bed for evaluation and validation of multiple

antenna algorithms and system designs will be provided. An evolution of this initial test-bed will allow the study

of multi-user and interference scenarios by providing access to the real MIMO-UWB channel. The development of

application-aware algorithms for link quality improvement, range extension, and multi-user enhancements will be

a major objective of this work package in order to exploit the benefits offered by the multiple antenna technology.

Furthermore, implementation-aware algorithms and system design to solve the challenges arising from various

application-oriented solutions will be developed based on the evaluation of the HW implementation aspects of

certain MIMO-UWB functions. Main output of this work will be a resource evaluation and verification of certain

multiple antenna solutions via prototyping approaches as to deliver system reference documents for oncoming

MIMO regulation and standardisation activities. This standardisation contribution is again directly contributing

together with WP9 to the first expected impact of the envisaged objective: “Global standards for a new

generation of ubiquitous and extremely high capacity network”.

B1.1.4 UWB Enabled Advanced Localisation and Tracking

Thanks to its inherent ability to minimise interference onto other wireless systems, allied with its sub-centimetre

ranging resolution, ultra-wideband (UWB) radio is definitely one of the most promising technologies to realise

both low and high data rate communication systems with integrated localisation and tracking (LT) applications. As

such, UWB can be thought of a natural platform to support location aware techniques and location based services,

which are regarded as important growth areas of wireless communications systems. With EUWB‟s leading

industrial and research partners participating from the beginning on in the relevant standardisation bodies in

IEEE 802.15.4a and ETSI TG31c the second expected impact of Objective ICT-2007.1.1 is addressed with equal

weight to the first expected impact in this work package. Concerning LDR-LT the European industry has a chance

to be equally as fast or even leading the approach to the market.

Indeed, knowledge of device locations can be used as an optimisation factor in the design of cross-layer solutions

aimed to improve the quality of communication systems. Techniques to increase interference-robustness, to

minimise the power consumption, to define cognitive radio strategies and to handle mobility management, for

instance, can all benefit from location-awareness.

One objective of this project is to investigate novel and advanced solutions for the localisation and tracking of

multiple devices – at both algorithmic and network architecture levels – as an enabling technology for location

aware techniques and location based services. In particular, the research will be focused on very large

heterogeneous networks as well as to medium/small networks deployed in harsh environments. A soft algorithm

will be developed in order to harmonise the mixture of static and dynamic scenarios. Moreover, in order to fulfil

the different application requirements (LT-based services in public transport, surveillance in home environment,

LT-services in automotive environments), the algorithms will be developed by exploiting the advantages of active

and passive localisation methods as well as by making usage of the information diversity available from the

different technologies.

In addition to the development of advanced algorithms for LT engines, the impact of the Location-Awareness onto

communication systems will be investigated, including innovative routing and relaying methods, as well as their

impact on system capacities. In conclusion, we will define the theoretical limits for the most important parameters

of a communication system and study new system concepts based on location awareness.

The results will be extremely important for three out of the four main application areas and will enable the key

applications to increase the competitive advantage and therefore strengthening some key European economic

sectors.



B1.1.5 UWB Multiband/Multimode Operation

Objective ICT-2007.1.1 target outcome a) iii) “elimination of the barriers to broadband access and ultra high

speed end to end connectivity with optimised protocols and routing” is perfectly addressed in the W5 by

researching, developing and implementing two feasible solutions to combine the advantages of the UWB principle

with the strength of band extension towards more spectrum resources. By integrating standardised UWB HDR and

VHDR communication devices into a broad rang of applications the barriers between access and ultra high speed

connectivity can be eliminated. Furthermore, the co-ordinated and intelligent combination of UWB with cheap

60 GHz technologies will lead the way towards even higher data rates and more efficient use of spectrum

resources.

WP5 considers the realisation of multiband/multimode UWB platforms. UWB radio technology have been

investigated and assigned to the frequency band in 3–10 GHz. In this frequency range two typical application

streams are addressed: HDR (high data rata) enabler and LDR-LT (low data rate location and tracking) enabler.

Multiband/multimode innovations are related to UWB radio technology combined advantageously together with

operations in different frequency bands or in conjunction with different mode of operation.

The first investigation area of WP5 is related to the Bluetooth Version 3, where a WiMedia compliant UWB radio

operating between 3 and 10 GHz will be combined with a legacy Bluetooth radio operating in the 2.4 GHz ISM

band. It is a general understanding also by the Bluetooth community that the UWB (WiMedia) PHY should

provide benefits of the larger throughput but in the same time should offer the down compatibility to Bluetooth

1.0–2.0. Having this in mind the developments will address the evolution from today‟s large legacy infrastructures

towards new infrastructures by striking a balance between backward compatibility requirements and the need to

explore disruptive architectures to build future internet, mobile, broadband, and associated service infrastructures.

Once having the definition of constrains in different multimode operation scenarios, we will consequently

investigate and define the means in upgrading MAC structures, higher layers and profiles towards the final

solution. The results in (MAC, PAL) architectures updates and the verified implementation results of the

innovative solutions will be disseminated in the Bluetooth and UWB standardisation community and thus impact

to the global standards for a new generation of ubiquitous and high capacity network and service infrastructures.

A second investigation area is dedicated to a combination of a UWB radio technology with future radios operating

within the 60 GHz range by reusing existing channel structures, existing basics of the MAC, and exploring

adaptations and enhancements required to provide benefits in specific application scenarios. The usage of the new

UWB 60 GHz range would include new essential possibilities and provide new benefits to users of WiMedia

UWB systems. Namely due to the fact that the 60 GHz range offers a bandwidth of about 4 GHz world-wide,

WiMedia frequency channels might be bundled in this band, allowing about 8 parallel channels and

instantaneously through puts close to 10 Gbit/s. Eliminating barriers to ultra high speed end to end connectivity

over smaller distances, this would be the basis for new killer applications like half a meter ultra fast data transfers.

In this approach existing WiMedia solutions for PHY and MAC limits needs to be challenged.

Strategies, rules and conditions of switching between the 60 GHz range and the usual UWB range below 10 GHz

will be proposed and potentially verified. It is important to investigate under what circumstances the switch from

mode to mode is preferably done, or need to be done as a results of fall back, when QoS get worse or channel gets

worse or when interferers are present. The aim is to obtain an optimised control, management and flexibility of the

future network infrastructure, supporting the evolution towards cognitive networks.

The multiband/multimode operation is not intended as a mere bridging application from one physical layer to

another, but rather a combination of multiple or similar physical layers with different capabilities to support

differing requirements for multiple applications and therefore being highly context aware. Issues of combining

applications over WiMedia UWB devices on one side and possible IEEE 802.15.4a on the other side shows

another aspect requiring specific solutions in multimode UWB operation.

B1.1.6 UWB in Heterogeneous Access Networks

The tasks addressed in WP6 contribute actually to a series of target outcomes defined in ICT-2007.1.1. The tasks

fit perfectly to the achievement of the following topics included in the Objective 1 (The Network of the Future) of

Challenge 1 (Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures):















development of multi-radio interface (UWB, HSPA, WiMAX, …) devices will enable to make easier a



services by means of platform architecture like IMS enables to offer services independently on the access

architecture. The services developed in the project will be integrated taking into account the IMS

recommendations.

B1.1.7 Open UWB Technology Platforms

The “Open Technology Platforms” WP will provide open UWB platforms to the application and research WPs and

demonstration for integration to the planned demonstrator. The first open platform will be a Low Data Rate

platform with location and tracking capabilities (LDR-LT) based on the IEEE 802.15.4a standard. The second

open platform will implement a High Data Rate and Very High Data Rate ((V)HDR) platform based on the

ECMA 368/369 (WiMedia) OFDM based UWB standard. The development of the open platforms will be guided

by the requirement inputs from the application and research WPs. The “Open Technology Platforms” WP will

provide the needed feasibility feedback to the planned demonstration activities.

The open platforms will give the application and research WPs the needed bases for their demonstration activities.

By using open platforms enabling a relatively easy bridging and customisation to future products the further

exploitation of the results in the application and research WPs will be simplified and those incentive for smaller

companies to enter the market is increased.

For the integration and demonstration work performed in the corresponding WPs the “Open Technology

Platforms” WP will give a comprehensive technical support by providing the needed manuals, training and support

resources during the integration phase to the application and research WPs.

The open platform concepts addressed in WP7 contribute to the achievement of the following topics included in

the Objective 1 (The Network of the Future) of Challenge 1 (Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service

Infrastructures):

New economic opportunities with new classes of networked applications, by providing a flexible

solution which can be adapted to the specific needs of the new classes of networks.

Reinforced European industrial leadership wireless networks by providing flexible UWB solutions

not only for the mass market but also for small and medium enterprises and deployment.

Flexible and spectrum efficient radio access enabling ubiquitous access to broadband mobile services

for short range to wide area networking: The platform concepts will open up the opportunity for a larger

set of companies to develop efficient and adapted solution using the UWB technology in order to increase

the efficient spectrum usage.

Significantly larger and diverse number of devices: In order to support the diversity of devices a simple

integration into application environments and the simple adaptation of the devices is needed. These topics

are addressed in the scope of WP7.

New services and complex user requirements: The availability of open platforms based on standards for

(V)HDR and LDR-LT will simplify the adaptation of these standards towards new services and more

complex user requirements.

In general the chosen open platform concept as the bases for the EUWB development will enable the wider usage

of the UWB technology especially in the important innovative sector of SMEs in Europe. The flexible HW part in

the (V)HDR will give these companies the flexibility they need for there application diversification without the



need of high investments in chips design. This will clearly open up new industrial/service opportunities in Europe,

especially in the internet technology domain.

B1.1.8 UWB in European Key Industry Application Areas

Aim of this work package is to define the application scenarios and provide the requirements for three specific

applications: public transport, automobile and home environment. HDR and LDR UWB platforms used in these

WPs will come from WP7.

For the public transport the application of UWB technologies is envisaged both for passengers‟ services and for

internal communication purposes. The most interesting UWB functionalities to be integrated and demonstrated to

be applicable to this environment are: HDR communications, e.g. for video on demand and multimedia services,

and LDR with location capabilities.

For the automobile environment, two different kinds of applications will be looked at. The first one, wireless

communication inside the car, aims to reduce cabling effort by providing reliable data communication between

components. Typical examples are sensor to electronic control unit communication or providing communication to

control buttons for comfort functions, located in the passenger seat. The second kind of application, location

tracking, will allow following the position of a tag inside the car, enabling comfort functions like personalised seat

settings or even driver authorisation.

For both of the above mentioned application environments the project directly addresses ICT-2007.1.1 target

outcome a) vi) “scalability, delivering an order of magnitude increase in the number of connected devices and

enabling the emergence of applications that are machine-to- machine or sensor-based – beyond RFID – and are

capable of functioning within a multiplicity of public or private operating environments.”

Automotive environment, public transport: The use of standardised UWB communication device in these

environments will greatly extend the potential use of the technology. The application related WP in EUWB will

demonstrate especially the efficient use of UWB in the domain of sensor networks and machine-to-machine

communication.

The home environment application will focus on two application scenarios and related requirements. First is the

multiband/multimode UWB platform activity with the 60 GHz radio. This combination can offer the possibility of

using the large available bandwidth at 60 GHz for the transfer of the high definition video content to the display.

The larger bandwidth can accommodate the higher throughput requirements of high definition video applications.

The advantage of this would be to open the lower UWB frequencies for the high quality surround sound audio

application for home environment systems.

The second application is to use the UWB localisation and tracking algorithms to both locate the speaker boxes in

a 5.1/7.1 surround sound system in a room and to send the appropriate audio signal over the wireless UWB link.

These capabilities of the UWB can also then be used to locate the user within the room and optimise the audio

experience accordingly.

B1.1.9 European and Global Regulation and Standardisation

Harmonised radio frequency spectrum regulation and standardisation is a prerequisite enabling the global use of

communication systems based on radio technologies as it ensures from legal point of view the accessibility of the

information transport resource, the radio spectrum required for applying the communication system. Further driver

to mass market success is a harmonised standardisation even if in principle the radio spectrum could be used

without a standardisation. Harmonised standards enable interoperability of radio systems from different

manufacturers. In addition an appropriate regulation and standardisation enables coexistence of different radio

systems without causing harmful interference.

Regulatory aspects

Today‟s regulatory process is defined in a way that a lot of different steps in CEPT has to be taken due to

distributed responsibilities in different working groups (WG) and task groups (TG). This leads to expensive effort

to be spent in manpower and manpower. The time duration until a frequency assignment is decided is about/

greater 1.5 years. The establishment of the task group 3 (ECC TG3) which handles the regulation for UWB

applications does not enforce the regulation process sufficiently. The problem today is that structures in CEPT are

given which are not able to react in the appropriate way to fulfil the needs of the European industry. Very often



individual national administrations obstructs the intention to reach a harmonised solution in whole Europe. The

reason may be the national commercial aspect of licensing to spectrum access.

Standardisation aspects (ETSI)

The different steps for establishing a harmonised standard takes, similar to the regulation, individual national

interests into account. The input for a harmonised standardisation in ETSI are the decisions done by CEPT (ECC).

Often CEPT feels responsibility to influence the standardisation more then it is accepted by ETSI. This slows

down the process in total. The status today is, that the time frame in which a regulation and standardisation is

about 3 to 5 years from the product idea to the publication of the standard in the official Journal (OJ) of the ECC.

It is important to enforce activities to shift responsibilities from CEPT to the technical standardisation bodies like

ETSI. Because all involved parties, industries and national regulators are represented in ETSI already.

This work package inherently addresses all target outcome a) ii)…vi) and is obviously matching perfectly with all

the three expected impacts: from global standards, through reinforced European leadership and new industrial

opportunities. BOSCH is an excellent example in that direction and has proven such output already in the past

working together in the appropriate regulation and standardisation bodies with several individual EUWB partners.

B1.1.10 Summary of Results

In terms of industrial application demonstrations there are four main areas addressed by the EUWB consortium.

Those are the home environment, the cellular system, the automotive environment and the public transport. The

integrated demonstration environments are all based on two basic open UWB platforms and one closed UWB

technology platform.

There are two basic open UWB technology platforms – (real-time hardware, RT-HW), these are (f) for LDR and

(g) for (V)HDR:

(a) f and g with software upgrade for cognitive radio (RT-HW);

(b) g front-end and off-the-shelf measurement equipment for MIMO feasibility study (mix of SW

first and RT-HW later Q5);

(d) g with new Bluetooth v3.0 like stack (RT-HW);

(e) g and 60 GHz results from a potential project or COTS (RT-HW);

(j) g and f (RT-HW);

(k), (l), (n) f (RT-HW);

(m) g (RT-HW).

Closed basic platform is Wisair‟s proprietary chip set:

(h) and (i) Wisair‟s chip set and/or g (RT-HW Q1).

B1.2 Progress Beyond the State-of-the-art

This section gives a short introduction in the history of UWB from its early days until now including the most

recent developments in VHDR and LDR-LT, both addressed in this proposal. After this global description of state-

of-the-art a detailed analysis for each of the topics addressed in this project is given.

Ultra-wideband radio technology is not a completely new topic; in the past, it has been alternatively referred to as

baseband, carrier-free or impulse radio. The term “UWB” was not applied to this technology until approximately

1989. The history of “UWB radio” and related literature have been summarised in various books and review

papers [1]–[3]; the literature body on UWB-RT consists of more than a dozen books, over 200 IEEE journal

papers and well over 100 patents.

Some of Marconi‟s first experiments (in 1901) represented a crude form of impulse radio. Pioneering

contributions to modern UWB radio were made by Ross (since 1960) [2], and Harmuth (since 1968) [1]. The

earliest communications patent was published by Ross (1973). Hence, although the basic concepts are well known,

the technology is still relatively young, and improvements well beyond the state-of-the-art are necessary.

In February 2002, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of the U.S.A. allowed for commercial

marketing and operation of certain products using UWB-RT. The frequency band between 3.1 GHz and 10.6 GHz

was allocated for communication and measurement systems with equivalent isotropically radiated power (EIRP)



following a tight spectral mask. For communication systems, the FCC differentiates between indoor and outdoor

operation. Somewhat different frequencies were allocated for other applications: ground penetrating radar,

through-wall imaging, medical, surveillance and vehicular radar applications. The ruling was reviewed and

confirmed in early 2003, with only minor amendments. The FCC‟s outlook was very positive, and all indications

in the U.S.A. considering the future deployment of the UWB-RT are favourable.

In 2002, the standards association of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), established the

802.15.3a study group to define a new physical layer for short range, high data rate applications, complementing

the existing and approved 802.15.3 standard. This group was dissolved without resulting in a standard and at the

same time the European activities have been started in the European Computers Manufacturers Association

(ECMA), towards a standard ECMA 369/369, and in the ETSI TG31a targeting high data rate applications.

In the time since the 2002 FCC ruling, many companies have raced to develop proprietary UWB technology,

primarily for high data rate, short range communications. More recently, companies have become interested in

high data rate UWB solutions on the basis of one of the two main proposals for IEEE 802.15.3a standardisation

effort. These two remaining proposals use either direct-sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) or frequency-hopped

orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) [30] as modulation schemes. Major players developing UWB

technology include Freescale Semiconductors, Intel, Texas Instruments, Hewlett Packard, Philips, Samsung, Sony

and STMicroelectronics, as well as small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) such as Alerion, Staccato

Communications and Wisair.

Data rates of 500 Mbit/s and beyond have been announced by UWB developers, mainly located in the U.S.A. Both

Freescale Semiconductor and Wisair have announced the availability of integrated circuit (IC) solutions for high

data rate UWB above 100 Mbit/s. PulseLink has announced a system capable of 1 Gbit/s for the U.S.A. Homeland

Security market, and therefore at a cost point well beyond what is feasible for more mundane markets. Therefore,

many technical challenges prevail, including the need to reduce the overall system cost while maintaining the

system performance, reduce long acquisition times, design receivers featuring efficient signal energy capture,

address link reliability issues through harvesting frequency diversity, design codes with flat or arbitrarily shaped

spectra to reduce interference and ensure coexistence with other systems; these and many additional

communications, IC, and system problems are still not sufficiently investigated to call the technology mature (see

the section below on HDR–VHDR UWB).

To satisfy the demands for extended range and location capabilities of the low rate 802.15.4 standard, the IEEE

recently established the 802.15.4a task group to define an alternative physical layer concept for low data rate

applications. The IEEE 802.15 TG4 was chartered to investigate low data rate solutions for very low power and

very low complexity systems. It is intended to operate in unlicensed, international frequency bands. Potential

applications are sensors, interactive toys, smart badges, remote controls, and home automation, as well as safety

and industrial applications from fire detection to smart warehousing and building automation. Again, UWB is a

promising physical layer technology, and many of the proposals currently under discussion are based on UWB-RT.

EUWB partners have been actively involved in that process and are following this further in addition to the ETSI

TG31c focusing on location tracking and sensing applications based on UWB as well.

Many EUWB partners are heavily involved in researching and developing UWB-RT and regularly participate in

world-wide regulation and standardisation efforts. These activities support the work performed within the scope of

EUWB. EUWB partners are strongly convinced that UWB PHY/MAC technology standards for LDR-LT and

VHDR are essential, and have committed to drive corresponding efforts in Europe. Within the previous FP6,

individual partners from EUWB are actively involved in co-ordination and dissemination activities with other

groups including the Wireless World Initiative (WWI), the Broadband Air Interface (BAI) cluster, the Spectrum

and Resource Management (S&RM) cluster, as well as the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF), all of which

explore short range communications and other topics relevant to EUWB.

In Japan about 40 manufacturers, e.g. Sony, Matsushita Electric Industrial, Sharp, Victor/JVC, Pioneer Electronic,

NEC and Mitsubishi Electric as well as Samsung Electronics (Korea) have co-ordinated efforts under the National

Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NiCT) “UWB R&D Consortium” and are preparing

product releases and testing facilities (http://neasia.nikkeibp.com). The Japanese Ministry of Public Management,

Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications (MPHPT) has taken cautious steps towards regulation interacting

heavily with members of the NiCT UWB Consortium.

Within Europe‟s FP5 and FP6, a number of IST projects was investigating particular aspects of UWB-RT. This

includes whyless.com (www.whyless.org), Ultra Wideband Audio Video Entertainment System (ULTRAWAVES),

Ultra-wideband Concepts for Ad-hoc Networks (UCAN), and PULSERS/PULSERS Phase II. The current project

proposal builds on that history. While PULSERS and PULSERS Phase II have concentrated all the results from



previous projects into a single large R&D effort towards basic technology solution, the EUWB projects logically

builds on the previous PULSERS projects and contains its key partners plus additional partners leading the areas

to be included in future UWB systems, such as cognitive signalling, multiband/multimode operation and intelligent

antenna solutions.

Today, the status of regulation on the use of UWB devices is only mature in the U.S.A. based on the FCC‟s First

Report & Order, allowing deployment of UWB devices in the consumer market in the 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz band.

China has indicated that it will follow the lead of the U.S.A. and allow similar regulations as put forward by the

FCC. The situation in Europe was developing more slowly. Most recently, in February 2007 the first regulatory

rule is in place in EUROPE as well, released by the EC following a series of Mandates towards CEPT and ETSI

requesting the appropriate investigations to ensure sufficient protection of existing radio services in the one hand

and the introduction of UWB – RT enabling new and innovative applications on the other hand. EUWB partners

(at that time under the label of PULSERS) have significantly contributed to achieve this initial regulation and are

committed to further support the EC policy (in particular the European Commission Radio Spectrum Committee,

RSCOM) updating the rules according to the knowledge gained in mitigation techniques and coexistence scenario

developments.

HDR–VHDR UWB solutions

In the domain of (V)HDR communication systems based on UWB the WiMedia standard based on OFDM and

frequency hopping is the only broadly (more than 300 member companies in WiMedia) supported system. It can

support up to 480 Mbit/s at 2 m distance at the MAC-PHY interface. Further enhancements of the data rates and

ranges are planned. Two EUWB partners are member of the WiMedia board, namely EADS and Wisair.

Several companies are working on the development of chipsets and systems based on these chipsets deploying the

WiMedia standard 1.1 and 1.2 for the physical layer (PHY) and the MAC layer. The main target application as of

today is the certified wireless USB (cWUSB) PAL (Protocol Adaptation Layer) from the USB IF (Implementers

forum). The main players in the field of WiMedia chip set are:

Alereon; Cambridge Silicon Radio; Realtek;

Staccato Communications; Wisair.

These small companies are working based on the WiMedia standard 1.1 and 1.2. First chip sets are available and

first products are appearing on the U.S.A. market (Belkin, Wireless USB hub). Some chipsets are already

pronounced as WiMedia and cWUSB certificated.

Some companies are/were trying to implement video streaming solution (Tzero, Realtek, Wiquest WiDV in Toshiba

Tablet PC R400) in the lower UWB band which might lead to significant issues related to the European regulation.

All this solutions are tackling the U.S.A. market by fulfilling the FCC rules only. EC compliant devices for the

band 4.2 GHz to 4.8 GHz (Phased Approach devices) will follow but the redesign of the RF front ends is needed to

allow for the lower out of band power and the needed inband avoidance levels of -70 dBm/MHz and

-85 dBm/MHz respectively. Especially the development of reliable DAA solutions for an optimised coexistence of

UWB with potential victim systems and the intra UWB coexistence are challenges to be solved in the future.

WiMedia is working on an update of the standard including some DAA features but initial results will not be

available before end 2008. The further regulation in Europe, Japan, Korean and China will strongly influence the

development of standards for the use in these countries. A strong interaction between the standard development

and the regulation is needed in order to allow for a timely introduction of initial DAA compliant devices before the

end of 2010 (end of phased approach). Furthermore, the inclusion of the WRC2007 results regarding the spectrum

allocation for beyond 3G services into the definition of DAA procedures is needed in order to guarantee a future

validity of the developed system concepts for coexistence.

The overall performance of the existing systems is limited and need to be optimised using enhanced techniques

like antenna techniques and enhanced diversity techniques. The integration of the UWB communication solutions

into other applications and the implementation of additional PALs (WiNet, Bluetooth, wireless firewire, wireless

SATA) are still in a very early stage or did not even started yet. The WiMedia MAC and PHY have been developed

with the goal of supporting a broad range of protocols. The real work of implementing these PALs is still pending.

The application orientation of EUWB will approach these open points (performance, application integration

beyond the computer environment) by integrating open UWB platforms into a broad range of systems.

Furthermore, the overall performance of the solutions will be greatly enhanced by the inclusion of enhanced

features extracted from the research areas based on the application requirements. The deployment of an open

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platform concept for the platform will allow the simple integration of the UWB solution into the applications of

choice.

LDR-LT Solutions

In principle, the advantages of the UWB technology for low data rate communications and RTLS (real-time

location system) rely into:

Its scalability, to trade bit rate for range at low cost;

Its potential low power implementation compared to equivalent low data rate narrow band systems,

especially for the transmitter side;

Its robustness to small scale fading, saving high fading margin in the link budget;

Its excellent time resolution which should enable precise ranging and localisation (tens of centimetres,

versus several meters for narrow band systems).

The most well known UWB systems available on the market to address the location and tracking are coming from

Time Domain Corporation, MSSI and Ubisense [40]–[42]. The UWB tag application scenario for which these

three companies propose products, is made of low power transmit only tags and a synchronised receive backbone.

Time Domain is most famous company in the field, and their last commercial system is the PulsOn T210 which

uses 3.2 GHz around 4.7 GHz central frequency and consumes 6 W. The UWB tag version of this system is the

PulsOn T350. MSSI have released commercial systems called PAL650 dedicated to UWB tags. Tags are only in

emitter mode and UWB receivers are fixed anchor nodes for which the power consumption is not an issue. Both

these systems use different flavours of time of arrival to estimate range and locations. Ubisense product uses a

combination of angle of arrival and time of arrival to achieve tag locations, again with a strong constraint on the

synchronisation and the calibration of the anchors backbone.

These systems satisfy the FCC regulation and, in some cases, the European regulation as well. However, they are

all based on proprietary solutions. The IEEE 802.15.4a standard, the final version of which was approved in

March 2007 by the IEEE SA, is an opportunity to increase competition in the development of UWB based RTLS

and communication products being compliant and interoperable at PHY-MAC level, having a strong scalability

and benefiting from the momentum of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard used in Zigbee.

It is worthwhile to mention Nanotron‟s NanoLoc technology [43]. Based on chirp spread spectrum in the 2.4 GHz

band, this proprietary technology benefits from a higher transmit power than UWB systems and thus can afford a

higher range of operation. The localisation service makes use of the full 80 MHz bandwidth which provides a

satisfactory location precision at the expense of a higher power consumption and increased coexistence issues in

the overcrowded 2.4 GHz ISM band.

Several famous research labs have initiated architecture research and chip design in the direction of implementing

UWB chips compliant with the IEEE standard [44]–[49]. Highly promising results in terms of power consumption,

e.g. a few nJ/bit, 10 times lower than in equivalent narrowband transmitters, were obtained which proves this key

advantage of UWB over classical narrowband systems in such applications were competition is fierce.. However,

still a strong research and development effort is required to come to integrated, high performance and innovative

UWB architecture dedicated to low rate communication and RTLS.

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B1.2.1 Cognitive UWB Radio and Coexistence

The emerging DSA technology aims at a more efficient use of radio spectrum. DSA would efficiently decentralise

spectrum control by letting a communication device roam between different wireless networks. According to

Ofcom (Office of communication), this would make efficient use of the spectrum by linking the supply of spectrum

with demand though an open and competitive marketplace for real-time access to spectrum as opposed to having

chunks of spectrum allocated to specific services for specific periods of time. Another thing that Ofcom is very

keen on is that DSA would hinge on a system to allow network operators to transmit pricing information to

handsets, leaving the handsets to then “intelligently roam” across different networks, and now there are no policies

on it. Also, in the European Parliament resolution towards a European policy on the radio spectrum released on

February 2007, Europe welcomes the development of new radio technologies that make efficient and flexible use of

radio spectrum and that make interoperability and coexistence possible.

As anticipated, the key technology for DSA is Cognitive Radio (CR). Cognitive radio is a radio that can adapt its

transmission or reception parameters based on cognitive interaction with the wireless environment in which is

operates. CR with intelligent capabilities of both radio link and network layers is capable of transmitting in an

optimised way across the available signal dimensions allowing a potential huge increase in the prospects for

spectrum efficiency, co-existence, compatibility and interoperability among the ever-proliferating wireless

communication systems and devices.

In the U.S.A., on December 30th, 2003, the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) released the Notice of

Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) covering the use of applications for cognitive radio technologies, of which the

fourth application scenario reads as follows: cognitive radio technologies can be used to enable non-voluntary

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third party access to spectrum, for instance as an unlicensed device operating at times or in locations where licensed

spectrum is not in use. Note that especially relevant to this scenario is the UWB wireless technology and devices.

Regarding Europe, it is important to mention that on February 21st, 2007, the Commission of the European

Communities released a decision on allowing the use of the radio spectrum for equipment using ultra-wideband

technology in a harmonised manner in the Community. The decision concerns the use of the radio spectrum on a

non-interference and non-protected basis by equipment using UWB technology, with the definition of maximum

e.i.r.p. densities both in the absence/presence of appropriate mitigation techniques.

UWB represents an outstanding example of enabling technology for the implementation of the Cognitive Radio

concept. As we know, UWB systems are appealing for their broadband features, their low-power noise-like

signalling, which basically can be exploited in the transmission over (licensed) bands producing a controlled level

of interference on existing communication systems. On the other hand, UWB will face and cause severe

interference from and to nearby communication systems. In this respect, coexistence and compatibility are

important open issues, demanding for innovative solutions. CR will provide the required innovative solutions, and

enable coexistence, compatibility, interference avoidance, and compliance with regulation through the attribution

of UWB devices with CR capabilities.

Within this project we will contribute to advance the current state-of-the-art, by developing UWB-based cognitive

radio functionalities of spectrum sensing and monitoring, the capability of broadcasting spectrum, time and

location related information via the Cognitive Pilot Channel (CPC), the capability of optimising the

communications and improving the coexistence of heterogeneous wireless networks and terminals, and solving the

coexistence issues within UWB networks. We will also show how to utilise such capabilities in the application

scenarios of the EUWB project, e.g. consumer electronics, automotive, public transport, mobile wireless networks.

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Patents

[62] Shiuh Yuan Chen: “System and method for providing efficient spectrum usage of wireless devices in

unlicensed bands”, U.S.A. Application #: 20070032254, 02/08/2007.

[63] Petri H. Mahonen and Diego Melpignano: “Method and system for optimising the use of the radio

spectrum and computer program product therefore”, U.S.A. Application #: 20070053410, 03/08/2007.

B1.2.2 Multiple Antenna UWB Systems

Edholm‟s law of bandwidth confirms an almost exponential increase of data rates in the last two decades for

wireless and wireline communication systems. Assuming this development holds true also for the future evolution

of short range communication systems, which can reach today a peak data rate of 480 Mbit/s (IEEE 802.15.3a)

over a distance of a very few meters, we can expect in 2008 peak data rates of 1 Gbit/s and in 2015 of around

10 Gbit/s. Such high data rates enable multimedia applications like very high quality video streaming and also

high speed data exchange between mobile devices, e.g. mobile phones, offering storage capacities in excess of

100 GB already after 2010. Therefore, add-on technologies especially for boosting data-rates, but also for

enhancing coverage and for improving link quality are required to fulfil the demand of future wireless short-range

communications.

UWB is applicable mainly for WPAN/WBAN in indoor environments, where the dense multipath propagation lead

for high data rates to generally detrimental Inter Symbol Interference (ISI). A widely known approach for turning

this drawback into a benefit is to exploit such rich scattering environments by use of multiple antennas, or, more

generally speaking, by so-called Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems, where not only the receiver but

also the transmitter is equipped with multiple antennas. While MIMO has been considered until the year 2004 as

being too expensive and therefore far away from any commercial deployment, the final breakthrough of MIMO

was triggered in the year 2005 by high speed WLANs. The targeted data rates of more than 100 Mbit/s were not

able to perform with higher order modulation schemes because of too expensive analog radio frequency front-

ends. Moreover, MIMO offers beside data rate improvements higher link reliability and range extension.

Meanwhile, MIMO becomes omnipresent in almost any new wireless communication standard, e.g. 802.11n,

Mobile WiMAX, 802.20, 3GPP LTE, UMB, 802.16m, so that its way towards UWB is paved and only logical.

However, beside this driving hardware cost/performance trade-off, MIMO uncloses additional degrees of freedom

and additional benefits, even more as those offered by MIMO for narrowband and broadband systems.

In short, the major benefits of MIMO-UWB are considered to be:

Interference mitigation: By using multiple antenna technique the interference behaviour of UWB

devices towards potential victim system can be optimised. A simple technique could be antenna selection.

The aspect of interference mitigation should be taken into account into the optimisation of the proposed

multiple antenna algorithms;

Higher data rates: By opening independent spatial pipes, MIMO let the data-rate grow linearly with a

slope equal to the minimum number of transmit/receive antennas without occupying additional resources.

Simply speaking, doubling the number of antennas at transmitter and at receiver may double the data-rate;

Improved link quality: Although the huge bandwidth of UWB basically offers tremendous diversity

opportunities, in communication systems with highest data rates, e.g. MB-OFDM, which usually suffer

from frequency diversity, any additional diversity gain is appreciated. MIMO generally promises

significant transmit or receive diversity or both in order to improve the link quality;

Extended coverage: Multiple antennas at the transmitter or at the receiver or both allow for array gain,

which further extends the coverage of single antenna UWB systems;

Interference suppression: MIMO-UWB aims not only for interference suppression by putting nulls into

the direction of dominant interferers for a large bandwidth, but more general it offers improved

performance in multi-user (MU) scenarios by use of sophisticated MU interference cancellation

algorithms;

Reduced analog hardware requirements: MIMO requires multiple antenna branches at transmitter- and

receiver-side, which – at a first glance – increases the RF hardware costs by almost a factor of roughly

equal to the number of antennas. However, the bandwidth requirement of all analog components is

relaxed by the same factor. Known from WLAN, the use of MIMO pays already if a bandwidth of approx.

20 MHz is exceeded. Since UWB does not need a power amplifier with high gain, this threshold

bandwidth might be somewhat higher for MIMO-UWB, but is likely passed for any UWB communication

system;



Concurrent localisation: The unique opportunity of a wireless communication system to locate the

transmitter with high accuracy in indoor environment allows a new wealth of applications: first, so-called

physical security by exploiting the strongly space-variant channel impulse response for “physical coding”

purposes; second, data delivery for selected spatial areas only; third, enhanced resource allocation

schemes supported by spatial aware cognitive radio concepts; fourth, improved handling of co-existence

scenarios by exploiting the additional localisation information provided by multiple antennas.

One major research area within the multiple antenna technology are beamforming techniques as used for multi-

user scenarios and interference mitigation. Current beamforming and beam-steering architectures use an active

feeding circuit separated from the antennas array. Up to now the major part of the beamforming transceiver studies

for UWB systems come from military [64], [65] and ground penetrating radars [66] or from medical and through-

wall imaging [67] applications. For those applications the beamforming is realised with directive antennas by

controlling phase and amplitude thanks to analog phase shifters ([65] split into different separated sub-bands) and

controlling the amplitude distribution. However dimensions and cost constraints are much more relevant in the

case of wireless communications.

Due to UWB regulation constraints, beamforming has received a certain attention during the last 3 years. First

works on UWB space-time array processing [68] are based on adaptive array concepts. Its main advantage is side

lobes suppression for large bandwidths. Their cost effective implementation are still in progress thanks to progress

in fast digital electronic. For example [69] propose the use of a digital variable delay circuit (3-bit tapped

trombone-type structure). The solution adopted by [70] is a direct digital synthesiser which can provide sub-

nanosecond time delay (using a digitally phase tuner). Their prototype succeeds to steer the beam towards 6

directions on a 60° angular range with 4 discones (omni-directional antennas) array on the whole FCC band. [71]

uses a very small number of costly optical switches and fibre delay lines to realise an original feeding circuit of the

UWB array.

The research on specific MIMO-UWB techniques and architectures is highly related to the design and integration

of suitable UWB antenna arrays. Unlike previous techniques, reconfigurable antennas contain the switch elements

(pin diode, field effect transistor, photo-diode [72]) on their radiating structure. By switching on or off those

elements, surface current distribution is modified and thus the antenna behaviour change.

The main advantage is the suppression of the feeding network. Reconfigurable antennas are used to form or/and to

steer the radiation pattern for high data rate wireless communication [75]. Reconfiguration can concern different

diversity kinds: pattern diversity [76], polarisation diversity [77], frequency diversity [78], and even a combination

of kind of diversities [79].

Beside beamforming, MIMO offers also a spatial diversity gain which increases link quality and coverage as

pointed out earlier. Analog UWB Space-Time-Coding (STC) schemes provide a diversity gain by exploitation of

spatial diversity and simultaneously balance fluctuations in sampling points to a certain extent [80]. A possible

unfavourable electromagnetic coupling between antenna elements has been proven to be small for MIMO-UWB

even for marginal antenna separations [81]. UWB systems with a receive antenna array (SIMO-UWB) are

discussed in [82], where multi-user interferences and multipaths are taken into consideration. Even though a power

increment (array gain) by multiple antennas is without doubt, the general impact of bandwidth on the UWB

diversity gain is quantitatively not known yet, but intuitively understood as being beneficial to a large extent.

There are only a few references analysing the theoretical performance of multi-antenna UWB systems. For

instance, in [90], [91], [94] it has been shown that for N transmit and N receive antennas the MIMO UWB ergodic

channel capacity linearly increases with N. Spatial multiplexing has been proposed in [103], where the VBLAST

(Vertical Bell Laboratory Layered Space-Time) algorithm has been applied to UWB systems and a significant

multiplexing gain could be proven.

Challenges and Expected Advances Beyond State-of-the-art

Research on multiple antennas for wireless communications started in 1987 and the first MIMO patent was filed in

1991. The more than two decades of narrowband (NB) and wideband (WB) MIMO research leads to an enormous

amount of scientific contributions. Although MIMO-UWB offers an additional degree of freedom, namely the

bandwidth, the research about MIMO-UWB is still in its infancy compared to the numerous contributions in

NB/WB-MIMO so that numerous questions are still open. Some of them are:

Interference mitigation techniques towards potential victim systems;

Joined Interference mitigation and UWB link optimisation for multiple antenna systems;

MIMO-UWB signalling trade-offs, e.g. diversity gain vs. multiplexing gain;



Multi-user MIMO-UWB;

Usefulness of channel state information at TX by (low bit rate) information feedback from RX (open

loop/closed loop; simplified modulation schemes based on code books);

MIMO-UWB system joint performance analysis for localisation and communications (max. data rates,

max. coverage, max. link quality), e.g. channel capacity bounds, Cramer-Rao bounds and similar;

Optimisation of MIMO-UWB (adaptive) modulation schemes (OFDM, IR, TR etc.);

Design of compact and suitable UWB antenna arrays (incl. polarisation); efficient MIMO-UWB RF

circuit design;

MIMO-UWB Architectures and VLSI Implementation;

Energy efficiency of MIMO-UWB systems;

MIMO-UWB MAC and cross-layer design.

Within the scope of this project we expect to reach the following advances beyond state-of-the-art:

Advanced (time-variant) MIMO-UWB channel models supported by real-time MIMO-UWB channel

measurements;

Enhancements of link quality and robustness to human shading for VHDR;

Range extension for VHDR;

Extremely High Data Rates in excess of 4–5 Gbit/s over short distances;

Multi-user support and interference mitigation through spatial separation/beamforming;

Location-aided MIMO-UWB cross PHY/MAC protocols;

Improved spatial reuse through directional interference mitigation.

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B1.2.3 UWB Enabled Advanced Location Tracking

The development of efficient and robust algorithms for LT engines is still an undergoing research activity. So far,

the problems of localisation and tracking have been considered distinctly, with dedicated solutions developed

under the assumptions and objectives dictated by the various application requirements. Radio frequency

localisation systems can be classified according to different criteria.

One basic distinction between localisation systems is that between direction finding and range-based systems.

Direction finding localisation systems are based on triangulation principles and use co-located antenna arrays and

narrowband stimulation signals. Range-based localisation systems are based on trilateration or multilateration

principles and are used especially with wideband or UWB stimulation signals.

An overview of the localisation principles for UWB systems can be found in [139], [140].

With respect to the localisation technique itself, parametric and non-parametric approaches can be distinguished.

While the former compute the location based on the priori knowledge of a model, the latter process

straightforward the data with the usage, in some cases, only of sample statistic parameters (mean, variance). In the

parametric approach, the techniques based on maximum likelihood (ML), pattern recognitions are the most

common to be identified. On the other hand, the non-parametric methods are generally based on Least Square (LS)

optimisation, triangulation, multilateration, Linear Programming (LP), Semi Definite Programming (SDP) [137],

and Multidimesional Scaling (MDS) [136].

These same solutions can be further classified between inference based and non-inference approaches. Within the

first group, Bayesian algorithms, based on the prior knowledge of the system model, represent a widely used

solution often addressed to solve these kind of problems. To this category belong algorithms such as Kalman filter,

uncented filter, hidden Markov mode, particle filter etc., each one with its specific requirements and benefit [138].

To the non-inference approach technique belong strategies such as triangulation, MDS and LS solutions.

UWB, thanks to its inherent ability to minimise interference onto other wireless systems, allied with its excellent

spatial resolution; represent one of the most promising technologies to realise LT applications for indoor

environment. Nowadays limitation to its use comes from the strict regulation in Tx power, which does not allow

the usage of signals suitable to exploit wide, harsh environments. In the future, studies on Cognitive Radio could

allow, whenever felt necessary the temporary Tx, for specific nodes at higher power, with overall improvement on

the performance.

Interesting results have already achieved during PULSERS Phase II, where different solutions have been adopted

for both static and dynamic contexts. The former has been solved through optimisation techniques, under both



with distributed and centralised approaches [113], because of its ability to handle observations affected by strong

noise. While the dynamic scenario has been solved through a new algebraic solution [116] suitable for large

networks.

The usage of dedicated algorithms can be prohibitive in some real applications, mostly when large wireless

networks in mixed static-dynamic scenarios have strict minimum requirements. The design of flexible LT

algorithms, which provide a soft-solution for both localisation and tracking, is still missing.

To assist in localising the network, devices able to move freely through the environment, may be exploited to

provide a large number and great diversity information useful to estimate the network topology. The usage of such

diversity may help to overcome problems such as non line of sight conditions and may improve the location

accuracy. The design of such LT-engine would require an algorithm which will be able to localise efficiently the

static nodes, to use the mobile nodes to extrapolate more information, and finally, to recover the mobile nodes‟

trajectories.

When the observations provided to the LT-engine, are not only related to distances, then methods able to fuse the

data are necessary. Large-scale heterogeneous networks are typical scenarios, where the presence of different

technologies in the network, e.g. UWB, RFID, WiMAX, may be used to feed the LT engine with diverse types of

information. The major challenge here is the design of LT algorithms capable to exploit the heterogeneity of the

information in order to improve the performance.

Passive localisation is another technique that is going to be developed and integrated into the LT-engine. This will

allow to exploit even more the information available. While the classic method for passive localisation are based

on acoustic waves, the challenge in this task will be the investigation of this possibility using UWB signals, trying

to take advantage of their features. The development of an integrated active-passive localisation engine will define

a state-of-the-art solution.

Beyond the development of advanced LT algorithms, the WP will study innovative systems based on location

awareness. The scope of this investigation is to enhance the reliability and performance of the communication

systems that may use the location information to increase the channel capacity, to allow coexistence and to provide

efficient methods to disseminate data and to manage the mobility. As consequence of this work, original strategies

and methods will be derived and verified through computer simulations and possibly through physical

demonstrations.

At last, the WP will serve theoretical and practical considerations on the localisation and tracking algorithm

performance and the impact of location information over a communication system in ideal and non-ideal

conditions. The purpose of this work will serve the definition of optimum results, to be used as reference in the

validation of the algorithms.

Summarising, we can list the expected advances beyond the state-of-the-art as follow:

Soft, efficient LT solutions for heterogeneous networks in mixed static-dynamic scenarios;

Efficient methods based on location awareness to improve communication amongst devices;

Limits and minimum requirements for LT systems;

Efficient strategies for mobility management.

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CWC’s Journals and International Conference Papers on EUWB’s objectives (only 2006–2007)

[107] P. Pirinen: “Outage analysis of ultra-wideband system in lognormal multipath fading and square-shaped

cellular configurations”, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2006;

Article ID 19460: 1–10.

[108] M. Hämäläinen, A. Isola, J. Saloranta, J. Iinatti: “UWB coexistence measurements with IEEE802.11a”,

Proc. of The IET Seminar on Ultra Wideband Systems, Technologies and Applications, London, UK,

Apr. 20, 2006, 186–190.

[109] A. Rabbachin, I. Oppermann, B. Denis: “ML time-of-arrival estimation based on low Complexity UWB

energy detection”, Proc. of The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband 2006 (ICUWB

2006), Waltham, MA, U.S.A., Sept. 24–27, 2006, CD-ROM.

[110] L. Stoica, A. Rabbachin, I. Oppermann: “Impulse radio based non-coherent UWB transceiver

architectures – an example”, Proc. of The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband 2006

(ICUWB 2006), Waltham, MA, U.S.A., Sept. 24–27, 2006, CD-ROM.

[111] G. Destino, G. Abreu: “Localisation from imperfect and incomplete ranging”, Proc. of The 17th IEEE

International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC‟06),

Helsinki, Finland, Sept. 11–14, 2006, CD-ROM, 5 p.

[112] G. Destino, G. Abreu: “MDS-WLS optimisation for sensors localisation”, Proc. of The 15th IST Mobile

& Wireless Communications Summit, Myconos, Greece, June 4–8, 2006, 5 p.

[113] G. Destino, G. Abreu: “Sensor localisation from WLS optimisation with closed-form Gradient and

Hessian”, Proc. of The 49th annual IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM

2006), San Francisco, U.S.A., Nov 27–Dec 1, 2006, p. 6.

[114] S. Dubouloz, A. Rabbachin, S. de Rivaz, B. Denis, L. Ouvry: “Performance analysis of low complexity

solutions for UWB low data rate impulse radio”, Proc. of The 2006 IEEE International Symposium on

Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2006), Island of Kos, Greece, May 21–24, 2006.

[115] G. Destino, D. Macagnano and G. T. F. de Abreu: “A Clusterised WLS Algorithm for Large Scale

WSNs”, 4th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication 2007 (WPNC„07).

[116] D. Macagnano, G. T. F. de Abreu: “Tracking multiple targets with multidimensional scaling”, in Wireless

Personal Multimedia Communications, Sep. 17–20 2006.

[117] D. Macagnano, G. T. F. de Abreu: “Tracking multiple dynamic targets with multidimensional scaling”,

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2007 (WPNC‟07).

[119] A. Rabbachin, I. Oppermann: “Comparison of UWB transmitted reference schemes”, IEEE Proceedings

on Communications, Feb. 2006, 153(1), 136–142.

[120] M. Hämäläinen, J. Iinatti, I. Oppermann, M. Latva-aho, J. Saloranta, A. Isola: “Co-existence

measurements between UMTS and UWB systems”, IEE Proceedings on Communications, Feb. 2006,

153(1), 153–158.

[121] L. Stoica, A. Rabbachin, I. Oppermann: “A low-complexity noncoherent IR-UWB transceiver architecture

with TOA estimation”, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, MTT special issue on

UWB, Apr. 2006, 54(4), 1637–1646.

[122] A. Rabbachin, I. Oppermann, B. Denis: “GML TOA estimation based on low complexity UWB energy

detection”, Proc. of The 17th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio

Communications (PIMRC‟06), Helsinki, Finland, Sept. 11–14, 2006, CD-ROM, p. 5.

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embedded networks”, Signal Processing, Sept. 2006, 86(9), 2153–2171.

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[128] R. Zetik, J. Sachs, R. S. Thomä: “UWB Short-Range Radar Sensing”, IEEE Instrumentation &

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[129] M. Piccardi: “Background subtraction techniques: a review”, in Proc. of The IEEE SMC 2004 Int.

Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, The Hague, The Netherlands, October 2004.

[130] R. Zetik, J. Sachs, R. S. Thomä: “Modified Cross-Correlation Back Projection for UWB Imaging:

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September 2005.

[131] M. Cetin et al.: “Distributed Fusion in Sensor Networks”, IEEE Signal Pprocessing Magazine, Vol. 23,

No. 4, pp. 42–55, 2006.

[132] J. Sachs, R. Zetik, J. Friedrich, P. Peyerl: “Autonomous Orientation by Ultra Wideband Sounding”,

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developing techniques for accurate wireless location information”, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,

Vol. 22, Issue 4, pp. 24–40 July 2005.

[134] R. Zetik, S. Crabbe, J. Krajnak, P. Peyerl J. Sachs, R. Thomä: “Detection and localisation of persons

behind obstacles using M-sequence through-the-wall radar”, SPIE Defense and Security Symposium,

Orlando, Florida, U.S.A., 17–21 April 2006.

[135] Neal Patwari, Joshua N. Ash, Spyros Kyperounta, Alfred O. Hero: “Locating the Nodes”, IEEE Signal

Processing Magazine, July 2005.

[136] T. F. Cox and M. A. A. Cox: “Multidimensional Scaling”, 2nd ed. Cahpman & Hall/CRC, 2000.

[137] Anthony Man-Cho So, Yijyu Ye: “Theory of Semidefinite Programming for Sensor Network

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[138] Fred Daum: “Non linear Filters: Beyond the Kalman Filter”, IEEE Aerospace and Eletronic Systems

Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 8, pp. 57–69, Aug. 2005.

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B1.2.4 UWB Multiband/Multimode Operation

The EUWB project generally addresses application scenario families in the area of wireless personal area

networks (WPAN) and limited WPAN with even shorter distances. In this area the well-known Bluetooth system is

positioned as well as standardised UWB high data rate solutions (WiMedia based). The mentioned state-of-the-art

wireless systems do have specifics in frequency of operations (dedicated radios with specified channels), PHY

layers (supporting specific throughputs and coping with specific propagation channels) MAC approach

(throughput, channel and application scenarios related) as well specific higher level protocols addressing different

profiles and adaptation to the specific applications and network protocols.

State-of-the-art Bluetooth systems are well established standardised WPAN systems currently in deployment. It

operates in the 2.4 GHz ISM band, forming networks of typically less than 10 devices and supports data rates in

the range of 1 Mbit/s. The main drawback of the system is the operation of WLAN systems (802.11x family) in the

same frequency band and recently also WBDECT systems allowing larger throughputs and influencing the

availability of frequency channels. The future development of the Bluetooth system needs as an essential step a

new PHY layer allowing in WPAN scenario a new frequency range. Therefore, Bluetooth standardisation bodies

recently decided to use upper UWB frequency range (above 6 GHz) and UWB WiMedia solutions as enabler

[141], [142]. The current mass market WPAN protocol is Bluetooth 1.2, although the Bluetooth specification has

continued to develop and now exists at version 2.1 +EDR. The FP6 project PULSERS Phase II is investigating



and developing a hybrid Bluetooth/UWB VHDR radio demonstrator to illustrate the use of Bluetooth to discover

other VHDR capable devices and establish a VHDR connection [143]. However the main switching strategies are

still not defined and sufficiently specified. For example if we have a new version of the Bluetooth System (UWB

enabled) able also to provide Bluetooth operation using “state-of-the-art” PHY and frequency range in 2.4 GHz

and we want to communicate with the same device and also to communicate with old “sate of the art” device, one

needs to decide under what conditions and what level by what parameters using version 2 or version 3

communication is established. If those parameters are sufficiently defined investigation of the MAC enhancements

and PALs structures needs to be defined, realised, verified and provided to Bluetooth version 3 standardisation

process.

IEEE 802.15.3c is currently standardising a 60 GHz physical layer to support multi-Gbit/s data rates [144], [145].

This PHY will use the IEEE 802.15.3 MAC which is not the same as the WiMedia MAC. In general, it can be

expected that each PHY will come with a dedicated MAC layer, and multiplexing of the data and control paths

to/from the radios/applications will be done at the convergence/protocol adaptation layer. At this stage the PHY

issues of the 60 GHz radio systems are not finally set. Aim of the EUWB project is to influence this process by

providing suggestions for final PHY, MAC outlook of the 60 GHz system on one side and also coherent idea of

merging some of the UWB WiMedia functionalities advantageously also for using 60 GHz frequency range of

operations. This will allow fast deployment of the 60 GHz systems on the market using potential of the UWB

WiMedia systems which will start more intensively on the market in 2009. This EUWB proposed approach is

aiming of using 60 GHz range as natural extension of the new generation of the WiMedia devices in an

advantageous manner.

60 GHz systems have been investigated in the past also in the scope of the European projects Median and

Broadway [146], [147]. In those projects also OFDM based PHY for 60 GHz operations have been investigated. In

last 10 years enabling technologies have made 60 GHz RF blocks feasible using CMOS 65 nm technology and

SiGe (Bi-CMOS) solutions [148], [149], [150].

If data rates in the range of 10 Gbit/s are targeted in the 60 GHz range by use cases described mainly as

application specific point-to-point scenarios, a lot of WiMedia protocol features would be obsolete. As a result an

important point of innovation may be to define a sub-set of existing protocol features (minimising the system

overhead) that still permit bundling of the typical WiMedia channels. In the same time potential bundling of the

WiMedia OFDM channels will need some changes and adaptations compared to state-of-the-art WiMedia

solutions [151]. This would also mean to investigate bundling channels combined with increased modulation depth

of the OFDM carries, to skip frequency hopping and may be also to reduce number of the carriers to minimise the

influences of the phase noise. Reducing number of the carriers by 60 GHz operation mode could be tolerated due

to the fact that most probably the communication distance will be very small and channel characteristics will be

better compared to the typical WiMedia operation in 3–10 GHz range.

The results of this project will advance the state-of-the-art by defining and implementing:

Usage scenarios for multiband/multimode operations where switching from one system to the other and

from frequency band to frequency band is influenced by the:

- Type of typical application (range and channel behaviour) aiming 10 Gbit/s target;

- Traffic and QoS in main frequency bands;

- Local frequency regulation;

- Interference issues.

Issue how similar or same PHYs may be used for operation in the UWB spectrum related to the 60 GHz

range, starting point is OFDM related WiMedia approach with frequency bands about 500 MHz. Proposal

for adaptation of the new generation WiMedia + PHY set-up as enabler also for very high data rates up to

10 Gbit/s in 60 GHz range;

MAC interaction strategies together with CL/PAL architectures to map different QoS requirements onto

different radios;

Multiplexing strategies to support multiple applications over multiple radios;

Proposal for adaptation of the new generation WiMedia + MAC set-up as enabler for very high data rates

up to 10 Gbit/s in 60 GHz range;

These dedicated approaches should develop into a verification platform allowing multiband operation

based on the application scenarios developed. In this platform very advanced silicon solutions based on

recent novel word class advances will be used.



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[142] http://bluetooth.com/Bluetooth/Press/SIG/BLUETOOTH_SIG_SELECTS_WIMEDIA_ALLIANCE_

ULTRAWIDEBAND_TECHNOLOGY_FOR_HIGH_SPEED_BLUETOOTH_APPLICATION.htm

[143] (public PULSERS Phase II deliverables to be ready).

[144] IEEE 802.15.TG3c, Dual-Mode Broadband and Wireless Network (DMBWN): a backward compatible

system concept, 13 March 2007.

[145] IEEE 802.15.TG3c, High rate OFDM system for 60 GHz WPAN, January 2007.

[146] http://cordis.europa.eu/infowin/acts/analysys/products/thematic/atm/ch4/median.html

[147] http://www.ist-broadway.org/description.html

[148] P. Chevalier, D. Gloria: “Advanced SiGe BiCMOS and CMOS platforms for Optical and Millimeter-

Wave Integrated Circuits”, STMicroelectronics, 2006.

[149] W. Winkler, J. Borngraber: “60 GHz transceiver circuits in SiGe:C BiCMOS technology”, Sept. 2004.

[150] Yaoming Sun, Frank Herzel: “An Integrated 60 GHz Receiver Front-End in SiGe:C BiCMOS”, San

Diego, U.S.A., January 2006.

[151] Standard ECMA 368, 1st Edition, December 2005.

B1.2.5 UWB in Heterogeneous Access Networks

During the last decade, the idea of making to converge the diverse networks has been broadly discussed. The idea

of convergence can be explained from two main points of view: services (voice, data, media) and network

architecture (mobile, wireless, fixed), but a unique target is pursued: enabling a ubiquitous Network Access to a

pervasive Service Infrastructure.

It can be stated that the roadmap for future converged networks goes through homogeneity in the core and

platform services and heterogeneity in the access. In that way, the technologies enabling network access also

interoperate among them and with other complementary technologies (3G with Bluetooth, ADSL with WiFi …),

but their performance is still far from the aims of providing a truly mobile broadband experience, especially due to

the low data rates offered by those technologies and to the effort needed to obtain the required convergence. UWB

is a top-candidate technology to play a key role in this convergence process providing a reliable high speed

network access in picocells and enabling the provision of services that complement current services offered in

users‟ devices such as localisation in addition to communications. At this moment, the development is finishing its

first stage and in the near future UWB will contribute actively in the deployment of heterogeneous networks.

EUWB will back the converged issue within the framework of WP6, that will cope with an heterogeneous scenario

with different technologies providing wireless access in fixed-mobile converged networks. In WP6, UWB will be

considered to be merged following two different approaches. The first one includes the UWB devices available at

the beginning of the project and the aim will be their integration with the up-to-date network technologies

(HSDPA, WiMAX, ADSL2+). The second approach will be centred on the insertion of the advanced UWB in

future wireless networks.

Another key advance in the provision of services is the “context aware” concept, which uses the information of the

user‟s environment aiming to offer the most convenient service in each place and situation. For this reason,

obtaining a precise location of users is crucial to service and content providers. UWB will enable location aware

services thanks to its intrinsic capability of accurate ranging. To make profit of these features, WP6 will study the

inclusion of location information in service platforms that enables an easy deployment of novel applications.

It is necessary to analyse the current situation and expected evolution of the traditional networks towards the

convergence of a unified core network with different broadband accesses. In this way, a better understanding of the

role of UWB can play in this progress will be allowed.

From the side of the mobile cellular networks, at present, operators are deploying High Speed Downlink Packet

Access (HSDPA, 3.5G), as an evolution from UMTS, with theoretical peak rates up to 14 Mbit/s. High Speed

Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA, 3.75G) will follow HSDPA, providing the users with theoretical peak rates up to

5.76 Mbit/s in the uplink. Standardisation bodies are examining a series of enhancements to create HSPA

Evolution (HSPA+) and then a new 3GPP radio platform called 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE). The theoretical

peak data rate to be provided by LTE would be 100 Mbit/s on the downlink (using OFDMA and 20 MHz

bandwidth) and 50 Mbit/s on the uplink (using SC-FDMA and 20 MHz bandwidth).

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bluetooth-SIG-Goes-with-UWB-20628.shtml

http://cordis.europa.eu/infowin/acts/analysys/products/thematic/atm/ch4/median.html

http://www.ist-broadway.org/description.html



LTE will address the market needs of the next decade. After that, the operators could deploy the Fourth Generation

(4G) networks, using LTE technology as a foundation, based on IP and supporting full network agility for

handovers between different types of networks, aiming to provide up to 1 Gbit/s. Although there are not official

standards efforts yet for 4G, a group of predominant operators are working in specifying the requirements of future

NGMN networks.

To continue with the description of the advances to the convergence, the bandwidth and coverage area of WiMAX

make it suitable for providing high-speed data and telecommunications services. In fact, many European countries

have already awarded licenses for WiMAX networks deployment. The IEEE Standard 802.16e-2005, approved in

December 2005 adds mobility support to the WiMAX, that becomes another cellular mobile technology (proposed

as IP-OFDMA for inclusion as the sixth wireless link system under IMT-2000). Next step in the WiMAX

evolution is WiMAX II (802.16m), that will be proposed for IMT-Advanced 4G.

In PULSERS Phase II, the first efforts to achieve UWB interoperability with other wireless technologies have

been made by developing a simple demonstrator where a laptop interworks at higher layers both UMTS or

WiMAX and UWB interfaces, enabling to a single UWB device the access to the UMTS/WiMAX network.

One of the goals in EUWB is to go beyond this stage enabling studies and implementation providing end to end

QoS. Another goal of EUWB would be to have UWB and HSPA/WiMAX equipment integrated in the same

enclosure for the Gateway in the house. To do so, innovative mechanisms to avoid interferences would be

necessary.

On the other hand, a peaceful UWB coexistence with other radio technology has to be guaranteed. In the proposed

UWB regulatory draft, UWB interference is reduced by the inclusion of a restrictive PSD of UWB in the UMTS

frequency bands (-85 dBm/MHz around 2 GHz). This PSD limit was proposed based on simulated studies and real

measurements to avoid noise floor increment due to aggregation of UWB power emissions. However, the

frequency bands for LTE and 4G systems are not still allocated and may be placed in bands where the current

regulatory proposal allows higher UWB PSD levels. In fact, in the WRC07 (ITU-World Radio Conference) some

of the frequency bands proposed to host IMT-Advanced are around 4 GHz, where the UWB PSD level is

-41 dBm/MHz if efficient mitigation techniques are used, and -70 dBm/MHz otherwise. EUWB will study the

coexistence with UWB and propose and evaluate the efficiency of mitigation techniques. It is important to realise,

that the regulatory process only guarantees a peaceful coexistence when UWB is not in the same equipment as the

victim radio. For this reason, the interference avoidance pursued in EUWB would not be solved by the

“regulation” but by manufacturer‟s studies and implementations. The needed mechanisms would then be studied

and implemented in the WP6 of EUWB.

To understand the UWB role in the operator service platforms, it is needed to revise the current situation and

expected evolution of the fixed-mobile convergence process. Up to this moment, there have been decisive steps in

converged direction. The inclusion of gateways to access packet-switched networks, as Internet, in the IMT-2000

architecture was a first approach towards the convergence with fixed networks. Another interesting example of

converge is IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem), aiming to specifying an architecture that enables interoperability for

provisioning services. In WP6, it is foreseen the analysis of use cases of location services to extract the

requirements of advanced and innovative service platforms. These requirements could provide some inputs to IMS

specification. Traditional fixed networks operators have made also efforts for achieving coexistence, by working

together in TISPAN (Telecoms and Internet converged Services and Protocols for Advanced Networks), a group

on IMS in 2005 with the aim of enabling it to work with fixed networks. The intrinsic characteristics of UWB

allow the deployment of novel services offered by developments like Wireless USB or Bluetooth 3.0, both

supported by WiMedia.

Finally, on the side of the network access itself, the most popular fixed accesses used for final users are xDSL and

HFC, using as complement WiFi connectivity in the customer premises for enabling a wireless access. The current

objective in xDSL technologies is to leverage from ADSL2+ to VDSL, whose target is in 100 Mbit/s. Another

interesting alternative is the use of FTTx (Fibre To The Home, Curb, Block …) that would enable even higher data

rates. Beyond 55 Mbit/s of 802.11g, other technologies should be used and UWB is one of the best positioned,

thanks to its higher data rates and low power emissions. These features make UWB a key technology in the

deployment of multimedia networks at home. An example of this capability is the current demonstrator in

PULSERS Phase II for high quality video transmission from DVRs to HDTVs. In EUWB, the integration of

EUWB in access network equipment will allow the inclusion of UWB in xDSL routers.



B1.2.6 Open UWB Technology Platforms

Existing UWB chips and design kits are closed environments without the needed flexibility to support a large range

of applications. For the research the platforms are closed and can not be extended. Specifically the interfaces are

limited. The EUWB open technology platforms should solve these issues. The WP “Open Technology Platforms”

will provide two open UWB technology platforms for Low Data Rate with Location and Tracking (LDR-LT)

applications and for High and Very High Data Rate ((V)HDR) communication applications. The tight coupling

between the different component (RF, BB and lower layer MAC) does not allow a simple access and manipulation

of the different blocks in the system. Here the open communication platform will add well defined access point

and abstraction layer in order to allow the user a simplified integration and usage of the platforms. Both open

platforms will be based on standards with modifications if needed for specific applications. The LDR-LT platforms

will implement main part of the IEEE 802.15.4a standard, whereas the open (V)HDR platform is based on the

ECMA 368/369 UWB standard developed by the WiMedia SIG.

For the integration and demonstration work performed in the corresponding WPs the “Open Technology

Platforms” WP will give a comprehensive technical support by providing the needed manuals, training and support

resources during the integration phase to the application and research WPs.

The UWB LDR-LT open platform key building blocks in terms of performance, risk and investments are the PHY

chipset due to the fact that IR-UWB technology requires innovative architectures and clever compromises to

balance in particular power consumption and sensitivity. In particular, the IEEE 802.15.4a standard was build to

support a wide set of possible receiver implementations spanning from the simplest non coherent energy collection

receiver to the high performance coherent RAKE receiver. So far, most of the implementations targeted low power

consumption at the expense of a probable reduced sensitivity or reduced robustness to interferers at receiver side.

Some example implementations use energy collection, down conversion followed by a single finger Rake receiver

or high speed digital subsampling on 1 bit, all of them leading to different performance trade-offs, analog digital

partitioning, scalability, etc. On the transmitter side, the power consumption advantage of UWB systems over

equivalent narrow band systems is nearly proven.

The proposed PHY architecture for the LDR-LT open platform, both for transmit and receive, is massively digital,

based on CMOS technology and puts forward scalability and compliance to several different modes available in

the standard. The receiver architecture is also expected to have some capabilities of enhancements towards

cognitive radio architectures on the one side and towards advanced antenna sub-systems on the other side. The

architecture is also ranging capable, with search engines using a 1ns time resolution.

B1.2.7 UWB Application Environments

Public Transport

Wireless technologies have almost no applications in the current public transport environment. The introduction of

this technology could open the possibility to a number of potential applications.

Short range wireless communication could be used to offer services inside the transport compartment for passenger

internal communication (e.g. internet access, distribution of multimedia information to normal passengers and

tourists like time table, information about the trip and the tourist features, entertainment, hotels, restaurants,

advertisements), as well to replace cables for data communication between devices installed in the machine

(sensors for machine health and usage monitoring, lights, switches, ticketing machine, monitoring cameras, etc.).

The localisation capabilities provided by UWB should also be used to increase the flexibility and to provide auto

configuration capabilities for the network architecture (location based routing algorithms, channel allocation, etc.)

and for the devices (“plug and play” installation). This will save weight and in particular will save manual

configuration effort. In addition it will enable automatic detection of on-board items inside vehicles.

Automotive Environment

In the automotive environment, until now wireless technologies have only been introduced as an accessory,

communicating with a fixed infrastructure. Prominent examples are mobile telephones, radio reception and

navigation. Only recently, generic automotive applications like car to car and car to infrastructure communication

gained some traction. Additionally, applications like keyless entry or tire pressure measurement employ only very

simple proprietary wireless data transmission techniques. Such narrowband solutions achieve only limited

reliability in dense environments. Specialised wireless applications inside a car are virtually unknown.



Typically, the in-car environment is very tough for any wireless application. The metal shielding of the car body

and changing occupation with passengers or load leads to complex propagation characteristics. These

characteristics have to be addressed, in order to achieve reliable functionality for wireless applications. With this

knowledge and UWB as basic technology, a novel technical approach to wireless data communication and location

tracking inside a car is possible.

Two basic application scenarios are envisioned inside a car. First, wireless connection of a sensor in the engine

compartment to its electronic control unit, thereby replacing the automotive CAN/LIN bus wiring. Secondly,

tracking the position of a small low-power tag inside and in close proximity of a car with high spatial resolution.

Suggested use cases are car access, driver authorisation and personalised user-settings.

Wireless technology increases the flexibility of the car at production and in use, by reducing cabling effort and

complexity. Hard to reach locations can be easily connected to the car infrastructure. Using location tracking

technology, novel comfort systems can be introduced, enabling passenger-aware interaction of the car‟s human

machine interface.

Intelligent Home

In the home environment the growing assortment of HD TV broadcasts, video programmes, movies, games and

user generated material is pushing the quality of the user experience to new heights for home environment

applications. A parallel increase in the penetration of wireless connectivity at home has also placed new challenges

for the wireless streaming of these contents within the home (and mainly in-room) in relation to the very high data

rates required, the level of quality of service expected and the new user expectation for total immersion in the

entertainment experience. The novel techniques developed for in-room localisation and tracking using UWB

combined with audio tuning algorithms that can adapt to the user location provide an optimum listening

experience and can offer exciting opportunities for enriched home environment experience. Combining this with

the available bandwidth at the 60 GHz band can also open the opportunity of streaming HD quality video contents

wirelessly in the room hence offering user flexibility and control, freedom from cable clutter and at the same time

offering very high levels of entertainment quality and robustness.

B1.2.8 Regulation and Standardisation

For the regulation the main target is to influence the planned update(s) of the European UWB regulation in a way

to improve the conditions to apply UWB-RT based systems and to prove the coexistence and interoperability by

practical empirical results to further convince stakeholder of existing radio technology to share the spectrum. The

evaluation of the WRC 2007 conference is considered important as new requirements for the protection level for

the new frequency spectrum assignments will need to be defined and care must be taken to identify the appropriate

scenarios and mitigation techniques to be applied in the bands below 4.8 GHz. In addition to these general

advances some special application environments are targeted to be added to the list of allowed UWB-RT

application environments. While adding the road and rail vehicles to the allowed user environments the partners

have been successful already on TG3 and ECC level, we expect, that after the public consultation this will become

already end of 2007 part of the updated EU UWB regulation. The generic decision of the ECC (Dec (06) 04) takes

this aspects now into account. However, for the application inside aircraft, where UWB is currently considered by

AIRBUS, a major European aircraft manufacturer, as a very promising radio technology with significantly less

interference potential than other radio technologies, there is no activity started yet. This is planned together with

the AIRBUS company (which is not part of the consortium, but indirectly involved by its mother concern EADS).

In standardisation the expected advances are clearly defined by the updates of the existing initial versions and the

introduction of new harmonised standards respectively. Here the update of ETSI EN 302500 as well as the

introduction of the new ETSI standard for enhanced use, ETSI EN 302501 is considered an important step to

enhance the performance of the LDR-LT systems as well as to enable them to be applied also in other than purely

indoor scenarios. The update of the initial 802.15.4a will allow to take into account the changed regulation

environment we expect to have after evaluation and processing of the WRC2007 and subsequent rules definition in

the RSCOM and CEPT ECC. The updated version of ETSI EN 302066 will be mainly addressing the definition of

the technical specification for the mitigation techniques resulting from the protection criteria defined in CEPT

ECC TG3 already in 2007 and possibly in CEPT ECC WGSE in 2008 after the WRC2007.

The updated version of the high data rate UWB standard defined in WiMedia, ECMA and subsequently ISO are

targeted to contain additional operation modes taking into account our partners request for more robust modes.

The participation in IEEE 802.15.3c has as a target to define PHY and MAC for very high data rate modes to

transmit wireless multimedia mainly peer-to-peer.



The work in PT1900.4 defining the Cognitive Pilot Channel is essential to enable the future data aided mitigation

techniques to be applied in future generation UWB devices enhancing performance and robustness significantly.

This will broaden the scope of the applicability of UWB devices and potentially opens the door for increased

transmit power level.

There is a general need to improve the regulatory process to save time to market, reducing the costs for the process

on the industry side whilst protecting the existing radio services on a sufficient technical level. The European

industry pooled in EUWB is at first primary focussed on the European market. Nevertheless, investments in new

technologies like UWB make it necessary to cover a world wide market to justify these investments and to

establish an European market leadership in this technology. Precondition therefore is to be aware on regulation

activities running in parallel in the other regions of the world as e.g. in the U.S.A. (FCC) and the Asian Pacific

Telecommunity (APT: Japan, China, Korea, Singapore, Australia.). Further it is considered essential as well to

support the regulatory bodies in that regions with conclusions, reports, decisions and strategies to enforce

regulations which fit the interests of the European industry taking into account the already existing radio service

infrastructure in that regions.

One example is the participation in the public consultation process requested by the Info-Communications

Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) where the regulatory framework for devices using UWB technology is

under development. Close contact and information exchange with the APT Sub-Working Group 5 (Sub-WG 5 –

RFID and UWB) has to be maintained and improved.

Commercial aspects included in regulatory (national) decisions like different kind of licensing schemes have to be

taken into account. Especially the frequency range below 6 GHz seems to be handled in different countries with

different requirements (country specific different PSD in different frequency segments depending on certain

mitigation techniques).

Regulatory Activities in APT Countries

In the Asian Pacific region, some APT member countries like Japan and the Republic of Korea have implemented

a regulatory framework to permit unlicensed use of UWB devices in indoor environment, while others like

Singapore and Hong Kong have established UWB trials within localised zones. In the case of Singapore, a UWB

Friendly Zone (UFZ) was created in the Science Park II for UWB developers to conduct realistic field

experiments. EUWB partners have used this opportunity to work in this advanced environment and to gain early

results for coexistence investigations, which were presented then via IDA and the Swiss administration in ITU

TG1/8 at that time. Hong Kong, on the other hand, allocates the 3.1–10.6 GHz band for UWB indoor trials and the

4.2–10.6 GHz band for outdoor trials.

In Japan, the preliminary mask for UWB was announced back in September 2005. Subsequent compatibility

studies show that UWB devices operating in the 3.4–4.2 GHz band should incorporate interference mitigation

techniques. However, devices are allowed to operate in the 4.2–4.8 GHz band without mitigation techniques until

end of December 2008. Other technical conditions are imposed for UWB radio systems operating in the 3.4–

10.25 GHz band, see Figure 1Figure 1 for Japan‟s emission mask.

For the Republic of Korea, the spectrum allocation for UWB starts from 3.1 to 10.2 GHz, similar to that specified

by FCC, but different emission mask adopted to accommodate its spectrum environment. Considering that

mitigation techniques such as Detect and Avoid (DAA) are not validated yet, and the importance to avoid harmful

interference to IMT-Advanced system and broadcasting relay system, Korea requires UWB devices operating in

the 4.2–4.8 GHz band to use DAA technology from July 2010.

The Asia region is still in an evolutionary phase related to the implementation of UWB into their regulatory

schemes. During this phase, regulatory bodies of those countries are looking to the regulatory process which is on

the way in Europe on which they rely more then to the FCC. Examples of different regulation results are shown in

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3.4–4.8 GHz -41.3 Unlicensed.

Indoor use only. Allocated

For devices that are not equipped with any

interference mitigation techniques, the

average power shall be -70 dBm/MHz and

the peak power shall be -64 dBm/MHz.

Over a frequency band from 4.2–4.8 GHz,

devices are allowed to be used without any

interference mitigation techniques until

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7.25–10.25 GHz -41.3 Unlicensed.


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Korea

3.1–4.8 GHz -41.3

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DAA technology*

shall be used. (This provision will be

applied from July 2010,

for 4.2–4.8 GHz.)

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harmful interference to IMT-advanced

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For localised use only.

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by-case basis.

Q3 2007

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mitigation techniques the PSD limit shall

be at -41.3 dBm/MHz. For devices without

mitigation techniques, the permitted PSD

limit is -70 dBm/MHz.

6.0–8.5 GHz -41.3

Unlicensed.

For localised use only.

Imaging devices shall

be licensed on a case-

by-case basis.

Q3 2007

U.S.A. 3.1–10.6 GHz -41.3 Unlicensed.


Europe

3.4–4.8 GHz -41.3

Unlicensed.

Not to be used at fixed

outdoor location.

Allocated

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Cycle, the permissible PSD limit shall be

at -41.3 dBm/MHz. Otherwise, the

permissible PSD limit is -85 dBm/MHz in

the 1.6–3.8 GHz band and -70 dBm/MHz

in the 3.8–6.0 GHz band.

6.0–8.5 GHz -41.3

Unlicensed.

Not to be used at fixed

outdoor location.

Allocated

Table 33: Frequency identification for systems using UWB technology.



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B1.3 S/T Methodology and Associated Work Plan

B1.3.1 Overall Strategy and General Description

The EUWB project is a medium-term effort to significantly drive the research and technology development

necessary for the application of enhanced UWB systems in future public and personal communications as well as

in industrial and private sensor and tag systems. Ambitious targets for the project have been set in terms of the

maximum data rates, technological advances (e.g. multiple antenna, cognitive signalling, multiband/multimode

UWB), coexistence, interoperability and innovative combinations of UWB and positioning for LDR-LT as for

VHDR-LT as well. As such all expected impact and key outcomes referred to in the ICT work programme under

objective ICT-2007.1.1 are addressed and will be covered by this project as it is explained in Section B1.1 in

detail. In addition, even a few topics of objective ICT-2007.1.5 are covered to a minor extend. To bring the

ambitious goals to fruition will require the commitment of a large number of partners in the project providing the

critical mass necessary to reach the ambitious objectives of the project. 22 partners from 10 countries within

Europe, the Near East and Asia, leading the field of UWB R&D, have combined their excellence and resources to

continue their successful collaboration in the field of UWB technology and application.

Figure 55: EUWB project history and partners excellence.

Although the project is not a third phase of the PULSERS project, it can be considered as a logical continuation of

selected PULSERS Phase II activities in terms of regulation and standardisation and technology development

adding now in particular additional innovation activities on system level and focusing on preparing the legal and

technical ground for integration into specific key economic industrial environments, where there is the most acute

need for this technology to be applied. Besides PULSERS Phase II, also other previously running EU R&D projects

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and points on the fact that with the time elapsing, the impact of the projects on the economic environment is

increasing.

This is reflected in the increased effort for standardisation activities and even for strong effort towards further

enhancing the regulatory environment ensuring the applicability of UWB in the target application scenarios. While

in the previous projects the focus was on basic principles and to close the gap to the U.S.A., which was leading the

field, now it can be considered to move the focus on combining the basically understood UWB technology with

advanced methods evolved developing other radio technologies and to streamline the work to fit the systems

concepts into the major application environments.

Therefore the consortium has been selected carefully to include the field leading partners and to increase the

involvement of the application oriented research and development. The consortium is considered large and

therefore the average man power pear year is about 50 assuming a total man power of about 1,800 person months

for 3 years, which provided significant crucial mass to set up an efficient work structure described in the

following. The detailed planned resource allocation for EUWB is shown in Section B1.3.7. The project team

decided to apply for a three years time frame. This will ensure the verification platforms to be complemented

sufficiently time before the end of the project to be able to run test and verification trials.

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Figure 66: Work package structure of EUWB.

From an administrative and technical point of view the work is basically organised into 9 work packages (WPs),

sub-work packages called tasks and so called logical clusters. While the work packages reflect the administrative

and technical global project structure the tasks are major parts within a work package dedicated to specific

challenges and work on specific management, scientific or technological topics. So far this is a well known and

proven structure to divide the wok in larger R&D projects such as Integrated Projects (IP). However evaluating the

FP6 large IPs a major issue in many of them was the communication between work packages, because they where

considered in some cases more or less isolated sub-projects. In EUWB this is not the case and in contrast there is a

very strong interaction between the work packages required, as defined in the detailed task descriptions. To

manage this complex interactions between tasks from different work packages an innovative logical cluster

structure has been developed for this project. This new approach and its detailed structure is explained in more

depth in Sections B2.1.1. It is a new key element for managing the complex relations between tasks from different

work packages in a goal oriented manner.

Concerning the work package structure with this section an overview and in the next one, Section B1.3.1.1, a

detailed text description is provided. All administrative management tasks are concentrated into a single

management work package (WP1) while the actual research and development is split into six innovation research

and technology work packages (WP2–WP7). One more work package is application and integration research

oriented (WP8) and one dedicated work package is covering all regulation and standardisation activities. In

Figure 6Figure 6 this structure is depicted, where the different patterns reflect the nature of the various work

packages. For three of the key application scenarios the related innovative integration work is concentrated in

WP8 as there where some common elements detected. In addition to that the WP6 contains also application and



integration oriented research and development work for the fourth one, which is the heterogeneous access network

scenario. WP7 is providing the advanced technology platforms for VHDR-LT and LDR-LT and will updated these

platforms during the project considering the inputs from the project. As this could be hardly financed from the

somewhat limited resources within such a project the partners WIS, TESUK and CEA have committed to provide

major parts of the technology on their own costs, even if it will be open platforms to be used by all work packages

and partners. WP9 is a dedicated work package on regulation and standardisation. Without describing the WP in

detail a short motivation for that is given already in this general section.

It is considered important to understand, that a dedicated work package is required. EUWB consortium commits to

be highly active within the European and global standardisation process. Partners are already the driving forces

through their individual involvement and due to their active participation within the PULSERS Phase II project.

The standardisation processes have been started, with the IEEE 802.15.4a, in which many EUWB partners are

participating, but also in ETSI TG31a and TG31c and ECMA 368 and 369, recently being transferred to become

an ISO standard, basically driven by our project partners. In addition the IEEE P1900.4 was started recently, where

one of the PULSERS partner is vice chair of the group as well. The focus of EUWB will be on coexistence and

interoperability of various UWB systems. Those standardisation activities will ensure to be able to reflect the

project results also in updated versions of the standards during the project. Figure 7 shows, what are the key

elements in the project concerning standardisation and that they are originating from several different activities

split across several work packages.

Figure 77: Logical structure of regulation and standardisation related activities across various WPs.

In addition, the rapid evolution of UWB in the regulation bodies means that EUWB must be continuously active in

this area as well. This is seen in close relation to the standardisation and is included in WP9 as well. Many of the

EUWB partners are already highly active in European and American regulation and standardisation bodies. A

number of potential use cases of UWB, as considered in the EUWB scenarios, are severely restricted in existing

American and recently released European as well as Japanese regulations. The inputs of EUWB will be used to

further drive an evolutionary development in the regulation to permit the full potential of UWB systems to be

realised. This evolutionary process, being driven by inputs from EUWB, will necessarily span the full project‟s life

time.

The interconnections between work packages and the tasks can be seen in detail in Section B1.3.2, and the

involvement of each partner is explained in Section B1.3.5. The highly interconnected nature of the work packages

is a strength of EUWB. However, it also represents a significant risk. Results form one work package are relying

on inputs from another, and many results are the combination of results from several work packages. This risk is

mitigated in part by the nature of the logical cluster activities within the project.

EUWB will focus on developing the extremes of the capabilities of UWB technology, developing Low Data Rate

(LDR) and Very High Data Rate (VHDR) communication systems with and without Location and Tracking (LT)

capabilities. The project will build on the work of previous projects and partners excellence to develop

comprehensive system concepts and integrated application platforms for LDR-LT and VHDR-LT and LDR-

VHDR-LT, as well as pursuing advanced research topics in multiple antenna UWB systems, cognitive radio in



UWB, multiband/multimode UWB operation and advanced location tracking implementations. Detailed work

package descriptions are given in the Section B1.3.5.

Identification of Significant Risks and Contingency Plans

Within a project such as EUWB, where 22 partners work towards a set of common objectives, there exist internal

temporal dependencies between tasks or work packages which may result in some unforeseen delays in the

project, or require alternative solutions in case that a deliverable is not available at the planned point in time. Such

situations may require re-planning of work. Potential operational risk can also occur during the decision-making

process or because of appearing (during the project) different and/or changing interests between project partners.

Furthermore, the amount and quality of the delivered results by a partner may not comply with the expectations of

other partners relying on the results, or a partner may not adhere to his commitments. Other risks arise because of

the relatively large number of partners. To minimise this kind of risk, the EUWB consortium partners clearly

specify the organisation of the work between the partners, define an effective management structure for the project

and define the rights and obligations of the partners. The latter is explicitly laid down in the Consortium

agreement, which has been established already before the beginning of the project, and an updated version is

planned for the project, if necessary. It will be set into force with commencement of the project. (likelihood LOW,

impact LOW-MEDIUM).

Coexistence with Incumbent Services

One issue crucial for UWB-RT development and deployment is that of coexistence with other, existing, services,

within whose spectral bands UWB radio devices might radiate. One particular source of concern is the reluctance

of some network operators to allow third parties to use frequency bands for which they have spent huge licensing

sums, either in “beauty contests” or through public auctions.

Since EUWB aims to be an Integrated Project of a highly technical nature, its partners will make every effort to

follow whatever UWB-related spectrum regulations apply at any particular time of the project‟s lifetime. Moreover,

as a result of its research, EUWB will continue to make dedicated efforts to submit suitable contributions to the

appropriate regulatory bodies (CEPT ECC TG3, EC RSC, ITU TG 1/8); these activities will support and enhance

the diffusion of UWB radio products in harmony with incumbent telecommunication services.

It is important to mention that some of the large industrial partners involved in EUWB are currently making part

of their revenues from wireless components and products that use parts of the spectrum targeted for UWB. It is

hence their interest to find the best compromise, and thus to allow coexistence of UWB with already existing

systems.

While the U.S.A. has adopted a legal status for the marketing and use of UWB radio devices, at the time of writing

there is only one initial similar Europe-wide regulations covering the use of UWB, although efforts are underway

within both CEPT and ETSI to accomplish updates on the basis of the three mandates of the EC, as discussed

above. It is the stated intent of EUWB to continue to contribute actively in the preparation of future regulations in

Europe and world-wide. To this end, relevant project partners have already submitted technical data and petitions

to CEPT, ETSI, ITU and IEEE. A core group of partners in EUWB has made their awareness of this subject as

well as their intentions and current actions clear to the European Commission (PP6 UWB/BAI/S&RM cluster

activities).

Management of Risks

The various risks outlined above can be minimised as already indicated, and by following a contingency path.

Operational Risks – The responsible persons in the specific project area, i.e. work package, will identify deviations

from the relevant deliverables and milestones and communicate these deviations to the relevant management

functions established in the project (QM, PM). In addition, the members of the Project Co-ordination Committee

(PCC), i.e. the Project Manager and its deputies, have the responsibility to monitor regularly the status of the

project. In the case of undue impact on other project entities, alternative solutions or appropriate re-planning will

be initiated. The implemented decision processes and close co-operation between relevant partners in the technical

work areas reduces the risk for major differences. Basically, all decisions within the project are consensus driven,

i.e. by the Project Assembly. Deadlocked situations are handled by the Management Board (MB). Disagreements

on strategic issues arising from differing interests of some partners will be handled by the Project Assembly or the

MB, following the rules in the Consortium agreement. Whenever the amount and quality of work, including

potential delays, deadlines, and commitment of a partner, are inadequate, one of the PCC-members will alert the

affected partners and WP-leaders, detail the problem, and describe the possible impact on the project. In case of



failure to alleviate the problem, appropriate measures will be taken to mitigate any possible damage; in the worst

case, a partner may be removed from the project and, whenever possible, its duties will be taken up by partners

within the consortium (some level of overlap of expertise between partners will facilitate such unlikely situations).

PCC and MB with hierarchical organisation will operate to facilitate delegation of control, structured synthesis

processes and decision making in critical situations. Pre-emptive mitigation measures are also the splitting of work

into well-separated work packages with clear objectives and required expertise, i.e. partners have been selected

after careful verification of their expertise in their field of application (only skilled partners, not “here-to-learn”

partners). The EUWB project is planned with strong interdependence between work packages Since EUWB

includes key PULSERS partners, technical work relationships and practices are already well established between a

large subset of EUWB partners.

Coexistence with Incumbent Services – As a result of its research, EUWB will make dedicated efforts to continue

to submit suitable contributions to the appropriate regulatory bodies (in Europe currently CEPT WG FM47 and

CEPT WG SE24). In parallel technical complementary activities are driven by EUWB project partners in ETSI

ERM TGUWB. The focus there is on validating mitigation techniques to support the regulation process and

technical implementation of regulatory measures. These activities will support and enhance the diffusion of UWB

radio products in harmony with incumbent telecommunication services.

Technical Risks – Planned mitigating measures have been outlined already above. In addition, each work package

will evaluate potential technologies and concepts. In this way, unrealistic solutions, e.g. in terms of feasibility,

complexity or even the laws of physics, are identified early, and the most practical and economic solution can be

selected. The impact of competing technical solutions is minimised following the path of consensus building,

which is important when dealing with standardisation issues at the project level.

To ensure an effective and successful course for the project, the management is focussing on information flow,

reporting and evaluation of results. The central issue of the technical management is to assure high quality

research and development, as well as an optimised dissemination of new results among the consortium members.

Quality assurance issues are dealt with by the Project Co-ordination Committee (PCC) in a first level, and by the

Management Board (MB) in a second stage.

A high quality standard of information, reports and deliverables is essential for the project. Thus, quality

objectives and quality assurance procedures have to be developed and applied. For that purpose, a Quality

handbook (QHB) has been set up. The main objectives of this handbook are to achieve clients‟ satisfaction, to

increase the consortium internal efficiency, and to increase the quality of the project results. Three main types of

clients can be identified:

The European Commission in connection with the Contract;

The potential end-users of (or people and companies interested in) EUWB results, including European

research centres, and representatives of regulation authorities;

EUWB partners relying on the work of previous stages inside the project performed by other partners.

The QHB will be maintained throughout the entire duration of the EUWB project. Therefore, progress and

changes in the project will be documented in a sequence of versions.

Particular risks related to the implementation of the work packages and to the contingency planning are described

in the following paragraphs.

Some potential risks relate to the proposed activity in terms of implementation issues, due to the potential

complexity, memory requirements, real-time computation needs and power consumption, associated with the

proposed Cognitive Radio solutions. In particular, with reference to the UWB HDR/LDR platforms available for

the EUWB project, it is possible that only a subset of CR functions could be demonstrated a in practical way. For

more complex networking scenarios, for example including the CPC channel usage, simulations maybe used

instead to validate the concepts.

A potential risk related to the proposed activity is the computational complexity of the proposed solutions. In

particular, it is not guaranteed that the platforms available for the EUWB consortium have all the necessary

capabilities to demonstrate the location and tracking algorithms, especially in terms of their behaviour in complex

scenarios. In such cases, simulations maybe used instead to validate the concepts.

Poor availability of off-the-shelf integrated up/down converters in 60 GHz range Currently there is a

60 GHz front-end IC under development within the TES Group. This IC shall be available from early

2010 and could possibly be used as a backup solution;



Delayed delivery of the integrated multiband platform to the application work package (public transport)

The standard HDR platform from Intel, Staccato Communications or Wisair can be used instead. This

case would be indicated by an intermediate deliverable dedicated to the implementation of the multiband

UWB platform.

The integration of UWB into heterogeneous access networks has a high dependency on the evolution of other

access networks. For this reason, this WP covers a first approach of UWB integration into up-to-date access

technologies, and so independent on the evolution of these networks. There is a second approach that will study

the way of integrating UWB into future access networks and will promote the usage of UWB in seamless and

converged heterogeneous networks. This approach will track the evolution and so there is no risk of not achieving

any interoperability with UWB as that will be done in the first approach.

Platform delivery delay due to chip and software development delay (WIS, STC and CEA) The WP

has a stepwise approach in order to limit the risk of a non existing open platform to a minimum. The

initial versions of the open platforms are mainly based on running developments (PULSERS Phase II and

internal developments in STC, WIS and TESUK). An initial set of demonstration and integration work

can already be performed using this initial platform at the very beginning of the project. The further

versions of the platform will be compatible with the initial version. The developed software will be easily

portable to the new version.

The major risk for the home environment application scenario is that the LT and multiband technology platforms

are not available in time for integration into application demonstration platform. As this technology is state-of-the-

art it could not be replaced in its functionality by any other device for this project.

The counter measure is to ensure that the set of requirements are detailed enough so that the integration effort can

be started with least complications and that an intermediary platform can be made available as early as possible for

the integration work to start at early stages.

For the automotive application scenario the main risk is related to the UWB technology availability as well, but in

addition there is also a risk from the legal point of view:

Extended technology platforms are not available in time to be integrated into application demonstrators;

Specific regulatory and standardisation issues limit the application of UWB in the public transport and

automotive environment (here an intermediate success was reached in the update of the EU regulation

allowing the usage of UWB devices installed in road and rail vehicles under certain conditions, however

this is not sufficient for all envisaged applications up to now and further work is ongoing in ETSI and

CEPT).

Appropriate countermeasures are as follows:

As for the home environment preliminary versions of the extended platform should be made available to

WP8 in order to start the integration in time;

Additional resources to support the work performed in WP9 should be made available to allow parallel

work due to late arrival of the new technology platforms.

For the automotive environment, an additional technical risk is the in-car propagation channel. It may be found

much worse than expected and effectively prohibits any meaningful data communication or location application

with the current spectral power density limits allowed by the regulation. In this particular case a possible counter

measure would be to start an initiative in ETSI TGUWB via WP9, which should address an extension of the

current regulatory framework.

In regulation and standardisation, the time necessary to obtain a harmonised standard may exceed the project

duration. This is due to the fact that in front of a standardisation the regulation has to be roughly completed on

CEPT level following the existing formal processes. For certain application aspects (e.g. automotive environment) it

may be possible that required spectral power levels will not be accepted by CEPT.

From the technical side, it may not be possible to enforce the required technical parameters necessary to ensure the

proper performance of the applications. The update of regulations is a slow process. The time which is necessary

for a regulatory decision (output independent) is typically >2.5 year if a new frequency mask or power levels are

required for an application which are not already covered by an existing CEPT ECC decision or the EC regulation.

To have a harmonised standard following the R&TTE directive publicised in the OJ of the European Commission

a time frame between 1.5 to 4 years can be assumed. Even a successful regulation may be very limited in its scope

and may prohibit application variations derived from the activities of WP8. Intense ongoing discussions with the



regulatory bodies and political consultations with the European Commission will be necessary to assure progress

and a successful result.

B1.3.1.1 Project Implementation

WP1 – Project Management

Concerning the project management in this section only a short summary is given, while the details of the project

management structure and processes are explained in a dedicated Section B2.1.

Immediately after project start the Project Manager (PM), which is defined by the Co-ordinator, will establish a

management model based on a three-layer structure to steer and control the scientific and technological as well as

the administrative progress in the project. It consist of Project Co-ordination Committee (PCC), Management

Board (MB) and Project Assembly (PA).

The PCC is formed by 3 persons, the Project Manager (PM), his deputy (DPM) and the Quality Manager (QM).

The PCC is ensuring the day-to-day project office operation. It will be proposed by the PM and will be approved

by the PA during the kick-off meeting. It represent the executive body steering and controlling the project. It is

responsible for assuring a smooth collaboration within the consortium. It will handle all emerging problems and is

able to call the MB and the PA to take decisions according to the Consortium agreement (CA). The deputy of the

PM is explicitly responsible to manage the Ethical Issues in the project and is considered therefore at the same

time to be the Ethical Issues Manager (EIM).

For smooth the week-to-week running and scientific and technical management of the project, the MB will be set

up, consisting of the leaders of the nine project work packages and a number of extra board members to be defined

during the kick-off meeting. The PM will chair the MB. This concept has been proven to operate very efficient in

previous large scale public funded research projects. The main task of the MB is to support the Project Co-

ordination Committee (PCC) in scientific and technological matters, and furthermore provide support with respect

to certain administrative tasks. It will meet bi-weekly in phone conferences and report to the PM the progress of

work and risks encountered. Besides communication and reporting tasks the MB will review projects reports and

deliverables, and decide on approving. Since the Project Manager and the Quality Manager are Work Package

Leaders at the same time, and therefore members of the Management Board, a close collaboration and interaction

between MB and PCC will be guaranteed.

The workload of the project will be performed by all partners in different levels of collaboration according to the

respective task. The work will be organised in work packages (WPs) according to the scientific and technical

contents. The work package structure will also serve as the management structure for project execution. However,

to strengthen the relations between tasks of different work packages a so called “logical cluster” structure has been

developed in preparing this project. According to the application scenarios the project work flow contains

significant interactions between the various work packages. These interactions are defined by the logical cluster

structure in terms of timing and input/requirements and output/deliverable mapping of the various tasks involved.

Iterative processes appear in some cases where a refinement of assumptions becomes necessary due to other tasks

work results.

Each work package will have one responsible technical leader, responsible for the timely and proper completion of

the work package‟s deliverables.

The co-ordination and management in WP1 is one of the integrating work packages and will ensure coherent work

between the various scientific and technical tasks (mainly in WP2–WP8), as well as smooth transitions between

project Phases. The comprehensive management description provided in Section B2.1 is applicable here as well

and does not need to be repeated at this place.

The management strategy described in this section has been proven to be effective and will serve for the technical

WPs of the EUWB project in a manner as to minimise project overhead and maximise information flow, and

therefore maximise the efficiency of resource usage.

Detailed descriptions of tasks, deliverables and milestones are provided in Sections B1.3.3, B1.3.4 and B1.3.5.

WP2 – Cognitive UWB Radio and Coexistence

The work to be performed within the Work Package on Cognitive Radio (CR) and Coexistence can be classified

according to three main categories: i) R&D, ii) Application and iii) Experimentation.

Research and Development



Cognitive Radio is a paradigm for wireless communication in which a network node changes its transmission or

reception parameters to communicate efficiently without interfering with coexisting users. This alteration of

parameters is based on the active monitoring of several factors in the external and internal radio environment, such

as radio frequency spectrum, user behaviour and network state. The basic cognition cycle, as introduced by Mitola

in 1999, is shown schematically in Figure 8Figure 8.

Figure 88: The cognition cycle (Mitola, 1999).

In the context of the EUWB project, and in particular within WP.2, the research tasks will be aimed at enhancing

the current UWB radio technology, by enabling Cognitive Radio functionalities, namely:

Spectrum sensing and monitoring;

Interferers identification and classification;

Spectral sculpting and adaptation;

Interference mitigation;

Network co-operation/negotiation.

as illustrated schematically in Figure 9Figure 9, where the Cognition Engine is implementing the cognition cycle

at the device level and governing the application of the co-operation/negotiation policies at the network level.

InterfererIdentification &Classification

SpectrumSensing &Monitoring Localization

Unit

InterferenceMitigation

SpectralSculpting &Adaptation

Cognitive Engine

Cooperation/Negotiation Policy

CR-UWB Unit

AirInterface #1

AirInterface #2

AirInterface #N

Network Node

Heterogeneous Network

CPC (CognitivePilot Channel)

Figure 99: Schematic representation of the basic Cognitive Radio.

The spectrum sensing functions will perform a multi-dimensional (frequency, time, space, code) sensing and

monitoring of the spectrum, during the initial set-up phase and normal operation of the network, respectively.



Correspondingly, whenever applicable, identification and classification algorithms will classify the potential

interferers according to the known existing wireless standards and systems, e.g. WiFi, possibly leveraging on

shared databases. Moreover, the localisation capabilities offered by UWB devices and systems, can be exploited

for deriving the spatial distribution of radio resource and interference for network optimisation purposes. In general,

the latter task may be greatly simplified wherever the concept of Cognitive Pilot Channel (CPC)2, as a way to co-

ordinate among heterogeneous networks to ensure coexistence, is supported. The research work will also address

the development of novel interference mitigation and coexistence techniques including adaptive coding and

modulation, spectrum-agile waveform generation, and smart beamforming techniques. Coexistence studies will be

carried out regarding both intra-network interference, e.g. UWB-UWB, due to multi-access by UWB devices, either

HDR (high data rate) or LDR (low data rate) ones, sharing the same bandwidth, and inter-network interference, in

both directions, versus other wireless systems, e.g. WiMAX.

Application

This part of the work will explore the prospective role of the CR-UWB radio as central control unit, wherever

multiple air interfaces are co-located, providing a shared spectrum sensing and control mechanisms. This activity

will be conducted in close co-ordination with the relevant WPs, especially regarding the multimode/multibands

aspects (WP5) and the operation within heterogeneous networks (WP6). Other activities, which will serve as an

input to WP9 on Standardisation and Regulations, will investigate “enhanced” UWB-radio modes of operation, by

showing that a smart UWB radio with cognitive capabilities may utilise extra spectrum resources without causing

harmful interference to the rest of the network. Furthermore, the work will relate to the application scenarios

defined within WP8, most notably consumer electronics, the automotive and public transport environments.

Experimentation

Within WP2, we envision the implementation of an experimental test-bed that uses existing UWB platforms to

demonstrate some basic Cognitive Radio functions, namely spectrum sensing, spectrum adaptation, interference

mitigation and DAA (detect-and-avoid) mechanisms.

WP3 – Multiple Antenna UWB Systems

Within this work package, the following application oriented topics have been identified as inputs to the definition

of system concepts and requirements:

UWB in the public transport;

UWB in the automotive environment;

UWB in the home environment.

Based on this impact the different application scenarios, system concepts and MIMO-UWB practical requirements

will be identified. Measurements of radio channels shall reflect the identified generic measurement scenarios and

will be performed with the MIMO-UWB real-time sounder provided as an output from the previous PULSERS

phases. Consequently, a succeeding part of this task is the research on and definition of a set of (time-variant)

channel models describing the spatial and temporal behaviour and correlation in MIMO-UWB for the home

environment, automotive environment and public transport scenarios. Aim of this first task is:

The ultimate range extension obtainable with MIMO-UWB for the applications of interest;

The role of channel state information on the MIMO-UWB capacity, including information on positions

and angle of arrivals;

The ultimate increase in interference rejection obtainable with MIMO-UWB in the multi-user scenario:

this includes analysing spatial separation/beamforming techniques for directional interference

suppression; the interference considered will be both wideband and narrowband.

As a next step a MIMO-UWB test-bed for research and evaluation of algorithms will be set up to provide an

important tool for access to the real MIMO-UWB channel and verification of model-based algorithms and specific

system design. An initial 2×4 MIMO-UWB test-bed will be based on the following measurement equipment:

2-channel arbitrary waveform generators (Tektronix AWG7102) with an analog signal bandwidth of

5.8 GHz;

2 Please note that the concept of CPC will be co-ordinated with other relevant EU initiatives (e.g. E2R project) and international

standardisation bodies (e.g. IEEE P.1900/SCC41).



4-channel digital storage oscilloscope (Tektronix DPO71604) with an analog bandwidth of 16 GHz and a

sampling rate of 50 GS/s per channel; and

On specialised RF hardware and UWB antennas.

For low end devices, reconfigurable antennas of smaller size and reduced directivity capabilities embedding the

antenna control elements are intended to be developed as well. No RF active devices (such as amplifiers and

mixers) are included in this case, and the antennas design is limited to architectures and performance expectations

through simulations.

The required inputs are mainly a Technology design kit (available at CEA Léti) and directional channel

characterisations (expected to be available through PULSERS Phase II, EUWB partners or other sources).

An evolution of this test-bed towards 4×4 MIMO UWB will be considered by adding a further Arbitrary

Waveform Generator. The major benefit of the evolved test-bed is the division into a smaller configuration

(2×2×4) and therefore allows the study of real multi-user MIMO-UWB scenarios and interference suppression.

The knowledge acquired through the evolved test-bed will be further used in Task 3.4 in order to verify certain

MIMO-UWB features. The test-bed itself can be later used as reference for other feature verification and/or cross-

checking with other platform-based activities within EUWB.

Another major task in this work package is the development of application-aware MIMO-UWB algorithm and

system design in order to exploit the potential features offered by combining UWB and the multi antenna

technology to e.g. home environment applications within residential environments. Aim is to develop solutions in

accordance with current standards and specifications, and to study the theoretical and practical limits. Special

focus will be paid on antenna (group) selection/combining schemes, beamforming and space time and space

frequency coding techniques.

Another objective will be to allow and enhance the simultaneous and efficient operation of multiple UWB devices

in a close area such as a room, office, etc. Interference mitigation methods and Space Division Multiple Access

(SDMA) are quite promising here. Again, the aim is to develop solutions in accordance with current standards and

specifications, and to study the theoretical and practical limits.

The solutions developed within the application-aware system design will point out certain implementation

challenges. The objective of the final task of WP3 is to solve these challenges and to go further steps towards

implementation based on DSPs, FPGAs or innovative array processors.

Prototyping with hardware verification is an important part of the research work towards consolidated products.

This is mainly due to the fact that theoretical or simulation results cannot completely verify specific real-world

phenomena. The task is thus devoted to activities in which selected features of MIMO-UWB concepts are

examined on implementation level. The main anticipated focus will be on physical layer aspects and target high

data rate applications keeping in mind the real-time limitations of available hardware components. The required

inputs from other tasks of the WP include the specification of high level requirements, algorithms and desired

features which are to be verified. The implementation consists of several stages including digital baseband

development, analog front-end development, interfacing design and finally the device integration. An evaluation

of the impact of HW effects will take place in parallel in order to consider possible system design trade-offs and

practical performance limits.

WP4 – UWB Enabled Advanced Location Tracking

The usage of localisation and tracking information in wireless networks is considered to be one of the key words

to enhance communication systems. Amongst emerging technologies, UWB is the most promising candidate to

provide reliable and accurate distance information together with robustness and permeability to existence systems.

This WP aims to develop advanced/flexible algorithms to localise and track devices in large scale/harsh environment

networks and to investigate innovative communication systems that use location-awareness. The work is organised

along three main paths that will concern R&D, theoretical limits and validation of algorithms and finally,

integration and evaluation. These studies will explore and provide an exhaustive vision of the potential systems

that incorporate location information.

The three innovative areas will result from the following studies:

Research and development



T4.1: Development of novel localisation and tracking solutions, e.g. soft solution for mixed static/

dynamic scenarios, algorithms incorporating data fusion (heterogeneous networks), and passive

localisation applied to UWB.

T4.2: Acquisition and dissemination of the information, applied to MIMO relaying networks,

investigation of smart distributed virtual antenna systems and routing relaying under location

awareness.

T4.5: Study of systems based on location awareness to predict mobility in heterogeneous networks,

interference mitigation, congestion control and handover.

Theoretical limits and validation of algorithms

T4.4: Impact that the localisation information has on communication systems. This means to

investigate the theoretical performance, e.g. CRLB, complexity, mobility, for different

localisation/tracking solutions, and the possible enhancements in channel capacity for systems

with location awareness.

Integration and evaluation

T4.3: Implementation of the location and tracking algorithms on the platforms. This work will allow

the integration onto the UWB platforms of the LT engines developed, and represents a necessary

step to allow the evaluation of the performance for the algorithms under real scenarios.

The final scope of this WP is to provide knowledge and methods to implement a system with localisation and

tracking capabilities. In particular, the output of the R&D path will allow the deign of LT algorithms as well as

Location-Aware based systems, while the integration and evaluation path will allow an analysis of the performance

in real platforms. Finally, the overall work will be validated by comparison with theoretical limits to be derived.

The research developed within this group will serve to create synergies with other WPs, specifically with WP2,

WP6, WP7 and WP8, but not only. Knowledge of the location allows the study of new enhanced solutions for:

WP2: interference mitigation and coexistence strategies. A vision of the spatial distribution of the

interference level can be inferred by exploiting the knowledge of nodes‟ locations. As consequence,

strategies to mitigate the interference effects can be applied allowing the coexistence of multiple

communications.

WP6: mobility management. Within heterogeneous networks, the presence of mobile terminals equipped

with different technologies will allow the users to exploit multiple connectivities increasing the difficulty

in roaming the services. Usage of location information, in particular the mobile‟s trajectories prediction,

will allow a more efficient mobility management and a better QoS.

WP7: LT capabilities on the platforms and ranging feasibility in HDR UWB systems. In the future, when

mobile terminals will be able to provide HDR and/or LDR UWB connectivity, the feasibility of LT

techniques will be a common requirement. Such a feasibility will be investigated and eventually shown

through the studies provided in WP4.

WP8: LT-based applications in home environment, public transport (automotive). The usage of LT

algorithms will be one of the main targets to be shown in the final demonstration.

WP5 – UWB Multiband/Multimode Operation

The major R&D efforts in WP5 will be addressed in two streams:

1. Bluetooth path multimode issues;

2. UWB WiMedia and 60 GHz multimode issues.

Bluetooth R&D Aspects and Approaches

Existing protocol stacks have software multiplexing components for multiplexing control and data over a single

radio, e.g. L2CAP in the Bluetooth stack and the convergence architecture in the WiMedia UWB stack. In this task

we want to investigate how to multiplex data over multiple radio platforms based on the QoS and throughput

requirements. This requires the following investigations:

Identification of use case scenarios for multiband/multimode operations;

Mapping of QoS requirements to different physical layers;

MAC interaction strategies/common MAC;

PAL architectures and capabilities;



Balancing data throughput over multiple physical connections.

Some open issues specific to Bluetooth v3.0 are:

What are the best layers of the stack for a PAL to interface?

- The convergence architecture or the WiNet PAL in the UWB stack?

- GAP or L2CAP in the Bluetooth stack?

- What are the performance and architectural benefits/trade-off of the different potential interfacing

levels?

Protocols such as Bluetooth have existing profiles, e.g. hands-free (HFP) or object exchange (OPP).

- How can such profile specifications and the interoperability effort invested in them by the BT

SIG members be re-used, while making use of additional throughput provided by UWB?

UWB enabled WPAN networks must not jeopardise the end user Bluetooth experience, particularly the

perceived ease of use and issues such as enquiry, service discovery, pairing and interoperability.

WPAN PAL

Bluetooth Upper Stack UWB HDR STACK

WiMedia Compiant MACBluetooth Lower Stack

MAC/MLMEBluetooth

HCI

Higher Layer Profiles and Applications

UWB VHDR STACK

VHDR (T.B.D) MAC(future WiMedia specification?)

T.B.D

Figure 1010: Multiband/multimode protocol stack.

10 GHz UWB and 60 GHz UWB Aspects and Approach

The general basic approach to be investigated in this field is roughly presented in Figure 11. The potential system

to be investigated shows state-of-the-art as standard WiMedia system in combination with additional functional

blocks. The new up down converters with power amplifiers and low noise amplifiers are presented as separate

functional blocks. And they are attached by the switch to today WiMedia system. It is clear that the new system

needs to have a defined strategy by what occasion (requirement, channel condition, traffic, application and similar)

the system decided to switch to 60 GHz operation. It may also observed that generally two basic sub-modes needs

to be addressed. One mode would mean additional adaptation on PAL blocks (protocol adaptation layers), MAC

and control function and will not change the existing BB and RF WiMedia blocks by switching to 60 GHz band.

The motivation for this may be related to the fact that specific application would need more communication

distance in specific and dedicated direction in the room (extended range) by remaining the same throughput, or the

fact that the frequency channels in UWB bands 3–10 GHz are not available) or over crowded. The second

approach addressed is that fact that due to the applications scenarios much more throughput is needed, compared

to the available capabilities of the WiMedia Systems. In that case the changes and adaptations needs to be done on

PAL, MAC, BB and RF parts of the chain. PAL needs to provide handling up to 8 times larger data rates for file

transfer profiles (10 Gbit/s for example) as well as MAC. Baseband processing needs to provide potential

functions for channel bundling of the WiMedia channels, increasing the modulation depth of the OFDM carriers,

new additional synchronisation strategies, and also potential reduction of the OFDM carriers in order to address

the phase noise demands and linearity issues of the 60 GHz up and down conversion block. The RF chain needs to

cope with multiplied WiMedia channels, 2 or 4 of them.



What needs to be investigated is:

To define new extension of requirements for applications scenarios;

To explore different switching strategies related to the scenario extensions, channel behaviours on specific

frequencies, as well as measures and their implementation consequences, required to be addressed by

control functionalities and MAC. This will lead to requirements specifications to basic WiMedia blocks to

be extended for state-of-the-art solution;

To explore architecture changes to the basic WiMedia blocks according to switching strategies and basic

scenario requirements for both “light mode – same throughput more range” and “high end mode – more

throughput” and for all relevant blocks: PAL, MAC, BB and RF. System simulations, and simulation of

the related functional blocks by implementing new architectures with extended complexity will be

performed, and finally the system concepts and definition and new specifications for all blocks needs to

be performed;

To disseminate achievements to the related standardisation and regulation bodies;

To verify the proposed solutions by verification platform being able to investigate and test them by having

WiMedia UWB radio transmission over 60 GHz, whereby the specification of the verification platform,

implementation, integration and test needs to be followed as necessary R&D steps for this task. The

attachment with real application needs to be considered, by to be realised interfaces. Test over application

is also planned.

Figure 1111: UWB Multiband platform: 10 GHz and 60 GHz UWB operation.

Figure 1212: Proposal for UWB multiband channel distribution.



WP6 – UWB in Heterogeneous Access Networks

Bearing in mind the state-of-the-art analysis, there are two general approaches for integrating UWB in heterogeneous

networks. The first approach includes the first commercial UWB devices ready at the beginning of the project and

the target would be their integration with the up-to-date network technologies (HSPA, WiMAX, ADSL2+). The

second approach will be focused on the inclusion of the advanced UWB in future wireless networks.

Both approaches will address the UWB integration in users‟ devices (especially for the HSPA scenario) and in

access network equipment (that is necessary in the second scenario). Additionally, the evolution of network

heterogeneity has to be complemented by novel services making profit of UWB location features and coexistence

of UWB with future wireless network.

Figure 1313: UWB integration with up-to-date heterogeneous access network scenario.

In the first approach one of the scenarios for the UWB integration in the heterogeneous networks can be illustrated

in Figure 13Figure 13. In Position A the user is at home and accesses to the Internet by means of a UWB link that

connects with an xDSL Access Point. Later when the user is outside and wants to connect again to the Internet, s/he

uses the same device, but this time by means of a HSPA link because both wireless technologies are integrated in

a dual device. Finally, the user is in a commercial centre and the UWB network is aware of the location of the

user. This information can be used for improving the access and roaming between the UWB beacons/access points,

but also for sending relevant advertisements depending on the user‟s location. Additionally, UWB integration has

to be accompanied by the guarantee of no interfering in other wireless technologies.

Another simpler scenario that could be demonstrated in the first approach would be to connect an UWB gateway

in the home with a WiMAX network for backhaul access. This second scenario is illustrated in Figure 14Figure 14

and it may also include LDR sensor networks in the home (light, infra red, …) in addition to the HDR

data/multimedia networks. In that case, the HDR and LDR co-ordinators would be in the same home advanced

gateway.

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Figure 1414: UWB gateway using WiMAX access in a residential environment.

The second approach will study the UWB integration in a future scenario of heterogeneous network access (see

Figure 15Figure 15). Whereas in the above scenario the stress was put on achieving UWB integration with

deployed networks, the focus in this second step is to analyse and propose UWB for being part of future access to

converged network. Thus the first approach covers mainly the implementation activities whereas the second

approach will focus on the study of capabilities of using UWB in picocells, the specification of usage of location

awareness in service platforms and the evaluation of UWB coexistence with future wireless networks.

Figure 1515: UWB in long-term heterogeneous access network scenario.

The planning of WP6 takes into account both approaches (up-to-date integration and future research) in each of

the fields identified (user‟s devices, access network equipment, location awareness services and coexistence.

WP7 – Open UWB Technology Platforms

The planned open platforms in EUWB should be based on a commercial or close to a commercial chips set for the

ECMA 368/369 standard and on chip prototypes for the IEEE 802.15.4a standard at least for the physical layer, the

latest being less mature from an industrial and commercial point of view. Both systems should be compliant with

the standard and should fulfil the European and world-wide regulatory requirements in the final version. The

development plan will include different steps of deliverables in to the EUWB project in order to reflect the

evolution of the UWB developments.



In Figure 16 the usage model of the open technology platforms in the different application and research

demonstrations of the EUWB project are depicted. The platforms should be seen as the universal open platforms

for all application demonstrations in the EUWB project.

In addition, the platforms should support as much as possible the research demonstrations planned in the run of the

project by including their requirements into the development of updated versions of the open technology platforms.

Figure 1616: Open Technology Platforms deployment in the EUWB project.

To internal customers

(clusters, work packages)

PHY

integration by WIS, TESUK

WIS-TESUK Platform

MAC

PHY

MAC

PHY

MACTESUK

WIS

Intel,

UDE

e.g. Intel

e.g. STC

e.g. STC

integration by e.g. STC

Commercial Platform 2

integration by UDE

Commercial Platform 1

Applications

(UDE)

Network, Transport Layers

(THA, UDE)

Figure 1717: Open Platform concept, (V)HDR hardware.

The initial versions of the two open technology platforms will be based on existing development with slight

adaptations to the initial needs of the application demonstrations. The LDR-LT platform will use the PULSERS

Phase II developments in the field. The (V)HDR platform, see Figure 17Figure 17, will consist of:

A partially evolved integration, setting out from the developments within TESUK (MAC layer) and WIS

(PHY layer), termed WIS–TESUK Platform;



The adaptation of a Commercial Platform 1, provided by e.g. Intel and being adapted and integrated by

UDE; and

The adaptation of a Commercial Platform 2, provided by e.g. STC.

This strategy can minimise the risk for the application demonstrations by providing an early access to a first

version of the platforms in order to start integration work already at the earliest possible stage. Additional versions

of the open platforms will be based on the first version including the consolidated requirements from the

application and research demonstrators.

Both open technology platforms will use a modular approach with a split between the PHY layer (including RF +

Base Band), the MAC layer and higher layer including protocol adaptation layers (PAL). Figure 17Figure 17

depicts the modular concepts used in the (V)HDR open technology platform. The PHY is integrated on a daughter

board and connected via an Interface board to the MAC and higher layer platform board. The interfaces to the

application and the research demonstrations will initially be provided via the MAC and higher layer platform

board by an API. In further enhanced and redesigned versions of the open platforms more direct access to the

lower layer MAC and the PHY will be provided.

Figure 18Figure 18 shows the PULSERS Phase II UWB LDR platform at the time of preparing EUWB. This step

is the proof of concept of the 1-bit digital approach for the receiver in which the RF front end main component,

though not optimised, is based on CMOS technology. It is also an open platform for the integration of the

baseband, the MAC, the networking layers and the application support interface thanks to its FPGA with

embedded PowerPC processor.

Figure 1818: Existing UWB LDR-LT hardware platform (from PULSERS Phase II).

The next step is to change the RF chipset and provide a further improved form factor with embedded sensors and

actuators as a final PULSERS Phase II demonstrator and initial EUWB open platform, cf. Figure 19Figure 19. The

implementation plan in EUWB implies at least a new upgrade of the RF chipset and co-designed antennas, of the

baseband and the MAC towards IEEE compliance. In parallel, requirements from the application WPs and

innovation WPs will be taken into account as well during evolution of the platform.

In order to simplify the final integration of all open technology platforms into the application and research

demonstrators it is planned to use common higher layer and applications functionality. The use of a common

integration platform could simplify the over all integration process tremendously.



Battery50 x 45 x 14

MAC board45 x 45 x 5

APP board45 x 45 x 5

BB-RF board30 x 45 x 5

(if horizontallyplaced)

Base board 40 pins MAC-Base

connector

30 pins MAC-BB-RF

connector

Sensor

(e.g. PIR)

FPGA, RAM etc

(hidden)


(if verticallyplaced) AutonomousUWB

sensornodeplatform

(80*50*35 mm3)

I/F motherboard

and batterycharger

Transparent

packaging

Battery50 x 45 x 14

MAC board45 x 45 x 5

APP board45 x 45 x 5


(if horizontallyplaced)

Base board 40 pins MAC-Base

connector

30 pins MAC-BB-RF

connector

Sensor

(e.g. PIR)

FPGA, RAM etc

(hidden)


(if verticallyplaced) AutonomousUWB

sensornodeplatform

(80*50*35 mm3)

I/F motherboard

and batterycharger

Transparent

packaging

Figure 1919: Illustration of the UWB LDR-LT first open platform at EUWB start (from PULSERS Phase II).

WP8 – UWB Application Environments

In WP8 three main application environments with a major impact on the European economy will be addressed:

public transport, automobile and home environment.

In the public transport environment, two main fields of application have been identified. The first address the

scenarios which provide a wireless network infrastructure for passenger communications inside the transport

compartment. The possibility to provide high aggregated data rate, using the short range capability of UWB

technology and by dividing the compartment in cells will be demonstrated. The possibility to provide an improved

reliability and QoS by using the multimode/multiband architectures will be analysed based on the methods

investigated in WP5 and on the enhanced platform developed in WP5 and based on the open UWB/HDR platform

developed in WP7b. Figure 20Figure 20 shows the wireless coverage of an aircraft cabin dividing it in several

cells. This enables the possibility to reuse more times the same channels/frequencies and thus increase the total

aggregate traffic that can be made available in the cabin.

Figure 2020: UWB in an aeroplane scenario.

The second field of application concentrate on communication between devices installed in the machine (sensors

for machine health and usage monitoring, lights, switches, ticketing machine, monitoring cameras, etc.). The main

intention in this case is to eliminate cables required for communications and thus reduce weight and installation

effort and at the same time reduce the maintenance cost providing new possibility to monitor the health conditions

of the different components.



Figure 2121: Cabling in an aeroplane.

Figure 21Figure 21 shows the complexity of the cables inside an aircraft cabin. The reduction of this complexity

would increase the flexibility of the cabin configuration and reduce the fuel consumption.

For this second field of application the UWB-LDR technology seems to be the most appropriated also because of

the low power consumption and the longer range of operation. A very important feature provided by this

technology is the localisation capabilities. Based on the technology provided by WP7a and on the output of WP4,

new algorithms and techniques for advanced localisation in harsh environment and new concepts for radio

resource management and mobility support with will be evaluated.

The possibility to perform ranging, localisation and tracking using the UWB/HDR platform based on the

ECMA 368 standard from WP7b will be analysed and this functionality implemented and demonstrated.

The localisation capability is not the only characteristic required when using the wireless networks to collect data

from wireless sensors. In this case a very precise synchronisation is also very important. In WP8 new techniques

for high precision synchronisation in large mesh networks will be investigated implemented and demonstrated.

The issues related to the coexistence of system based on UWB/HDR technology with them based on UWB/LDR

will analysed and countermeasures will be developed, implement and demonstrated.

All functionalities described here will be finally implemented in a common demonstrator and integrated aboard a

mock-up of an aircraft cabin to test and verify their performance in a real application environment.

WP8 will also support with tests, measurements and technical contributions the work performed in WP9

concerning regulation and standardisation. In particular the activities related to the use of UWB technologies for

applications in the public transport will be supported.

In the automotive environment, two application scenarios are evaluated. Figure 22Figure 22 shows a typical

scenario for wireless communication between a sensor and its electronic control unit (ECU). Based on the output

from WP7, a hardware demonstrator will be built and integrated into a series car. As prerequisites, antennas

adapted to the automotive environment will be developed in this work package.

To allow connecting a standard ECU and sensor to the UWB data transmission component, a LIN/CAN-to-

wireless interface will be developed and integrated.

Figure 2222: Wireless data communication from sensor to ECU.



In Figure 23Figure 23 the typical set-up for location tracking is shown, where a special tag is located inside the car

chassis, typically placed in the passenger cabin. In this example, the tag is located using four receiver nodes,

calculating the tag location using time of flight or angle of arrival, measured at each receiver node.

The location tracking hardware is based on the output of WP7, whereas antennas and application software will be

developed in this WP.

Figure 2323: Location tracking of a tag inside the car.

Following the integration of the demonstrators, a performance evaluation will take place. The result will be the

base for the further development of a future series product.

As foundation for the system design of the demonstrator units, a theoretical evaluation of the UWB system and the

propagation channel are necessary. A system simulation environment for the UWB system will be implemented,

based on already existing components. Using numerical simulations with full wave and ray tracing tools, the in-car

propagation channel will be described.

To confirm the theoretical results, a measurement campaign will be performed.

Within the home environment the application scenarios will consider the combined HDR UWB and VHDR 60 GHz

multiband systems developed in WP5 for wireless audio/video entertainment systems. The current video over

wireless concept uses the UWB spectrum for the transmission of visually lossless compressed video over short

ranges. As a next step, using the high bandwidth available at 60 GHz, the very demanding throughput requirements

of HD video streaming can be met for in-room scenarios otherwise difficult to achieve in the lower frequency

UWB. The challenges facing such applications are the coverage range and robustness of the system to the changes

in the propagation environment such as shadowing as well as the relative positioning of the units. Other issues

such as latency introduced by the system causing lip-synch problems also need to be addressed.

The second application is the use of UWB localisation and tracking capabilities developed in WP4 for smart in-

room surround sound applications. For this, the Home Theatre System (HTS) need to locate the position of the

speaker boxes in the room using the developed active tracking technique, position the user within the room

(ideally in a passive sense) and using these information to apply an advanced audio tuning algorithm that

optimises the hearing experience sensed by the user. Furthermore, the developed audio tuning algorithm can use

the information received from the speaker boxes (as well as possibly a microphone attached to the user) to extract

further information about the environment for better tuning of the audio content. Issues such as synchronisation,

accuracy of location and tracking algorithms and performance of the audio tuning algorithms need to be addressed

and evaluated in real conditions.

For both cases a detailed description of the application scenarios will be provided. Additionally, system

requirements will be defined related to the appropriate work packages (WP4 and WP5) outlining the performance

parameters, interface formats required for the integration into the application platform.

The next phase of the work will involve in developing an application platform that can be integrated to the one

developed within the WP7 activity, integration work and validation of the concepts developed. The final phase of

the work will involve demonstration of the concept for the application scenario described previously.

WP9 – Regulation and Standardisation

Based on the input from WP8, system reference documents for each applications will be written. Advancing from

this, an impact analysis on existing radio services will be performed.



An ETSI standard for each specific application will be drafted and actively supported in the relevant ETSI, CEPT

and ITU regulatory bodies. Figure 24Figure 24 and Figure 25Figure 25 give an overview of the complex structure

of the regulatory process interactions between the involved bodies.

Based on the impact analysis and incorporating feedback from regulation, mitigation techniques to assure peaceful

coexistence between UWB technology and traditional radio services for all applications considered in WP8 will be

evaluated.

To ensure globally harmonised standards and regulations, contact and co-ordination with international regulatory

bodies and other interest groups will be an additional part of this work package.

Figure 2424: Regulatory bodies inside Europe.



Figure 2525: European standardisation process.



B1.3.1.2 Project Monitoring and Goal Oriented Management

Project monitoring is implemented in a twofold manner, first there is the regular MB process with bi-weekly

reporting and resource and expenditure as well as progress and dissemination report. Second, there is a direct

interaction of the various tasks applying the “logical cluster structure” explained in Section B1.3.1.1B1.3.1.1.

The cluster structure allows the very intensive quality insurance, because the recipient of the deliverable will

check together with the Quality Manager the deliverable contents and quality in terms of usefulness to be applied

as sufficient input for the actual task. In the following section the four basic application oriented cluster structures

are explained in more detail highlighting the dependencies and quality check relations.

In addition to the cluster structure, the project management will perform the project monitoring based on the

Annex I of the EC contract and the periodic management reports to be provided by the individual partners every 3

months in addition to the WPL reports, which are provided bi-weekly. The monitoring comprises supervision of

technical progress and dissemination as well as management of finances and resources. Deviations from the

planning will be identified and counter actions will be initialised, if considered necessary by the Management

Board or the Project Assembly in case of significant changes.

However, the cluster structure is the main innovative element in the project monitoring to ensure a goal oriented

work coherently throughout all the tasks involved towards the realisation of the final application scenarios.

EUWB Heterogeneous Network Cluster

Objective of this cluster is to develop a comprehensive research and development activities on the area of

heterogeneous networks with the presence of UWB sub-networks. The research studies are carried out in the tasks

allocated in several WPs. The presence of intra-cluster documents and internal milestones allow the co-ordination

of the activities and the success of the work.

Two main scenarios are envisaged to be considered. The first one concerns the usage UWB technology on the user

terminals and at the access network equipment, while the second scenario will introduce a futuristic concept of

heterogeneous access networks where picocells of UWB devices are deployed. Such scenarios will be shown in a

simplified version at the end of the project where few demonstrations will be deployed.

The cluster implementation work will serve the development of:

Multi-radio user‟s terminal (UWB/WiMAX-HSPA);

Multi-radio access network equipments (UWB/WiMAX-HSPA);

Concepts for futuristic wireless picocell networks;

Location based services.

A detailed description for the proposed targets and the inter-work packages relationships is given below.

Multi-radio User‟s Terminal/Access Network Equipment

This cluster task aims to develop multiple radio terminals and equipment. It is foreseen to have two versions of

devices. The first one is based on Wisair‟s UWB solution (T6.1.1, T6.2.1), developed in PULSERS Phase II, while

the second will be the open platform developed in WP7 (T6.1.2, T6.2.1). The definition of these multi-radio

platforms will require studies on the coexistence due to different technologies embedded on the same device and

HW/HW implementation and integration.



Objective Type From WPs/Tasks To WPs/Tasks Document Date

Application scenario and

requirements OUTPUT WP6: T6.1, T6.2

WP6: T6.1 T6.2

WP2: T2.4, T2.5, T2.6

WP7: T7.1

D6.1.1 M04

Platform specification INPUT

PULSERS Phase II

WP7: T7.1.2

WP2: T2.4, T2.5, T2.6

WP6: T6.1, T6.2

D2.4.1

D2.5.1

D2.6.1

D7.1.21a/b

M04

M12

M12

M06/M18

Specification of UWB

platform integration OUTPUT WP6: T6.1, T6.2

WP6: T6.1, T6.2

WP2: T2.4, T2.5, T2.6

WP7: T7.1.2

IR6.1.2

IR6.1.3

IR6.2.1

D6.2.2

IR6.2.4

M12

M24

M12

M18

M15

(V)HDR open platform INPUT WP7: T7.4.2 WP6: T6.1, T6.2 D7.4.2b M24

First family of integrated

UWB platforms OUTPUT WP6: T6.1, T6.2

D6.1.2

D6.2.1

M24

M24

Validation and test OUTPUT WP6: T6.1, T6.2 D6.1.3

D6.2.3

M37

M37

Demonstration OUTPUT WP6: T6.1, T6.2 D6.1.4

D6.2.3

M37

M37

Table 44: Heterogeneous Network Cluster to multi-radio user‟s terminal/access network equipment.

Location Based Services

This cluster task investigates the usage of location information provided by UWB to upgrade services like product

placement or Internet access. The usage of location information in service platforms will enable location aware

services. Additionally, this information will be used to study and develop of improvements in roaming and access

point mapping when multiple UWB access point are present.

Objective Type From WPs/Tasks To WPs/Tasks Document Date

Scenario and requirements OUTPUT WP6: T6.1 WP4: T4.5

WP7: T7.1.1 D6.1.1 M04

Platform specification INPUT WP7: T7.1.1 WP6: T6.3 IR7.1.1

D7.1.1a/b

M03

M06/M18

Specification of location

service platforms OUTPUT WP6: T6.3

WP4: T4.5

WP7: T7.1.1 D6.3.1 M18

Algorithm for mobility

management INPUT WP4: T4.5 WP6: T6.3 D4.5.2a M24

LDR-LT open platform INPUT WP7: T7.4.1 WP6: T6.3 D7.4.1b M24

Enhanced algorithms for

mobility management INPUT WP4: T4.5 WP6: T6.3 D4.5.2b M40

Applications and services OUTPUT WP6: T6.3 D6.3.2 M40

Demonstration OUTPUT WP6: T6.3 D6.3.3 M40

Table 55: Heterogeneous Network Cluster to location based services.



Overall Heterogeneous Network Cluster Tasks Dependencies

The overall cluster work flow is depicted in Figure 26Figure 26.

Location Based Services

Application WP6:

UWB in Heterogeneous

Access Networks

Open UWB Technology Platforms – (V)HDR Platform

T4.1:

Development of

Advanced LT

Algorithms

T4.2:

Data Acquisition

and Dissem. for/

using Location

Information

T7.1.1:

LDR-LT Platform

Requirements

and Specification

T7.2.1:

LDR-LT Platform

Development and

Implement. (HW) T7.4.1:

Transfer and

Support of

LDR-LT

Platform

T4.3:

Implementation

and Evaluation

of Algorithms

Open UWB Technology Platforms –

LDR-LT Platform

T7.1.2:

(V)HDR Platform

Requirements

and Specification

T7.2.2:

(V)HDR Platform

Development and

Implement. (HW)

T7.3.2:

(V)HDR Platform

Development and

Implement. (SW)

T7.4.2:

Transfer and

Support of

(V)HDR Platform

T2.1:Spectrum

Sensing and Monitoring

Cognitive UWB Radio and Coexistence

Multi-radio Terminal / Access NetworkT6.1:

UWB in Multi-radio Interface

User Devices

T6.2:UWB in Access Network

Equipment

T2.4: Coexistence

and Mitigation of Interference

T2.5: Networking

Co-operation and Negotiation

T2.6:Concepts for

Cognitive Signalling

T4.4 + T4.5:

Impact on Systems +

Study of New System

Concepts

Regulation and

Standardisation T9.2 + T9.3:

Regulatory +

Standardisation

Activities

D6.1.1: Definition of Application

Scenarios and Requirements

D6.3.1: Requirements and Specification of Services Based on Location

AwarenessUWB Enabled Advanced Location Tracking

T7.3.1:

LDR-LT Platform

Development and

Implement. (SW)

D6.3.2:

Concept

applications to

exploit location

awareness

Figure 2626: Cluster flow in the EUWB Heterogeneous Network Cluster.

EUWB Home Environment Cluster

The application work package “Home Environment” addresses two scenarios:

Wireless video interface employing a VHDR platform;

User localisation in home theatre systems (HTS).

This cluster contains all task and sub-tasks from several technology and research work packages that are related to

these scenarios. They are figured out in Figure 27.

The application work package initially defines the scenario and declares high level requirements on the UWB

platforms to be developed. The outcome of these two tasks is a deliverable which will be provided to the

technology and research work packages as input. The process follows then the work package internal work flow

where frequent interactions in terms if internal report or official deliverable exchanges between the different work

packages allow a consistent design flow until the platform implementations.

The outcome, the VHDR multiband platform on the one hand and the LDR-LT platform on the other, will then be

transferred back to the application level and integrated to the wireless video eco system and the home theatre

system for demonstration, respectively.

Note that not all tasks reach the demonstrator implementation level, but some provide concepts and specification

for future highly sophisticated product developments.



Wireless HDMI

User Localisation in HTS

Application WP8c:

UWB in Home Environment

VHDR / 60 GHz platform

T8c.1.1 + T8c2.1:

Definition of Application Scenarios

T8c.1.2 + T8c2.2:

Definition of

Requirements

T8c.1.3: Development of the Demonstrator

and Integration

T8c.2.3:

Developmt. of Audio

Tuning Algorithms

for Smart Wireless

Audio Streaming

T8c.2.4: Development of the Demonstrator and

Integration


T7.1.2:

(V)HDR Platform

Requirements

and Specification

T7.2.2:

(V)HDR Platform

Developmt. and

Implement. (HW)

T7.3.2:

(V)HDR Platform

Developmt. and

Implement. (SW)

T7.4.2:

Transfer and

Support of

(V)HDR Platform

T7.1.1:

Requirem. and

Specification for

LDR-LT

Platform

T7.2.1:

Developm. and

Implementation

for LDR-LT

Platform (HW)T7.4.1:

Transfer and

Support of

LDR-LT

Platform


LDR-LT Platform

T7.3.1:

Developm. and

Implementation

for LDR-LT

Platform (SW)

T4.1:

Development of

Advanced LT

Algorithms

T4.2:

Data Acquisition

and Dissem. for/

using Location

Information

T4.3:

Implementation

and Evaluation

of Algorithms

UWB Enabled Advanced Location Tracking

T2.1.1:

Specifications

and Requirem.

for Spectrum

Sensing

T2.4:

Coexistence

and Mitigation

of Interference

T2.5:

Networking

Co-operation

and Negotiation

T2.6.1:

Cognitive Pilot

Channel


Multiple Antenna UWB Systems

T3.3.2:

Link Quality

Enhancements

and Range

Extension for

VHDR

T3.3.3

Multi-user

Enhancements

for VHDR

T3.1:

System

Concepts and

Requirements

for Scenarios

T5.2:

Specification and Development of

Multimode/Multiband Architecture

T5.1:

Definition of

Application

and System

Requirements

T5.3.2

Implement. of

Enhancements

for WiMedia

Platform

T5.3.3:

Implantation of

60 GHz Front-

end Verification

Block

T5.3.1:

Specification of

Verification

Platform

T5.3.4:

Integration and

Test of Joint

Verification

Platform

Figure 2727: Cluster flow in the EUWB Home Environment Cluster.

EUWB Public Transport Cluster

Aim of this application cluster is to define and ensure the correct exchange of information between the tasks from

different work packages which address topics, functionalities and technologies related to the public transport

application.

First updated application scenarios are defined (T8a.1 M02). Based on the interaction between T7.1.1x, T7.1.2x,

and T8a.2 and the related tasks in WP2, WP4 and WP5 the scenario definition is finalised (T8a.1 M04), and the

system requirements are defined (platform requirements T7.1.2x and system requirements T8a.2 M06).

After this first phase the work will be carried out in parallel focusing on six technology cluster tasks:

Coexistence of HDR and LDR-LT systems;

Advanced LT techniques in harsh environment;

New concepts for RRM and mobility support with location awareness;

Localisation with ECMA 368;

High precision synchronisation in large mesh networks;

Multiband/multimode for high reliability and QoS (HDR/60 GHz);

Demonstrator for public transport applications;

Test and verification of demonstrator;

Regulation and standardisation.

These technology cluster tasks should develop the single building blocks (extended platforms with enhanced HW

and SW capabilities) for the final application demonstrator. The defined scenarios should be taken into account

and the requirements should be satisfied.

An additional cluster task addressing the regulation and standardisation issues has been also identified.



The work of the technology tasks clusters will be first performed in several tasks of WP2, WP4 and WP5. The

refinements which are exclusively application dependent, e.g. fine parameter optimisation and adaptation of

protocol layers to guarantee the interoperability of the building blocks, will be performed in T8a.3.6.1 to

T8a.3.6.4. T8a.3.8 will develop dedicated UWB antennas for the public transport environment. This will complete

the building blocks required to integrate the final application demonstrator. This task will be performed in T8a.3.1.

The overall interaction between the tasks and WP participating in this cluster are depicted in Table 6 and the

cluster flow is shown in Figure 28.

Objective Type From WPs/Tasks To WPs/Tasks Cluster

document Date

Definition of application

scenarios OUTPUT WP8: T8a.1

WP2: T2.1–9

WP3: T3.1

WP4: T4.1–5

WP5: T5.1

WP7: T7.1.1–2

D8a.1 M02/M06

Application requirements

definition WP8: T8a.2

WP2: T2.1–T2.9

WP3: T3.1

WP4: T4.1–T2.5

WP5: T5.1

WP7: T7.1

D8a.2 M02/M06

Coexistence of HDR and LDR

systems WP2: T2.1, T2.4, T2.5 WP9: T9.1 D8a.3.2 M26

Advanced LT techniques in

harsh environment WP4: T4.3 WP4: T4.4 D8a.3.3 M26

New concepts for RRM and

mobility support with location

awareness

WP4: T4.3, T4.5 WP4: T4.3. T4.5 D8a.3.4 M26

Localisation with ECMA 368 WP4: T4.3 WP4: T4.5?? D8a.3.5 M26

M/M for high reliability and

QoS (HDR/60 GHz) WP5: T5.4 WP5: D8a.3.7 M26

Demonstrator OUTPUT WP7, WP8 WP9: T9.6 D8a.3.7 M32

Test and verification of

demonstrator for PT OUTPUT WP7, WP8 WP9: T9.6 D8a.3.8 M40

Table 66: Public Transport Cluster: Interaction between tasks.



Application WP8a:

UWB in Public Transport

VHDR / 60 GHz Platform


D4.1.1:

Initial LT

algorithms

D4.3.2:

Implementation

of enhanced LT

engine with

mobility manag.

D4.4.2:

Analysis of the

impact of the

location information

on communication

systems

D4.5.2:

Algorithms and

strategies for

communication

systems with

location awareness

D7.1.2a:

(V)HDR platform

requirements

D7.4.2a:

(V)HDR platform

provision

D5.1:

Application def.

and system requ.

for multimode/

multiband radios

T5.2:

Specification and Development of

Multimode/Multiband Architecture

T5.3:

VHDR WiMedia/

60 GHz MB

Verification

Platform

D5.3.1:

Specification of

verification block

D5.3.2:

Design of

verification block

D5.3.3:

Verification of

the integrated

platform

D3.1.1:

Definition of

syst. concepts,

requirements

and application

scenarios D2.1.1:

Spectrum sensing and

monitoring

D2.4.1:

Requirements for UWB

mitigation techniques

D2.4.4:

Multiple antennas and

beamforming algorithms

D2.6.2:

Solutions for the

Cognitive Pilot Channel

D8a.1: Scenario description for

public transport applications

D8a.2:Requirements for public transport applications

D8a.3.3:

Advanced localisation

techiques in harsh

environment

D8a3.4:

New concepts for radio

resource management

and mobility support with

location awareness

D8a.4:Test and

verification of the

demonstrator

Cognitive UWB Radio

and Coexistence

Application-aware

algorithm and system

design for ...

D3.3.2:

... link quality

enhancements and

range extension

D3.3.3:

... for multi-user

enhancements

D7.1.2b:

(V)HDR platform

requirements

D7.4.2b:

(V)HDR platform

provision

D7.1.1a:

LDR-LT platform

requirements

D7.4.1:

LDR-LT platform

(HW/SW)

provision

D8a.3.9:

Demonstrator

for public

transport

applications



LDR-LT Platform


Figure 2828: Cluster flow in the EUWB Public Transport Cluster.

EUWB Automotive Cluster

The cluster aims at interfacing different WP tasks with the automotive application of WP8. Its role is to check the

dependencies during the lifetime of the project and to ensure that the technical flow towards the application

objectives is continuous and does not deviate.

The automotive environment shall evaluate two scenarios using UWB in cars by means of demonstrators at the

end of the EUWB project. In summary, the first one is a sensor cable replacement within the car and the second

one is localisation of tags in the car cabin. In addition, the specific and harsh nature of the in-car environment

makes compulsory a deep exploration of the UWB propagation channel by means of both simulations and

measurements to obtain a validated channel models which are not available in the literature. Such models are

expected to profoundly differ from the known “home”, “industrial” and “offices” environments described in IEEE

15.3a and 15.4a channel models. The use of UWB in cars is conditioned by specific regulatory rules with respect

to the actual world-wide regulation status. Finally, a part of the cluster work deals with coexistence with other –

not only in cars – wireless systems on the one side and with regulation activities on the other side.

From this general description, a set of key objectives can be listed:

Objective 1: Specifying both scenarios, requirements for the UWB wireless systems in these scenarios and

application domain specific requirements (EMC, form factor, antenna integration constraints, reliability,

etc.):

- Associated deliverables: D8b.1 and D8b.2.1;

- Interactions with other WPs: WP7.

Objective 2: Setting a system and link level simulator for each scenario, including MAC network

functionalities when appropriate, PHY simulation including the in-car propagation channel and enabling

advanced research topics evaluation:



- Associated deliverables: D8b.2.2 to D8b.2.5;

- Interactions with other WPs: WP3, WP4 and WP7.

Objective 3: Demonstrating the wireless sensor scenario using the EUWB platforms:

- Associated deliverables: D8b.3.2 and D8b.4.1;


Objective 4: Demonstrating the tag location scenario using the EUWB platforms:

- Associated deliverables: D8b.3.3 and D8b.4.2;


Objective 5: Assessing coexistence with other wireless systems and getting inputs from and providing

inputs to the regulation:

- Associated deliverables: D8b.1, D8b.2.1 then D8b.2.2 to D8b.2.4;

- Interactions with other WPs: WP2, WP9.

In order to achieve these objectives with a controlled risk, the dependencies with the other WP tasks and

deliverables are identified on the diagram shown in Figure 29Figure 29 and shall be monitored by the cluster

leader according to the EUWB clustering and management principles. In particular, the WP8b deliverables are

partly based on work done directly in WP8b. Significant inputs are also delivered from other WP tasks which form

the Automotive Cluster.

LDR Wireless

Communication

Location and

Tracking

T8b.2.2...T8b.2.5: Channel Simulation and Model for Complex Automotive Scenarios etc.

T8b.3.1...T8b.3.3: Development of Demonstrators for the Automotive Environment

T8b.4.1...T8b.4.2:Test and Verification of Demonstrators for the Automotive Environment

Application WP8b:

Automotive Environment

T8b.1: Definition of

Application Scenarios for the Automotive Environment

T8b.2.1: System Parameters for LDR

Wireless Communication and Location Tracking


T4.1:

Development

of Advanced

Localisation

and Tracking

Algorithms

T7.1.1:

LDR-LT

Platform

Requirements

and

Specification

T7.2.1 + T7.3.1:

LDR-LT

Platform

Development

and

Implementation,

HW + SW

T7.4.1:

Transfer and

Support of LDR-

LT Platform

T4.3:

Implementation

and Evaluation

of Algorithms in

the Platforms


LDR-LT Platform


T3.1.2:

Application-

specific MIMO-

UWB Channel

Models and

Theor. Limits

T3.1.1:

Practical

Requirements

and Scenarios

for MIMO-UWB

T2.4...T2.7:

Coexistence

and Mitigation of

Interference etc.


System

reference

documents

Regulation and Standardisation

T3.3:

Application-

aware

Algorithms and

System Design

Standard

Impact analysis

on existing radio

services

Mitigation

techniques

Figure 2929: Cluster flow in the EUWB Automotive Cluster.

B1.3.1.3 Project Extension and New Activities

It must be noted that a clear need to reinforce the EUWB activities with new partners bringing in additional

competence has been identified by the EUWB consortium already early this year. This need for additional focused

effort, in particular in WP2, WP4, WP6, and WP8 is a result of a very wide and ambitious scope of the EUWB

project, an increased pull from the market for advanced UWB technologies and parallel developments of related

technologies to the ones undertaken within the EUWB core activities. Specifically, algorithmic, protocol and

conceptual work has to be reinforced in the area of cognitive UWB radio and coexistence as well as in advanced

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localisation and tracking. Furthermore, additional functionalities shall be added to the demonstrators and their

implementation speeded up.

In line with this need, the proposal to enlarge the existing EUWB project by dedicated partners with the right skills

and expertise was presented and justified during the first annual review of the EUWB project which took place in

June 2009. The proposed amendment was accepted by the independent external experts, whereas all reviewers

unanimously agreed to the proposal. This decision was officially stated in the Technical Review Report, Annex 1

“Commission Recommendations to be implemented”.

Accordingly, the EUWB co-ordinator and the Work Package Leaders (WPL) identified potential qualified partners

that were subsequently invited to join in EUWB within the framework of Call 5, Objective 9.5 to bring in

additionally needed expertise. All these new partners are known for their excellent performance to the co-ordinator

or WPLs of EUWB from past common projects, presentations at the ICT Mobile Summit and other scientific

events or even direct co-operation within EUWB itself in the past.

This process resulted in proposed additional work to complement the originally planned EUWB activities in the

following work packages:

WP2 – two new tasks will be added;

WP4 – two original EUWB tasks will be complemented;

WP6 – one original EUWB task will be complemented;

WP8 – four original EUWB tasks will be complemented.

The additional new tasks as well as extensions to the original EUWB tasks are described below along with their

mapping on EUWB activities, whereby respective original EUWB tasks are quoted for reference in tables with

work package descriptions in Section B1.3.6.

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B1.3.2 Timing of Work Packages and Their Components



Figure 3030: Gantt chart.



Pert diagram

Due to the high complexity of the relative large EUWB project with a large number of tasks and the extremely

strong interaction between the various tasks also from different work packages it is considered useful to visualise

the interdependencies of the various project tasks in several Pert diagrams, each highlighting a logical structure in

the work flow of the project.

In Figure 31 the global plan for interaction is visualised, while a more detailed breakdown for several logical sub-

structures is given in the section before explaining the cluster structures and interactions of tasks in a goal oriented

structuring.

T5.1

definition and

requirements

T5.2

specification

and

development

WP5: UWB Multiband/Multimode Operation

T5.3

verification

platform

T4.1

advanced lt

algorithms

T4.2

aquisition and

dissemination

WP4: UWB Enabled Advanced Location Tracking

T4.4 + T4.5

impact on

systems, new

concepts

T7.1

requirements

and

specification

T7.2

development

and

implementation

WP7: Open UWB Technology Platforms

T7.3/4

platform

development

T7.5

combined

study

ldr/hdr

T3.1

concepts and

requirements

T3.2

mimo

test-bed

WP3: Multiple Antenna UWB Systems

T3.3 + T3.4

algorithms and

system designT9.1

world-wide

uwb status

T9.2 + T9.3

regulatory and

standardisation

activities

WP9: Regulation and Standardisation

T9.4

international

coordination

T2.1

spectrum

sensing and

monitoring

T2.2

interferer

identification and

classification

WP2: Cognitive UWB Radio and Coexistence

T2.3

spatial

interference

distribution

T2.4

coexistence +

interference

mitigation

T2.5

networking

cooperation +

negotiation

T2.6

cognitive

signalling

concepts

T2.7

test-bed

initial output of the application WPs

n

e

t

w

o

r

k

s

T6.1

uwb in multi-

radio interface

devices

T6.2uwb in access

network equipment

T6.3

location-aware

services

t

r

a

n

s

p

o

r

t

T8a.1 + T8a.2

scenarios

and

requirements

T8a.3...5

application

development

and test

a

u

t

o

m

o

t

i

v

e

T8b.1 + T8b.2

scenarios

and

system

parameters

T8b.3 + T8b.4

demonstrator

development

and test

T8c.1

multiband/

multimode

uwb

application

T8c.2

localisation/

tracking

application

h

o

m

e

world-wide regulation and standardisation status

T4.3

implementation

and evaluation

Figure 3131: Pert diagram of overall project level interaction.



B1.3.3 List of Work Packages

WP Name of work package Type of

activity

Leader

N° Leader PM

Start

month

End

month

1 Project Management MGT P01 GWT 102106 M01 M40

1.1 Administrative Project Management MGT P01 GWT 6670 M01 M40

1.2 Technical and Scientific Management MGT P01 TESD 18 M01 M40

1.3 Impact Management MGT P01 GWT 18 M01 M40

2 Cognitive UWB Radio and Coexistence RTD P08 CNET 220268 M01 M40

2.1 Spectrum Sensing and Monitoring RTD P08 CNET 34 M01 M18

2.2 Identification and Classification of Interferers RTD P19 UNIBO 25 M04 M24

2.3 Distribution of Spatial Interference RTD P06 CEA 40 M04 M40

2.4 Coexistence and Mitigation of Interference RTD P18 UNIBO 4656 M01 M33

2.5 Networking Co-operation and Negotiation RTD P08 CNET 4046 M01 M30

2.6 Concepts for Cognitive Signalling RTD P08 CNET 2355 M04 M40

2.7 Experimental Cognitive Radio Test-bed RTD P14 WIS 12 M12 M40

3 Multiple Antenna UWB Systems RTD P07 LUH 211 M01 M40

3.1 System Concepts and Requirements for Scenarios RTD P21 UIL 47 M01 M27

3.2 Set-up of a MIMO Test-bed for Research and

Evaluation of Algorithms RTD P07 LUH 22 M01 M27

3.3 Application-aware Algorithms and System Design RTD P13 VTT 80 M01 M40

3.4 Implementation-aware Algorithms and System

Design RTD P13 VTT 62 M19 M40

4 UWB Enabled Advanced Location Tracking RTD P09 CWC 231241 M01 M40

4.1 Development of Advanced Localisation and

Tracking Algorithms RTD P09 CWC 6673 M01 M30

4.2 Data Acquisition and Dissemination for/using

Location Information RTD P09 CWC 37 M01 M18

4.3 Implementation and Evaluation of Algorithms in

the Platforms RTD P16 ACO 4851 M13 M30

4.4 Impact of Location Information on

Communication Systems RTD P19 UNIBO 49 M07 M30

4.5 Study of New System Concepts with Location

Awareness RTD P15 UZ 31 M13 M40

5 UWB Multiband/Multimode Operation RTD P03 TESD 160 M01 M40

5.1 Definition of Application and System

Requirements for Multimode/Multiband Radios RTD P14 EADS 8 M01 M06

5.2 Specification and Development of

Multimode/Multiband Architecture RTD P17 TESUK 95 M04 M36

5.3 VHDR WiMedia/60 GHz Multiband Verification

Platform RTD P03 TESD 57 M06 M40

6 UWB in Heterogeneous Access Networks RTD P11 TID 158166 M01 M40

6.1 UWB in Multi-radio Interface User Devices RTD P12 THA 46 M01 M37

6.2 UWB in Access Network Equipment RTD P11 TID 66 M01 M37

6.3 Location-aware Services in Heterogeneous

Networks RTD P11 TID 4654 M12 M40



WP Name of work package Type of

activity

Leader

N° Leader PM

Start

month

End

month

7 Open UWB Technology Platforms RTD P20 UDE

(co: CEA) 256 M01 M40

7.1 Platform Requirements and Specifications RTD P20 UDE 14 M01 M18

7.2 Platform Development and Implementation,

Hardware RTD P06 CEA 90 M03 M30

7.3 Platform Development and Implementation,

Software RTD P12 THA 99 M03 M33

7.4 Transfer and Support of Platforms RTD P20 UDE 37 M07 M40

7.5 Study of Combined LDR/HDR Open Platform RTD P20 UDE 16 M24 M40

8 UWB Application Environments RTD P10 EADS 367403 M01 M40

8a UWB in the Public Transport RTD P10 EADS 189209 M01 M40

8a.1 Definition of Application Scenarios for Public

Transport Applications RTD P10 EADS 8 M01 M03

8a.2 Definition of Requirements for Public Transport

Applications RTD P10 EADS 10 M03 M12

8a.3 Development of a Demonstrator for Public

Transport Applications RTD P10 EADS 128140 M13 M32

8a.4 Test and Verification of the Demonstrator for

Public Transport Applications RTD P10 EADS 3442 M33 M40

8a.5 Tests to Support Regulation and Standardisation

Activities RTD P10 EADS 9 M01 M40

8b UWB in the Automotive Environment RTD P05 BOSCH 86 M01 M40

8b.1 Definition of Application Scenarios for the

Automotive Environment RTD P05 BOSCH 3 M01 M06

8b.2 Definition of System Parameters, Channel

Characterisation and Simulation Framework RTD P05 BOSCH 24 M06 M25

8b.3 Development of Demonstrators for the Automotive

Environment RTD P05 BOSCH 48 M12 M40

8b.4 Test and Verification of Demonstrators for the

Automotive Environment RTD P05 BOSCH 11 M24 M40

8c UWB in the Home Environment RTD P04 PHI 92108 M01 M40

8c.1 Multiband/Multimode HDR UWB + VHDR

60 GHz Application RTD P04 PHI 4350 M01 M40

8c.2 UWB Localisation/Tracking for Smart Wireless

Audio Application RTD P04 PHI 4958 M01 M40

9 Regulation and Standardisation RTD P05 BOSCH 107 M01 M40

9.1 Status of World-wide UWB Regulation and

Standardisation RTD P05 BOSCH 14 M01 M27

9.2 Regulatory Activities RTD P05 BOSCH 30 M01 M40

9.3 Standardisation Activities RTD P05 BOSCH 47 M01 M40

9.4 International Co-ordination RTD P05 BOSCH 16 M01 M40

TOTAL GWT 1,8121,

918

Table 77: List of work packages.



B1.3.4 List of Deliverables

Number Name of deliverable Respon-

sible

Na-

ture

Diss.

level

Delivery

date

D1.1 Set-up of EUWB co-operative working environment GWT O CO M01

D1.2 Set-up of public web page GWT O PU M01

D1.3 Public project presentation GWT R PU M01

D1.4a/b/c Quality hand book (initial/updated/final) GWT R CO M02/12/

M21

D1.5a/b/c

/d/e/f/g/

h/i/ j

Quarterly management report GWT R CO

M03/06

M09/15

M18/21

M27/30

M33/36

D1.6a/b Planning for the next period * to be updated after the 1st and 2nd review GWT R CO M12*

M24*

D1.7a/b/c Periodic report ** within 60 d after the end of each period GWT R CO/PU

M12**

M24**

M340**

D1.8 Final report *** within 60 d after the end of the project GWT R CO/PU M340**

*

D1.9 Report on the distribution of the Community‟s contribution GWT R CO 30 d after

final paymt.

D2.1.1 Spectrum sensing and monitoring CNET R PU M12

D2.1.2 MB-OFDM-based “sniffer” function CNET R PU M18

D2.2.1 Interference definition and specification UNIBO R PU M12

D2.2.2 Interferer identification algorithms UNIBO R PU M24

D2.2.3 Interferer classification UNIBO R PU M24

D2.3.1 Interferers localisation/tracking methods CEA R PU M24

D2.3.2 Radio environment map CEA R PU M40

D2.4.1 Requirements for UWB mitigation techniques for IR UWB and

OFDM UWB UNIBO R PU M04

D2.4.2 Interference mitigation techniques algorithms UNIBO R PU M26

D2.4.3 Co-operative coding, modulation and power control strategies CNET R PU M33

D2.4.4 Multiple antennas and beamforming algorithms UNIBO R PU M33

D2.4.5 Multi-source/node distributed network coded modulation –

concepts, structures, algorithms and performance evaluation CTU R PU M40

D2.5.1 Scenarios and requirements for networking co-operation/

negotiation CNET R PU M12

D2.5.2 Networking co-operation and negotiation algorithms CNET R PU M30

D2.6.1 Cognitive signalling concepts scenarios and requirements CNET R PU M12

D2.6.2 Solutions for the Cognitive Pilot Channel CNET R PU M30

D2.6.3 CR-UWB based control unit CNET R PU M40

D2.6.4 DCPC architecture, communication mechanisms and protocols WRC R PU M40

D2.7.1 Architecture definition of CR experimental test-bed WIS R PU M18

D2.7.2 Experimental cognitive radio test-bed WIS P PU M40

D3.1.1 Definition of system concepts, requirements and application

scenarios UNIBO R PU M06




sible

Na-

ture

Diss.

level

Delivery

date

D3.1.2a/b Application-specific MIMO-UWB channel measurements and

parameter extraction (initial/final) UIL R PU M09/15

D3.1.3 Application-specific channel modelling with spatial and temporal

correlation analysis of the theoretical limits of MIMO-UWB UNIBO R PU M09

D3.2.1 Definition of the initial set-up of a 2×4 MIMO test-bed LUH R RE M12

D3.2.2 Definition of the evolved set-up of a 4×4 MIMO test-bed and set-

ups for multi-user/interferer scenarios LUH R RE M27

D3.3.1 Application-aware algorithm and system design for extremely

high data rates LUH R PU M40

D3.3.2 Application-aware algorithm and system design for link quality

enhancements and range extension for VHDR LUH R PU M40

D3.3.3 Application-aware algorithm and system design for multi-user

enhancements for VHDR VTT R PU M40

D3.4.1 Resource evaluation and prediction of multiple antenna solutions

via prototyping VTT R PU M40

D3.4.2 Impact analysis of HW effects on implementation and system

design of MAS CEA R PU M40

D4.1.1 Initial LT algorithms CWC R PU M12

D4.1.2a/b Enhanced LT algorithms with heterogeneous information

(initial/final) CWC R PU M24/30

D4.2.1 Initial development of dissemination methods and evaluation UDE R PU M12

D4.2.2 Enhanced dissemination methods and evaluation UDE R PU M18

D4.3.1 Evaluation of requirements for the LT engine implementation

(LDR and HDR platforms) ACO R PU M16

D4.3.2a/b Implementation of the enhanced LT engine implementation with

mobility management (LDR and HDR) (initial/final) ACO R PU M18/30

D4.4.1a/b Analysis of the impact of location information on communication

systems (initial/final) UNIBO R PU M12/24

D4.4.2 Analysis of the impact of location and mobility information on

communication systems UNIBO R PU M30

D4.5.1 Analysis of location awareness in wireless/cellular networks UZ R PU M15

D4.5.2a/b Algorithms and strategies for communication systems with

location awareness (initial/final) UZ R PU M24/40

D5.1 Application definition and system requirements for multimode/

multiband radios EADS R PU M06

D5.2.1

Study of multiplexing and switching strategies in Bluetooth v3.0

hybrid radio system and for VHDR WiMedia/60 GHz multiband

radio system

TESUK R PU M09

D5.2.2 Development, implementation and verification of the CL/MAC

software sub-components TESUK R CO M33

D5.2.3 VHDR WiMedia/60 GHz multiband radio, system development –

PAL/MAC, BB, RF TESUK R CO M33

D5.3.1 VHDR WiMedia/60 GHz multiband radio, specification of

verification block TESD R PU M12

D5.3.2 VHDR WiMedia/60 GHz multiband radio, design of verification

block – enhanced WiMedia PHY, 60 GHz UWB front-end TESD P CO M24

D5.3.3 VHDR WiMedia/60 GHz multiband radio, verification of the

integrated platform ACO P CO M40




sible

Na-

ture

Diss.

level

Delivery

date

D6.1.1 Definition of application scenario and definition of requirements THA R PU M04

D6.1.2 Description of first family of multi-radio interface user devices TID R CO M24

D6.1.3 Advanced multi-radio interface user devices TID R CO M37

D6.1.4 Advanced multi-radio interface user devices (demonstrator) TID D CO M37

D6.2.1 Description of first family of EUWB access points THA R CO M24

D6.2.2 Study of capability in UWB picocells and higher layer

requirements for heterogeneous networks UZ R PU M18

D6.2.3 Picocell tests using advanced UWB platforms UZ R PU M37

D6.2.4 UWB in existing and future radio access network: coexistence

aspects TID R PU M37

D6.3.1 Requirements and specification of services based on location

awareness TID R PU M18

D6.3.2 Concept applications to exploit location awareness UZ R CO M40

D6.3.3 Concept applications to exploit location awareness (demonstrator) UZ D CO M40

D7.1.1a/b LDR-LT platform requirements, feasibility analysis and

specification (initial/final) CEA R PU M06/18

D7.1.2a/b (V)HDR platform requirements, feasibility analysis and

specification (initial/final)

WIS/

TESUK R PU M06/18

D7.1.3 Combined LDR-LT/HDR platform, feasibility analysis and

specification UDE R PU M18

D7.4.1a/b LDR-LT platform (HW/SW) provision to different activity

clusters (initial/final) THA P PU M12/24

D7.4.2a/b (V)HDR platform (HW/SW) provision to different activity

clusters (initial/final) TESUK P PU M12/24

D7.5 Combined LDR/HDR platform study results UDE P PU M40

D8a.1 Scenario description for public transport applications EADS R PU M03

D8a.2 Requirements for public transport applications EADS R RE M06

D8a.3.1 Implementation of higher layers and integration GHTWT R, P RE M3034

D8a.3.2 Coexistence HDR (ECMA 368)/LDR (802.15.4a) THA R, P RE M2631

D8a.3.3 Advanced localisation techniques in harsh environment ACO R, P RE M2631

D8a.3.4 New concepts for radio resources management and mobility

support with location awareness ACO R, P RE M2632

D8a.3.5 Localisation using ECMA 368 platform UDE R, P RE M2631

D8a.3.6 High precision synchronisation for large mesh networks TESUK R, P RE M31

D8a.3.7 Multiband/multimode for high reliability and QoS (HDR/60 GHz) TESD R, P RE M2631

D8a.3.8 Antenna design TESD R, P RE M2631

D8a.3.9 Demonstrator for public transport applications EADS D RE M3237

D8a.4 Test and verification of the demonstrator for public transport

applications EADS R PU M40

D8b.1 Scenario description for automotive environment applications BOSCH R PU M03

D8b.2 System parameters for automotive environment applications BOSCH R PU M07

D8b.3 System simulation environment BOSCH R PU M35

D8b.4 Channel model for complex automotive scenarios (in-car) BOSCH R PU M18

D8b.5 Verification of channel model by measurement BOSCH R PU M25

D8b.6 Antennas for in-car applications LDR and LT BOSCH P RE M18

D8b.7 CAN/LIN-bus interface TESD P RE M26




sible

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ture

Diss.

level

Delivery

date

D8b.8 In-car demonstrator for LDR wireless communication TESD P RE M32

D8b.9 Performance verification of LDR wireless communication in-car

demonstrator BOSCH R PU M40

D8b.10 In-car demonstrator for location tracking BOSCH P RE M32

D8b.11 Performance verification of location tracking in-car demonstrator BOSCH R PU M40

D8c.1 Scenario description for multiband/multimode UWB home

environment applications PHI R PU M06

D8c.2 System parameters and requirements for multiband/multimode

UWB home environment applications PHI R RE M06

D8c.3 Interface requirements for the application platform PHI O RE M12

D8c.4 Demonstrator for multiband UWB wireless communication for

video streaming PHI D PU M32

D8c.5 Performance verification of the multiband UWB-60 GHz

demonstrator within home environment PHI O PU M40

D8c.6 Scenario description for localisation/tracking application for home

audio applications PHI R PU M03

D8c.7 System parameters and requirements for localisation/

synchronisation for home audio applications PHI R RE M06

D8c.8 Interface requirements of the application platform PHI O RE M12

D8c.9 Development of audio tuning algorithms for in-room home

environment scenarios PHI O CO M24

D8c.10 Demonstrator for in-room audio tuning based on the LT algorithm

and platform PHI D RE M40

D8c.11

Performance verification of the combined localisation/

synchronisation and audio tuning application demonstrator within

home environment

PHI O RE M40

D9.1 World-wide regulation and standardisation overview BOSCH R PU M02

D9.2a/b/c Regulation and standardisation plan (initial/updated/final) BOSCH R PU M06/18/

M27

D9.3 Contributions to update the ECMA standard BOSCH R PU M30

Table 88: List of deliverables.

The nature of the deliverable is indicated by one of the following codes:

R = Report, P = Prototype, D = Demonstrator, O = Other

The dissemination level is indicated by one of the following codes:

PU = Public;

RE = Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Services);

CO = Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission Services).



B1.3.5 List of Milestones

Number Name of milestone WP(s)

involved

Expected

date

Means of

verification

M1.1 Project kick-off WP1 M01 MoM

M1.2 1st project workshop organised WP1 M11 R

M1.3 1st periodic review passed WP1 M14 R

M1.4 2nd periodic review passed WP1 M26 R

M1.5 Final project workshop organised WP1 M39 R

M2.1 Selection of reference systems for identification and definition

of interferers for LT purposes WP2 M12 Internal report

M2.2 Definition of spectrum sharing policies to be implemented at the

network level WP2 M24 Internal report

M2.3 Test of basic cognitive radio functionalities WP2 M33 Prototype ready

M2.4 Performance evaluations and gains of the multi-source/node

network coded modulation WP2 M40 D2.4.5

M2.5 DCPC communications mechanisms developed for UWB

communication environment WP2 M40 D2.6.4

M3.1 Application-specific channel model requirements and practical

requirements for specific MAS scenarios WP3 M06 D3.1.3

M3.2 Initial 2×4 MIMO UWB test-bed for research and evaluation of

algorithms WP3 M12 D3.2.1

M3.3 Evolved 4×4 MIMO UWB test-bed for research and evaluation

of algorithms for multi-user/interferer scenarios WP3 M27 D3.2.2

M3.4 System-level simulators a) EHDR b) VHDR WP3 M40 D3.3.1, D3.3.2,

D3.3.3

M4.1 Preliminary study on the theoretical limits of localisation and

communication WP4 M12 D4.4.1a

M4.2

a) Algorithms to support mobility and improve QoS

b) Preliminary techniques for communication based on location

awareness

c) Implementation and verification of preliminary LT engine

and/or key blocks

WP4 M18

D4.5.2a,

D4.2.1,

D4.3.2a

M4.3

a) Enhanced localisation and tracking engine with heterogeneous

information

b) Analysis of the theoretical limits for localisation and

communication under non-ideal conditions

WP4 M24 D4.1.2a,

D4.4.1b

M4.4

Advanced solutions for LT engines and location aware

communication systems with relative limits (Enhanced

localisation and tracking engine based on passive and active

methods – Advanced techniques for communication based on

location awareness – Extended analysis of the theoretical

localisation and communication limits to the application

scenarios – Enhanced algorithms to support mobility and

improve QoS)

WP4 M36

D4.1.2b,

D4.2.2,

D4.3.2b,

D4.4.2,

D4.5.2b

M5.1 Application definition and system proposal for

multimode/multiband radios WP5 M06 D5.1

M5.2 Verification platform definition WP5 M12 D5.2.1

M5.3 Verification block prototypes

transferred as initial platform to WP8 WP5 M24 D5.3.2

M5.4 Enhanced architecture for Bluetooth v3.0 hybrid radio system WP5 M33 D5.2.2



Number Name of milestone WP(s)

involved

Expected

date

Means of

verification

M5.5 Enhanced architecture for VHDR WiMedia/60 GHz multiband

radio system WP5 M33 D5.2.3

M5.6 Demonstration of the integrated platform WP5,

WP8 M40 D5.3.3

M6.1

a) Specification of commercial UWB platform integration in

user devices

b) Specification of commercial UWB platform integration in

user access points

WP6 M12 IR6.1.2, IR6.2.1

M6.2

a) Study of capability in UWB picocells and higher layer

requirements for heterogeneous NW

b) Requirements and specification of services based on location

awareness

WP6 M18 D6.2.2, D6.3.1

M6.3 a) Description of first family of multi-radio interface user devices

b) Description of first family of EUWB access points WP6 M24 D6.1.2, D6.2.1

M6.4 a) Advanced multi-radio interface user device demonstrator

b) Picocell tests using advanced UWB platforms WP6 M37 D6.1.4, D6.2.3

M6.5 Concept applications to exploit location awareness WP6 M40 D6.3.3

M7.1 Support material ready WP7 M12 actual material

M7.2 Enhanced set of support material ready WP7 M24 actual material

M8a.1 Scenarios description and requirements for public transport

applications WP8 M06 D8a.1, D8a.2

M8a.2 Prototypes to be integrated in demonstrator for public transport

applications WP8 M26

D8a.3.1 to

D8a.3.8

M8a.3 Demonstrator for public transport applications WP8 M30 D8a.3.9

M8b.1 Scenarios and system parameters defined for automotive

applications WP8 M06 D8b.2

M8b.2 Channel model available WP8 M18 D8b.4

M8b.3 In-car demonstrator for a) LDR and b) LT available WP8 M32 D8b.8, D8b.11

M8b.4 System simulation environment available WP8 M35 D8b.3

M8c.1 Scenario description and requirements for a) multiband UWB

and b) LT for home environment applications WP8 M06

D8c.1, D8c.2,

D8c.6, D8c.7

M8c.2 Prototypes to be integrated in demonstrator for multiband UWB

home environment applications WP8 M30 D5.2.3

M8c.3 Prototypes to be integrated in demonstrator for LT in home

environment applications WP8 M32 D4.3.2b

M8c.4 Demonstrator for a) multiband UWB and b) LT in home

environment applications WP8 M40 D8c.4, D8c.5

M9.1 World-wide regulation and standardisation overview WP9 M02 D9.1

M9.2 Regulation and standardisation initial plan ready WP9 M06 D9.2a

M9.3 Initial application and technology requirements evaluated WP9 M10 Internal report

M9.4 Updated application and technology requirements evaluated WP9 M22 Internal report

M9.5 Regulation and standardisation final plan WP9 M28 D9.3

Table 99: List of milestones.



B1.3.6 Description of Work Packages

WP number WP1 Start date M01

WP title Project Management End date M40

Activity type MGT Total PM 1026

Participant (number) P01 P03

Participant (short name) GWT TESD

PM per participant 84 18

Task Start End PM

T1.1 M01 M40 70 667

0

T1.2 M01 M40 18 18

T1.3 M01 M40 148 18

Objectives

Achieve most efficient project execution and resource utilisation by management of the project with regard to

quality, financial, administrative, legal and technical matters including interfacing with the European Commission

and other project external organisations as well as managing knowledge transfer and dissemination activities.

Description of Work

Task 1.1: Administrative Project Management [M01–M40]

This task contains all major activities concerning administrative project management including the project

planning update, contract maintenance, external relations and interfacing, communications, resource and

expenditure management, risk management, project documentation management, project communication platform,

project internal decision making management and chair of the Management Board.

Task 1.2: Quality Management [M01–M40]

This task contains all major activities concerning quality project management including the supervision of project

planning updates, technical risk management, internal project deliverable review management and technical and

scientific quality management.

Task 1.3: Impact Management [M01–M40]

This task contains IPR and knowledge management and dissemination/exploitation of results.

Deliverables

D1.1: Set-up of EUWB co-operative working environment (M01)

D1.2: Set-up of public web page (M01)

D1.3: Public project presentation (M01)

D1.4a/b/c: Quality hand book (initial/updated/final) (M02/M12/M21)

D1.5a–j: Quarterly management report (M03/M06/M09/M15/M18/M21/M27/M30/M33/M36)

D1.6a/b: Draft planning for next period (M12*/M24*) – * to be updated after the 1st and 2nd review

D1.7a/b/c: Periodic report (M12**/M24**/M40**) – ** within 60 days after the end of each period

D1.8: Final report (M40***) – *** within 60 days after the end of the project

D1.9: Report on the distribution of the Community‟s contribution (30 days after final payment)

Milestones

M1.1: Project kick-off (M01)

M1.2: 1st project workshop organised (M11)

M1.3: 1st periodic review passed (M14)

M1.4: 2nd periodic review passed (M26)

M1.5: Final project workshop organised (M39)

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Formatted

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WP title Cognitive UWB Radio and Coexistence End date M40

Activity type RTD Total PM 22068

Participant (number) P06 P08 P09 P14 P19 P20 P26 P28

Participant (short name) CEA CNET CWC WIS UNIBO UDE CTU WRC

PM per participant 16 98 22 24 48 12 16 32

Task Start End PM

T2.1 M01 M18 34 6 14 3 8 3

T2.2 M04 M24 25 10 5 8 2

T2.3 M04 M40 40 10 8 9 10 3

T2.4 M01 M33 456 14 6 10 12 4 10

T2.5 M01 M30 460 23 7 10 6

T2.6 M04 M40 235

5 23 32

T2.7 M12 M40 12 6 6

Objectives

The main goal of this work package is to investigate the fundamental issues on how to achieve cognitive UWB

functionalities of spectrum sensing and monitoring, to develop the capability of optimising the communications

and improving the coexistence of heterogeneous wireless networks and terminals, to solve the coexistence issues

within UWB networks, and to realise the capability of broadcasting spectrum, time and location related

information via the Cognitive Pilot Channel (CPC) concept. In particular, the specific objectives are the following:

Develop novel “sniffer” functions capable of multi-dimensional (frequency, time, space, code) sensing and

monitoring of the spectrum, during the initial set-up phase and normal operation of the network, respectively;

Realise interferer identification algorithms and classification according to known wireless standards and

systems, e.g. WiFi, whereas possible, leveraging on shared databases;

Utilise relevant positioning capabilities, offered by UWB devices and systems, for deriving the spatial

distribution of radio resource and interference for network optimisation purposes;

Achieve effective coexistence regarding both intra-network interference, e.g. UWB-UWB, due to multi-access

by UWB devices, either HDR (high data rate) or LDR (low data rate) ones, sharing the same frequency band,

and inter-network interference, in both directions, versus other wireless systems, e.g. WiMAX;

Develop novel interference mitigation and coexistence techniques, including adaptive coding and modulation,

spectrum-agile waveform generation, and smart beamforming techniques;

Develop network structure and coexistence side-information aware demodulation/decoding and signal

processing algorithms on the interference channel with various levels of the side-information on its structure

and contents. Investigate the capacity and throughput improvement impact of the hierarchical co-operative/

distributed network structure aware modulation and coding in the environment of a UWB system;

Provide co-operative and negotiation techniques at the networking level, based upon the local intelligence of

each CR device implementing a (local) policy aimed at optimising the overall operation of the network under

consideration;

Leverage on the CPC mechanism as a mean to allow co-ordination among heterogeneous networks and the

implementation of the Cognitive Radio (CR) concept in non-UWB systems, e.g. in cellular systems;

Define and design the architecture and communication mechanisms for DCPC applicable to specific UWB

environments;

Demonstrate CR-UWB radio as central control unit, wherever multiple air interfaces are co-located, providing

a shared spectrum sensing and control mechanisms;

Implement an experimental test-bed that uses the existing UWB platforms to demonstrate some basic CR

functions, namely spectrum sensing, spectrum adaptation, interference mitigation and DAA mechanisms.

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Description of Work

Task 2.1: Spectrum Sensing and Monitoring [M01–M18]

This task focuses on the basic issue of spectrum sensing and monitoring in order to provide a UWB device with

advanced wireless environment detection function. The spectrum sensing function in the context of CR denotes the

monitoring of electromagnetic activity in a broad portion of the spectrum. Due to the large portion of bandwidth

used by UWB systems, there may be quite different systems that occupy the electromagnetic spectrum adopting

various transmission schemes: narrowband, wideband direct-sequence or frequency-hopping CDMA and

multicarrier modulations such as OFDM, MC-CDMA and FFH/OFDM (Fast-Frequency-Hopping OFDM). The

spectrum usage is also characterised by the multiple access scheme adopted by such systems, which can be

TDMA, FDMA, CDMA, CSMA or a hybrid combination thereof. Moreover, the duplexing scheme like TDD or

FDD needs also to be taken into account. A thorough acquisition of the spectrum usage is a challenging problem

not yet fully analysed, which this task plans to cope with as detailed below:

T2.1.1: Specifications and Requirements for Spectrum Sensing

First important sub-task is the study on how detailed the sensing must be, and to develop algorithms which are fast

enough (real-time) before the radio activities over the wide spectrum band varies.

T2.1.2: Aggregation of Information

We will look into how the information provided by sensing (in the frequency, space and time domains) can be

summarised to be sent and used by the upper layers to support interference avoidance and spectrum-agile signal

generation. In fact, it is envisaged a trade-off between the signalling overhead and system performance.

T2.1.3: Design of „Sniffer‟ Function

Furthermore, we plan to develop novel MB-OFDM based “sniffer” functions capable of sensing and monitoring

the spectrum usage in frequency, time and space with the necessary granularity, so that to keep as low as possible

the implementation complexity.

Task 2.2: Identification and Classification of Interferers [M04–M24]

The work within this task will be organised according to two sub-tasks.

T2.2.1: Identification Algorithms for Interferers

First, the interferers will be identified by their signal frequency aspects, peak power, directional of arrival, symbols

sequence, etc. These characteristics will reveal the identity of the interferer. This task is aimed at deriving a series

of theoretical models to identify and classify the interferers.

T2.2.2: Classification of Interferers

We plan to develop classification algorithms according to known wireless standards and systems, e.g. WiFi,

whereas possible, leveraging on shared databases. This approach may greatly simplify the wireless environment

monitoring task, by relying upon the pre-existing knowledge of the transmission patterns.

Task 2.3: Distribution of Spatial Interference [M04–M40]

Efficient CR strategies require the knowledge of CR and non-CR devices location in order to collect spatial

information about spectrum usage and interferers distribution. Furthermore, the CR nodes position is fundamental

for efficient routing which can improve network capacity, efficiency and reduce harmful interference towards non-

CR devices, and can improve the coexistence among heterogeneous networks.

T2.3.1: Localisation/Tracking of Interferers

This sub-task will be devoted to the spatial localisation/tracking of potential interferers, both narrow-band and

ultra-wideband, in a heterogeneous network scenario. Of course, this activity will leverage on the research

findings of both WP3 and WP4, regarding the usage of multiple-antennas and UWB-based localisation/tracking

techniques, respectively. The research challenges include how to extend these techniques to heterogeneous

networks, comprising non co-operative nodes, in order to infer the relative position of the interferers, how to cope

with NLOS (non line-of-sight) situations and with mobility.

T2.3.2: Radio Environment Map

The relative position information among CR and non-CR devices will be used to construct a local map of the

spatial interference distribution and will serve to define an appropriate strategy for spatial management and reuse

of spectrum resources.

Task 2.4: Coexistence and Mitigation of Interference [M01–M33]

The work within this task will be organised according to three sub-tasks.

T2.4.1: Interference Mitigation Techniques

This sub-task is to define interference mitigation techniques by DAA (detection-and-avoidance) cognitive radio

principles. Interference mitigation techniques at the receiver end will include adaptive classification, channel



estimation, and suppression of interference. The interference needs to be classified as through a parametric model

before its parameters can be estimated and the interference, which may be non-stationary, can be subsequently

suppressed. This part of the work will leverage also on the research findings by the T2.2 on identification and

classification of interferers.

As part of this sub-task the specific spectrum moulding for impulse based systems and OFDM based systems will

be investigated. Specifically, relying on impulse radio-like techniques, such as SSA (soft-spectrum adaptation),

UWB waveform generation will be investigated, in which spectrum-agile UWB waveforms achieving adaptation

features and their associated modulation, coding and multiple-access techniques will be analysed in terms of

digital processing algorithms and architectures.

For OFDM based systems, bi-orthogonal multiple-tone schemes will be developed, which give more design

freedom and spectrum shaping capabilities. In the scheme, a given set of OFDM-based orthogonal waveforms will

be used at the transmitter and a different set of orthogonal waveforms at the receiver.

T2.4.2: Strategies for Co-operative Coding, Modulation and Power Control

Cognitive UWB devices will opportunistically use the spectrum, while their local resource management choices,

e.g. selecting the transmission rates, transmission powers, coding schemes, etc., will greatly influence the

performance of all the other users. Co-operative modulation and coding strategies for dynamic spectrum access

(DSA) and increased spectrum utilisation will be investigated, with a view to minimise control information in the

feedback channel. Another point in this task is to investigate radio parameters adaptation based on node locations.

For example, in a network there are devices that are using different codes to code their transmission. If the location

of the nodes is known at priori, it may be possible to exploit different codes for nodes in the network depending on

their relative distance. A bigger challenge would be for the case of mobile terminals, which would require on-the-

fly spatial-code sets adaptation.

Modulation and coding in multi-source and multi-node scenario can greatly benefit from the knowledge of the

node/source (network) structure and side-information of other nodes‟ code and data. Currently, strong attention is

put on the hierarchical relay processing where the relaying nodes process the hierarchical data which jointly

represent all incoming sources in such a form that the final destination can decode the data only with the help of

the side-information on other data sources. This scheme has the capacity region with the sum-rate extending the

classical MAC sum-rate. This concept, in its bit narrower interpretation (perfect side-information), is known as

Network Coded Modulation or Physical Layer (Wireless) Network Coding. The side-information available at the

relay or final destination can have various levels of quality and form, starting from the perfect knowledge to the

partial/imperfect one on both data-contents and the codeword/modulation format structure. The coding and relay

processing must properly respect this. Imperfect/partial side-information assumption requires specific hierarchical

exclusive codeword properties and presents truly challenging research area. Also the specific scenario of UWB

systems brings number of specific problems, ranging from the extreme bandwidth and the associated problems of

the modulation format and pulse shape, channel parametrisation (synchronisation) impact, extremely high data

rates and also relatively short propagation distances. The subtask will cover the following specific areas:

Fundamental limits of the multi-source/node aware modulation and coding in UWB scenario;

Design of the modulation and coding for hierarchical processing with partial/imperfect side information;

Hierarchical demodulation, decoding and signal processing in parametric UWB environment.

T2.4.3: Multiple Antennas and Beamforming

In a cognitive radio scenario, the use of multiple antennas can improve the robustness of UWB system to

interference, and/or can be used to reduce the amount of UWB interference towards non-UWB devices. On the

other hand, once the interferer is located through the discovery of the spatial distribution of interferers, it is

possible to perform array beamforming to reject the interference coming from a particular direction. The location

of the node, a prediction of its movement, together with the information of the radio interference map can then be

used to design an efficient “virtual” multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) beamforming, with the co-operation

transmission amongst the multiple radiating nodes oriented to one direction, which also represents an original

research direction in the context of UWB. Furthermore, in this subrtask, the MIMO paradigm will include the

hierarchical network aware multi-source/node coding schemes investigated in T2.4.2.

Task 2.5: Networking Co-operation and Negotiation [M01–M30]

The goal of this task is to build models of cognitive behaviour and operation for a group of distributed CR-UWB

nodes. Each UWB node has a cognitive engine, which can take decisions that are optimal or acceptable from the

perspective of the affected network segment that involves a group of UWB nodes. The engine‟s decisions result in

configuration commands, targeted to the radio parameters and algorithms. The impact of the configuration decisions

is reflected on a fitness function that indicates the quality of the decisions. In principle, the fitness function will

have relative weights for the different decision variables. The weights will be context-dependent, e.g. related to





time, location, nodes in the environment, etc. In principle, the strategies should be as distributed and local as possible,

while being targeted to leading the network segment to optimal performance. Strategies with different volumes of

node interaction will be developed. One of the other primary research themes will be game theory and machine

learning, in order to design cognitive UWB nodes able to operate autonomously, with little or no interaction

between them. Furthermore, the research will also address the development of protocols for the conflict-solving

negotiation between nodes.

Task 2.6: Concepts for Cognitive Signalling [M04–M40] In this task cognitive concepts using signalling over the air will be investigated and evaluated. Here the cognitive

pilot channel will guide the way towards a co-operative coexistence between UWB and future wireless systems.

The UWB cognitive control unit can be seen as a enhanced concept of using UWB as the control entity in future

enhanced multimode/multiband devices.

T2.6.1: Cognitive Pilot Channel

This task will be devoted to exploiting the concept of CPC in order to facilitate coexistence of CR-enabled devices

with heterogeneous networks. The CPC may be carried by a dedicated sub-band to be agreed upon with a wide

basis of wireless standards and initiatives. In particular, within EUWB it is planned to co-ordinate and leverage on

the outcome of the IEEE P.1900/SCC41 initiatives, as proposed by the E2R (end-to-end re-configurability)

consortium, in order to ensure future interoperability. The detection results, which regard to frequency bands,

services, location situation, etc., can be broadcast to other wireless networks or terminals via CPC. With such

information, terminals can initiate a communication session in an optimised way, taking advantage of situation and

location information. In particular, since under DSA, due to dynamic relocation mechanisms, terminals do not

know the available spectrum, it is more critical to adopt cognitive UWB pilot channel to broadcast such

information to terminals who want to set up a communication session. In this task, we will define in detail:

The physical features of broadcast signals, including data rate, modulation, coding, etc.

The MAC data-frame structure. We plan to define two frame headers: one used for other wireless networks or

terminals to access the Cognitive Pilot Channel to obtain the time, location and frequency information, to

realise the harmless coexistence; and another one for the intra-network coexistence, allowing, for instance, a

LDR-UWB device to get information on the existence of a HDR-UWB system.

The procedure for using the CPC will include the following phases:

The wireless network/terminal first listen to the CPC at the initialisation;

The wireless network/terminal gets the information and selects the most suitable one to set up its

communications;

The CPC is broadcast to a wide area, e.g. PAN.

Furthermore, a novel concept of a Distributed Cognitive Pilot Channel (DCPC) is proposed by WRC that extends

the CPC concept. The DCPC is distributed in the sense that there is no central manager responsible for managing

the CPC content. In this task, the DCPC architecture will be defined. Furthermore, the communication mechanisms

for DCPC will be elaborated. In principle, there are three possibilities how status information can be communicated

through the network:

Communication via Air Interfaces (AI) (physical);

Communication via IP channels (logical);

Combination of the two aforementioned aspects (physical/logical).

An AI approach is the assignment of a fixed channel to the DCPC. A logical DCPC approach is based on inband

transmission on a per-hop basis. This approach does not necessarily require overall network synchronisation but

rather synchronisation between directly communicating nodes. In order to gather the whole network status

information, the starting node must receive this information from the end node again.

T2.6.2: CR-UWB Based Control Unit

This task will investigate the use of a CR-UWB device as the control unit, wherever multiple air interfaces are co-

located, to take over the usage of different communication modes in a device, thus providing control mechanisms

and smooth operation modes for all devices under restricted conditions like in an aircraft or in hospitals. By doing

so, the interference can be limited and the operation of the different devices can be optimised in the sense of

performance.

In this subtask, distributed CPC concepts are applied to ECMA-368 WiMedia UWB devices. The DCPC

algorithms and concepts can be used to optimise the useful bandwidth provided by locally deployed ECMA-368

networks in the presence of multiple competing applications and in the presence of frequency-overlapped radios

such as 3G, 4G, WiMax. The information provided by the DCPC can be used by the deployed devices to determine

channel selections for ECMA-368 devices.




Task 2.7: Experimental Cognitive Radio Test-bed [M12–M40]

This task is intended to test and validate the basic CR functions, namely spectrum sensing, spectrum-agile

waveform generation, interference mitigation and DAA (detect-and-avoid) mechanisms. A few cases studies in

terms of coexistence will be analysed, comprising the coexistence between HDR-UWB WiMedia systems, based

upon the MB-OFDM technology, and LDR-UWB IEEE 802.15.4a-compliant systems. Other relevant scenarios

will be identified during the first phase of the project, in relation to specific applications. Furthermore, the concept

of broadcast cognitive pilot channel and co-operation methods will be demonstrated, at least through network-

level simulations.

Deliverables

D2.1.1: Spectrum sensing and monitoring (M12)

D2.1.2: MB-OFDM-based “sniffer” function (M18)

D2.2.1: Interference definition and specification (M12)

D2.2.2: Interferer identification algorithms (M24)

D2.2.3: Interferer classification (M24)

D2.3.1: Interferers localisation/tracking methods (M24)

D2.3.2: Radio environment map (M40)

D2.4.1: Requirements for UWB mitigation techniques (M04)

D2.4.2: Interference mitigation techniques for IR UWB and OFDM UWB (M26)

D2.4.3: Co-operative coding, modulation and power control strategies (M33)

D2.4.4: Multiple antennas and beamforming algorithms (M33)

D2.4.5: Multi-source/node distributed network coded modulation – concepts, structures, algorithms and

performance evaluation (M40)

D2.5.1: Scenarios and requirements for networking co-operation/negotiation (M12)

D2.5.2: Networking co-operation and negotiation algorithms (M30)

D2.6.1: Cognitive signalling concepts scenarios and requirements (M12)

D2.6.2: Solutions for the Cognitive Pilot Channel (M30)

D2.6.3: CR-UWB based control unit (M40)

D2.6.4 DCPC architecture, communication mechanisms and protocols (M40)

D2.7.1: Architecture definition of CR experimental test-bed (M18)

D2.7.2: Experimental cognitive radio test-bed (M40)

Milestones

M2.1: Selection of reference systems for identification and definition of interferers for LT purposes (M12)

M2.2: Definition of spectrum sharing policies to be implemented at the network level (M24)

M2.3: Test of basic cognitive radio functionalities (M33)

M2.4: Performance evaluations and gains of the multi-source/node network coded modulation (M40)

M2.5: DCPC communications mechanisms developed for UWB communication environment (M40)




WP title Multiple Antenna UWB Systems End date M40


Participant (number) P06 P07 P13 P19 P21

Participant (short name) CEA LUH VTT UNIBO UIL

PM per participant 14 87 69 12 29

Task Start End PM

T3.1 M01 M27 47 12 6 29

T3.2 M01 M27 22 22

T3.3 M01 M40 80 35 39 6

T3.4 M19 M40 62 14 18 30

Objectives

The main objective of this work package is to allow for innovations, evaluation of multiple antenna specific

algorithms and verification of enhanced implementation solutions developed within the EUWB project. In detail

this work package has the objective to:

Identify and provide system concepts, requirements and measurement set-ups for certain application

environments, in particular for MIMO-UWB in home environment, MIMO-UWB in automotive environment,

and MIMO-UWB in public transport;

Provide a MIMO-UWB test-bed for evaluation and verification of specific multiple antenna algorithms and

system designs. Evolve this initial test-bed to allow the study of multi-user and interfering scenarios by

providing access to the real MIMO channel;

Develop application-aware algorithms to enable link quality improvement, range extension, and multi-user

enhancements, so as to exploit the benefits offered by the multiple antenna technology;

Develop implementation-aware algorithms and system design to solve the challenges arising from various

application-oriented solutions. Evaluate the HW implementation aspects of certain MIMO-UWB functions

and optimise system design;

Perform resource evaluation and validate certain multiple antenna solutions via prototyping approaches;

Deliver input documents for oncoming MIMO-UWB regulation and standardisation activities.

Description of Work

Task 3.1: System Concepts and Requirements for Scenarios [M01–M27]

The following application oriented topics have been identified as inputs to the definition of system concepts and

requirements:

UWB in the public transport;

UWB in the automotive environment;

UWB in the home environment.

This task has as input the application requirements and scenarios description defined in D8x.1 and D8x.2 from

WP8 UWB Application (public transport/automotive/home). Output Deliverable D3.1.1 will serve as updated

MIMO requirements for WP7 and WP8.

T3.1.1: Requirements and Scenarios for MIMO-UWB

In this sub-task the requirements and solutions for the different application-oriented system concepts will be

identified and/or developed, and fed to the following tasks. Also the definition of specific environments, set-ups

for measurements and interfaces will take place here.

T3.1.2: Application-specific MIMO-UWB Channel Models and Theoretical Limits

The definition of application-specific MIMO-UWB channel models for the different scenarios will include:

Review of the recent literature on the subject and of the results/measurements available, including the recent

developments presented in other projects and COST European initiatives;

Definition of a set of channel models describing spatial and temporal correlation in MIMO-UWB for all the

application scenarios;



Definition of possible measurements/ray-tracing set-up that could be explored (not here) to test/validate the

models.

MIMO-UWB theoretical limits: Investigation on the theoretical limits for MIMO-UWB, assuming capacity

achieving transmission techniques, but on the realistic channel models for the home environment, automotive

environment and public transport scenarios, as by previous tasks, which includes spatial and temporal correlations

in a multi-user scenario. The work is aiming to find, on the realistic channel models: the ultimate range extension

obtainable with MIMO-UWB for the applications of interest; the role of channel state information on the MIMO-

UWB capacity including information on positions and angle of arrivals; the ultimate increase in interference

rejection obtainable with MIMO-UWB in the multi-user scenario which includes an analyse of spatial separation/

beamforming techniques for directional interference suppression. The interference considered will comprise both

wideband and narrowband.

Application-specific MIMO-UWB channel measurements and parameter extraction:

Objective of this activity is to perform measurements of MIMO UWB channels considering different measurement

scenarios. Generic measurement scenarios to be considered are:

Distributed systems in indoor environments (sensor networks);

Automotive scenario (public transport private transport);

Residential environments (security, “intelligent home”, home environment).

Measurements of radio channels will be performed with the MIMO UWB real-time sounder provided as an output

from the previous PULSERS phases.

Task 3.2: Set-up of a MIMO-UWB Test-bed for Research and Evaluation of Algorithms [M01–M27]

Test-beds give a fundamental insight into the practical impacts of advances in research and provide an important

tool to verify the results of model-based algorithm system designs.

In order to simplify the access to the real MIMO-UWB channel a common MIMO-UWB test-bed as well an easy-

to-use interface to MATLAB and to a full-featured system simulator will be set up. We further aim to provide

access via internet to all partners.


WP8 UWB application (public transport/automotive/home). Output Deliverables D3.2.x will serve as updated

MIMO requirements for WP7 and MIMO-UWB scenarios for WP8, WP2 and WP4.

T3.2.1: Initial Set-up of 2×4 MIMO-UWB Test-bed

An initial 2×4 MIMO-UWB test-bed will be based on the following measurement equipment:

2-channel arbitrary waveform generator (Tektronix AWG7102) with an analog signal bandwidth of 5.8 GHz;

4-channel digital storage oscilloscope (Tektronix DPO71604) with an analog bandwidth of 16 GHz and a

sampling rate of 50 GS/s per channel.

on specialised RF hardware and UWB antennas.

T3.2.2: Evolved Set-up: 4×4 Test-bed, Ability to Split Up in Other Combinations (Multi-user, Interferers)

An evolution of this test-bed towards 4×4 MIMO UWB will be implemented by a further Arbitrary Waveform

Generator. This evolved test-bed can be divided into smaller configurations (2×2×4) and will therefore allow the

study of multi-user scenarios and interferers by providing access to the real multi-user MIMO-UWB channel. The

obtained knowledge will be further used in T3.4 in order to verify certain MIMO-UWB features. The test-bed

itself can be later used as reference for other feature verification and/or platform-based activities within EUWB.

Task 3.3: Application-aware Algorithms and System Design [M01–M40]

The challenges facing wireless transfer and display of high definition (HD) content has been increasingly the focus

of many players in the field. This is due to the steady growth of high definition (HD) displays and other CE

devices capable of handling HD video and audio content at home. Parallel to this is the ever increasing availability

of HD content either through various mediums or broadcast channels.

In the CE domain the application of UWB technology has enabled wireless transfer of HD content to be achieved

between two devices over short distances (mainly in-room).

The main challenge remaining is to ensure the quality and integrity of the content given variations in the radio

environment and overcoming the problem of human shadowing once the range is extended. It is therefore

necessary that new techniques are employed to enhance the robustness and range over which high definition

content can be accessed without perceptible change in quality.

On the other hand as HD content becomes more portable the distribution of such contents over multiple sources or

sinks becomes more desirable. Point-to-multipoint and multipoint-to-point scenarios need to be considered and

appropriate solutions provided. Furthermore, it has to be noted that the rights management and content security

over the wireless link are among some of the most critical areas that need to be properly addressed if the



technology is to support scenarios beyond point-to-point applications.

Using multiple antennas at both transmit and receive sides of the UWB link has the potential to improve the

quality and reliability of the wireless link as well as improving the service range. Additionally, these techniques

combined, could open up new possibilities for further innovation in the areas of spectral and spatially aware

systems that are the basis of cognitive radios.

From the regulatory and standardisation point of view, the developed test-bed should be compliant with the FCC/

ETSI radio transmission regulations.

The objective of this task is to exploit the potential features offered by combining UWB and the multi antenna

technology to e.g. home environment applications within residential environments. To ensure the re-use of certain

common functions and implementations, we propose the use of common tools. Beside MATLAB for algorithm

design and performance assessment, a full-featured system simulator, e.g. CoCentric System Studio, is required to

combine the strength of all partners, to provide some flexibility in the task assignments and to assist the co-

operation within the development.


WP8 UWB application (public transport/automotive/home). Output Deliverables D3.3x will serve as system

reference documents for WP8.

T3.3.1: Extremely High Data Rate (EHDR)

This sub-task aims to improve the spectral efficiency of UWB communications with help of multiple antennas in

such a way that EHDR with an order of 34 Gbit/s over short distances of 13 m becomes possible.

T3.3.2: Link Quality Enhancements and Range Extension for VHDR (Innovative and Standard Modification)

The multiple antenna technology allows enhancements of the link quality and a range extension for todays VHDR

communications. Aim is to develop solutions in accordance with current standards and specifications, and to study

the theoretical and practical limits. Special focus will be paid on antenna (group) selection/combining schemes,

beamforming and space time frequency coding techniques.

T3.3.3: Multi-user Enhancements for VHDR, e.g. SDMA, beamforming

This sub-task has the objective to allow and enhance the simultaneous and efficient operation of multiple UWB

devices in a close area such as a room, office, etc. Interference mitigation methods and Space Division Multiple

Access (SDMA) are quite relevant. Aim is to develop solutions in accordance with current standards and

specifications, and to study the theoretical and practical limits.

Time-Reversal techniques used with UWB bandwidth promise pin-point focussing of transmit power on the

receivers location, resulting in higher SNR at reception with simple receivers and better localisation in co-

operative set-ups. This results in link quality enhancements and possible range extension.

Advantages of the proposed approach:

A new approach to avoidance (DAA): not to blank frequencies already in use but direct Tx power away;

Potential for simpler UWB receiver structures (no RAKE or equaliser);

Fast, robust and accurate localisation in multipath.

Our goal is to determine performance of UWB TR focussing under ideal and non-ideal circumstances

(interference, bad SNR); test algorithms under controlled but realistic conditions (measured channels); determine

gain from TR for avoidance, equalisation, and localisation – all with the motivation to enhance the link quality of

multiple users.

T3.3.4: Impacts on Standardisation and Regulation

The objective of this sub-task is to evaluate the impact of developed MIMO-UWB specific application-algorithm

and system design on forthcoming MIMO UWB regulation standardisation activities, and deliver the system

reference documents and recommendations.

Task 3.4: Implementation-aware Algorithms and System Design [M19–M40]

The solutions developed in the different working areas of Task 3.3 will point out certain implementation

challenges. The objective of T3.4 is to solve these challenges and to go further steps towards implementation

based on DSPs, FPGAs or innovative array processors.

This task has as input the platform requirements and specification defined in D7.1.x from WP7 Open Technology

Platforms. Output deliverables D3.4.x will serve as updated requirements and system reference documents for

WP7, and as white papers for WP9 Regulation and Standardisation.

T3.4.1: Prediction of Resource Evaluation for Certain Multi-antenna Solutions via Prototyping Approaches

Prototyping with hardware verification is an important part of the research work towards consolidated products.

This is mainly due to the fact that theoretical or simulation results cannot completely verify specific real-world

phenomena. The argument applies especially for MIMO systems with UWB antenna array characteristics since



several real world impacts are usually not addressed in simplified models, e.g. antenna coupling. The task is thus

devoted to activities in which selected features of MIMO-UWB concepts are examined in implementation level.

The main anticipated focus will be on physical layer aspects and target to high data rate applications keeping in

mind the real-time limitations of available hardware components. The required inputs from other tasks of the WP

include the specification of high level requirements, algorithms and desired features which are to be verified. The

implementation consists of several stages including digital baseband development, analog front-end development,

interfacing design and finally the device integration.

T3.4.2: Transceiver Architectures and Impact Analysis of HW Effects

The goal of this activity is first to study and propose active beamforming transceiver architectures for UWB in the

high band. This includes a simultaneous optimisation of the antenna network, e.g. 2 or 4 elements, the active RF

devices and their control signals.

The task mostly consists in simulation and characterisation of the proposed scheme at the component level and

includes a comparison with passive beamforming through commutation. The comparison will be realised thanks to

an evaluation at link level of the proposed scheme.

The objective is to develop a new transceiver architecture which allows beamforming thanks to the combination of

the signal of multiple transceivers in multiple antennas. The obtained directivity will be straightforwardly useful to

improve the link budget especially at high frequencies.

The basic approach is to use multiple transmitter and multiple antennas. The transmitted signal is controlled in

phase and in amplitude to obtain a directive emission. This allows decreasing the required maximum output

voltage at chip level thereby reducing technology limitations. It can be also used at the receiver level. The control

can be obtained at the mixer level.

Size reduction for efficient UWB antennas being a key challenge, such an approach is intended for medium to

high end devices (terminals) for which, especially, size is less limited, thus enabling efficient antenna arrays.

For low end devices, reconfigurable antennas of smaller size and reduced directivity capabilities embedding the

antenna control elements are intended to be developed as well. No RF active devices (such as amplifiers and

mixers) are included in this case, and the antennas design is limited to architectures and performance expectations

through simulations.

The required inputs are mainly a Technology design kit (available at CEA Léti) and directional channel

characterisations (expected to be available through PULSERS Phase II, EUWB or other sources).

The expected outcomes are an architecture description, simulation results, capability and performance description

as well as a comparison with other solutions, an antenna array realisation, an antenna architecture and simulation

results showing the antenna reconfiguration capabilities.

Deliverables

D3.1.1: Definition of system concepts, requirements and application scenarios (M06)

D3.1.2a/b: Applic.-specific MIMO-UWB channel measurements and parameter extraction (initial/final) (M09/M15)

D3.1.3: Application-specific channel modelling with spatial and temporal correlation analysis of the theoretical

limits of MIMO-UWB (M09)

D3.2.1: Definition of the initial set-up of a 2×4 MIMO test-bed (M12)

D3.2.2: Definition of the evolved set-up of a 4×4 MIMO test-bed for multi-user/interferer scenarios (M27)

D3.3.1: Application-aware algorithm and system design for extremely high data rates (M40)

D3.3.2: Application-aware algorithm and system design for link quality enhancements and range extension for

VHDR (M40)

D3.3.3: Application-aware algorithm and system design for multi-user enhancements for VHDR (M40)

D3.4.1: Resource evaluation and prediction of multiple antenna solutions via prototyping (M40)

D3.4.2: Impact analysis of HW effects on implementation and system design of MAS (M40)

Milestones

M3.1: Applic. specific channel model requirements and practical requirements for specific MAS scen. (M06)

M3.2: Initial 2×4 MIMO UWB test-bed for research and evaluation of algorithms (M12)

M3.3: Evolved 4×4 MIMO UWB test-bed for research and evaluation of algorithms for multi-user/interferer

scenarios (M27)

M3.4: System-level simulators a) EHDR b) VHDR (M40)




WP title UWB Enabled Advanced Location Tracking End date M40


Participant (number) P06 P07 P09 P15 P16 P19 P20 P21 P25

Participant (short name) CEA LUH CWC UZ ACO UNIBO UDE UIL BITG

PM per participant 16 16 76 37 18 16 20 32 10

Task Start End PM

T4.1 M01 M30 667

3 16 32 4 14 7

T4.2 M01 M18 37 11 14 6 6

T4.3 M13 M30 485

1 2 18 10 18 3

T4.4 M07 M30 49 5 16 12 16

T4.5 M13 M40 31 12 15 4

Objectives

The objective of this WP is to investigate novel and advanced LT solution for wireless networks characterised by

both static and dynamic scenarios. In particular, the research will cover the development of advanced LT

techniques to be applied under non-ideal conditions for either Localisation or Tracking. The algorithm will be

designed to provide a simultaneous solution for localisation and tracking. The trajectory of the mobiles will be

recovered by exploiting fixed nodes while, the mobile nodes will be used to obtain more information and improve

the overall accuracy. Conditions such as source dynamics (mobility), heterogeneity of information (ranging, angle,

signal strength, etc), scale, spatial distribution (non-uniformity, variability, etc.), outage (packet loss, activity

factor, fading, etc.), and computational complexity are some of the issues to be addressed in this WP. Case studies

of novel communication system concepts with location awareness will also be dealt with.

The WP will also investigate, at both theoretical and practical levels, ways to enhance communications systems

via location awareness. In particular, theoretical and practical research related to the development and testing of

methods for acquisition, dissemination, and usage of location information will be conducted, in light of the LT

engine developed as outlined above.

Finally, case studies of novel communication system concepts with location awareness will also be dealt with. The

activities of WP4 have the objectives of:

Providing methods and innovative approaches to acquire and disseminate data using location information in

large networks with low traffic overhead.

Adapting the UWB platforms to support location based applications.

Evaluating the feasibility of location capabilities in HDR-UWB platforms, i.e. WiMedia.

Providing theoretical and practical studies on the limits of communication systems with location awareness.

Providing algorithms/strategies to support mobility and location awareness in heterogeneous networks.

Description of Work

Task 4.1: Development of Advanced Localisation and Tracking Algorithms [M01–M30]

This task concerns the development of advanced localisation and tracking (LT) algorithms. Based on the scenario

definition and the requirements provided by the different LT based applications envisioned in WP8, this task will

provide soft and harmonised solutions for mixed dynamic-static scenarios. Such a concept is a new challenge since

the state-of-the-art asserts dedicated/separated solutions for the two problems. Furthermore, adaptations on SOTA

algorithms will be made and new algorithms for radio-aided inertial navigation will be developed. This development

will be performed in the context of UWB application scenarios.

LT engines based on a simultaneous localisation and tracking algorithm may use mobile nodes to increase the

diversity of information and to improve the overall performance even in presence of harsh environments.

Therefore, an algorithm capable of efficiently embedding the localisation and tracking functionalities into a unique

LT engine able to estimate the static object locations with higher accuracy, to use mobile targets as virtual nodes

and to track their trajectories is needed.

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Another novel aspect of the LT applications is related to the problem of estimating the position of objects exploiting

passive information coming from a UWB signal. Passive localisation and the reconstruction of propagation

environments by UWB nodes is based on object detection and imaging. Such a technique will be a complementary

approach to the classical active vision of localisation and tracking solutions, since the targets will not be active and

therefore there is no need to send/receive packets.

Extending what is mentioned above further, a challenging problem to be tackled is the integration of the previous

techniques into a unique algorithm, able to represent a soft-solution to any type of environment and applications.

Considering large-scale heterogeneous networks, the need to fuse and jointly exploit the diversity of all the

information available (angle, distance, power, etc.) becomes apparent. Such a need demands types of enhanced LT-

algorithms, that are capable of an efficient data-fusion processing. The use of different parameters (TOA/TDOA,

AOA, RSSI, etc.) into the LT engine could improve the accuracy of the position and provide further information

about the environment. Moreover, specifications of the advanced LT algorithms will be revised and consequently

upgraded to exploit advantages of trajectory reconstruction provided by inertial navigation as investigated by

BITG. The same approach will also be applied in passive localisation.

In order to accomplish the proposed targets, it is foreseen that tools such as collaborative signal processing

algorithms, random-set theory, clusterisation, graph-theory and data-fusion will be studied, used and developed

within the work of this task.

Task 4.2: Data Acquisition and Dissemination for/using Location Information [M01–M18]

This task will introduce new methods for the dissemination and acquisition of information in a Location Aware

fashion. Routing, relaying and data fusion are the keywords to be addressed in light of the knowledge of the

location of the transceivers in the system.

The outcomes will be the definition of a co-ordination mechanisms for both centralised and/or distributed

networks, allowing first the collection of information relevant to localisation, followed by its transport and

distribution. Some of the innovative concepts that are foreseen to be used in finding the solutions are co-operative

relaying networks (with a link to UWB-MIMO and Cognitive Radio), and smart distributed virtual multi-antenna

systems in static and/or dynamic scenarios.

Different co-ordination schemes and information exchange protocols among the entities involved should be

studied. Both centralised and distributed mechanisms can be considered. Concerning the former, a central server is

responsible for collecting all the information about the distances (polling), while for the latter solution every node

has to periodically update its localisation information.

Likewise, similar studies will be conducted in the problem of using location information at the acquisition and

dissemination of information rather than that relevant to the localisation problem.

Another important aspect is the impact that the information required to extract the positioning information has on

the available network resources. The amount of information, and consequently the refreshing rate required to

achieve accurate position estimates should be studied. Furthermore, an analysis of the generated traffic load to

correctly dimension the wideband access network to support the proposed location service should be carried out.

Both solutions based on iterative and non-iterative algorithms should be studied in order to solve the trade-off

between the acquisition speed and the complexity of the implementation.

Task 4.3: Implementation and Evaluation of Algorithms in the Platforms [M13–M30]

This task will concerns the work of implementation of the LT algorithms on hardware platforms for the case of

using LDR and for the case of using HDR platform as well as for the hybrid case. This work will require

improvement in the software as well as in the network layer in order to allow data collection and mobility

management and will encompass additional temporal position and orientation information from inertial navigation,

provided by BITG. Feedback to WP7 on possible requirements for additional hooks in the HW for improvement of

location accuracy is an important early output. The feasibility of passive localisation (room dimension and human

location co-ordinates) capabilities for HDR-UWB and LDR-UWB systems will be verified in order to ensure

applicability in WP8c, where various cases of distribution of UWB nodes are considered. Finally, the various

modes along with the algorithms for the inertial navigation will be implemented and tested to be transferred and

integrated in WP8a and WP8c, respectively. Additional investigation will be performed on results of WP3, WP4,

and WP6, which will identify the advantages from the knowledge of node orientation in 3D space.

Task 4.4: Impact of Localisation Information on Communication Systems [M07–M30]

This task is oriented to theoretical and practical considerations on the localisation and tracking algorithm

performance and the impact of location information over a communication system. Starting from the problem of

identification of locatable networks, the task will aim at the theoretical definition of bounds for the localisation

error. The error analysis will be based, for instance, on the Cramer-Rao lower bound or on improved bounds such

as the Ziv-Zakai lower bound derived in ideal and non-ideal conditions. The non-ideal analysis will be aided by



measurement in real scenarios (if available).The task will also aim at the theoretical investigation of minimal

computational complexity and maximum supported mobility of a localising and tracking system.

Another important aspect is the theoretical investigation of the impact of location awareness and interference

distribution (linked to CR cluster) on the channel capacity, for MIMO-UWB communication systems.

This tasks will require inputs from other tasks in WP2 and in WP4, namely T2.1, T2.2, T4.1, T4.2 and T4.3 while

the outputs of this task are provided in particular to the WP2, WP6, WP8 and WP9, namely T2.3, T6.3, T8c.2 and

T9.3. The relation is explained more detailed in the inter-WP cluster description.

Task 4.5: Study of New System Concepts with Location Awareness [M13–M40]

This task will provide new concepts for radio resources management with location awareness in wireless/cellular

networks. Algorithms/strategies to support and use mobility will be objectives of the research in the task, and the

outcome results will find immediate allocation within Heterogeneous Access NW cluster where the management

of the location-context is considered. An envisaged enhancement could be useful, for instance, in the following

handover situation where the prediction of the mobility can allow a better and more reliable maintenance of the

connection over different networks.

Deliverables

D4.1.1: Initial LT algorithms (M12)

D4.1.2a/b: Enhanced LT algorithms with heterogeneous information (initial/final) (M24/M30)

D4.2.1: Initial development of dissemination methods and evaluation (M12)

D4.2.2: Enhanced dissemination methods and evaluation (M18)

D4.3.1: Evaluation of requirements for the LT engine implementation (LDR and HDR platforms) (M16)

D4.3.2a: Implementation of the enhanced LT engine with mobility management (LDR and HDR) (initial) (M18)

D4.3.2b: Implementation of the enhanced LT engine with mobility management (LDR and HDR) (final) (M30)

D4.4.1a/b: Analysis of the impact of the location information on communication systems (initial/final) (M12/M24)

D4.4.2: Analysis of the impact of location and mobility information on communication systems (M30)

D4.5.1: Analysis of location awareness in wireless/cellular networks (M15)

D4.5.2a/b: Algorithms and strategies for communication systems with location awareness (initial/final) (M24/M40)

Milestones

M4.1: Preliminary study on the theoretical limits of localisation and communication (M12)

M4.2: a) Algorithms to support mobility and improve QoS (M18)

b) Preliminary techniques for communication based on location awareness (M18)

c) Implementation and verification of preliminary LT engine and/or key blocks (M18)

M4.3: a) Enhanced localisation and tracking engine with heterogeneous information (M24)

b) Analysis of theoretical limits for localisation and communication under non-ideal conditions (M24)

M4.4: Advanced solutions for LT engines and location aware communication systems with relative limits

(Enhanced localisation and tracking engine based on passive and active methods – Advanced techniques

for communication based on location awareness – Extended analysis of the theoretical localisation and

communication limits to the application scenarios – Enhanced algorithms to support mobility and improve

QoS) (M36)

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WP title UWB Multiband/Multimode Operation End date M40


Participant (number) P03 P04 P10 P12 P14 P16 P17

Participant (short name) TESD PHI EADS THA WIS ACO TESUK

PM per participant 76 8 7 10 10 15 34

Task Start End PM

T5.1 M01 M06 8 1 2 3 1 1

T5.2 M04 M36 95 33 6 4 9 10 33

T5.3 M06 M40 57 42 15

Objectives

This work package has the objective to provide enhanced UWB platforms in terms of throughput and flexibility by

introducing multimode and multiband architectures. In detail the objectives are:

The multiplexing features required to make the most optimal use of the differing radio technologies for service

discovery, dynamic QoS management and power optimisations to make most efficient use of battery life are

not yet standardised for Bluetooth v3.0 hybrid radio devices. It is therefore a key objective of this work

package to investigate techniques that may be supported by the convergence layer and MAC software sub-

components, leading to the development of a prototyping environment that can profile concurrent low and

high data rate applications over the hybrid Bluetooth 2.4 GHz and WiMedia UWB radio system.

It is general understanding also by Bluetooth community that the UWB (WiMedia) PHY should provide the

benefits of the larger throughput but in the same time ensure the down compatibility.

Developing a VHDR UWB system which is using the broad bandwidth internationally available in the

60 GHz range in order to enable new killer applications, like half a meter ultra fast data transfers.

Investigates a combination of a UWB radio technology with future radios operating in the 60 GHz range, by

somehow reusing existing channel structures, existing basics of the MAC, and exploring adaptations and

enhancements required to provide benefits in specific application scenarios.

The multiband/multimode operation is not intended as a mere bridging application from one physical layer to

another, but rather a combination of multiple or similar physical layers with different capabilities to support

differing requirements for multiple applications.

Demonstration and verification of the advantages of UWB multimode/multiband systems.

Description of Work

Task 5.1: Definition of Application and System Requirements for Multimode/Multiband Radios [M01–M06]

T5.1.1: Definition of Multimode/Multiband Application Scenario and Basic Requirements

For WP5 there have been identified two application areas, namely public transport and home environment. In this

task dedicated scenarios for multimode/multiband operation will be chosen, where especial benefits of the

multimode/multiband operation may clearly outlined. This includes also an outlook on envisioned net topologies,

density of users and roughly expected channel propagation. Dependent on the scenarios, the investigations shall

indicate requirement like QoS, throughput and range, which will serve as an input for the architecture deployments

in T5.2.1 and T5.2.2.

T5.1.2: Solution for Multimode UWB PHY Layer in Major Frequency Ranges (2.4, 3–10 and 59–64 GHz)

This task is a visibility study on how to employ typical platforms without significant modifications in an UWB

multimode/multiband system in order to make maximum reuse of the outcome of PULSERS Phase II and state-of-

the-art radios. Potential PHY solutions will be proposed for the two platforms which are envisioned in this work

package, a HDR/Bluetooth hybrid radio on one hand, and a VHDR/60 GHz multiband radio at the other.

In particular, VHDR capability in the 10 GHz range will be investigated to provide an IF solution for 60 GHz

systems. This includes also and channel raster proposal for channel bundling the PHY in 60 GHz range.

Optionally, features of mapping data of LDR to HDR PHY will be explored.

For Bluetooth connectivity it has to be investigated, whether existing Bluetooth and WiMedia Development kits

might be used to provide a Bluetooth v3.0 demonstrator without excessive HW integration efforts.

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Task 5.2: Specification and Development of Multimode/Multiband Architecture [M04–M36]

T5.2.1: Bluetooth/WiMedia Connectivity

T5.2.1a: Multiplexing and Switching Strategies

This task shall investigate the options for multiplexing the control and data paths in a Bluetooth v3.0 system. As

such, the task will take the deliverables from PULSERS Phase II WP2a and the latest state-of-the-art specification

and will identify opportunities to optimise and extend the integration of the WPAN profile layer in the following

areas:

Identify service discovery optimisations for multiple application scenarios using the hybrid radio architecture;

Analyse and develop strategies for i) dynamic QoS management within a hybrid radio architecture and ii)

power optimisations based on rate, range, and link quality;

Analyse and develop a profile software architecture that can support the demonstration of concurrent use of a

low data rate application using the Bluetooth v2.4 radio, e.g. voice, and a high data rate application using a

WiMedia UWB radio, e.g. AV streaming;

Investigate options for creating a prototype environment that would use commercially available Bluetooth and

UWB radio platforms to simulate a hybrid radio system and provide a verification and prototype environment

for T5.2.1b.

The deliverable from this task will be a specification that will identify the implementation and verification options

for T5.2.1b.

T5.2.1b: Multimode/Multisystem Convergence Layer/MAC architectures

Taking the deliverable from T5.2.1a, this task shall implement the software sub-components to prototype support

for multiple concurrent applications in a hybrid radio system, with a focus on verification of the service discovery

optimisations, dynamic QoS management strategies and the power optimisation strategies defined in deliverable

T5.2.1a.

The task shall make maximum re-use of the software modelling and development environment created for

PULSERS Phase II WP2a, but will clearly focus on the extension of the existing software sub-system to

implement the features identified in T5.2.1a.

Integration of a WiMedia compliant radio platform will be a clear hardware differentiation from the PULSERS

Phase II WP2a system, and it is expected that a replacement for the VHDR platform can be procured or provided

by a project partner.

T5.2.2: High End VHDR WiMedia/60 GHz Multiband Radio

T5.2.2a: Multiplexing and Switching Strategies

Based on the results of WP5.1, in this WP one or more multiplexing and switching strategies will be proposed and

analysed. The PHY of the WiMedia device will be enhanced in such a way that it will provide all necessary

functionality to the multimode MAC in the following areas:

Identify service discovery optimisations for multiple application scenarios using the hybrid radio architecture;

Analyse and develop strategies for i) dynamic QoS management within a hybrid radio architecture and ii)

power optimisations based on rate, range, and link quality;

Identify the dependencies from coexistence with LDR ranging systems. Interface definition to a resource

managing unit which might be controlling VHDR/LDR interactions.

T5.2.2b: Multimode/Multiband PAL/MAC Architectures

In this sub-task, the multimode MAC will be defined and implemented. The present MAC of the used WiMedia

device will be enhanced in such a way, that it can be used to communicate over the WiMedia radio but also in the

VHDR frequency range with optional bundling of channels.

T5.2.2c: Multimode/Multiband BB and RF Architecture

An enhanced BB/RF architecture shall be proposed and developed for VHDR transmission. This will follow two

approaches:

Up/down conversion from WiMedia UWB signal below 10 GHz to/from the 60 GHz band;

Multiple bundling of WiMedia channels in the 60 GHz band possibly enabling data rates towards 10 Gbit/s.

This includes also a dynamic generation of multiple carrier frequency in WiMedia channel spacing.

Both architectures will be verified by system simulations in a manner that the results may be extrapolated to QoS

indications. PHY interfaces have to be defined and BB/MAC information that is used for RF controlling in

multimode operations have to be identified.

The outcome shall be a detailed system specification that will be implemented in T5.3.

Strong interaction with the WP7 (platform) is needed in the entire T5.2.2.

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Task 5.3: VHDR WiMedia/60 GHz Multiband Verification Platform [M06–M40]

T5.3.1: Specification of Verification Platform

Depending on the progress of technology and platform development decision will be made for which subset of the

system to be developed in T5.2.2 will be implemented. A verification platform must be defined which enables the

demonstration of a UWB (V)HDR data transmission in the 60 GHz range. The platform may show a limited set of

features and functionalities compared to the system envisioned in T5.2.2, e.g. only one or two instead of eight

WiMedia channels will be implemented in the 60 GHz band, but shall allow result extrapolation to a fully

functional system. The required modifications on standard MAC and BB portion will be defined.

Especially for interface specifications strong interaction with WP8 is needed in order to allow future system

integration into the applications demonstrator.

T5.3.2: Implementation of Enhancements for WiMedia Platform

Implementation of the enhanced PAL, MAC and BB specified in T5.3.1 on the existing WiMedia platform.

Customising the RF portion of the WiMedia platform for the use within the Multiband system may include also

HW redesign. The resulting prototype will firstly be verified as a stand alone WiMedia device operating in the

frequency range below 10 GHz. Strong interaction with the WP7 will be needed.

T5.3.3: Implantation of 60 GHz Front-end Verification Block including. Antenna

The RF up/down converter proposed in T5.2.2c will be designed and prototyped. This includes circuit integration

based on devices available from the semiconductor market or on own design.

The second focus of this task is the design and prototyping of antennas in the 60 GHz range. Several approaches

will be evaluated by electromagnetic simulation and prototyped if promising:

Half sphere radiating chip antennas in SiGe technology;

Omni-directional antennas on microwave PCB (printed circuit board) substrate;

Very small high gain horn antennas for dedicated point to point applications.

For second and third antenna type special attention has to places on the chip/board junction and the antenna

feeding.

T5.3.4: Integration and Test of Joint Verification Platform

In this task the designed HW and SW sub-systems will be integrated to a single platform providing VHDR

multiband operation. As such it will be transferred to the public transport application where it can be integrated to

the demonstrator in coexistence with the LDR LT platform.

Verification will be done as stand-alone device as well as within the application scenario.

Deliverables

D5.1: Application definition and system requirements for multimode/multiband radios (M06)

D5.2.1: Study of multiplexing and switching strategies in Bluetooth v3.0 hybrid radio system and for VHDR

WiMedia/60 GHz multiband radio system (M09)

D5.2.2: Development, implementation and verification of CL/MAC software sub-components (M33)

D5.2.3: VHDR WiMedia/60 GHz multiband radio, system development – PAL/MAC, BB, RF (M33)

D5.3.1: VHDR WiMedia/60 GHz multiband radio, specification of verification block (M12)

D5.3.2: VHDR WiMedia/60 GHz multiband radio, design of verification block – enhanced WiMedia PHY,

60 GHz UWB front-end (M24)

D5.3.3: VHDR WiMedia/60 GHz multiband radio, verification of the integrated platform (M40)

Milestones

M5.1: Application definition and system proposal for multimode/multiband radios (M06)

M5.2: Verification platform definition (M12)

M5.3: Verification block prototypes ( transferred as initial platform to WP8) (M24)

M5.4: Enhanced architecture for Bluetooth v3.0 hybrid radio system (M33)

M5.5: Enhanced architecture for VHDR WiMedia/60 GHz multiband radio system (M33)

M5.6: Demonstration of the integrated platform (M40)

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WP title UWB in Heterogeneous Access Networks End date M40


Participant (number) P11 P12 P14 P15 P27

Participant (short name) TID THA WIS UZ UPB

PM per participant 73 30 11 44 8

Task Start End PM

T6.1 M01 M37 46 15 15 6 10

T6.2 M01 M37 66 30 15 5 16

T6.3 M12 M40 546 28 18 8

Objectives

The main objective of this work package is the full integration of UWB technology in future heterogeneous

networks. To achieve this challenge, the following targets are detailed:

Development of multi-radio interface devices in order to provide the users with seamless broadband

connectivity (using always the best connection);

Development of access network equipment to offer seamless access from/to external networks in high data

rate demanding scenarios (multimedia home networks, crowded hot-spots, …), as well as to provide radio

access in picocells, belonging to the RAN of a heterogeneous network;

To offer novel services to the customers taking advantage of the location and tracking capabilities provided by

UWB technology. These new services will be very attractive for both operators and service providers.

Studies of coexistence with future radio technologies: mitigation techniques and collaborative mechanisms. In this

way, an efficient use of the spectrum will be guaranteed.

In the description of the work to be performed within WP6, the WP results for the operators as well as the potential

value of the results will be identified.

Description of Work

This work package has identified four fields for achieve a full integration of UWB technology in future

heterogeneous networks:

User devices;

Access network equipment;

Services based on location awareness;

Coexistence.

The general schedule within this work package will attend to two general steps for integrating UWB in

heterogeneous networks. Firstly, first EUWB platforms (or commercial UWB if not available) will be ready at the

beginning of the project and the target will be their integration with the state-of-the-art network technologies

(HSPA, WiMAX, ADSL2+). Secondly, the focus will be on the inclusion of the advanced EUWB platforms in

future or enhanced wireless networks (LTE).

Task 6.1: UWB in Multi-radio Interface User Devices [M01–M37]

This task will be centred on the user devices. It can be split into two sub-tasks. The first one, T6.1.1, will be in

charge of the definition, integration and test of a first family of multi-radio interface user devices developed from

UWB devices already available in the beginning of the project. The second task, T6.1.2, will go further,

integrating advanced UWB technology in the user terminals.

T6.1.1: UWB Radios in Multi-radio Interface User Devices

In a first phase, by the time of starting the project, first commercial UWB devices will be available (e.g. from

WIS) and probably in the form of PCMCIA cards or USB dongles. The use of this kind of external interfaces will

allow a quick development of interoperability solutions to be used as soon as these devices were launched to the

market. The multi-radio interface device will provide “always the best connection”. Bearing this objective in mind,

the activities to be performed within this sub-task are the following:

Selection of HSPA/WiMAX user terminals;

Study of off-the-shelf UWB devices;

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Support to the requirements specification for the EUWB platforms developed in WP7 that are planned to be

used in T6.1.2;

Specification of UWB integration, including innovative time sharing mechanisms between UWB and WiMAX

radios;

Development of first UWB integration (commercial devices) in HSPA/WiMAX user terminals;

Evaluation and test of the developed multi-radio interface user devices.

The output of this sub-task will be used in:

T7.1.1a: Research and Consolidation of Application Requirements (LDR-LT);

T7.1.2a: Research and Consolidation of Application Requirements ((V)HDR).

Thanks to the UWB integration in user‟s devices (higher layer integration), the operator will always be able to

provide the user with the best connection, increasing the customer‟s satisfaction. In this way, the UWB link would

be used when the device is in the range of an UWB access point, otherwise the other wider range, but lower data

rate, technology would be used.

T6.1.2: Advanced UWB Radios in Multi-radio Interface User Devices

In a second phase, the objective is the integration of advanced UWB radio access inside the users‟ devices. This

integrated solution will allow going further in novel interoperable scenarios. It is expected to utilise the final

version of the EUWB platforms developed in WP7. The steps to be followed in order to fulfil the goal of this sub-

task are as follows:

Study of advanced UWB devices enabled by WP7 technology;

Specification of those advanced UWB device‟s integration into user devices;

Development of specified devices and integration in the user terminals (if feasible);

Evaluation and test of the new advanced multi-radio interface user devices.

This sub-task expects the input from WP7, namely from T7.1.1b for LDR-LT and from T7.1.2b for HDR in terms

of specification of feasibility of the technology platforms and from T7.4 in terms of the platforms themselves and

the accompanying support service.

This more integrated solution described in T6.1.2 would allow going further in the interoperability issue, as new

interesting scenarios not only for the users, but also for the operators will be faced. This kind of devices could

automatically use in a smart way both interfaces to aggregate data rates with 3.5G neighbours, for example,

enabling the download of movies at very high data rate.

Task 6.2: UWB in Access Network Equipment [M01–M37]

In this task the main focus will be in the access network infrastructure. Task 6.2.1 will deal with commercial

access network equipment aiming to provide a UWB interface to extend its access service in a wireless and

seamless way. On the other hand, T6.2.2 will be in charge of further research topic to include UWB in the radio

access network itself.

T6.2.1: Development of EUWB Access Points

In this sub-task, the access network considered will be 3.5G, WiMAX and/or xDSL, aiming to provide very high

data rate networks in crowded hot spots, in multimedia home networks or very high data rate networks in crowded

hot spots, multimedia home networks or ad-hoc meetings. For this reason, a UWB interface will be included in a

user Access Point (placed at home, hotspots, car o just nomadic), in the same way as the current ADSL routers.

The UWB access point will act as a gateway to the operator WAN, aiming to just gain access to the Internet by

using the 3.5G, WiMAX and/or xDSL connection in the Access Point or to allow access to multimedia content or

services. This target will be achieved following the next steps:

Selection of equipment needed to connect with WAN networks;

Integration of first version of UWB platform (commercial devices) in the selected equipment;

Analysis and design of the required software to provide/adapt access point functionalities;

Development and test of the EUWB access points.

The output of this sub-task will be used in:

T7.1.1a: Research and Consolidation of Application Requirements (LDR-LT);

T7.1.2a: Research and Consolidation of Application Requirements ((V)HDR).

Global operators have the aim to offer fixed and mobile communications including voice, data and video services.

Improvements in the provision of these services will be achieved by means of the development of heterogeneous

access points, as the ones proposed in EUWB and described above, which will provide high speed wireless

broadband access.

T6.2.2: Inclusion of UWB in the Radio Access Network of a Heterogeneous Access Scenario

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This sub-task comprises the research study and support of UWB as a technology to provide radio access in pico-

cells, belonging to the RAN of a converged network. Different radio technologies, such as WCDMA (UMTS),

OFDM (WiMAX, LTE, WiFi), UWB, WiFi, are candidate to be used in different sections of pervasive wireless

networks. The selection of the most convenient in each scenario (home, office, industrial, hot spot, metropolitan,

rural) will allow offering the best features in any situation. Within this activity, UWB technology will be pushed in

standardisation bodies and fora, e.g. NGMN, by providing studies of UWB capabilities for providing wireless

access in RANs. The use of UWB technology in picocells base stations is interesting and innovative, since the

modulation techniques used in the UWB systems, such as MB-OFDM, are characterised by low power consumption,

high data rates and low level of intrusiveness.

The activities to fulfil the target of this sub-task are the following:

Capability studies of UWB picocells (lower layers) and support of UWB use in standardisation bodies and fora;

Requirements of heterogeneous network access and specification of higher layers for UWB usage;

Deployment of a RAN test-bed using advanced UWB platforms to perform capability tests of UWB picocells.

This sub-task expects the input from:

T7.1.1b: Development of Specification and Evaluation of Feasibility (LDR-LT);

T7.1.2b: Development of Specification and Evaluation of Feasibility ((V)HDR);

T7.4: Transfer and Support of Platform.

As this sub-task is in charge of the study of UWB as a technology to provide radio access in picocells, belonging

to the RAN of a converged network, the conclusions of this study will be of great interest for operators, since the

future planning of their network deployment could partly depend on the output of this sub-task. (SK Telecom – a

large mobile phone and broadband operator in the Republic of Korea – has announced its plans for the global

delivery of UWB connectivity for cell phones. Therefore, the conclusions of this sub-task will be very valuable to

help the European operators to compete with the Asian market in the provisioning of high speed wireless

broadband access.)

T6.2.3: Coexistence with UWB in Future Radio Access Network

This sub-task shall evaluate the coexistence issues related to UWB in existing and future radio access network. As

an important input the sub-task will take the results of the 2007 World Radio conference (WRC2007). It will

deliver requirements to the tasks T2.4, T2.5, T2.6 in WP2.

This task expects the input from:

T2.4: Coexistence and Interference Mitigation;

T2.5: Networking Co-operation and Negotiation;

T2.6: Concepts for Cognitive Signalling.

The output of this task will be used in:

T2.4: Coexistence and Interference Mitigation;

T2.5: Networking Co-operation and Negotiation;

T2.6: Concepts for Cognitive Signalling;

WP9: Regulation and Standardisation (aspects concerning UWB in heterogeneous networks).

To evaluate the coexistence of UWB in existing and future radio access network is necessary for the operators in

order to select the best practices for internetworking and avoid any possible coexistence issue.

Task 6.3: Location-aware Services in Heterogeneous Networks [M12–M40]

This task tackles with the usage of location information provided by UWB to upgrade services like product

placement or Internet access. The usage of location information in service platforms will enable location aware

services. Additionally, this information will be used to study and develop of improvements in roaming and access

point mapping when multiple UWB access point are present. Moreover, monitoring and reconfiguration

infrastructure provided by UPB will allow implementing the interface between various heterogeneous networks,

enabling interesting enhancements in the radio resource management through location awareness.

LDR-LT UWB technology allows monitoring, localising and tracking the users at every moment. Once the users‟

position is known, they can receive information of their interest via VHDR UWB or other access technology.

(Some interesting scenarios are: shopping centres to receive the last bargains, near cinemas to inform the user

about the films, the amount of available seats and schedules, in museums or tourist areas to guide the visitors or to

allow them to ask for some particular information). The monitoring and reconfiguration technology developed by

UPB in this task will contribute to the improvement of location-aware services in heterogeneous networks by

enabling enhanced localisation-specific management of UWB resources: nodes, devices, access points, etc. Both

the monitoring and reconfiguration is done by stand-alone, low resource modules loaded on the UWB devices,

which transmit or receive data to or from a specified repository, to facilitate the monitoring of specific, user-



defined information, or the corresponding reconfiguration. The main target of this sub-task is to make profit of the

LT capabilities offered in the LDR EUWB platform and so attracting operators/service providers, that will enable

“product placement” services offered to users thanks to the information collected in the UWB interface.

The work plan will include the following steps to address the above objectives:

Analysis of use cases of location services to extract the requirements of advanced service platforms. These

requirements could provide some inputs to IMS specification;

Adaptation of service platforms to make profit of location aware information. Possible modifications are the

storage of content with location label, definition of interfaces with service providers, etc.;

Design and development of concept applications to make profit of location aware services;

Enhanced handover techniques between UWB access points based on localisation prediction.

This task expects the input from WP4, in particular from: T4.5: Study of new system concepts with location

awareness. Location capabilities offered by UWB will allow the operators to develop novel services exploiting the

information of accurate user position.

Deliverables

D6.1.1: Definition of application scenario and definition of requirements (M04)

IR6.1.2: Specification of commercial UWB platform integration in user devices (M12)

D6.1.2: Description of first family of multi-radio interface user devices (M24)

IR6.1.3: Specification of advanced UWB open platform integration in user devices (M24)

D6.1.3: Advanced multi-radio interface user devices (M37)

D6.1.4: Advanced multi-radio interface user devices (demonstrator) (M37)

IR6.2.1: Specification of commercial UWB platform integration in user access points (M12)

D6.2.1: Description of first family of EUWB access points (M24)

D6.2.2: Study of capability in UWB picocells and higher layer requirements for heterogeneous NW (M18)

D6.2.3: Picocell tests using advanced UWB platforms (M37)

IR6.2.4: UWB in existing and future radio access network: coexistence aspects (M15)

D6.2.4: UWB in existing and future radio access network: coexistence aspects (M37)

D6.3.1: Requirements and specification of services based on location awareness (M18)

D6.3.2: Concept applications to exploit location awareness (M40)

D6.3.3: Concept applications to exploit location awareness (demonstrator) (M40)

Milestones

M6.1: a) Specification of commercial UWB platform integration in user devices (M12)

b) Specification of commercial UWB platform integration in user access points (M12)

M6.2: a) Study of capability in UWB picocells and higher layer requirements for heterogeneous NW (M18)

b) Requirements and specification of services based on location awareness (M18)

M6.3: a) Description of first family of multi-radio interface user devices (M24)

b) Description of first family of EUWB access points (M24)

M6.4: a) Advanced multi-radio interface user device demonstrator (M37)

b) Picocell tests using advanced UWB platforms (M37)

M6.5: Concept applications to exploit location awareness (M40)




WP title Open UWB Technology Platforms End date M40


Participant (number) P01 P06 P12 P14 P16 P17 P20 P22 P23 P24

Participant (short name) GWT CEA THA WIS ACO TESUK UDE HTW STC FBC

PM per participant 1 54 39 33 12 28 51 21 12 5

Task Start End PM

T7.1 M01 M18 14 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 1 1

T7.2 M03 M30 90 42 12 14 14 6 2

T7.3 M03 M33 99 35 10 11 8 18 10 7

T7.4 M07 M40 37 6 2 6 4 10 5 2 2

T7.5 M24 M40 16 4 3 7 2

Objectives

This work package has the objective to provide the technology platform for the various activities in the EUWB

project. In detail it has the objective to:

Provide an open standard conform high and very high data rate ((V)HDR) communication platform based on

the ECMA 368 Standard and the corresponding enhancements;

Provide an open standard conform low data rate communication and localisation platform based on the IEEE

802.15.4a standard;

Define and specify future enhancements of the platforms;

Collect and evaluate the requirements from the different activity clusters;

Provide a set of open interfaces (SW + HW) for the application integration and the research demonstration;

Transfer hardware and the needed soft ware to the corresponding customer work packages;

Support the application integration in different WPs by participating in the corresponding activity clusters;

Support the research demonstrations in the different work packages by participating in the corresponding

activity clusters;

Provide training on the platforms and the related software.

Description of Work

The work package will provide two different open technology platforms to the project:

LDR-LT platform, low data rate location and tracking platform; and

(V)HDR communication platform, high data rate/very high data rate platform.

Both platforms will be based on international standards and will provide an open access to the resources via an

API for the integration into the application or the research demonstration platforms. The platforms will be close to

a commercial product in the sense of form factor and power consumption. This will clearly simplify, the

exploitation of the different project results based on these platforms.

Task 7.1: Platform Requirements and Specifications [M01–M18]

In this task the platform and interface specification will be developed based on the requirements from the different

activity clusters. The specification will be clearly split into three different phases. The first phase will be based on

the existing developments in the domain of LDR-LT and (V)HDR. Further phases then will include the

requirements from the different users of the platform in the project.

T7.1.1: LDR-LT Platform Requirements and Specification

T7.1.1a: Research and Consolidation of Application Requirements

This sub-task will take care of consolidating all requirements coming from the different application and research

areas using the LDR-LT platform in the corresponding WPs. These inputs will be the bases for the definition of the

further development of the LDR-LT platform and thus the specification of the platforms. Strong interaction with

the application and research WPs (WP2–6, WP8, WP9) are needed for this sub-task.

T7.1.1b: Development of Specification and Evaluation of Feasibility

Based on the consolidated requirements coming from T7.1.1a the specification of the further platform

developments will be derived. An early feedback to the application and research demo will be given based on the



feasibility of the requirements in the scope of the platform capabilities. These feasibility evaluations can then be

used as input to the corresponding WPs in order to support a proper planning (What? When? Who?) of the future

demonstration and testing activities.

T7.1.2: (V)HDR Platform Requirements and Specification

T7.1.2a: Research and Consolidation of Application Requirements

This sub-task will take care of consolidating all requirements coming from the different application and research

areas using the (V)HDR platform in the corresponding work packages. These inputs will be the bases for the

definition of the further development of the open (V)HDR platform and thus the specification of the platforms.

Strong interaction with the application and research WPs (WP2–6, WP8, WP9) are needed for this sub-task.

T7.1.2b: Development of Specification and Evaluation of Feasibility

Based on the consolidated requirements coming from T7.1.2a the specification of the further platform developments

will be derived. An early feedback to the application and research demo will be given based on the feasibility of

the requirements in the scope of the platform capabilities. These feasibility evaluations can then be used as input to

the corresponding WPs in order to support a proper planning (What? When? Who?) of the future demonstration

and testing activities.

Task 7.2: Platform Development and Implementation, Hardware [M03–M30]

In this task the main focus will be the further development towards the second and third version of the two open

platforms. Based on the project requirements and the standard development in the run of the project two new

platforms will be developed including a set of enhanced features defined in the application areas or the research

activities of the project.

T7.2.1: LDR-LT Platform Development and Implementation, HW

This task concerns the RF or mixed signal chip designs on partner‟s technologies but also FPGA baseband design,

MAC HW acceleration building blocks and antenna designs. Only packaged, tested and documented chips will be

made available for platform updates. The requirements for selecting the chips for platform updates are based on

their compliance with the baseline standards. Any proposed HW module has to be designed to ensure background

compatibility with the previous platform version. RF chips will preferably be proposed mounted on a PCB

comprising the necessary external components to ensure its compatibility with the modular open platform.

T7.2.2: (V)HDR Platform Development and Implementation, HW

At the start of the project the first open HDR platform will be available based on the aforementioned Intel

solution; however, the adaptation to the needs of the project must be still carried out. During the lifetime of the

project additional platform designs will be available (e.g. from Staccato, Wisair and TES–Wisair). The main focus

of this task will be the definition and development of the integration platforms. The specifications will take a set of

requirements from the project into account in order to simplify the planned demonstrations in the application

clusters and research activities. The task will not develop project specific chip sets for the ECMA 386 standard.

Nevertheless, specific interfaces – such as for the Bluetooth and UWB integration – can be defined and

implemented in order to meet the project needs using the open MAC layer platform and the available FPGA and

embedded eASIC resources.

Task 7.3: Platform Development and Implementation, Software [M03–M33]

In this task the needed low level software for the two platforms will be developed. Beside the MAC layer software

the interface software will be part of the developments. The application software needed for the demonstration

integration will be part of the corresponding work packages. The main result of this task will be a well defined API

to the platforms MAC and PHY layer.

T7.3.1: LDR-LT Platform Development and Implementation, SW

This task concerns the design of SW blocks which are to be either embedded onto the platform or on a host

platform (PC, PDA) with interfaces to the actual platform. As such, they cover location algorithms, sensor

processing and management, data fusion, profiles, etc. The scope has to be defined in more details (GUI as a part

of this task, maybe not non real-time Matlab code, etc).

T7.3.2: (V)HDR Platform Development and Implementation, SW

Here, the full MAC and PHY control software of the (V)HDR open platform will be adapted, based on already

available solutions provided by e.g. Staccato, Wisair and the TES–Wisair platform, as well as external

organisations, e.g. Intel. Based on this software package the needed interfaces and support software will be

developed for the use in the project. Here, user interfaces and control software need to be added. Based on the

needs of the different demonstration tasks adapted interfaces and specific access modes will be developed and

integrated. Here a strong interaction between the WPs is needed by forming a cluster around the defined

demonstrations.



Task 7.4: Transfer and Support of Platforms [M06–M40]

In this task all activities related to the provision of the needed platforms and support for the demonstration

integration of the open platforms will be focused. Here the specific documentation like User Manuals and

Software API description will be developed. Tutorials and training courses will be developed in close conjunction

with the application areas and research activities. These courses will be used ton enhance the internal knowledge

transfer. Furthermore, the courses can be used for an optimised dissemination of the project results to external

partners. The application and research areas will have to define in detail the planned demonstration and the needed

support for these tasks. In this task in WP7 the needed resources for the support will be provided. The integration

work needs to be performed in the corresponding application and research tasks with the support from WP7.

T7.4.1: Transfer and Support of LDR-LT Platform

The LDR-LT platform will be used in the following application and research demonstrations: automotive, public

transport, LT demonstration platform, cognitive radio demonstration and the home environment application (to be

used for the smart wireless audio application). The corresponding application and research will work together with

the WP7 resources towards the integration of the planned demonstration onto the open platform.

T7.4.2: Transfer and Support of (V)HDR Platform

The (V)HDR platform will be used in the following application and research demonstrations: home environment,

public transport, multiple antennas, cognitive radio concepts and coexistence, multimode UWB-60 GHz and UWB-

Bluetooth demonstration, DAA concepts and demonstrations. Integration work towards the final demonstration

will be performed in the corresponding application and research WP with the support of WP7 resources. As part of

the support customisations of SW interface on the platform can be envisaged as part of the WP7 work.

Task 7.5: Study of Combined LDR/HDR Open Platform [M24–M40]

Based on the two open platform versions provided in the scope of the project an architectural study of a combined

LDR/HDR open platform will be performed. As input to this task the different application clusters will provide

requirements for a combination of the two technologies. Furthermore, the two existing open platforms will be used

as the bases for this study.

The main topic of investigation will be the definition of the interfaces between the two technologies in order to

guarantee a smooth coexistence in a co-ordinated way. Here different levels of interfacing are possible (PHY layer,

MAC layer and higher layer) and will be evaluated in the scope of this task.

Deliverables

IR7.1.1: LDR-LT and HDR platform specification (M03)

IR7.1.2: HDR platform specification (M03) (This interim versions of D7.1.x are intended to be used by WP8 as initial guideline on the technologies capabilities

to produce their system specification.)

D7.1.1a/b: LDR-LT platform requirements, feasibility analysis and specification (initial/final) (M06/M18)

D7.1.2a/b: (V)HDR platform requirements, feasibility analysis and specification (initial/final) (M06/M18)

D7.1.3: Combined LDR-LT/HDR platform, feasibility analysis and specification (M18)

D7.4.1a/b: LDR-LT platform (HW/SW) provision to activity clusters (initial/final) (M12/M24)

D7.4.2a/b: (V)HDR platform (HW/SW) provision to activity clusters (initial/final) (M12/M24)

D7.5: Combined LDR/HDR platform study results (M40)

Milestones

M7.1: First version of support material available (M12)

M7.2: Second version of support material available (M24)

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WP title UWB Application Environments End date M40


Participant (number) P01 P03 P04 P05 P10 P12 P16 P17 P20 P21 P22 P25 P27

Participant (short name) GWT TESD PHI BOSCH EADS THA ACO TESUK UDE UIL HTW BITG UPB

PM per participant 1 25 74 60 56 14 36 30 36 9 26 20 16

Task Start End PM

T8a.1 M01 M03 8 1 4 2 1

T8a.2 M03 M12 10 1 4 4 1

T8a.3 M13 M32 128

140 10 34 9 22 30 10 13 8 4

T8a.4 M33 M40 342 1 10 2 8 5 2 6 4 4

T8a.5 M01 M40 9 1 4 1 3

T8b.1 M01 M06 3 1 2

T8b.2 M06 M25 24 2 15 7

T8b.3 M12 M40 48 8 35 4 1

T8b.4 M24 M40 11 1 8 2

T8c.1 M01 M40 435

0 37 4 2 3 4

T8c.2 M01 M40 495

8 37 2 4 4 2 5 4

Objectives

This work package has the objective to integrate results from WP2 to WP6 into three different application

environments: public transport, automotive and home environment. Base for the integration are the open platforms

developed in WP7 and where available their extensions developed in the various complementing advanced

research activities in the EUWB project work packages. In detail, objectives for each application environment are:

For the public transport:

Definition of scenarios and specification of requirements;

Address specific application related issues (EMC, harsh environment, antennas, coexistence, reliability);

Integration in application environment.

For the automotive part, the objectives to be achieved are divided into two parts, system simulation and hardware

integration. The objectives of the first part are:

System simulation environment, describing the MAC;

Channel simulation and verification of the complex in-car propagation channel.

In the hardware integration part, two application classes will be addressed:

Wireless sensor data communication: An existing sensor element will be used to explore opportunities and

challenges of wireless data communication. Especially positioning flexibility, reliability and latency will be

investigated;

Location tracking with the main focus on comfort systems and driver/passenger authorisation, the performance

of UWB location tracking inside a car will be studied. Positioning accuracy and reliability are of main interest

for this application.

For the home environment there are two objectives:

Application of multiband/multimode (HDR UWB and VHDR 60 GHz) technology for wireless streaming of

high definition video content in a room;

Application of the LT capability of UWB for wireless smart surround sound audio streaming.

For each application the following will be delivered:

Definition of scenarios and specification of requirements;

Addressing specific application related issues (range, robustness to shadowing effects, quality of service,

synchronisation/lip-synch, accuracy, etc.);

Development of necessary algorithms to exploit the specific features at the application level;



Integration in application environment;

Validation and demonstration.

Description of Work

Part 8a: UWB in the Public Transport

Task 8a.1: Definition of Application Scenarios for Public Transport Applications [M01–M03]

Scenarios for application of UWB technologies in the public transport will be defined. The scenarios will address

wireless communication inside the transport compartment for passenger internal communication (e.g. internet

access, distribution of multimedia information to normal passengers and tourists like time table, information about

the trip and the tourist features, entertainment, hotels, restaurants, advertisements), as well the need to replace

cables for data communication between devices installed in the machine (sensors for machine health and usage

monitoring, lights, switches, ticketing machine, monitoring cameras, etc.).

A preliminary application scenario definition should be provided already at M02 to the interested WP.

Task 8a.2: Definition of Application Requirements for Public Transport Applications [M03–M12]

Based on the scenario definition from Task 8a.1, the system requirements to enable the development of extended

platforms to be performed in WP4 and WP5 and later integrated in the final demonstrator (T8a.3) will be defined.

The requirements should provide system parameters for the wireless systems and mechanical and application

specific constraints.

Task 8a.3: Development of a Demonstrator for Public Transport Applications [M13–M32]

T8a.3.1: Implementation of Higher Layers and Integration

In T8a.3.1 the various elements to be delivered from the parallel “sister” tasks (T8a.3.2, T8a.3.7) from other work

packages (WP2, WP5, WP7) and from partners background knowledge (from previous work on the subject) are to

be integrated into the final UWB on board vehicle platform. The work of T8a.3.1 is prerequisite before afterwards

in T8a.4 the customised platform will be integrated with T8a.3.7 results and tested in a realistic aeroplane cabin

environment and a ground public transport.

The platform will combine the PHY/MAC with the PAL and application level algorithms SW. PHY and MAC are

provided by WP7 (the HDR platform adapted to enable it and to host the additional band module for 60 GHz and

the additional module for LDR-LT). 60 GHz as second UWB band enabling QoS in large densities is an option

investigated and implemented in WP5 and adapted for use in T8a.3.7 delivered to T8a.3.1 then. While for location

tracking there are two options, a) the dedicated LDR-LT platform to be integrated b) the HDR platform inherent

rough LT functionality. The project provides the unique possibility to implement both options into a single platform

to be used for testing in realistic environment. Both options can be improved by using the additional localisation

and state information provided by the monitoring framework developed by UPB in WP6, with links to research

done in WP4. UPB will additionally support the integration of a monitoring and re-programming framework which

will be developed at the application layer, while offering to other components advanced management possibilities

for the devices being controlled. The monitoring framework will facilitate the performance evaluation of the

platform through its flexible configuration. The data can be stored on remote user-controlled repositories and is

accessible over public or dedicated interfaces for the users to build specific performance evaluation techniques. In

co-operation with T8a.3.6.4 UPB will work on porting, integration and validation of the clock algorithm on specific

sensor node islands by enabling advanced monitoring and reprogramming capabilities to the chosen HW platform.

Finally, together with T8a.3.7 UPB will develop, adapt, and implement resource management strategies allowing

for improved QoS and service availability. Possible ways of using self-healing algorithms for network re-generation

will also be explored.

BITG will build hardware to expand the demonstrators with MEMS-based inertial unit and processing element,

and implement embedded software of the algorithms for inertial navigation. One universal hardware module design

will be built to be compatible with the demonstrators. The design will provide 6 degrees of freedom (both 3-axes

gyroscope and accelerometer) inertial unit, based on MEMS sensors. It will have processing element capable of

running embedded software for inertial navigation algorithms. The interface with existing hardware platforms will

be designed on the way to minimise the effort of integration with demonstrator hardware. The interface software

for demonstrator board will be implemented as well. In addition, an inertial navigation feature shall be integrated

in the public transport demonstrator.

Inputs required:

A: Implemented and tested HDR+LDR-LT 60 GHz UWB HW platform (including MAC): source WP7, WP5,

Task 8a.3.7;

B: Strategy and updated MAC code (likely also device management code updates) for HDR platform and for



LDR-LT platform to enable coexistence of HDR and LDR-LT in the same device: source T8a.3.2;

C: Algorithms and simulated/implemented/tested code for radio resources management and mobility support with

location awareness (updated MAC and networking code for both HDR and LDR-LT platform): source T8a.3.4;

D: Algorithm and simulated/implemented/tested code for localisation techniques in harsh environment for LDR-

LT platform: source Task 8a.3.3 (adopted from WP4);

E: Algorithm and simulated/implemented/tested code for localisation techniques in harsh environment for HDR

platform: source Task 8a.3.5 (adopted from WP4);

F: Updated HDR PAL with enhanced clock distribution method (for WiNet or BT, depending on the decision for

the networking layer in Task 8a.2, WP4 and T8a.3.5): source Task 8a.3.5;

G: Multimode/multiband interworking and device management functionality in terms of adapted source code

tailored for the HDR platform: source Task 8a.3.7;

H: Realistic application environment with appropriate interfacing to the UWB verification platform (EADS

background).

Partners will each work on integrating the algorithms/code and HW provided by itself or an originating task,

where the partner participated. THA and ACO will be responsible for integrating the updated MAC taking the

inputs A, B and C. TESUK will be responsible for integrating an updated PAL (with synchronisation features)

processing input F. The integration of the location tracking functionality will be processed by ACO and UDE

building on inputs D and E. The required mulitband/multimode update of MAC, PAL and device management will

be implemented by TESD taking input G and integrating it. EADS and GWT will implement the platform in the

target test environment working on application layer and device management entities.

The output of this task is an enhanced UWB platform as well as the required application support necessary to use

the platform for comprehensive testing.

T8a.3.2: Coexistence HDR (ECMA 368)/LDR (802.15.4a)

Based on the requirements developed in Task 8a.3.1 WP2 will provide specification for concepts of a combined

HDR/LDR solution. The main focus will be on the higher layer co-ordination and communication functionality of

this combination. Nevertheless, lower layer solutions should also be included in the overall investigation. In the

scope of this task these concepts of coexistence will be evaluated and specific requirements for a combined

HDR/LDR platform will be extracted and provided to Task 7.5 of WP7 for further platform studies. In order to be

able to demonstrate the combined HDR/LDR solution in the later demonstration stage of the WP the needed

functionalities will be developed based on the capabilities of the WP7 platforms. Here the implementation of a co-

ordination entity in the application or PAL layer could be the solution of choice. Other solution should also be

taken into account

Inputs are expected from: WP8 (T8a.1, T8a.2), WP2 (T2.4, T2.5) and WP7 (T7.5) while outputs will be delivered

to WP7 (T7.5) and WP8 (T8a.4).

T8a.3.3: Advanced Localisation Techniques in Harsh Environment

In order to deploy a localisation system into a public transport environment, like a bus vehicle or a plane, several

parameters must be matched in order to get the required performance from EUWB platforms. In this task, the

objective is to take the results from T4.1 relate to development of location and tracking algorithms, and T4.23

implementation and evaluation of the algorithms into the demonstrator platforms, in order to set-up the specific

demonstrators for those specific environments. In order to work is such a harsh propagation environment, where

the structure of the vehicle (mainly made with metal or conductor materials), makes that the received radio signal

includes many replicas coming from the walls, and the transmission through conductor walls must be addressed

separately, in order to allow the communication while keeping the transmission power limits imposed by the initial

drafts for regulation, the specific implementation of those LT algorithms must emphasised the conditions and

parameters in order to set up a reliable communication and ranging/LT system.

The output of this task should be employed as input for the system performance evaluation under T8a.4.

T8a.3.4: New Concepts for Management of Radio Resources and Mobility Support with Location Awareness

Taking inputs from T4.5 related to the study of new system concepts in location awareness, this task should lead to

the study and (if possible) implementation of the different alternatives for radio resource management in public

transport scenarios. Besides dealing with the wireless technology issues, it is therefore important to understand

how services and applications are being developed and could be developed, and how current and future systems

can be made able to flexibly support service creation. Since part of this work is being carried out under WP4, the

specific architecture and parameters required by public transports lead to a very specific task where those concepts

in a very specific environment must be clearly defined. Similar to the Internet evolution, which led from a limited

set of possible applications to a system that has become an integral part of our life, we expect to see the same trend

in the wireless communication with LT capabilities domain, where advanced networking structures and UWB



HDR and LDR techniques will enable the effective and reliable support of rich application and services, combined

with mobility support.

T8a.3.5: Localisation Using ECMA 368 Platform

This task shall take inputs from WP4 and WP7 with regard to the advanced location tracking schemes in multiband

UWB systems. Furthermore, the requirements on localisation in the public transport shall be consolidated in order

to reach a general consensus in terms of performance in a hardware realisation. In addition, a localisation feature

shall be integrated in the public transport demonstrator, focussing on new concepts for radio resources management

and mobility support with location awareness.

T8a.3.6: High Precision Synchronisation for Large Mesh Networks

T8a.3.6.1: Application Requirements for Clock Synchronisation Accuracy

This task shall take inputs from other EUWB application work packages (WP5, WP8) and beyond, and consolidate

requirements in order to reach a general consensus in terms of performance target for clock jitter bounds. Outside

of the “correlated AV streaming” application field, additional requirements could also be taken into considerat ion,

including finer timer granularity (±50 ns) than that provided today by device local clocks synchronised to beacon

period start for instance. This requirement definition task will be driven by EADS with support from TESUK and

inputs from other work package participants. The deliverable will be a report which will define the performance

targets for clock synchronisation accuracy.

T8a.3.6.2: Development of a Local PICONET (Beacon Group)-wide Clock Synchronisation Scheme (Uni-PAL)

This task shall design and develop an innovative algorithm and protocol for distribution of clock information

among devices belonging to the same Beacon Group. Such beacon group will be operating as a standalone ad-hoc

network with no connection to the outside world and all associated devices will support the same PAL client, i.e.

WiNet WSS or Bluetooth cluster. During this task, a survey of existing mechanisms (BIT/ST with higher duty

cycle, first symbol on air, statistical approach, …) will be conducted and the advantages and disadvantages of each

approach will be analysed. The task will also review and identify the shortcomings of the present WiMedia

specification with respect to the higher layer synchronisation process. As a result of this early investigation phase,

MAC extensions and other protocol enhancements, including but no limited to the definition of additional

primitives, parameters set and application-specific information elements that shall consist a higher-layer

synchronisation protocol, will subsequently be proposed. The output of this task could then be fed back to T7.1.2,

dealing with modifications of the API for the (V)HDR open platform, as well as to WP9 (open standardisation) as

required.

T8a.3.6.3: Network-wide Clock Distribution Extension for Lager-scale Networks

This task shall develop novel methods to disseminate universal clock information over larger-scale networks made

of several networking links. The approach will leverage deliverables from the two previous tasks for local clock

distribution within a cluster of devices while defining additional time-adjustment mechanisms to propagate

common clock info over the entire network. The output of this work could optionally be fed back to T7.1.2,

dealing with API modifications for the open VHDR platform as well as to WP9 (open standardisation) as required.

T8a.3.6.4: Validation and Integration into one of the EUWB Application Demonstration Platforms

That specific task consists of porting and validating the local clock algorithm (T8a.3.6.2) on the (V)HDR hardware

platform. This activity will be done in co-operation with WP7 participants, i.e. T7.4.2 dealing with platform

transfer and support. As a proof concept for T8a.3.6.4, a wired/wireless bridge or proxy node (in the case of mesh

deployment) will be developed and demonstrated in co-operation with either WP5 or WP8.

T8a.3.7: Multiband/Multimode for High Reliability and QoS (HDR/60 GHz)

This task shall take inputs from WP5. It has to be investigated how the special capability of a multiband radio can

improve reliability and QoS of high speed data transmission in public transport. Dependent on scenario definition

the applicability of radio transmission in the 60 GHz band will be analysed in terms of range and signal quality.

This will contribute also to net topologies definitions. Switch and multiplexing strategies developed in T5.2.2 shall

be adapted to the application requirements and adequate resources management strategy shall be developed.

T8a.3.8: Antenna Design

Antennas for the frequency range below 10 GHz, dedicated to the scenario requirements in the public transport

have to be developed and tested, whereas maximum reuse will be made from the antenna developments in the

PULSERS Phase II project. It is expected that for seat tags and access points, possibly also for ranging and data

transfer, there are different types of antennas required. They may differ in from factor, material and directivity.

Activities include:

Investigation of possible installation locations in an aeroplane;

Design or customisation of adequate antennas structures for the selected scenarios;

Simulation and optimisation for the in-cabin environment;



Antenna prototyping;

Verification measurements possibly in an anechoic chamber.

Task 8a.4: Test and Verification of the Demonstrator for Public Transport Applications [M33–M40]

The demonstrator for the public transport will be tested in real environment according to the scenarios defined in

Task 8a.1. A benchmark of the results will be performed, based on the system requirements from T8a.2. UPB will

evaluate the benchmark results against normal behaviour of the application as well as under stress by a limited

number of individuals, thus allowing for fine-tuning the architecture and associated developed technologies.

BITG will develop a framework to exploit inertial navigation enhancements in public transport application. BITG

will also work on the tests in the public transport application. The results will be used to refine specifications of

inertial navigation algorithms in tested scenarios. The work will include revision of results from T8a.1 and T8a.2

expanding the results with scenarios to test and verify benefits of exploiting inertial navigation. Revised requirements

for the application demonstrator will also be delivered.

Task 8a.5: Tests to Support Regulation and Standardisation Activities [M01–M40]

Tests, measurements and technical contributions to support the work performed in WP9 concerning regulation and

standardisation will be carried out. In particular, the activities related to the use of UWB technologies for

applications in public transports will be supported.

Part 8b: UWB in the Automotive Environment

Task 8b.1: Definition of Application Scenarios for the Automotive Environment [M01–M06]

Scenarios for in-car applications. Two different applications are defined:

LDR wireless communication; and

Location tracking.

A number of application scenarios will be investigated and their merits in terms of innovation, practicality and

implementation effort will be assessed.

For wireless sensor data communication and location tracking, one application for each will be selected. These two

selected applications will be investigated further and the application requirements will be defined. This includes

parameters like performance, size and data rate.

Task 8b.2: Definition of System Parameters, Channel Characterisation and Simulation Framework [M06–

M25]

T8b.2.1: System Parameters for LDR Wireless Communication and Location Tracking

Based on the requirements from T8b.1, the system parameters of the two UWB systems will be defined. Besides

the parameters tackling topology and network aspects, the system parameters for wireless sensor communication

include: hardware platform, frequency range, dynamic range, data rate, latency, required bit error rate, antenna

characteristics.

The system parameters for location tracking replaces data rate, latency and bit error rate requirements by Accuracy

and Measurement rate, respectively.

This task, combined with T8b.1, generates inputs to all other WPs and in particular into WP9 to create an ETSI

System reference document SRDoc and standard.

T8b.2.2: Channel Simulation and Model for Complex Automotive Scenarios (in-car)

A car represents a very complex propagation channel for UWB signals. The objective of this task is to investigate

the channel using simulation. Simulation technologies used will be full wave modelling and ray tracing. Two types

of scenarios need to be investigated:

Transmission between different compartments (engine compartment, passenger compartment, trunk);

Propagation inside a compartment, especially investigation of multipath and time variance of the channel.

Based on the simulations, a channel model will be implemented. The results of this task will be used in T8b2.4 for

link level performance evaluation.

T8b.2.3: Channel Measurements and Verification of Channel Model

To verify the channel model developed in Task 8b1.4, measurements will be performed in co-operation with WP2

to approve the model and to investigate critical scenarios. Critical scenarios can be wave propagation between

different compartments inside the car or heavy multipath inside a compartment.

Additionally, radiation from the car to the outside will be investigated, as an input to work package regulation and

standardisation, WP9 as input to mitigation techniques.

T8b.2.4: System Level and Link Level Simulation Environment for UWB

A system simulation environment is developed, based on background tools and further inputs coming as companion



information to the EUWB open platforms. It allows in particular the verification of link level parameters like bit

error rate and latency for communication and system level parameters like accuracy for location tracking. The first

implementation will be without a channel model.

At link level, a two-step approach is used using first generic channel models, the simulation environment will be

upgraded in a second step after Task 8b.1.4 on channel modelling is completed.

T8b.2.5: Antenna Diversity

As an advanced topic, multiple antenna concepts to improve the system performance will be investigated. Goals

are improved reliability, reduced latency for communication and improved accuracy for location tracking.

Task 8b.3: Development of Demonstrators for the Automotive Environment [M12–M40]

T8b.3.1: Specific Building Blocks for the Demonstrators

T8b.3.1.1: Antennas for In-car Applications LDR and LT

For data communication and location tracking, antennas have to be developed and adapted to the in-car

environment. The related activities include:

Investigation of possible installation locations in the car;

Design of flat antennas, with radiation in one half-sphere;

Simulation and optimisation for the in-car environment;

Verification measurements in an anechoic chamber an in the target in-car environment;

Cost analysis and manufacturability of the designs.

T8b.3.1.2: CAN/LIN-bus Interface

Build a CAN/LIB-bus interface to the existing LDR UWB communications platform. The task is divided in a

hardware part, actually providing the interface and a software part, implementing a SW-stack to handle the

communication.

T8b.3.2: LDR Wireless Communication In-car Demonstrator

Based on the output of WP7, a demonstrator will be built and implemented in a vehicle. The demonstrator will be

based on the hardware platform provided. A number of activities are required to launch the demonstrator:

Hardware platform voltage supply;

Demonstrator housing;

Antenna and hardware platform installation;

Application set-up: interfacing to UWB hardware platform; data processing; performance monitoring and

evaluation environment.

T8b.3.3: Location Tracking In-car Demonstrator

Based on the output of WP7, a demonstrator will be built and implemented in a vehicle. The demonstrator will be

based on the hardware platform provided. A number of activities are required to launch the demonstrator:

Hardware platform voltage supply;

Demonstrator housing;

Antenna and hardware platform installation;

Application set-up: interfacing to UWB hardware platform; data processing; visualisation of LT data.

Task 8b.4: Test and Verification of Demonstrators for the Automotive Environment [M24–M40]

T8b.4.1: Performance Verification of LDR Wireless Communication In-car Demonstrator

The in-car demonstrator will be tested in real-life scenarios. A benchmarking of the results will be performed,

based on the system requirements from Task 8b.1.1.

T8b.4.2: Performance Verification of Location Tracking In-car Demonstrator

The in-car demonstrator will be tested in real-life scenarios. A benchmarking of the results will be performed,

based on the system requirements from T8b.1.1.

Part 8c: UWB in the Home Environment

Task 8c.1: Multiband/Multimode HDR UWB + VHDR 60 GHz Application [M01–M40]

T8c.1.1: Definition of Application Scenarios

The application scenarios related to the home environment will be defined in this task. Particular attention will be

paid to the wireless streaming of high definition video within a room as the most demanding application benefiting

from the enhanced features offered by the HDR UWB and VHDR 60 GHz multiband/ multimode system.

T8c.1.2: Definition of Requirements



The demanding requirements of the scenario defined in Task 8c.1.1, will be defined and specified in order to

enable the development of extended platforms to be performed in WP5. Furthermore, requirements in relation to

the integration of the extended platform to the final demonstrator will be specified. This will include wireless

system parameters, mechanical and application specific constraints.

T8c.1.3: Development of the Demonstrator and Integration

Here, the various elements to be delivered from other related tasks (T5.2.2, T5.3, T7.2.2, T7.3.2, T7.4.2), will be

integrated into the final enhanced UWB demonstrator for home environment. UPB will develop and implement

the required interfaces to help in the implementation of the various components from WP5 and WP7 into the

demonstrator for the home environment. Verification of the demonstrator will be made according to defined metrics

in the system parameters and requirements for home environment applications.

In this task, BITG will work on hardware implementation of VHDR. BITG will contribute in integration of the

demonstrator.

Task 8c.2: UWB Localisation/Tracking for Smart Wireless Audio Application [M01–M40]

T8c.2.1: Definition of Application Scenarios

The application scenarios related to the use of the localisation and tracking information in a smart wireless home

entertainment system will be defined. Particular attention will be paid to the optimisation of the listening

experience. Particular attention will be paid to the possibilities offered by combining audio tuning algorithms with

the location information of the user and speaker boxes.

T8c.2.2: Definition of Requirements

The scenario defined in Task 8c.2.1 will have demanding and challenging requirements that will be identified and

outlined so that these could be considered in the early stages of the development of the extended platforms

developed in WP4. Additional set of requirements for the integration of the extended platform to the final

demonstrator will also be specified.

T8c.2.3: Development of Audio Tuning Algorithms for Smart Wireless Audio Streaming

For the location information to be used in optimisation of the audio experience of the user, specific algorithms are

required to ensure that the right audio content is transmitted to the right speaker box. Some of the many issues

need to be addressed include: synchronisation, latency, adaptation to the movements of the user and robustness to

the changes in the environment. This will have to be developed and implemented in the demonstrator (Task 8c.1.3)

in order for the information becoming available from the location tracking algorithm to be used effectively. UPB

will develop a framework for monitoring wireless audio communications in order to supply additional information

to the tracking algorithm. Thus the development and implementation of improved audio tuning algorithms for

wireless audio streaming based on the data gathered from the monitoring component will become reality. The

framework will additionally support in the verification and validation of the audio tuning algorithms. BITG will

develop framework for exploitation of inertial navigation enhancement in Smart Wireless Audio Application and

will take part in implementation, testing and integration of software.

T8c.2.4: Development of the Demonstrator and Integration

Here, the various elements to be delivered from other related tasks (T4.1, T4.3, T7.2.1, T7.3.1, T7.4.1, T8c.2.3),

will be integrated into the final enhanced UWB LT demonstrator for home environment. UPB and BITG will take

part in the final implementation and deployment of the demonstrator and its subsequent integration into a concrete

instance of a home environment scenario.

Deliverables

D8a.1: Scenario description for public transport applications (M03)

D8a.2: Requirements for public transport applications (M06)

D8a.3.1: Implementation of higher layers and integration (M3034)

D8a.3.2: Coexistence HDR (ECMA 368)/LDR (802.15.4a) (M2631)

D8a.3.3: Advanced localisation techniques in harsh environment (M2631)

D8a.3.4: New concepts for radio resources management and mobility support with location awareness (M2632)

D8a.3.5: Localisation using ECMA 368 platform (M2632)

D8a.3.6: High precision synchronisation for large mesh networks (M31)

D8a.3.7: Multiband/multimode for high reliability and QoS (HDR/60 GHz) (M2631)

D8a.3.8: Antenna design (M2631)

D8a.3.9: Demonstrator for public transport applications (M3237)

D8a.4: Test and verification of the demonstrator for public transport applications (M40)

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D8b.1: Scenario description for automotive environment applications (M03)

D8b.2: System parameters for automotive environment applications (M07)

D8b.3: System simulation environment (M35)

D8b.4: Channel model for complex automotive scenarios (in-car) (M18)

D8b.5: Verification of channel model by measurement (M25)

D8b.6: Antennas for in-car applications LDR and LT (M18)

D8b.7: CAN/LIN-bus interface (M26)

D8b.8: In-car demonstrator for LDR wireless communication (M32)

D8b.9: Performance verification of LDR wireless communication in-car demonstrator (M40)

D8b.10: In-car demonstrator for location tracking (M32)

D8b.11: Performance verification of location tracking in-car demonstrator (M40)

D8c.1: Scenario description for multiband/multimode UWB home environment applications (M02)

D8c.2: System parameters and requirements for multiband/multimode UWB home environment appl. (M06)

D8c.3: Interface requirements of the application platform (M12)

D8c.4: Demonstrator for multiband UWB wireless communication for video streaming (M32)

D8c.5: Performance verification of the multiband UWB-60 GHz demonstrator within home environment (M40)

D8c.6: Scenario description for localisation/synchronisation application for home audio applications (M03)

D8c.7: System parameters and requirements for localisation/synchronisation for home audio applications (M06)

D8c.8: Interface requirements of the application platform (M12)

D8c.9: Development of audio tuning algorithms for in-room home environment scenarios (M24)

D8c.10: Demonstrator for in-room audio tuning based on the LT algorithm and platform (M40)

D8c.11: Performance verification of the combined localisation/synchronisation and audio tuning application

demonstrator within home environment (M40)

Milestones

M8a.1: Scenarios description and requirements for public transport applications (M06)

M8a.2: Prototypes to be integrated in demonstrator for public transport applications (M26)

M8a.3: Demonstrator for public transport applications (M30)

M8b.1: Scenarios and system parameters defined for automotive applications (M06)

M8b.2: Channel model available (M18)

M8b.3: In-car demonstrator for a) LDR and b) LT available (M32)

M8b.4: System simulation environment available (M35)

M8c.1: Scenario description and requir. for a) multiband UWB and b) LT for home environment applic. (M06)

M8c.2: Prototypes to be integrated in demonstrator for multiband UWB home environment applications (M30)

M8c.3: Prototypes to be integrated in demonstrator for LT in home environment applications (M32)

M8c.4: Demonstrator for a) multiband UWB and b) LT in home environment applications (M40)

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WP title Regulation and Standardisation End date M40


Participant (number) P03 P04 P05 P08 P10 P11 P12 P14 P22 P23 P24

Participant (short name) TESD PHI BOSCH CNET EADS TID THA WIS HTW STC FBC

PM per participant 2 2 32 12 4 3 3 23 6 10 10

Task Start End PM

T9.1 M01 M27 14 6 3 1 1 2 1

T9.2 M01 M40 30 1 1 10 2 1 1 1 4 2 3 4

T9.3 M01 M40 47 1 1 10 5 2 1 1 15 2 5 4

T9.4 M01 M40 16 6 2 1 2 1 2 2

Objectives

In the scope of this work package the interactions of the EUWB project with the European and world-wide

regulation and standardisation bodies will be organised. The needed input will be delivered by the corresponding

application WPs and the corresponding logical project clusters.

The main objectives of this WP are to:

Confirm/update the relevant regulation and standardisation bodies in Europe and world-wide in the domain of

UWB and related technologies (CEPT, EC, ETSI, IEEE, WiMedia, …);

Generate regulation and standardisation awareness inside the EUWB project by providing the needed general

information to the application integration and research WPs in EUWB;

Provide continuously the relevant regulation and standardisation status to the application and research WPs in

EUWB;

Implement an efficient information flow between the WP and the application and research WPs by adopting

the logical cluster structure for direct scientific and technical access as well as the Management Board

structure for formal access;

Follow actively the further UWB regulation processes initiated world-wide, consolidate the information and

provide it to the relevant application and research WPs in EUWB;

Support the spectrum management development in Europe and world-wide;

Initiate the needed standardisation activities in Europe and world-wide (ETSI, IEEE, WiMedia) in order to

enable a smooth market entry of technologies and solutions investigated and developed in the scope of EUWB;

Co-ordinate and consolidate the application and research WP inputs towards regulation and standardisation;

Provide technical inputs towards the regulation and standardisation groups;

Participate actively in the regulation and standardisation meetings.

These objectives are mainly intended to prepare the needed regulatory frameworks and standards for the future

development of UWB technologies in the main markets addressed by WP6 and WP8.

Description of Work

Based on the typical work distribution in the European and world wide regulation and standardisation activities in

WP9 there is a number of participants with relative small amount of PM involved in addition to the key partners

BOSCH, WIS and STC which have some significant resources allocated. In the first case the resources are mainly

used for the participation in some specific regulatory and standardisation meetings as well as the preparation of

specific requests within WP9 by GWT, TESD, PHI, CNET, EADS, TID and THA. Complementary, partners

BOSCH, WIS and STC are participating in almost every relevant regulation and standardisation meeting and build

the hosts for document creation and submission, to which case 1 partners will basically contribute their specific

expertise on the subjects relevant for their particular future business planes (as described in the exploitation plan).

The activities in WP9 have been extended to some additional groups in ETSI and a further extension needs to be

envisaged. The news groups to follow are the ETSI ERM TG28 (Short Range Devices) and the ETSI ERM TG11

(Broadband interfaces, monitoring mode for DAA algorithm development. Furthermore, the metering activities in

ETSI need to monitored and EUWB will contribute to the discussion. Here new application fields will emerge for

the future use of UWB devices.



Task 9.1: Status of World-wide UWB Regulation and Standardisation [M01–M27]

At the beginning of the EUWB project this task will provide a detailed overview over the actual status in the UWB

regulation and standardisation domain at M02. Here a specific focus shall be put onto the running activities with

the corresponding cross relations to the EUWB application and research areas. This will simplify the efficient

information flow and initiation of the needed requirement inputs from the application and research WPs. Based on

the status report a regulation and standardisation plan will be created in M06. This plan will be structured

according to the applications and research areas covered in EUWB and will be provided to all WPs in UWB. It

will be updated on a regular base and released then again in M18 and M27 based on inputs from the EUWB WPs

and external regulatory and standardisation activities. The further activities in regulation and standardisation shall

be planned based on this living report.

Task 9.2: Regulatory Activities [M01–M40]

The main objective of this task is to:

Observe, track and engage wherever possible/practical European and world-wide regulation processes related

to UWB-RT;

Interact with WP6 and WP8 as well as with the four basic logical EUWB project cluster to observe the need

for regulatory actions and provide guidance and support to realise the actions identified;

Co-ordinate specific actions to support regulatory framework in Europe (public consultations, ECC decision

comments, etc.) and give technical inputs to the relevant bodies;

Provide technical support for the development of regulatory test procedures in Europe and world-wide, such

as the effort recently carried by TELEC Japan to define test procedures was kindly supported by EUWB

project partners;

Attend important meetings of regulatory organisations, committees and expert groups and report relevant

decisions and actions to the EUWB community and provide the required input in the appropriate form as

defined by the individual regulatory body as well as the feedback to the EUWB project in terms of meeting

reports. This way the information flow from outside to inside and vice versa related to UWB-RT regulation

will be ensured.

T9.2.1: European Regulation

It is important to note, that the European UWB-RT regulation process is not finished by far having the recent

“Commission Decision” released, dated Feb. 21st, 2007. This legally binding decision for all 27 EU member states

is rather just the starting point of an important development towards more efficient use of the radio spectrum

resource in Europe and is a mature starting point for improvement as the knowledge grows.

Coexistence investigations and field measurements are continuously needed in the UWB regulation process,

differentiating it from other regulation processes where theoretical calculations where considered to be sufficient

usually. As UWB scenarios are complex and a number of services are interacting in one single environment it is

important to further develop and define measurement procedures widely accepted in the regulatory bodies. In

addition to simulations they will be used to determine actual interference and coexistence effects of UWB radio

devices upon other radio services, such as broadband services like WiMAX, aeronautical radars (subject to

partnership with Eurocontrol, airports and German Air Navigation Service, which has proven to lead to successful

co-operation already during year 2006 and 2007 in previous common investigations) and other radio devices,

based on measurements in realistic scenarios. An important topic will be the analysis of WRC 2007 outcome in

terms of NGNW definition, which will start a completely new impact analysis thread in the European regulation

for UWB-RT. Such impact analysis are important means of work in the regulatory process. Starting with the

approach followed in CEPT ECC TG3 further developments are expected to increase the quality of the process on

one hand and to simplify procedures targeting more efficiency on the other hand. Standard regulation tools, as

SEAMCAT are used by the consortium partners and will be further developed to properly reflect typical UWB-RT

systems.

The EUWB community will push further to include impact on background noise and interference level from non

UWB radio devices offering similar coexistence challenges, e.g. WiFi, in order to put UWB in a relative position

and show, that UWB is a “coexistence friendly” technology. The examination of UWB user experience in typical

application environments shall be performed continuously as well and results shall be used for scenario definition

updates.

The investigation of interference mitigation techniques (such as LDC, DAA, LBT) is a major task for regulation

updates besides the investigations about the realistic impact of UWB on other radio services in principal, which is

targeting to define certain base protection level. Theoretical studies and practical measurements shall be performed

based on suitable system models to assess coexistence issues between UWB devices and existing radio systems

and services. It is expected, that the work on mitigation techniques started in the frame of PULSERS Phase II



project by some individual partners will be continued in EUWB concerning RADAR and WiMAX and will be

extended in particular to the NGNW after the WRC 2007. Theoretical and practical investigation of mitigation

techniques will be performed within WP9 with the scientific and technical support of WP2 and the applications

definition support of WP8, specifically concerning the targeted (automotive, home, heterogeneous access/cellular

networks and public transport) environments. As an example for a detail the specific attenuation models for UWB

signals propagating for the individual application scenarios of major interest for the industrial partners will be

created to be used in the regulatory process to support realistic (economic viable and technically possible) transmit

power levels.

The impact on the performance of UWB radio devices due to existing wireless systems and various other UWB

radio devices shall be investigated/followed as well, as the economic feasibility of the new and advanced UWB

services has to be ensured by allowing operation with the required quality parameters. Therefore it is equally

important to assess the impact on UWB radio system performance owing to regulatory constraints as well, to

investigate potential performance gains and possible new application spaces under a regime of possibly relaxed

spectral constraints.

The use of an increasing amount of UWB practical measurement data will make a significant difference to

previous investigations as the base UWB technology will be available in sufficient quantities during he runtime of

the EUWB project.

European regulatory bodies to be addressed are CEPT ECC TG3 (if still existing at that point in time, otherwise

WG SE and WG FM), the Radio Spectrum Committee (RSCOM) and the national regulatory bodies as well as

every representative organisation of so called “victim” services being able and willing to perform common

coexistence investigations (positive examples from recent work of individual EUWB project partners are the

German Air Navigation Service (DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH), the German Army (Bundeswehr) and also

the European Commission Joint Research Center in Ispra, Italy). EUWB will support the aeronautical regulation

body in co-operation with the AIRBUS company, which will be member of the advisory board of EUWB.

T9.2.2: World-wide Regulation

It is interesting to note, that BOSCH, for historical reasons, is official member of ITU and can participate in all

official ITU meetings on the same level as national administrations are allowed to. Although in ITU TG 1/8 the

work on some specific questions related to the introduction of UWB has been (temporarily) finished without

agreeing on a common specific recommendation for adoption of UWB regulation, it is expected, that the topic will

be further discussed on ITU level, in particular after the WRC 2007 conference has been finished and the new

bands and use conditions for the Next Generation Networks (NGNW) have been identified. Here the consortium

has a unique chance to provide direct input into that process without going through the instances of the national

administrations and CEPT, which is an additional possibility, planned to be followed in parallel as well.

The consortium is addressing an update of the regulation for UWB in general to make the use of the upper bands

(above 6 GHz) more feasible for the applications envisaged. The FCC rules in the U.S.A. are the most relaxed,

compared to the world wide situation, but still provide only a very low output power spectral density (PSD) level.

In particular at radio frequencies above 6 GHz this yields to extremely short distances due to strong attenuation of

the radio signal as well as due to higher losses in the devices implementation technology addressing mass markets.

EUWB partners will provide input to the FCC targeting an update of the U.S.A. regulation in terms of increased

PSD level in the frequency range above 6 GHz. Experiences from the advanced stage of the interference

mitigation discussion in the European regulation process shall be used for achieving this target. Close co-operation

with WiMedia and American companies is planned for this action.

In Japan a national regulatory committee of Ministry of Internal Affair and Communications (MIC) is discussing

the UWB-RT regulation, where the 7.25–10.26 GHz-band shall be opened for the use, which would leave only

1.25 GHz common band with Europe, where the band currently opened is from 6.0 to 8.5 GHz. It is planned to

continue support of the MIC and to set up a Memorandum of Understanding with the NICT of Japan, which is

actively working similar to the European R&D framework programme with larger groups (in case of UWB 20

companies and 7 universities within NICT). The goal is to open the band from 6.0 to 7.25 GHz for UWB in Japan

for future use of UWB to increase the common band with Europe and the U.S.A. enabling a global mass market

with high volume and therefore low cost devices. Experiences from mitigation technique investigations could help

here as well to address a possible increase in PSD as in the U.S.A. case.

The third major activity of world wide regulation will focus on China. China Radio Administration Bureau, the

radio management organisation of China, is responsible for setting up regulation rules on UWB-RT use. MII State

Radio Monitoring Center is working closely together.

In the past there has been very close co-operation with the IDA of Singapore with some of the EUWB partners in

former EU funded UWB R&D project PULSERS. EUWB will continue to co-operate with IDA of Singapore to

provide the experience from the European regulation process in order to enable an innovative UWB-RT regulation



in Singapore as well. Currently individual partners, such as BOSCH, GWT and THA have contributed also the

recent public consultation of the IDA concerning the introduction of UWB regulation in Singapore. The goal is

clearly to align with the ideas developed so far (mentioned above concerning PSD and band usage) and work

together with IDA to realise this in Singapore as well.

Task 9.3: Standardisation Activities [M01–M40]

Both, the European as well as the world-wide standardisation activities are to be performed under the lead of this

task. However, the detailed technical requirements and required investigations are planned to be provided by WP2,

WP6, WP7 and WP8 sub-tasks as identified in the project logical cluster information flow defined in

Section B1.3.1.1 of this document. The main activities in this task are to:

Contribute to the development of new and update of system concepts and architectures emerging in

international standardisation bodies, in particular the IEEE 802.15.4a, PT1900.4, the ETSI TG31a/c and the

ECMA 368 effort. The intention is mainly to support the work using the technical results and expertise

developed in EUWB;

Analyse effects of possible system constraints imposed by newly emerging standards and regulations;

Assess standardisation requirements for a joint VHDR/LDR-LT operation (i) inter-operability as well as ii)

inherent embedding LDR-LT functionality in VHDR devices;

Leverage the strength of the EUWB community and external partner alliances when preparing contributions to

PHY/MAC or protocol adoption standards processes or promoting new initiatives;

Co-ordinate specific technical work and common actions within EUWB in support of new initiatives towards

PHY/MAC standards for VHDR and LDR-LT UWB radio devices and services;

Attend important meetings of standards organisations, committees and expert groups and report relevant

decisions and actions to the EUWB community;

Identify opportunities and co-ordinate actions in the PHY/MAC standards area that a) are of common interest

to the EUWB community and b) complement related independent actions by individual EUWB partners, e.g.

the extension of the standards towards scenario awareness and cognitive signalling;

Contribute to the development of specifications which enable the adoption of UWB technology within other

technology families including Bluetooth and Certified Wireless USB.

T9.3.1: European Standardisation

EUWB WP9 members are active driver for the major European regulation activities currently ongoing, namely

ETSI TG31a for UWB communication devices, ETSI TG31c for UWB location tracking and sensing devices and

ECMA for UWB communication and ranging. The partners will continue generating application specific ETSI

system reference documents (SRDoc), but not only based on their own specific needs but based on the requirements

and system parameters received form WP8, T8b.1 and T8b2.1 as well as WP6, T6.1. Following the initial requests

they will continue then generating an ETSI standard for the specific application (or in EUWB case family of

applications) by generating an ETSI standard (update) for the LDR wireless communication and location tracking

and for the VHDR based applications. Drafting and actively supporting the standards in the relevant ETSI, CEPT

and regulatory bodies will achieve the final target to get the ERM meeting approval and to pass successfully the

public consultation in the national standardisation organisations (NSOs).

In addition to the above mentioned groups the EUWB project members will actively support the creation of a

ETSI task group defining cognitive signalling methods and techniques to be applied for future enhanced data aided

mitigation techniques mode. A first workshop concerning this topic took place already in February 2007 in Sophia

Antipolis together with the SDR topic.

A fourth major initiative of this task would be the active contribution to the European Computers Manufacturers

Association (ECMA) standardisation update of the ECMA 368 standard in order to include the required hooks

identified in WP6, WP7 and WP8. Initial issues identified are the definition of the location handling (as it may

help for regulation, if certain frequency bands in certain environments will be avoided, e.g. in the aeroplane a

certain sub-band should not be used and thus the access points in the cabin must inform the terminal devices about

the fact, that they should not use certain frequency band. Further additional modes will be requested enabling

potential merging the technologies with LDR-LT for more efficient UWB system implementation.

T9.3.2: World-wide Standardisation

Besides two major standardisation fora, the IEEE and the ISO, this tasks focuses also on the participation in

various industrial alliances and interest groups such as Bluetooth SIG, Zigbee Alliance, UWB-IF Forum, WiNet

(part of WiMedia), where the EUWB partners are active members.

Concerning IEEE there are currently two activities identified for EUWB participation, the 802.15. and 15.4 TG4a

focusing on mesh-networking and on the finalisation of the first version of an LDR-LT PHY and MAC standard



respectively as well as on the P1900 TG4 (recently renamed SC41, DySPAN) focusing on the definition of the

cognitive signalling and elements in future communication networks. EUWB members have significantly

influenced with their contributions and with their active leadership the standardisation processes in these groups

up to know (partly supported by the project PULSERS) and plan to continue this efforts in the EUWB project.

Also 802.15.3c will be followed actively as there the wireless HD is being defined using 60 GHz radio frequency,

what is similar to the planning of the EUWB for QoS enhancement in the home and public transport application

environments.

Another important aspect is the update of the international UWB standards, ISO/IEC 26907 and 26908, being

transferred from the ECMA 368 to ISO. The changes of the ECMA standard (as envisaged from the EUWB

consortium) need to be reflected in an update of the corresponding ISO/IEC 26907 and 26908 standards as well.

Within the industrial alliances the partners will influence the appropriate working groups towards an adoption and

realisation of the EUWB application scenarios. In this way TESD supported by STC will influence the Bluetooth

SIG especially to enable a kind of semi-BT v3.0/wUSB approach in a standardised way also in the frequency

range below 5 GHz. In WiMedia the target is clearly to extend the standard to more robust modes as well as

towards increase of data rate and definition of ways for co-operating MACs of LDR-LT, VHDR and 60 GHz PHY

building blocks combining them into a single end user device. WiNet and WUSB will be definitely addressed as

well, as the networking aspects play a key role in the application scenarios.

To a certain extent some partners will use their resources/EC-funding to further strengthen their involvement in

appropriate bodies/groups, e.g. WiMedia.

Task 9.4: International Co-ordination [M01–M40]

The main objective of this task is to:

Liaise and co-ordinate co-operation with other FP7 projects and international consortia dealing with UWB. As

an example, key EUWB partners intend to have co-operation with the WiMedia, wireless USB forum and with

the Bluetooth SIG;

Leverage EUWB‟s potential in advancing matters of UWB radio regulation and standards by active

interaction with key partners outside Europe and co-operation with European and international consortia, e.g.

other FP7 projects, WiMedia, TELEC Japan, Bluetooth SIG. EUWB intends also to participate and to provide

contributions to European clusters/projects dedicated more generally to regulation (not only dedicated to

UWB radio) such as an Spectrum and Resource Management cluster (S&RM) within EC DG INFSO unit D1

cluster activities;

Contact and keep active communication to the various application industry organisations, e.g. in case of

automotive industry groups it would be organisations like SARA and European Commission DG Research –

Joint Research Center in Ispra, Italy. But also direct contacts to companies like Daimler and others are planned

to be continued from the previously running PULSERS Phase II project;

Co-ordinate the dissemination of regulatory and standards related information as well as the exchange of such

information with the allied organisations.

Deliverables

D9.1: World-wide regulation and standardisation overview (M02)

D9.2a/b/c: Regulation and standardisation plan (initial/updated/final) (M06/M18/M27)

D9.3: Contributions to update the ECMA standard (M30)

Milestones

M9.1: World-wide regulation and standardisation overview (M02)

M9.2: Regulation and standardisation initial plan ready (M06)

M9.3: Initial application and technology requirements evaluated (M10)

M9.4: Updated application and technology requirements evaluated (M22)

M9.5: Regulation and standardisation final plan ready (M28)

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B1.3.7 Efforts for the Full Duration of the Project

Part.

n°

Short

name WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 WP6 WP7 WP8 WP9

Total

person

months

01 GWT 848 1 1 8690

02 0

03 TESD 18 76 25 2 121

04 PHI 8 74 2 84

05 BOSCH 60 32 92

06 CEA 16 14 16 54 100

07 LUH 87 16 103

08 CNET 98 12 110

09 CWC 22 76 98

10 EADS 7 56 4 67

11 TID 73 3 76

12 THA 10 30 39 14 3 96

13 VTT 69 69

14 WIS 24 10 11 33 23 101

15 UZ 37 44 81

16 ACO 18 15 12 36 81

17 TESUK 34 28 30 92

18 0

19 UNIBO 48 12 16 76

20 UDE 12 20 51 36 119

21 UIL 29 32 9 70

22 HTW 21 26 6 53

23 STC 12 10 22

24 FBC 5 10 15

25 BITG 10 20 30

26 CTU 16 16

27 UPB 8 16 24

28 WRC 32 32

TOTAL 1021

06

2202

68 211

2312

41 160

1581

66 256

3674

03 107

1,8121

,918

Table 1010: Person months per partner and work package.

B1.3.8 Tentative Planning of Reviews

Review n° Tentative timing,

i.e. after month X = end of a reporting period Planned venue Comments, if any

1 After M12 Brussels 1st periodic review

2 After M24 Stuttgart 2nd periodic review

3 After M40 Munich final review



Table 1111: Tentative schedule of project reviews.



B2 IMPLEMENTATION

B2.1 Management Structure and Procedures

The basic purpose for project management is to ensure the proper level of co-ordination and co-operation amongst

the project consortium members. Additionally, project management has the following responsibilities: project

administration, project organisation, management of the technical progress of the project, co-ordination with the

European Commission (EC) projects and other interested parties. All of the consortium partners have had previous

experience of working in EU consortia or working in large, complex, international projects. An overview of the

most important parts of the project management structure is illustrated in Figure 33Figure 33.

The fact that EUWB will be the logical follow-up project of several previous advanced R&D project activities,

public co-funded as well as industrial projects, allows to base the organisation of management structure and

activities on the experiences made in the past, which has been evaluated as very successful during the previous

company internal and external project review by independent reviewers and the European Commission.

However, lessons learned from experiences of several partners in a number of previous large R&D projects have

lead to the development of an additional, new and innovative logical link structure for the project management.

This will allow to ensure an intensive communication and collaboration between different work packages, which is

essential for the success of the project. The approach has been developed by the EUWB co-ordinator and detailed

in the MB preparing the EUWB project proposal. It is called logical clustering. It will be explained in

Section B2.1.1 in detail.

The management activities necessary to successfully carry out the project are described in the following sections.

This outline is based on the excellence of the partners involved and might be slightly adapted at the kick-off

according to the most recent requirements at this point in time. They comprise administrative and technical issues,

including the legal framework and the organisational structure of the project. Furthermore, a roadmap of meetings

and workshops and related activities as well as quality assurance procedures and steering tools are described. All

activities mentioned are based on the general management structure explained in greater detail in the next sections.

The project management encompasses six main administrative and technical tasks:

Set up and maintenance of the management structure;

Communication within the consortium and external relation maintenance;

Co-ordination and organisation of consortium-wide activities;

Control and allocation of resources;

Control of technical activities and quality assurance;

Risk monitoring and possibly contingency.

B2.1.1 New and Innovative Methodology of Managing IPs by Logical Clustering of inter-WP Tasks

B2.1.1.1 Introduction

In order to optimise the development flow and the task distribution between the different work packages in the

EUWB project a clustering will be used as a co-ordinating structure. A cluster of tasks from different involved

work packages will be established for a given time frame with well defined inputs and outputs. In the initial

project plan four main clusters around the development of the applications are identified and will exist from the

beginning of the project:

Heterogeneous Network Cluster;

Public Transport Cluster;

Automotive Cluster;

Home Environment Cluster.

These clusters will have the goal of co-ordinating and consolidating the developments in the different work

packages and tasks in the WPs towards the final demonstration and definition of the specific application systems.



The final integration work will be performed in the corresponding application WPs. As input the implementation

and developing results provided by the research and implementation tasks will be used. A specific task in a WP

can participate to several clusters. Based on the development results in the clusters the application areas shall

generate and initiate the needed inputs towards regulation and standardisation.

In this sense a cluster is a structure in the project to formalise the co-operation of tasks belonging to different WPs.

The cluster head shall belong to the corresponding application WP. He shall organise and monitor the

collaboration between the tasks towards the identified outputs. Thus he can guarantee the needed inputs towards

the final application system.

During the runtime of the project new clusters are expected to be established around appearing challenges, e.g.

intra-UWB coexistence or antenna implementation issues, in order to group the needed tasks and thus resources

from different WPs together to address the identified issue in an efficient manner.

The inputs and contributions to the cluster process might not only come from the project itself but rather can be

extended to external inputs from other IST project, the official project clustering or other external inputs like

general industry requirements, regulation or standardisation inputs.

B2.1.1.2 Cluster Process

The initial input to the application clusters will be the scenario definition and the high level application

requirements coming from the application WPs (Cluster Milestone 1, CM1).

Based on this initial scenario definitions and requirements the individual tasks included in the cluster will develop

the system specifications of the overall application systems and the planned demonstrations. They will identify the

needed actions in the research and implementation tasks and will evaluate the feasibility of the planned

demonstrations. The outcome of this step will be the system requirements and the demonstration platform

requirements at CM2 (Cluster Milestone 2). This outcome will be a set of documents (deliverables, internal

reports) coming from the different tasks. Furthermore, the application system requirements and the feasibility

study will be used as an input towards the regulation and standardisation activities in WP9.

In a further step the development and implementation work will be executed in the scope of the cluster towards the

final application system. The final output of the cluster work will be a set of building blocks and platforms for the

final integration into the application on system level and demonstration level (Cluster Milestone 3, CM3).

Figure 3232: Example of cluster process flow.

This flow is depicted in Figure 32Figure 32. The cluster represents a logical grouping of tasks belonging to

different WPs. The cluster structure shall guarantee the information flow and the collaboration between the

involved tasks. The co-ordination in the cluster can be done by document exchange, internal cluster milestones and

regular cluster meetings. The cluster leader will be responsible for the delivery of the defined results.

The cluster process will allow to efficiently co-ordinating the resources in the different work packages towards the

realisation of the final application systems and demonstrations. The main inputs to the cluster process are the

scenario definition from the application areas. The main outputs are a set of requirements, specification, regulation

and standard inputs and finally the building blocks and platforms for the demonstration integration activities in the

application work package.



B2.1.2 Organisation

The first task of the project management is to evaluate the final experiences and final project evaluation results

from the previously running R&D projects on UWB and then set up and later on maintain the EUWB management

structure. In order to ensure a smooth start of the project an EUWB project office supporting the PM and acting as

a central contact point to the consortium is already available in parallel to early activities from the first day and

even two months before the project will actually start. It will include a dedicated EUWB financial administration

and a project Internet/Intranet portal. Remaining bodies of the management structure will be set up after the start

of the project according to the rules laid down in the Consortium agreement.

The Co-ordinator has already prepared and will further develop a web-based shared workspace to the consortium

(https://www.euwb.eu/). This will constitute the project server (also referenced to as EUWB Intranet portal) and is

a secure web-based system enabling collaboration over the Internet. It provides services for electronic document

management, group management, event notification, calendars, archiving, etc. Access rights to the various areas

will be granted according to security needs very flexible. In addition there will be a public EUWB web site

available (http://www.euwb.eu/).

All official public EUWB deliverables will be available on the public EUWB web site. The complete set of issued

official deliverables including restricted and internal ones are stored on the EUWB Intranet. The European

Commission‟s Project Officer and reviewers will be given access to a sub-set of the EUWB Intranet containing

technical and contractual documentation whose circulation is restricted.

B2.1.3 Co-ordination and Organisation of Consortium-wide Activities

All activities within the project will be co-ordinated according to the management structure and decision making

rules laid down in the Quality handbook. To provide the necessary information, discussion and interaction a

system of bi-weekly MB phone meetings with WPL reports and of intermediate (six months) individual partner

reporting has been developed.

Workshops, MB and TB meetings will be held on a regular base. For example, the MB meetings a bi-weekly

phone conference of about 1–2 hours has proven to be very efficient already in previous projects and is planned to

be applied in EUWB. The PM will be in charge of setting up and updating a calendar of meetings and events.

Further project meetings may be planned whenever urgent issues will need to be resolved on request. The host of

the meeting will provide logistics and accommodation information to the participants.

The project intends to run virtual electronic meetings whenever feasible and appropriate using information and

communication technologies available. Face to face meetings will be organised by the partners in rotation.

Meetings are invited by the corresponding chair: the WPL for a WP workshop (and even Task Leader for a task

meeting if required) and the project co-ordinator for a MB (or TB) meeting. The chair will send a draft agenda for

the meeting by e-mail. Depending on the kind of meeting (phone or physical) the agenda will be provided in

sufficient time before the meeting takes place.

For phone conferences the agenda will be send in general latest one working day before the meeting takes place

(preferably two working days before). This allows updates and comments from partners involved and at least two

hours before the meeting takes place the final agenda needs to be sent by email to all participants.

The agenda will be sent in general at least fifteen calendar days prior to the date of the meeting for physical

meetings, allowing for potential comments from all partners involved within one week. Final agenda is to be sent

no later than five calendar days prior to the date of the meeting.

For all EUWB Management Board and project level meetings, the presence of the PMs, the QM and all WPLs (or

any representatives of their respective companies), is mandatory. Exceptions (for example in case of national

holidays in particular partners state) have to be announced before the meeting to the PM.

B2.1.4 Control and Allocation of Resources, Control of Technical Activities, Quality Assurance

The management has to focus on information flow, reporting and evaluation of results to ensure an effective and

successful course of the project. The central issue of the technical management is to assure high quality research

and integration development as well as an optimised dissemination of new results among the consortium. Quality

assurance is dealt with by the Quality Manager in first stage and in the next stage by the Management Board.



A high quality standard of information, reports and deliverables is of essential importance for the project. Thus

quality objectives and quality assurance procedures have to be developed and applied. For that purpose, the

Quality handbook applied in EUWB will be updated according to the evolved requirements in a regular manner.

The main objectives of this QHB are to achieve clients‟ satisfaction, to increase the consortium internal efficiency

and to increase the quality of the project results. Three main types of clients can be identified:

The European Commission in connection with the contract;

The EUWB project partner;

The potential EUWB external end-users of (or people and companies interested in) EUWB results and

representatives of regulation authorities, e.g. the Radio Spectrum Committee, including European

research centres.

The QHB will be maintained throughout the entire duration of EUWB by the Project Manager. Therefore, progress

and changes in the project will be documented in a sequence of versions. In the following paragraphs some parts

of the quality assurance provisions to be followed are given.

B2.1.5 Information Flow

A key for success of large research projects like EUWB with 22 partners is to ensure comprehensive information

of all participants at any time of the project run time.

There are three basic directions required for project internal top level information flow:

First is top-down information flow from project management to work packages and to all project partners.

This is required to distribute administrative information received from the EC as well as Management

Board decisions. There are three basic means for the Project Manager to inform the consortium: the

regular weekly MB phone meeting (including the WPLs, PM and EM), the regular monthly EUWB

project newsletter and on demand transmissions on the WP-all email list reaching at least one responsible

person of each project partner organisation.

Second is horizontal information flow between different work packages which is organised by two basic

means, the regular weekly MB meeting with all WPLs participating and the distribution of draft deliverables

with early stage results between different work packages. For this reason a specific section in the EUWB

intranet exists. Further in each WP there are responsible partners defined being in charge of information

exchange with each of the other WPs.

Third is the bottom up information flow from all partners to the project management. There are three

means foreseen: the periodic reporting (bi-annual intermediate project internal, annual review report) of

administrative data, the ad-hoc email contact to the WPL and PM and the technical results reporting via

WPL and QM to the PM. In addition there is bi-directional information flow between partners within

work packages required. This is organised by design notes, requests for comments and WP level regular

monthly phone conferences. The frequency of WP phone conferences will be adjusted to the actual work

load, which is not linearly distributed.

A new method applied in EUWB is the clustering principle, where dedicated tasks from different work

packages are interfacing directly with each other in a common working structure called a cluster. This

structure is a temporary construct, which was developed during the project preparation and will ensure,

that the groups working on similar subjects and building on the results of each other are in touch on a

regular basis. There will be cluster meetings in a monthly frequency.

Besides the virtual meetings (phone and video conferences, email and reporting) there will be physical full project

meetings of at least two full days every 6 months. Besides information flow between PM and partners there will be

also co-located WP level physical meetings.

Project external information flow is channelised in general via the Project Manager. There is bi-directional

administrative information flow from the consortium to the EC as well as delivery of technical project results from

the project to the EC, i.e. from WPs via QM and PM. Exceptions are technical publications and contributions to

regulation and standardisation organisations, which are organised by the appropriate technical WPs.

The information flow structures as descried above will ensure convergence of technical results in different work

packages. It enables early detection of tendencies of divergence or incoherent working assumptions.

Administrative information will be distributed to all project partners and the periodic reporting will enable early

detection of resource and expenditures spending deviations to enable appropriate counter actions by the project

management.



Optimal motivation of partners for creative contributions even exceeding their contractual obligations can be

achieved by information to the point. However the design of the appropriate information flow mechanism is an

optimisation task, as it is equally important not to overload participants with information, which would decrease

their sensitivity level. Further it is important not to ask too frequently for administrative and working reports to

keep the efficiency high doing actual research work. Experiences from the former R&D projects show, that project

internal reporting is a very useful and widely accepted by all participants as extension to the annual periodic

reports mandatory to the EC. Therefore an intermediate reporting (internal) every 6 months after the EC reporting

is introduced.

The information flow within EUWB is characterised by some general rules, which are detailed in the Quality

handbook:

All project documentation is provided in the English language;

Before each meeting a draft agenda will be distributed in advance in which the topics are clearly named

and available input for discussions is provided. After each meeting, minutes of meeting (MoM) document

will be provided by the hosting organisation. The MoMs will be approved at the following meeting or will

be approved automatically after 30 calendar days after release of MoM if no objections are received by

the releasing organisation. MoMs are official project documents, which have to be stored on the EUWB

intranet in dedicated sections;

All project documents will be produced electronically with the tools defined in the QHB for

documentation;

All project documents will be available via the intranet on the secure EUWB Internet platform provided

by the Project Co-ordinator.

B2.1.6 Reporting

Three important types of regular reports will be prepared by partners and WPLs to be transferred to the European

Commission, these are:

Project specific Deliverables according to the deliverable list as provided in Table 8;

Intermediate reports in form of interim reports (containing technical as well as financial information

according to the definition in the QHB; these reports are not mandatory by the EC but are defined by the

consortium in order to be able to monitor the project progress and consumption);

Technical and financial reports in form of periodic reports, according to the rules laid down in the FP7

Grant Agreement, Annex II, Part A, Section 2, Article II.4);

Technical and financial reports in form of final reports, according to the rules laid down in the FP7

Grant Agreement, Annex II, Part A, Section II.4, containing a final publishable summary report covering

results, conclusions and socio-economic impact of the project, a report covering the wider societal

implications of the project, including gender equality actions, ethical issues, efforts to involve other actors

and spread awareness as well as the plan for the use and dissemination of foreground;

Financial report on the distribution of the Community financial contribution between beneficiaries. This

report has to be submitted 30 days after the last receipt of the EC grant to the budget (final payment).

Besides these regular reports any supplementary reports will be prepared on request of the Management Board

and/or the responsible Commission‟s Project Officer.

According to the document FP7 Grant Agreement, Annex II, Part A, Section II.4 the above mentioned reports will

in general be delivered electronically at latest 60 calendar days after the end of the reporting period. The delivery

address will be specified in the targeted contract and the data of delivery is the arrival data at the delivery address.

In the following a brief explanation of the reports mentioned above is provided (based on document FP7 Grant

Agreement, Annex II, Part A, Section 2, Article II.4 as well as on the experience and lessons learned in the

previous EC funded R&D projects).

Project specific deliverables. The schedule of deliverables to be submitted to the Commission is specified in

Annex I to the contract. The reports will be sent as electronic version. This will be done timely to ensure that they

will have arrived at latest one months after the reporting period at the Commission. The contents is defined in

Annex I to the Grant agreement. Before the deliverables will be sent to the Commission‟s Project Officer they will

undergo a project internal review and approval process, which is described in Section B2.1.8.



Interim reports are specified here as Quarterly Management Reports. In addition to the reports defined in

article II.4 of Annex II to the contract, the Co-ordinator will submit to the Commission supplementary

management reports every three months (QMR, Quarterly Management Reports).

The QMR will provide, for the reporting period:

The technical progress and achievements of the project;

The project status;

Work started;

Work completed;

Work delayed;

Status of deliverables;

Remedial actions required, if applicable;

Resources expenditure by sub-project, work-package and activity;

Absolute values for the reported period;

Aggregated values (actual vs. planned).

Periodic reports will be submitted latest 60 days after the end of each reporting period (M09, M21, M336) as

defined in Article 4 of the contract.

The periodic reports, containing an overview, including a publishable summary, of the progress of work

towards the objectives of the project, including achievements and attainment of any milestones and

deliverables identified in Annex I. This report should include the differences between work expected to be

carried out in accordance with Annex I and that actually carried out. It further contains an explanation of

the use of the resources, and a financial statement, from each beneficiary together with a summary

financial report consolidating the claimed Community contribution of all the beneficiaries in an aggregate

form, based on the information provided in Form C (Annex VI) by each beneficiary. (FP7 Grant

Agreement, Annex II, Part A, Section II.4).

Final reports. In addition to the periodic reports for the last reporting period, the consortium shall submit the

following final reports to the Commission after the end of the project. These final reports summarise the project‟s

activities over its full duration.

A final publishable summary report covering results, conclusions and socio-economic impact of the project.

A report covering the wider societal implications of the project, including gender equality actions, ethical

issues, efforts to involve other actors and spread awareness as well as the plan for the use and

dissemination of foreground.

A report on the distribution of the Community financial contribution between beneficiaries. This report

has to be submitted 30 days after the receipt of the final payment.

The PCC will collect the information provided. All reports will undergo an evaluation routine by the Management

Board under the supervision of the Quality Manager to assure good quality. The MB is authorised to reject improper

reports. If the whole report is approved, it will be passed to the Commission. If there is a partner seriously in delay

in submitting adequate data, the MB is authorised to submit only the high quality parts to the Commission.

All project reports mentioned in this section (except on-line preparation of some of the socio-economic

questionnaires by the individual partner) are subject of a project internal review process, which is described in

Section B2.1.8.

B2.1.7 Project’s Publications

Provisions are made to ensure co-ordination, consistency and quality of publications for the benefit of the project‟s

reputation. A second purpose is to give visibility within the project to any public relation activities of the partners.

All project related papers and presentations made by project members to an audience outside the project

consortium must be approved by the responsible Work Package Leader, with information and forward of the

material to the Project Manager.

All publication material will be stored on the project server in the intranet section publications.



The approval procedure aims mainly to ensure a coherent dissemination and a consistent view from outside of the

project. It needs to be ensured by double checking, that no conflicts in this sense are generated by publications of

project partners. As an IP project is large with more than 20 partners it may happen occasionally that a partner is

not up to date with the latest point of view and results from other work packages. However, the WPLs

participating in the bi-weekly MB phone meetings with the oral work package reports are very familiar with the

recent developments in all project work packages. Therefore it will be easy for a WPL to check for coherence with

the project current status. However, this could be any WPL or the PM as well, but as the WPL is leading the WP

where the publication originates – he/she is assumed to be specialist on the subject as well and will therefore be

able to check for an appropriate quality level as well.

Permission will normally not be withheld. The WPL has to be informed by e-mail about the document (or

presentation) title, abstract or summary and the targeted audience or conference. In general the WPL should have

access to the manuscript five days before paper submission deadline (if any) in order to allow for feedback and if

necessary one more iteration. Three working days are allowed to the WPL for response; none response means

“approved”.

Informal presentations based on published papers do not need approval. However the presentations should be

made available to the project via the responsible WPL and must be stored on the project intranet section for such

publications. For presentations and papers given in a language other than English, an English abstract is requested.

B2.1.8 Internal Evaluation

All periodic project reports and other project deliverables are subject of a quality evaluation review by MB

members. The MB is authorised to reject reports and deliverables and ask for modifications in order to fulfil

contractual requirements and ensure coherent project approach. In case of serious disagreements about the

contents and quality a special meeting of the whole MB will be held to solve the issue. The Management Board

may propose a remedy plan for the respective deliverable if possible and agreed upon with the defaulting partner.

If no solution is possible, the Project Assembly may decide upon contractual changes.

B2.1.9 Decision Making Structure

B2.1.9.1 Management Model

The management model used in EUWB of the project is planned to be an extended one to facilitate development

of specific aspects of the UWB systems developed in EUWB. This structure recognises the fact that certain target

objectives of the project span multiple work packages.

The applied management model is based on a three layer structure for steering and controlling the scientific-

technological and administrative progress framed by a direct share of all partners in decisions affecting general

and strategic questions, e.g. termination of contract or acceptance of new partners. The structure of the

management model is given below.

The highest-ranking body in any case will be the Project Assembly (PA), which consists of one representative of

each partner. Due to financial, time as well as effectiveness reasons, the invocation of the PA shall take place if

decisions on vital and strategic matters or any matter that cannot be solved by any other means, have to be taken.

For the day-to-day running and the management of the project a Management Board will be set up, consisting of

the Work Package Leaders and extra board members. The main task of the Management Board is to support the

Project Co-ordination Committee above all in scientific-technological questions but also with respect to certain

administrative tasks. For example, the Management Board will review reports or deliverables and decide on

approving or rejecting these.

The Project Co-ordination Committee (PCC) will be the executive body that is steering and controlling the project.

It is responsible for assuring a smooth collaboration within the consortium. It will handle all emerging problems

and is able to take decisions. In doing so, it includes the Management Board or the Project Assembly as

appropriate. The PCC consists of the Project Manager, two Deputy Project Managers as well as of the Quality

Manager (QM), who will be appointed by the Co-ordinator.

The Project Manager (PM) is the single contact point to and for the European Commission. While the PM is

responsible for chairing the PCC, the QM will have a very influential role on all matters relating scientific and

technological work and the DPM on dissemination and exploitation matters.



Since both the Project Manager and the Quality Manager are Work Package Leaders and therefore members of the

Management Board, a close collaboration and interaction between MB and PCC will be guaranteed.

The workload of the project will be performed by all partners in different levels of collaboration according to the

respective task. The work will be organised in main work packages, most of which will be made up of sub-work

packages.

There will be one co-ordinator for each work package, called Work Package Leader (WPL), responsible for the

timely and proper production of the work package‟s deliverables.

Figure 3333: Management model for EUWB.

In previous meetings the consortium has already designated certain partners due to their expertise and involvement

in the project to tasks such as co-ordinating the project, participating in the MB or the PCC. In the following

sections the different bodies of the management structure as well as the respective members will be explained or

named in further detail.

GWT as the Project Co-ordinator (PC) will take over the responsibility for project management. It will act as the

project leader for administrative as well as for the financial management of the project.

GWT will appoint the Project Manager (PM) and set up a project office to provide a single contact point that is

continuously available to the IP. The PM will be appointed from one of GWT‟s senior level representatives with a

high expertise in management issues as well as with a compatible scientific background.

The Project Manager will utilise internal and external management processes and tools to support the efficient and

effective implementation of the project. He is the administrative and financial chair of the project, issues the cost

statements to the Commission and communicates all other outputs and reports after approval of the Quality

Manager. He will act as the prime interface for external contacts. In managing the project, the Project Manager

will be embedded in the PCC and thus supported by the Quality Manager (QM).



B2.1.9.2 Quality Manager

The approach of joint co-ordination of EUWB by the Quality Manager and Project Manager (and his deputies) has

been chosen to handle, with maximum effectiveness, the breadth of UWB technology and its exploitation potential

and acknowledges the complexity of the network and its diversity of objectives and tasks.

The Quality Manager‟s position is devoted to a representative of EUWB industrial partners playing a significant

role in the technical part of the project, with a broad technical understanding of the System domains of the project.

This does not necessarily require to cover all technical details of each work package nor to have expertise in all

technical areas of the project but implies to have experience which enables him or her to be able to transversally

address various parts of the project, e.g. protocols, base-band, integration, performance assessment.

Due to their technical experience and knowledge, the Quality Manager will play an influential role in the project

which exceeds tasks of a purely administrative character. He will not substitute the WPLs in managing the

specifications, design, development and tests of each individual module pertaining to such work package. He has

no influence on the fabrication processes and methodology chosen by each organisation for the production of

hardware modules or components and pieces of object code.

QM chair Technical Boards and technical meetings focussing on a technical field and, in close co-operation with

the PM, to whom they refer, are together responsible for the overall technical policy and direction of the project.

It is for him to approve outputs of the technical work packages and related documentation, the main assessment

criteria are related to:

The fulfilment of the technical objectives, including overall performance;

The interface specifications and respect between parts pertaining to different work packages;

The verification and assessment methodology, including related aspects;

The development and measurement tools;

The coherence with respect to the planned development schedule;

Targets, as specified in the technical annex of the project.

The Deputy Project Manager (DPM) is elected from an industrial partner having an important role in the project.

The DPM needs to have comprehensive technical experience and the ability to perform in his role as deputy. The

DPM has a key technical advising role, and his position is also part of the risk assessment and prevention strategy

implemented within EUWB. The DPM is a member of the Project Co-ordination Committee (PCC) and is

involved in all relevant decision making processes of the PCC.

The deliverables issued by each Task Leader (TL) or Work Package Leader (WPL) will be delivered to the QM in

an appropriate form (agreed upon in the Quality handbook) which allows for assessment (content and date of

issue). If necessary, additional information will be requested by the QM and provided by the WPL, in order to

clarify and improve the assessment work.

The QM will update on a regularly base the technical work. He has also an overall responsibility for the

deliverables generated in the work package.

B2.1.9.3 Project Co-ordination Committee (PCC)

Under the control of and in compliance with the decisions of the Project Assembly, the Project Co-ordination

Committee shall co-ordinate and monitor the implementation of the project. The Project Co-ordination Committee

assumes overall responsibility towards the Project Assembly for liaison between the parties. In the relevant cases,

the Project Co-ordination Committee shall make proposals to the Management Board or directly to the Project

Assembly. If, during a period of 7 days, no veto has been issued by one of the parties of the Project Assembly, the

proposal will be considered as accepted.

The PCC shall meet at least once a year. Extraordinary meetings (which can be held via telephone or internet) may

be called in at any time at the request of any member or by one of the WPLs.

The PCC is composed of the PM, the DPM and the QM. It decides about medium to high level management

issues, including exploitation, financial, planning and control matters. The PCC monitors the implementation of

the project. It is responsible for the successful completion of the project and the exploitation of the results. The

PCC shall be responsible for:



Supporting the Project Manager in fulfilling all obligations towards the European Commission;

Ensuring that all work meets functional requirements;

Providing project management in relation to the activities of the possible panels on technical, financial

and/or exploitation/dissemination issues;

Reviewing and proposing to the Project Assembly budget transfers in accordance with the contract and

the annual implementation plan;

Proposing changes in work sharing, budget and participants to the Project Assembly;

Deciding on the annual implementation plan for approval by the Project Assembly prior to its submission

to the European Commission;

Agreeing on press releases and joint publications by the partners with regard to the project;

Agreeing on procedures and policies for dissemination of knowledge from the project which is not to be

used by the parties;

Preparing annual reviews;

Managing resources in order to meet schedules and goals;

Ensuring the quality of the project, including the definition and management of the documentation policy

(presentation revision and referencing, change tracking, filling in the project repository, confidentiality,

level management);

Approving or rejecting major outputs generated under the sub-projects or work packages (technical

results, change proposals);

Tracking of costs related to joint budget;

Reconciliation of conflicts concerning but not limited to access rights;

Creation of technology implementation plan and its updating;

Ensuring compliance with legal and ethical obligations.

Decisions in the PCC shall be taken by majority if no veto is issued by one of the members. In this case, a decision

of the MB or Project Assembly shall be summoned.

B2.1.9.4 Panels

The Project Co-ordination Committee shall have the right to set up panels to advise and support it in the proper

management and co-ordination of the project. These panels, which have an advisory role only, may be working on

special technical or administrative questions. One of the panels, expected to be established, will be an Exploitation

Panel dealing with the exploitation of the project‟s results.

Management Board (MB)

The Management Board will support the PCC if necessary in all issues including scientific-technical questions,

exploitation, financial, planning and control. It will act as a supervisory board monitoring the implementation of

the project by holding progress meetings or extraordinary conventions (also via telephone, internet). The Project

Manager chairs the MB and is responsible for the preparation of the agendas, co-ordination of the meetings, and

production of the minutes. The MB meeting will cover:

Project monitoring;

Co-ordinating and scheduling of tasks;

Annual reviews;

Updating the work plan and selection of technical alternatives;

Countermeasures for significant deviations of the plan;

All budget-related matters;

Approval and submission of deliverable reports as well as of annual reports and important documents for

external issues.

In principle, decisions require a majority of 75 % of all votes. Voting via phone, fax, e-mail/internet is possible.

By 25 % of its votes the MB can summon a meeting of the Project Assembly.



In situations, in which a decision is critical for the constitution of the project and cannot be reached by the

Management Board, the Project Assembly shall decide on the respective matter.

In cases affecting the project in its vital interests, the MB in collaboration with the PCC shall prepare the decision

making process of the Project Assembly. This procedure has to be applied especially in following cases:

Authorisations of significant plan changes;

Contractual matters.

Body Position Partner Designated person

MB –

Management

Board

PCC –

Project

Co-ordination

Committee

Project Manager (PM),

Leader of WP1 (WPL1) GWT Hrjehor MARK

Quality Manager (QM) TESD Kai DOMBROWSKI

Deputy Project Manager (DPM) CEA Laurent OUVRY

Deputy Project Manager (DPM) HTW Sven ZEISBERG

Leader of WP2 (WPL2) CNET Abdur Rahim BISWAS

Leader of WP3 (WPL3) LUH Claus KUPFERSCHMIDT

Leader of WP4 (WPL4) CWC Giuseppe ABREU

Leader of WP5 (WPL5) TESD Kai DOMBROWSKI

Leader of WP6 (WPL6 + CL1: HN) TID Ana SIERRA

Leader of WP7 (WPL7) UDE Peter JUNG

Leader of WP8 (WPL8 + CL3: TR) EADS Sergio BOVELLI

Leader of WP9 (WPL9) BOSCH Hartmut DUNGER

Cluster Leader 2 (CL2: HE) PHI Pejman HAFEZI

Cluster Leader 4 (CL4: AU) BOSCH Stefan GAIER

Extra Board member WIS Amir KRAUSE

Extra Board member THA Isabelle BUCAILLE

Table 1212: Members of the Project Co-ordination Committee and the Management Board.

Project Assembly

All parties shall be entitled to send one voting representative to the Project Assembly. The decisions of the Project

Assembly are legally binding to all parties. The PA may decide on matters concerning:

The preparation and final approval of the annual implementation plan prior to the submission to the EC;

The acceptance of new parties as well as the exclusion of parties;

The alteration of the Consortium agreement;

The premature completion/termination of the project;

The designation of trustees for handling financial matters.

In remaining cases, the Project Co-ordination Committee has the authority to make decisions.

Ordinary meetings of the Project Assembly shall be convened once a year, on which occasion the PA shall

consider the report of the PCC, receive and approve the accounts for the past (financial) year, approve the budget

and implementation plan for the next (financial) year and decide on acceptance of new parties or withdrawals or

exclusion of parties.

Extraordinary meetings of the Project Assembly may be convened either by the PM and the QM or at the request

of a quarter (25 %) of the parties. Additionally, by 25 % of its votes the MB can summon a meeting of the PA.

B2.1.9.5 Knowledge Management

EUWB partners have defined the IP rights strategy and their approach in a related Consortium agreement on

project level. The basic approach which is fair access to the IP rights generated to the benefit of the EUWB

partners and towards strong non-discriminatory support to UWB-RT deployment in the products.



The management of know-how and IPRs activities will be part of the mandates of the PM, the Management Board

and in some special cases the Project Assembly. If required, the PA will adjudicate on difficulties that are drawn to

its attention related to know-how management and associated matters.

In this project the management of know-how, intellectual property and other aspects of innovation are allocated to

specific activities within the various technical work packages. They are threefold: First IPR application for

inventions and/or solutions that are new, if some, will be prepared by the work package participants. Second

information will be disseminated within the project and third information will be disseminated to external bodies

such as scientific publications, conference presentations and contributions to standardisation bodies. Before any

external dissemination activity takes place the necessary steps for ensuring the protection of IPRs have to be made.

This will ensure that the intellectual property will be secured in the interest of project partners. Contributions to

external bodies and especially regulation and standardisation contributions will have an impact on global

harmonisation of system concepts and even on the success of market strategies by targeting globally compatible

application scenarios legal frameworks and technical interoperability. The dissemination of information and the

influence, e.g. on standardisation bodies, is a prerequisite for the economic success of IPRs exploitation.

The general principles for handling know-how and intellectual property rights within EUWB are stated hereunder

and will be settled in a Consortium agreement to be signed by the EUWB consortium at the project start. These

principles are in line with FP7 IPR recommendations.

Foreground/Background: All results of the project (inventions, software, databases, cell lines, …) and

attached rights are called foreground. Background is the information and attached rights which are held by

participants prior to their accession to the grant agreement (no side ground) and which are needed for

carrying out the project or for using its results.

Ownership: each participant owns the foreground it generates.

Joint ownership: when the foreground is generated jointly and it is impossible to determine the respective

share of the work, participants must reach an agreement. However, in absence of a specific agreement, a

fallback solution applies: any joint owner is entitled to grant nonexclusive licenses to third parties,

without any right to sub-license, subject to prior notification and fair and reasonable compensation to the

other owner(s).

Transfer: obligations regarding foreground must be passed on (especially regarding the granting of access

rights).

Notifications/Objections: Prior notification of transfer only to the other participants who may object if it

would adversely affect their access rights or who may waive their rights to be notified in advance

regarding specific third parties, e.g. mother companies. The Commission may object to transfers to third

parties established in non-associated third countries for ethical, competitiveness or security reasons

(where appropriate: requirements to notify the Commission).

Protection, use and dissemination: Foreground capable of industrial or commercial application must be

protected taking into account legitimate interests. Prior notice of dissemination must be given to other

participants (not to Commission, unless no protection, in which case the latter may request to protect on

its own behalf). Any dissemination and patent applications must indicate the Community financial

assistance.

Access right: participants may define the background needed in any manner, and may exclude specific

background. It is possible to grant exclusive licenses to foreground if the other participants waive their

access rights. The Commission may object to exclusive licenses being granted to third parties established

in non-associated third countries for ethical, competitiveness or security reasons (where appropriate, a

requirement to notify the Commission will apply). Participants may agree to additional or more

favourable access rights than those provided for in the Consortium agreement.

Based on past project experiences, the patent filing process need to be optimised especially for joined patents.

A special effort will be taken by the project management to encourage the research oriented WPs and partners to

protect the generated knowledge. It is planned to increase the awareness of the importance of IP protection at all

levels of the project especially at the participating universities. The project will work on a process of simplifying

the joined patenting between universities and industry partners. Here a close collaboration between the

corresponding partners is needed.



B2.2 Beneficiaries

B2.2.1 GWT-TUD GmbH (GWT)

GWT-TUD GmbH is a private company, based in Dresden, Germany. It commercialises high technology

developments, provides a framework and offers support for RTD and its industrial exploitation and dissemination.

In addition, GWT acts as co-ordinator and manager of large interdisciplinary projects on municipal, regional and

international level. GWT was established in 1996 as an independent marketing and exploitation agency for

research outputs resulting from the Saxon research community in order to meet the new challenges of

technological advancement and growing demands on interdisciplinary planning of exploitation activities.

Incorporating a special division of EU research advisers efficient monitoring and co-ordination of interdisciplinary

projects is of utmost importance in order to realise the planning and objectives within target time and cost

schedules. The company operates a network of branch offices established in major cities of Saxony and employs

more than 70 engineers and scientists.

GWT has co-ordinated several European research projects. Members of its staff have been acting as evaluators for

the CEC. GWT has a broad background and experience both to qualify for co-ordinator and to carry out research

activities mostly in close collaboration with universities and research institutions of Saxony. Prominent

undertakings: “intermobil Dresden”, a traffic and mobility related project with 14 partners, a volume of €31m,

funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Saxon State Ministry of

Economy and Labour (SMWA); “BioMet”, a biotech innovation network with more than 150 partners from

industry, science, government, museums, financial services, etc., a volume of €20.5m; “M-NOR”, an ESA project

dealing with the development of a multi-network optimising router. At the European level, GWT was involved in

EC funded research projects such as “TROCAT” and “INSUMAT” (materials science and technologies) and

“CALYPSO” (telematics and transport). Besides co-ordination of the UCAN and PULSERS first and second

Phase integrated projects, GWT is also interdisciplinary engaged in UWB algorithm design and implementation of

UWB applications.

In the EUWB project GWT‟s contribution to EUWB will be two-fold: in WP1 GWT will undertake the projects

administration and co-ordination. In WP4 GWT will contribute to the technical development and implementation

of location aided UWB systems while supporting the European and global UWB related regulation and

standardisation activities in WP9 concerning contributions to CEPT ECC TG3 (SE or FM) and ETSI TG31(a/c).

The main benefit for GWT will be the close co-operation with partners developing state-of-the-art UWB

technology and the further enhancement of GWT‟s know-how in UWB LDR-LT system integration. Based on the

PULSERS Phase II results GWT may increase its activity in ultra low power, low cost communications integrating

it with GWT‟s health care and public transport.

Key personnel

Hrjehor MARK was born in Budyšin (Bautzen), Germany. He completed his studies of electrical engineering at

Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) in 1994, and then worked as an EU research co-ordinator for information

technologies at the Saxon State Ministry of Science and Arts. Having close contact with scientists and researchers

at universities and different institutes his duties comprised preparation, negotiation, and management support of

European projects. In 1997 he was seconded for 6 months as a trainee to the European Commission, DG III –

Industry. Afterwards, he went back to TUD and joined the Communications Laboratory where he was involved in

several European RTD projects. In 2004, he joined GWT and became co-ordinator of the UCAN (IST) project.

Afterwards, he was supporting the management of PULSERS and co-ordinated the PULSERS Phase II project.

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B2.2.3 TES Electronic Solutions GmbH (TESD)

TES Electronic Solutions GmbH as member of TES Electronic Solution Group, is a sophisticated high tech

technology development company. With more than 150 highly skilled engineers based in Germany, TESD works

on technology solutions for communication, consumer, industrial, automotive and finally semiconductor markets.

TESD is active in hardware design and integration tasks especially in the field of communication, digital/analog/

RFIC and SOC designs in CMOS and SiGE technologies, antenna designs, wireless module designs, EMC related

design methodologies, high speed digital system design, processing MPEG 4 multimedia applications (HW/SW),



and on comprehensive automotive projects. Wireless solutions and sub-systems in VHF range, ISM bands in 433

and 836 MHz as well as for automotive/industrial radar have been developed by TESD. TESD offers complete

wireless design capabilities using GSM/GPRS, Bluetooth, DECT, WDCT, WiFi, Zigbee, UWB (HDR and LDR/

HDR) and customised technologies. TESD is early HDR UWB module implementer in European market, being

extensively involved in regulation and standardisation activities in Europe and U.S.A. TESD is ETSI and IEEE

member. TESD provides wireless system solutions and expertise, from total system level to component/module

level, specialising in systems utilising the wireless communications protocol IP developed in-house. Following

vertical markets have been addressed by TESD: telecoms and wireless consumer; professional/ medical; automotive

telematics and security/defence.

Key personnel

Kai DOMBROWSKI received his Masters Degree in Physics from the University of Freiburg in 1996 and his

PhD from the Technical University Cottbus, in 2000. Dr. Dombrowski has more than 6 years of professional

experience in protocol design for wired and wireless systems, as well as in system simulation and design of

broadband wireless systems for local area networks and body area networks. Dr. Dombrowski was involved in

UWB projects providing system and protocol solutions for Body Area Network application scenarios. He has

authored and co-authored more than 20 scientific papers and several patent applications. Since joining TESD in

2005, he has been working as technical leader for system and protocol design.

Karl-Heinz KLOOS received his Master degree in Information Engineering in 1998 from the Fachhochschule

Würzburg-Schweinfurt in Germany. From 1998 he worked for one and a half year at Alcatel SEL in Stuttgart. In

October 1999 he moved to TES Electronic Solutions in Stuttgart. Karl-Heinz is Technical Leader in Digital IC

Design and has more then 10 years of professionals experience in hardware implementation of wired and wireless

protocol designs as well as in Digital Signal Processing applications.

B2.2.4 Philips Consumer Lifestyle B.V. (PHI)

PHILIPS Innovation Lab is the international know-how centre of Philips Consumer Lifestyle. The PCL drives and

provides new concepts and features creating innovations that have substantial positive business impact for Philips

Consumer Lifestyle.

Philips Consumer Lifestyle is a world player in a wide range of products:

TV products: flat (LCD, plasma), CRT. Philips Consumer Lifestyle is a leading TV manufacturer in

Europe with the majority of its development resources and headquarters based in Belgium, China,

Singapore and The Netherlands. Philips Consumer Lifestyle focuses on displays for home entertainment

and infotainment and productivity and the vision is „A world where consumers enjoy great entertainment

experiences and services whenever and wherever they want‟;

Consumer communications: mobile phones, cordless digital phones;

Video products: HTiB, DVD, DVDRW, VCR, TV-VCR;

Audio products: systems, separates, portables;

Accessories: headphones, recordable media;

Computer monitors: LCD and CRT.

The characteristics of products including services of Philips support the brand-promise “Sense & Simplicity” by

being designed around the customer and by being easy to experience.

The connectivity of products of Philips enables location-independence of entertainment and infotainment

experiences with CE devices without the hassle of manual network configuration which is typical in the PC

domain and without the need to install/use connection wires to get the audio/video quality that can be obtained

with connection wires and enables refinement and with acceptance of interoperability standards for connectivity in

CE devices.

Products of Philips enable location independent entertainment experiences with CE devices using remote services

offered on the Internet. PHI‟s contribution to EUWB will be:

In WP4 and WP5 with defining system platform requirements for the home environment applications;

In WP8 in defining specification for multimode/multiband UWB systems plus location tracking and user

localisation for A/V home entertainment applications.

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The contribution involves developing specific algorithms for the specific application and integration of the

platforms developed by other partners into the home environment application developed by Philips. Efforts will

also be focused on test and verification activities towards the final stages of the project.

The main benefit for PHI will be the close co-operation with partners developing state-of-the-art UWB technology

and the further enhancement of PHI‟s know-how programme in this field.

Key personnel

Kees TUINENBREIJER graduated from University of Delft and Eindhoven (The Netherlands) in Electronic

Engineering in 1980. Currently he is Project Manager European R&D projects and is also researcher in a number

of R&D projects at the iLab. He started as researcher at the Stichting Medische Registratie (SMR) in Utrecht , The

Netherlands. He was involved in the process of quantitative analysis and operations research. He left the SMR in

1985 to join Philips Medical Systems (PMS). In that period he was involved as project leader and has been

working in the objective-oriented modelling and design of complex imaging software systems. In 1998 he joined

Philips iLab and is responsible for roadmaps (technology, key components, function/feature), project assignments

(research, know-how, standard design) and authorisation of standard designs. As researcher and project manager,

he is and was involved in many IST and ITEA projects.

Pejman HAFEZI graduated with a BEng in Electronic and Communications Engineering in 1996 and a PhD in

Radio Propagation Characterisation and Modelling in 2001 both from University of Bristol (UK). During his PhD

he was also involved in various projects: the EU funded ACTS AWACS project, NTT (Japan) funded Wireless

ATM investigation and Toshiba (UK) funded investigation into impact of human shadowing on indoor radio

propagation at 5 GHz. He started his career after graduation with Telia Research AB, Sweden, as a Marie Curie

Industrial Host Fellow working on smart antenna systems and MIMO for WLAN applications. He subsequently

joined University of Bristol and 3CResearch in 2003 as a Research Fellow working on a project to develop a

MIMO demonstrator for audio/video applications. His work also focused on developing MIMO algorithms for

802.11n WLAN systems. Pejman joined the Innovation Lab at the Philips Consumer Electronics in Eindhoven

(NL) in 2006 as a System Designer where he is responsible for scouting wireless connectivity technologies of

interest to the display domain and Philips Consumer Lifestyle wide WLAN selection activity.

Bas DRIESEN graduated from Technical University of Eindhoven (NL) on Electrical Engineering in 2001, where

he specialised in Digital Signal Processing and Telecommunications. His current position is Technology Manager

for Connectivity within the Philips Consumer Lifestyle CTO office. After graduation he started working at Agere

Systems in Nieuwegein (NL) as an R&D Engineer on the Physical layer for WLAN systems. His work focused on

advanced MIMO-OFDM baseband algorithm research and development of 802.11a/g and next generation 802.11n

Wireless LAN systems. Bas joined the Philips Consumer Innovation Lab in Eindhoven (NL) in 2004, where he

was responsible for the Philips Consumer Electronics wide WLAN selection activity and where he led the split

architecture project on cable management. In the meantime, he has transitioned to the Philips Consumer Lifestyle

CTO office, where he is responsible for scouting connectivity technologies of interest to Philips Consumer

Lifestyle. As well he is responsible for standardisation around connectivity technologies and the technical leader

of the Philips Consumer Lifestyle connectivity competence team.

B2.2.5 Robert Bosch GmbH (BOSCH)

With sales of approx. 41.5 billions Euro in 2005, Bosch is one of Germany‟s largest industrial enterprise, with

significant international presence. Bosch manufactures products at 260 locations, 199 of which are outside

Germany. Accordingly, 72 % of its sales were generated outside Germany.

At the beginning of 2006 a total workforce of some 251,000 were employed in the three business sectors

Automotive Technology (63.5 % sales contributions pro rata), Industrial Technology (12.5 % sales contributions

pro rata), and Consumer Goods and Building Technology (25 % sales contributions pro rata). That are approx.

13,300 more than in the previous year. Bosch employs some 141,400 employees outside Germany. 1,350

apprentices started in September 2005 with Bosch in Germany, world-wide Bosch employed about 6,000

apprentices, and about 200 postgraduates were supporting in completing their doctoral degree. A large percentage

of them retain with Bosch after having obtained their degree.

Throughout the world, more than 23,600 employees are involved in research and development for the Bosch

Group. In 2005 Bosch invested almost €3.1bn for research and development, equivalent of 7.4 % of sales. In 2004

alone, patent applications were made for more than 2,800 inventions. This makes Bosch the second largest patent

applicant in Germany, and the third largest at the European Patent Office.

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Bosch is interested in novel applications using UWB technology for remote sensing, data communication and

location tracking. To enable these applications, Bosch is also active in frequency regulation and standardisation

within ECC and ETSI, contributing numerous technical inputs and standardisation proposals.

Within the EUWB project, Bosch will be the driving force to introduce UWB applications into the automotive area.

Two exemplary applications, one for wireless communication and one for location tracking, will be investigated.

Our intention is to demonstrate the benefits of UWB technology inside a car and to lay the foundations for an

efficient product development of applications based UWB technology.

Key personnel

Jürgen HASCH received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Stuttgart University in 1996 and his Dr.-Ing.

degree in 2007. In 1996, he joined the Robert Bosch GmbH as a research engineer in Corporate Sector Research

and Advance Engineering. Since then he has been working on a number of topics including millimetre wave radar,

ultra-wideband circuit development and antenna design. He has authored or co-authored more than 10 scientific

papers and holds more than 10 patents.

Stefan GAIER received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Stuttgart University in 1998. In 1998, he

joined Robert Bosch GmbH as a research engineer in the Corporate Sector Research and Advance Engineering.

Since then he has been working on a number of topics including millimetre wave radar, integrated circuit design,

ultra-wideband circuit development and RF packaging.

B2.2.6 Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA)

CEA Léti is one of the largest European applied research laboratories in the field of electronics (staff is

approximately 900 people). The main activities of CEA Léti are dealing with microelectronics, sensors,

microsystems, IC design and telecommunications. Its corporate goal is to bring technological innovation to the

European industry (500 patents portfolio). CEA Léti was involved in several R&D projects of the 6th Framework:

among them are PULSERS Phase II, e-Sense and Magnet Beyond.

CEA Léti studies and designs ultra low power transceivers in CMOS technologies taking into account compliance

with IEEE 802.15.4/4a standards. CEA Léti has also experience in distributed localisation and synchronisation

based on UWB technology and has a good portfolio of patents and papers on these subjects. Final, CEA Léti has

led among the very first UWB channel characterisation campaigns, has strong skills on UWB antennas and is

leading IST Oracle project on cognitive radio in which it studies hardware architectures and sending algorithms.

In the EUWB project, CEA will provide the UWB open technology platform aiming at providing localisation

services for the purpose of the project applications. It will enhance it towards ultra low power, further integration,

compliance with IEEE 802.15.4a standard and increased performance in WP7. In parallel, CEA will have research

activities on cognitive radio concepts applied to low cost UWB systems in WP2, beam forming cross designed

front ends and antennas in WP3 and advanced localisation algorithms using e.g. multimodal systems in WP4.

Key personnel

Laurent OUVRY received the diploma of French “Grande Ecole” SUPELEC in 1994 and MSc degree of Rennes

University in 1995 with a speciality in RF, antennas and digital signal processing and communications. He joined

CEA Léti in 1997. He took the lead of the digital communication lab in 2001. He initiated research programmes on

IEEE 802.15.4 compliant ultra low power RF design. Since 2004, he is responsible for impulse radio UWB low

data rate projects, is involved in the IST projects PULSERS Phase II and e-SENSE and has been an active

contributor to the IEEE 802.15.4a standard definition.

Manuel PEZZIN graduated from Supelec French engineering institute in 2001. He has been involved in activities

related to broadband optical communications and embedded software design for smart card applications. He joined

CEA Léti in 2002 as digital system architect in the field UWB telecommunication. His activities cover system

level modelling and specification, digital circuits design (FPGA prototyping and ASIC design) as well as

embedded software. Since 2002, he was involved in UWB related projects such as UCAN, PULSERS and

PULSERS Phase II.

Benoît DENIS received the Engineer (2002), MSc (2002), and PhD (2005) degrees from the National Institute of

Applied Sciences in electronics and communication systems. He had been pursuing the PhD degree at CEA Léti,

in the frame of collaboration with STMicroelectronics – AST Geneva. Since December 2005, he has been with

CEA Léti as a permanent staff member, getting involved in European research projects. His interests and



contributions are related to UWB communications and localisation in WPAN and WSN, ranging, positioning and

tracking algorithms, and MAC design for ad-hoc networks.

Vincenzo LA TOSA received the Engineer degrees from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2007. He is currently

studying at the CEA Léti for the PhD degree to be received from the University of Rennes, France. He published 3

technical papers and he took part in the development of a PCT patent. His interests include UWB communications

and localisation in WSN, passive positioning algorithms for ad-hoc networks, and mobile cellular systems.

B2.2.7 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH)

In 1831, founded by the scholar Karl Karmarsch, the “Higher Trade School of Hannover” started with only 64

students. In 1879 the Higher Vocational School became the Königlich Technische Hochschule, the Royal College

of Technology. In 2006 during the 175th anniversary of the founding of the former Higher Trade School of

Hannover, the University of Hannover was renamed “Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover” (LUH) in

memorial of the great mathematician and scientist. Today there are more than 24,000 students in the natural

sciences and engineering, the humanities and social sciences as well in law and economics. 2,000 academics and

scientists work at the university in 9 faculties with around 160 departments and institutes.

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science consists out of the areas Electrical engineering,

Computer Science and Information Technology. Interdisciplinary research is integrated in the Information

Technology Laboratory (LFI) covering semiconductor physics and technology, design and test of microelectronic

devices, architectures of signal processors and the development of signal processing algorithms.

The Institute of Communication Technology (IKT) is part of the area Information Technology. Its working area

covers the range of communications systems, communication networks and protocols, localisation based services

and systems, telemetry for rotating systems, and digital radio broadcasting. With an annual income of around €1m

approximately 30 PhD students headed by four scientists are working at the IKT.

Special emphasis is placed to research, development and implementation of systems and networks employing the

ultra-wideband technology, the MIMO technology and combinations of them. Three labs (UWB communication

lab, UWB localisation lab and MIMO communication lab) equipped with state-of-the-art measurement devices

allow to validate algorithm research under real-world conditions. In total, the expertise of IKT covers a broad

range of signal processing covering information theory, advanced algorithm and systems design, implementation

impacts and rapid prototyping of advanced systems with help of the DSP and FPGA technology. In the framework

of UWB, IKT hosted the IEEE International Conference on UWB in 2008 in Hannover (www.icuwb2008.org).

IKT was also involved in PULSERS Phase II and other national UWB projects and has published around 150

research papers about UWB. Moreover, IKT leads the current UWB initiative in the Wireless World Research

Forum (www.wireless-world-research.org).

Key personnel

Claus KUPFERSCHMIDT was born in Hannover Niedersachsen, Germany, in 1969. He received the Dipl.-Ing.

degree in electrical engineering from the University of Hannover, Germany, in May 1997. From June 1997 to may

2001 he worked for Research and Development of Multimedia Systems of Robert Bosch GmbH, Hildesheim,

where he was involved in the chipset development for Car Multimedia and Audio Signal Processing. From June

2001 to June 2007 he worked as a PhD-candidate at the Institute of Communications Technology, Gottfried

Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, where he received the Dr.-Ing. degree in July 2007. Since July

2007 he works at the Institute of Communications Technology, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover,

as a Post-Doc. His working areas are MIMO, UWB, WiMAX, channel modelling, rotor telemetry. He further is

involved in the BMBF-project “starting business” for entrepreneurship at the Wilhelm Leibniz Universität

Hannover.

Golaleh RAHMATOLLAHI graduated from the Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, in 2006. She is

actively involved in the EU integrated project PULSERS Phase II working on cross-layer design for LDR

autonomous wireless sensor networks. She is currently studying at the Institute of Communications Technology of

the Leibniz Universität Hannover for her PhD degree.

Emil DIMITROV received the MSc in Computer Science and Communications Engineering at the University of

Duiburg-Essen, Germany, in 2006. Since then he has joined the research team of Prof. Thomas Kaiser at the

Institute of Communications Technology of the Leibniz Universität Hannover, where he is currently working

towards his PhD in the area of UWB and MIMO systems. He has been involved in the IP6 EU Integrated Project

PULSERS Phase II WP2a where he has contributed to developing VHDR MIMO MB-OFDM system approaches.



His main research interests include MIMO, UWB and OFDM based systems, transceiver architecture design and

time/frequency signal analysis.

B2.2.8 CREATE-NET (CNET)

CREATE-NET (Center for REsearch And Telecommunication Experimentation for NETworked communities) was

founded by some of the most prestigious universities and research centres in Europe, in April 2003. By creating

synergies between leading academic institutions, companies and research centres in Europe and around the world,

CREATE-NET‟s objective is to sponsor the highest quality research and innovation, and help convert talent and

human capital into Intellectual Property and start-ups for promoting European high tech competitiveness. With a

central Institute located in Trento, Italy, our aim is to build a global platform of scientific collaboration and

experimentation in communications-driven technologies and applications, thus impacting the communications-

enabled services which improve the quality of life of the global society.

Within the EUWB project, CREATE-NET will lead WP2 focusing on how to develop the advanced cognitive

UWB capability of spectrum sensing and monitoring, the capability of broadcasting spectrum, time and location

related information via the Cognitive Pilot Channel (CPC), the capability of optimising the communications and

improving the coexistence of heterogeneous wireless networks and terminals, and solving the coexistence issues

within UWB networks. CREATE-NET team will also make contributions on how to utilise such cognitive UWB

radio capabilities in various application scenarios of the EUWB project, e.g. consumer electronics, automotive,

public transport and mobile wireless networks. Beside WP2, CREATE-NET will interact with WP6, on the aspects

of multi-radio interface user devices and coexistence studies with future wireless networks. Moreover, CREATE-

NET will also support WP9, by feeding information and technical proposals, particularly on cognitive concepts

and coexistence to the relevant standardisation bodies.

Key personnel

Abdur Rahim BISWAS is currently leading the Spectrum Enablers Group (SEG) within the European Radio

Access and Spectrum (RAS) cluster formed by 25 FP6 and FP7 projects. SEG activities cover all relevant areas of

cognitive wireless radios and systems. Currently, he is an active member in cognitive radio standardisation body

ETSI TC RRS. Mr. Biswas chaired several sessions, panel and workshops which are organised in supporting of EC

RAS cluster, collocated in different conferences and EC concentration meeting. He was a guest member in

European UWB regulations bodies CEPT ECC Task Group (TG3). He is a co-founder of SAARCCom (South

Asian Annual Conference on Communications). At present, Rahim is a researcher in the BROADWAYS GROUP,

at CREATE-NET, Italy. He has several years experience in UWB cognitive radio and coexistence. He is finalising

his PhD degree on interference mitigation techniques to support coexistence of cognitive UWB radio. He has

published about 30 technical papers as well as book chapters.

Kandeepan SITHAMPARANATHAN received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of

Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia, in 2003, with the Cooperative Research Centre for Satellite Systems (CRC-

SS) on Ka-band receiver design for the Fedsat microsatellite project in Australia which won the Australian

Engineering Excellence award in 2003. During this time he also won the „Earth Station Satellite Fellow Award‟ to

conduct his research with the CRCSS and subsequently worked as a DSP Engineer. From 2004–2008, he worked

with the National ICT Australia as a Researcher and was the chief investigator (CI) for the LaMP project, whilst

also working on several other industrial projects on short and long range wireless communications. Kandeepan is

currently with CREATE-NET, since 2008 as a Senior Researcher working on the EUWB Cognitive Radio project.

Kandeepan has published more than forty scientific peer reviewed journal and conference papers on wireless and

satellite communications, and is also an adjunct academic with the Department of Information Engineering at the

Australian National University. He also participates in the IEEE SSC, SFERA European ICT Structural Funding

Council, the ISI European technology platform, and the ETSI TC RRS groups and in its activities.

B2.2.9 Oulun Yliopisto, Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC)

The Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC) at the University of Oulu is the leading academic wireless

communications research centre in Finland and renowned by the world-wide research community. CWC‟s

research is organised in projects that receive external funding from competitive sources outside the university.

Significant competencies have been built in short-range communications, broadband wireless access as well as

security and defence research areas. CWC‟s annual budget is around €5m and is composed of funding received

from its research partners such as the European Commission, industry and Finnish government bodies.



Since 1999, when the standard for UMTS was close to being finalised, one direction of CWC‟s research turned

towards new topics including UWB as the next challenge in mobile telecommunications research. High level

research activities were carried out on the UWB technology, allowing the CWC to be one the more active research

centre in the field. Due to the large effort expended in researching, developing and implementing

UWB physical and MAC layer technologies, CWC has unique knowledge and experience of the key technologies.

Coupled with the expertise in signal processing, the CWC is nowadays investigating the development for UWB

application in low data rate systems applied in location and tracking purposes (LDR-LT).

In the EUWB project, CWC will take the leadership of WP4 Advanced Localisation and Tracking. Within this WP,

CWC will have active role in the development of advanced localisation and tracking algorithms and it will offer a

strong support to the research and innovative activities that will be carried out in the remaining tasks. The

expertise of CWC will also be provided to support other research activities in WP2, WP3 and WP8. The main

objective of CWC is to define the state-of-the-art in the research areas, in which it is involved. The entire project

will benefit of the activity carried out by CWC, in order to implement few demonstrations at the end of the project.

Key personnel

Matti HÄMÄLÄINEN received his Doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering in 2006. Since 1993 he has been

working in wideband radio channel measurement and modelling and in several ultra-wideband research projects as

a research scientist and project manager. His current position at CWC is a research director in the short range

communication research area. Dr. Hämäläinen has been a technical programme committee member of several

UWB conferences, a co-editor in a book published by Wiley, chapter editor in a book published by Hindawi

Publishing Corporation. He has more than 50 published conference and journal papers.

Giuseppe Thadeu FREITAS DE ABREU graduated from the Yokohama National University in 2001. In 2002

and 2003, he taught the courses Laboratory on Fundamentals of Information Technology, at the Faculty of

Engineering of the Yokohama National University in Japan, first as a Teaching Assistant and later as a Lecturer.

Upon obtaining his PhD, he joined the Centre for Wireless Communications at the University of Oulu, Finland in

April 2004, as a post-doctoral research fellow and a project manager of the pan-European Integrated Project

PULSERS, becoming an Adjunct Professor (Senior Lecturer) in May 2006. Since January 2005, Dr. Giuseppe

Abreu has been the leader of WP4a (in PULSERS) and WP3a (in PULSERS Phase II), and a head of the CWC‟s

PULSERS research team. He is currently the advisor of 2 PhD candidates, Mr Giuseppe Destino and Mr Davide

Macagnano, both working on localisation and tracking algorithms. Dr. Giuseppe Abreu has authored or co-

authored over 10 peer-reviewed international journal articles and over 40 conference papers, on topics ranging

from adaptive array antennas, beam pattern synthesis, space-time coding, estimation algorithms, channel

modelling, ultra-wideband communications and signal processing for positioning.

Giuseppe DESTINO, graduated from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2005. He has successfully accomplished

advanced studies in wireless communications at the Research Institute of Eurécom, France and the University of

Nice, France. Since September 2005, he is actively involved in EU integrated project PULSERS Phase II, and he

is currently studying at the Centre for Wireless Communications for the PhD degree to be received from the

University of Oulu. He has currently published 5 technical papers on the topic localisation of wireless networks

and he has developed a patent within a NOKIA‟s project.

Davide MACAGNANO graduated from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2005. He is actively involved in EU

integrated project PULSERS Phase II, and he is currently studying at the Centre for Wireless Communications for

the PhD degree to be received from the University of Oulu. He has currently published 3 technical papers on the

topic tracking of multiple devices.

Alberto RABACCHIN received the MSc degree from the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, in 2001, and is

currently working toward the PhD degree at the University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. In 2001, during his

undergraduate studies, he visited the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu. In 2002, he joined

Agilent Technologies for an internship and, since 2003, he has been with the Centre for Wireless Communications,

University of Oulu. During 2005, he was a Visiting Researcher with CEA Léti, Grenoble, France. His research

interests include UWB systems with emphasis on receiver structures, synchronisation, and ranging techniques.

B2.2.10 EADS Deutschland GmbH (EADS)

EADS is a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. In 2005, EADS generated revenues of €34.2bn

and employed a workforce of about 113,000. The EADS Group includes the aircraft manufacturer Airbus, the

world‟s largest helicopter supplier Eurocopter and the joint venture MBDA, the international leader in missile



systems. EADS is the major partner in the Eurofighter consortium, is the prime contractor for the Ariane launcher,

develops the A400M military transport aircraft and is the largest industrial partner for the European satellite

navigation system Galileo.

EADS Military Air Systems is integrated business unit of EADS‟ Defence and Security Systems Division. In 2005

EADS Military Air Systems reported a turnover of roughly €1.8bn. It employs about 7,600 people in Germany,

Spain and France. The headquarters are located in Ottobrunn in the South of Munich including the development

centre. The Augsburg based facility is responsible for the production of complete aircraft components, namely the

centre fuselage sections for all Eurofighters, and the rear fuselage sections of almost every commercial Airbus

type. Manching is the home of Eurofighter final assembly in Germany, and the military system support

programmes for Bundeswehr and NATO aircraft. Flight testing as well as maintenance, repair and overhaul of

military aircraft take place at this site. EADS Military Air Systems actually concentrates all the activities around

military air systems and is therefore going to establish a Military Air Systems Center in Manching. UAV activities,

e.g. Euro Hawk and CL-289, are carried out at the EADS Friedrichshafen site. Equipment assembly, integration

and mission aircraft tests also take place at Friedrichshafen. Last but not least, the development, production and

maintenance activities of EADS Military Air Systems in the field of aerial target systems, together with global co-

ordination of the aerial target services, are carried out here. At ASL Lemwerder, an EADS company, several spare

parts of the Tornado as well as parts of the EF centre fuselage are produced. Also some parts of the A400M are

manufactured.

The EADS Innovation Works are the corporate research facilities of EADS, with sites in Germany, France, Spain,

Singapore and Russia. They provide world-class capabilities in aeronautics, defence and space research topics

consistent with the EADS research and technology strategy. Covering the skills and technology fields that are of

critical importance to EADS, the EADS Innovation Works are organised in five transnational Technical Capability

Centres: Composites Technologies – Metallic Technologies and Surface Engineering – Structures Engineering,

Production and Mechatronics – Sensors, Electronics and Systems Integration – Simulation, Information

Technologies and Systems Engineering. The EADS Innovation Works are an operational and strategic entity for

the creation of added value by technology innovation. They foster technological excellence and business

orientation through the sharing of competencies and means between the various partners of the EADS Group and

they develop and maintain partnerships with world-famous schools, universities and research institutes.

The German part of the EADS Innovation works in Ottobrunn near Munich and Hamburg employs a permanent

staff of 220 people, 70 % of which are senior scientists. It is legally an organisational unit within EADS

Deutschland GmbH, the German subsidiary of EADS N.V.

Key personnel

Sergio BOVELLI received his Master degree in Electronic Engineering in 2001 and his PhD degree in

Information Engineering in 2007 from the University of Perugia in Italy. From 2001 he worked for one and a half

year at DLR (German Aerospace Centre), institute for Communication and Navigation. In 2003 he moved to the

TU University of Munich where he worked until 2005, when he joined the Electronics and Communications group

at EADS Innovation Works Germany. His main field of activity is on wireless communication networks for

aeronautic applications. He has been involved in several aeronautical industry projects together with AIRBUS and

national and international research projects in the area of network and communications for aeronautic application.

Frank LEIPOLD received his Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology in 2007

from the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. 2005 he spent seven month in Australia working on wireless

sensors localisation at the University of Technology, Sydney. In 2007 he joined the Electronics and Communications

group at EADS Innovation Works Germany as a PhD candidate. His main activity is on wireless communication

networks for aeronautic applications. He has been involved in aeronautical industry projects together with AIRBUS

and international research projects in the area of network and communications for aeronautic application.

B2.2.11 Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo S.A.U. (TID)

Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo (I+D) is the innovation company of the Telefónica Group. Owned 100 % by

Telefónica, this subsidiary was formed it 1988, with the aim of strengthening the Group‟s competitiveness through

technological innovation. Since it has been founded in March 1988, its results have been directed at creating value

for the clients of the Group, developing high quality telecommunication products, services and systems. In this

way, it helps meet their present needs, and, at the same time, creates innovative solutions in anticipation of future

challenges.

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Telefónica I+D employs over 1000 persons, of whom 93 % hold a university degree. Based on the criterion of

geographical distribution and client proximity, there are currently four different main offices: Barcelona (2001),

Granada (2005), Huesca (2004), Madrid (1988) and Valladolid (1999). In June 2002, its first subsidiary, Telefônica

Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento, opened for business in Sao Paulo (Brazil), followed by the Mexican branch in

Mexico D.F. (2004).

Telefónica‟s innovation process, which is largely based on the activities of Telefónica I+D, is based on four

fundamental lines of work: infrastructures, development of new services, the deployment of the so-called

“personal digital environment” and, a series of common elements which play the role of for the rest of activities.

These for lines contribute to the internal evolution necessary to face the future challenges of the changing Telecom

and IT panorama.

The company has also in depth expertise in formal methods, object oriented design and programming systems,

software engineering tools, real-time systems, data bases and knowledge bases, A.I. tool kits, knowledge

representation and reasoning, man machine interface, and software tools for network simulation. The company has

a computer centre, a micro software development tools group, and special laboratories, such as an optical

transmission one, Smart Home one, Human Factors, or a video services laboratory.

All the activities in Telefónica I+D are carried out conforming to an in house project development and

management methodology, which has been awarded an ISO 9001 certification since 1994, updated to the new ISO

9001:2000 in 2001. Telefónica I+D respect to the environment is reflected on the creation of an Environmental

Management System, awarded the ISO 14001 Environmental certification since 1998 and a large amount of prices

to innovation and excellence. Telefónica I+D is aware of the impact of its activities in terms of social and

environmental impact in the markets where it operates. Its management system and strategic plan define and

provide the guidelines for corporate responsibility and sustainability.

Telefónica I+D is and has been involved in a number of European projects in the RACE I, RACE II, ESPRIT II,

ESPRIT III, TEN-IBS, TEN-ISDN, CTS, COST, EURESCOM, BRITE, ACTS, IST, Ten-Telecom, e-Ten,

e-Content, EUREKA (ITEA, MEDEA and CELTIC) programmes. The Telefónica Group participates in the main

standardisation fora for fixed, mobile and wireless communications, convergence, etc. (ITU, GSMA, MEF, OMA,

MPF, IEEE, IETF, IPv6Forum, W3C, TISPAN, OSGI, …).

Key personnel

Ana María SIERRA DÍAZ received her degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of

Cantabria, Spain, in 1999. Afterwards, she worked on the development of components and electronic devices with

SiGe technology for high frequency circuits in the Research and Development Center of Daimler in Ulm, Germany.

In 2000, she joined SHS Polar in Madrid, where she was involved in the design of transmitters, receivers and

repeaters for mobile communications (GSM 900, DCS, UMTS) for Telefónica I+D. In 2004 she joined Telefónica

I+D as a hardware engineer to develop mobile communication systems at the Radiocommunication Systems

department. At present, she is working at the Radio System Compatibility group, on activities related to the

analysis of new radio access technologies, taking part in projects like PULSERS Phase II.

Ana VILLANÚA PATO graduated from the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 2004. Final degree work:

Simulation of multilateration systems for air traffic control. In 2003, she joined Telefónica I+D as internship,

working on the development of the control application in the PRAGA project and MAC development on DSPs. In

2004, she joined HI-IBERIA in Madrid, where she carried out activities related to UWB (channel modelling and

simulation), OFDM and MIMO technologies (channel and system simulation, FPGA implementation of fixed

point algorithms), working for Telefónica I+D. In 2007, she joined Telefónica I+D at the Radio System

Compatibility group and she is working on activities related to the analysis of new radio access technologies.

B2.2.12 Thales Communications S.A. (THA)

Thales Group is one of the major leading manufacturers of professional and defence systems Thales

Communications S.A. is a subsidiary of the Thales group and is part of its Communications Business Group. The

revenue of BGCOM is around €1.5bn, with 9,000 employees in 14 countries. It operates through its subsidiaries in

Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, and United

Kingdom. Thales Communications S.A. is a world leader in its domain of activity covering satellite

communications, mobile radio-communications, naval and infrastructure communication systems, airborne

communication, navigation and identification systems both for civil and military aircraft, command information

systems, radio-surveillance systems, communications networks, and radio spectrum monitoring.



Thales Communications 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.

The entity who will participate to the EUWB project is the SWP entity (Secured Wireless Products) located in

Colombes (France) whose mission is to built secured wireless products based on civil wireless standards (WPAN,

WMAN, WLAN). This entity has participated in several European IST projects related to UWB, namely UCAN,

PULSERS and PULSERS Phase II. In UCAN and PULSERS Thales Communications was responsible of MAC

layer definition and MAC S/W implementation. Besides this activity, in PULSERS Phase II, Thales

Communications was leading the regulation and standardisation work package.

In the EUWB project, the main contributions of THA will be the specification and the implementation of the MAC

and higher layers for the open platforms defined in WP7 (for both HDR and LDR-LT) as well as the

internetworking between UWB devices and WiMAX devices. Thales Communications will also participate to

WP4 in order to participate to the relaying algorithms specifications; in WP5 to study MAC strategies between

Bluetooth v3.0 and HDR UWB and in WP8 in order to integrate the WP7 platforms in the dedicated scenarios.

THA will also participate to the regulation and standardisation WP to contribute to the UWB standards.

Key personnel

Serge HÉTHUIN was born in Cambrai, France, in 1952. He received an Application Engineer Degree in 1974

with a specialisation in Spectrum Analysis. From 1975 to 1978, he was in the Microwave Link Division of

Thomson-CSF, on LOS and Tropospheric Microwave links. From 1979 to 1989, he worked in TRT, a PHILIPS

subsidiary, in charge of the design and development of radio communication and radio navigation airborne

systems such as radar-altimeter based on wide spread spectrum. He joined in 1990 the Thomson-CSF CNI

(Communications, Navigation, Identification) Division and in 1996, he became the Head of the „Wireless

Techniques & Technologies‟ (WT&T) Activity, dedicated to the development of WLAN product and first

generation of HiperLAN based on the LWMA concept (Linear Wideband Multiple Access), wide spread spectrum

technique. From 1998 to 2000, he was CTO of the „Satellite Communications Systems‟ Unit of Thomson-CSF

Communications. Since 2001, he is in charge of the Secured Wireless Products (SWP) department in Thales

Communications France based on the civil Wireless standards (WPAN, WLAN, WMAN). He is the author or co-

author of papers and patents about WMAN, WLAN, HiperLAN, UWB techniques, and 3D localisation.

Isabelle BUCAILLE received the engineering degree from ISEP (Institut Supérieur d‟Electronique de Paris) in

France in 1994. Then she joined the CNI Division of THOMSON-CSF for digital processing studies and MAC

simulation in wired and wireless LAN. She has participated in 1997 to the ETSI group BRAN in charge of

HiperLAN2 standardisation. In 1998 she was in charge of system definition concerning Stratospheric Platforms

(HAPS). Since September 2001 she is in the Secured Wireless Products (SWP) department in Thales

Communications France, in charge of the new air interface technologies, in particular for single channel wideband

systems and research projects. In the European programmes she has been involved in UCAN, PULSERS

especially for MAC and relaying topics and is now leading the work package related to regulation and

standardisation in PULSERS Phase II.

Arnaud TONNERRE received the engineering degree from ENSTB (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des

Télécommunications de Bretagne) in 2003. His specialisation was on wireless networks. He has been guest

researcher at NIST (National Institute of standard and Technology) in Gaithersburg, United States, working on

Bluetooth and WiFi coexistence with inputs to Bluetooth SIG standardisation group. Since October 2003, he has

been working in Secured Wireless Products (SWP) department in Thales Communications France. He is in charge

of the Thales standardisation activities in IEEE committee, especially focussing on UWB Impulse Radio and more

generally involved in IEEE 802.15 working group. Moreover he has been involved in the specifications and

simulations of mesh networks for WMAN/WPAN. Regarding European programmes, he leads currently two work

packages in UROOF IST project, which aims to transmit UWB signal over optical fibre.

B2.2.13 Valtion Teknillinen Tutkimuskeskus (VTT)

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is a governmental multidisciplinary expert organisation. With its

around 2,800 employees, VTT provides a wide range of technology and applied research services for its clients,

private companies, institutions and the public sector. VTT‟s technological focus areas are applied materials, bio

and chemistry processes, energy, information and communication technologies, industrial systems management,

microtechnologies and electronics, and technology in the community. VTT‟s turnover is €230m.



In EUWB project, VTT participates in WP3, Multiple Antennas, by contributing to system design as well as

developing and implementing application-aware algorithms. VTT has earlier experience in both theory of digital

signal processing algorithms and protocols as well as their implementation architectures and technologies. This

includes participation in PULSERS and PULSERS Phase II projects. Other relevant EU project examples include

STINGRAY, WIND-FLEX, WINNER and WEIRD.

Key personnel

Aarne MÄMMELÄ received the degree of PhD (with distinction) from the University of Oulu in 1996. His

doctoral thesis was on diversity receivers in fast fading multipath channels. From 1982 to 1993 he was with the

Telecommunication Laboratory at the University of Oulu. In 1993 he joined VTT in Oulu. Since 1996 he has been

a research professor of digital signal processing in wireless telecommunications at VTT. Since 2000 he has also

been a docent or adjunct professor at the Helsinki University of Technology and in addition since 2004 at the

University of Oulu. He visited the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany in 1990–1991 and the University of

Canterbury in New Zealand in 1996–1997. He is especially interested in synchronisation and estimation problems

and system analysis/engineering in wireless digital communications, both in single-carrier and multi-carrier systems.

Antti ANTTONEN was born in Oulu, Finland, in 1975. He received the MSc (Eng) and LicTech degrees from the

Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Oulu, Finland, in 2001 and 2005,

respectively. Since 2001 he has worked as a research scientist and project manager in the Multimedia

Communications Group (until 2005) and in the Communication Platforms Knowledge Centre (since 2006) of VTT

Technical Research Centre of Finland. He visited Lucent Technologies in Pennsylvania, U.S.A., during summer

2000. He has been involved with many research projects including EU funded PULSERS and PULSERS Phase II

projects which focused on deployment of UWB radio technology. He is currently working towards his PhD

degree. His main interests include advanced baseband transceiver algorithms for interference mitigation and

synchronisation focusing on wireless mobile and personal area networks.

B2.2.14 Wisair Ltd. (WIS)

Wisair, a fabless semiconductor company, is a leading provider of ultra-wideband integrated circuits and solutions

for low cost, low power and high bit-rate wireless applications. Wisair was founded in 2001, has over 100

employees and is part of the Israeli RAD group, a group of independent companies that develop, manufacture and

market solutions for diverse segments of the networking and telecommunications industry. Wisair has in-house all

the required expertise (RFIC, Analog, VLSI, PHY, MAC, software, system and reference design) and provides

complete solutions being a one-stop shop for its customers.

As a technology leader in the UWB arena Wisair holds multiple UWB patents and is a member of the WiMedia

alliance (board member), the Wireless USB Implementers Forum and the Bluetooth SIG. Wisair has been an active

participator and contributor to various European projects in the UWB area: ULTRAWAVES (IST FP5 UWB

project) and participated in PULSERS (IST FP6 UWB integrated project), UROOF (IST FP6 UWB and optics

project) and PULSERS Phase II (IST FP6 UWB integrated project).

Wisair contribution to EUWB project will be in integration and development work related to application platforms

based on Wisair‟s chipsets, and in research regarding the topics such as Cognitive radio, utilising Wisair‟s

experience in similar issues while examining DAA implementation options, and multimode UWB utilising

Wisair‟s intimate knowledge of the WiMedia MAC and its integration with higher layers. Wisair will also take part

in the regulation and standardisation activity of the EUWB project, in a continued effort to standardise UWB in

Europe and world-wide.

Key personnel

Gadi SHOR received both his MSc degree in electrical engineering, with emphasis on communications, in 1995,

and his BSc degree in electrical engineering in 1990 from Tel-Aviv University. Mr Gadi Shor holds the CTO

position in Wisair. Before joining Wisair, Mr Shor worked for DSPC technology. He managed a multi-disciplinary,

multi-national team through the development of a W-CDMA reference design handset based on in-house chip set

development. Prior to this he worked for DSPC Systems (formerly CTP Systems) holding the CTO position. He

supported research, regulation and standardisation activities for the development of WPBX systems based on

proprietary U.S.A.-PCS/ISM standards and DECT standard. Mr Shor worked as a System Engineer in the IDF

R&D Center, designing and implementing practical wireless communication systems, including high-bit-rate

UWB systems. Gadi Shor has over 15 years of hands-on experience in research, simulation and implementation of

wireless modems (radio, modulation, coding, channel estimation, synchronisation), protocol stacks (DECT, TDMA,

CDMA, W-CDMA) and system aspects of wireless communication systems (indoor propagation, radio resource



management, QoS, capacity and more). Gadi was the project manager of ULTRAWAVES (IST FP5 UWB project)

and participated in PULSERS (IST FP6 UWB integrated project), UROOF (IST FP6 UWB and optics project) and

PULSERS Phase II (IST FP6 UWB integrated project).

Amir KRAUSE received his MSc degree in electrical engineering, with emphasis on communications, in 2001,

and his BSc degree in EE in 1994 from Tel-Aviv University. He holds a senior algorithm research engineer in

Wisair. Before joining Wisair, he worked as a research assistant in “Ramot” Tel-Aviv University, specialising in

Turbo decoding algorithms. Prior to this he worked for IDF R&D Centre Signal Corps. Mr Krause was engaged in

characterising and analysing state-of-the-art electronic systems and technologies, system engineering and

performance analysis, research and analysis of communication/wireless systems air-interface and implementation

of systems. Amir Krause has over 10 years of hands-on experience in research, simulation and implementation of

wireless systems. He participated in ULTRAWAVES (IST FP5 UWB project), PULSERS (IST FP6 UWB

integrated project), UROOF (IST FP6 UWB and optics project) and PULSERS Phase II (IST FP6 UWB IP).

B2.2.15 Universidad de Zaragoza (UZ)

The Aragón Institute for Engineering Research (I3A) is a university institute founded in 2002 at the University of

Zaragoza. The Communications Technology Group (GTC) is an academic research group founded in 1992 at the

University of Zaragoza. GTC is one of the main sections within the Aragón Institute of Engineering Research

(I3A) that has been recognised as a Grupo Consolidado de Investigación (Quality Research Group) by the

Regional Government of Aragón.

In addition to the research activities, GTC is involved in three strategic areas of the I3A: Information and

Communication Technologies (ICT), Biomedical Engineering and Optical and Laser Technologies. Members are

also involved in teaching undergraduate students in Telecommunications Engineering and Computer Science at the

Centro Politécnico Superior (Higher Polytechnic Engineering School), and are actively involved in organising two

doctoral interuniversity programmes: Information and Communication Technologies in Mobile Networks and

Biomedical Engineering, both of which have obtained a Special Mention of Quality from the Spanish Ministry of

Education. GTC members also participate in different scientific and technical forums in order to facilitate the

dissemination of results and to provide consulting services. Finally, we promote collaborations with other research

groups, both on a national and international level, via co-ordinated projects and international networks.

The Mobile Communications Section of GTC, with an average workforce of 12 scientific staff, has been working

in the Mobile Communication field for more than eight years. In this sense, the group has been able to perform

conceptual studies (numerous Master thesis projects, PhD theses and several publications in high quality

magazines have been produced in this field) and to implement hardware demonstrators based on the use of DSP

and ASICs as well as the development of planning tools and applications for TETRA and UMTS. On the

conceptual studies point of view, the group has been widely involved in CDMA and TDMA issues concerning

layers 1, 2 and 3. GTC jointly with Teltronic S.A.U., a Spanish professional communications company, has

developed the TETRA standard for cellular professional digital communications.

We are responsible for a Wireless Technologies and Mobile Services research laboratory in the Walqa Technology

Park in Huesca, Spain. The group has experience in WLAN, Bluetooth and ad-hoc networking technologies

(Wi-Fi, UWB, …). In particular in the last years special effort has been addressed to study Packet Radio

Networks, Wireless Access Protocols, Radio Resources Management and QoS. The team has participated in a

number of research projects funded by the Spanish Science and Technology Ministry and by private industrial

companies such as Teltronic, Telefónica Móviles de España, Vodafone, etc. and also in EC funded research

projects such as PULSERS Phase II.

UZ‟s contribution to EUWB will be focused mainly in two topics, advanced location and tracking and UWB in

heterogeneous networks. Concerning advanced location and tracking, UZ will exploit its knowledge in wireless

networks in order to develop advanced location and tracking algorithms for heterogeneous networks and to

develop enhanced methods based on location awareness for handover, interference mitigation and congestion.

Concerning UWB in heterogeneous networks UZ will contribute in the integration of UWB access points in a

heterogeneous access scenario, in the development of location aware services for heterogeneous networks and in

the study of coexistence between UWB and future wireless networks.

The main benefit for UZ will be to increase the knowledge of UWB technology and its application in

heterogeneous networks with other wireless networks, especially concerning its location and tracking abilities and

the development of location aware services and methods. The close contact to European researchers and



developers with a common interest in wireless technology will enhance UZ‟s activity in international research

projects in this field.

Key personnel

Antonio VALDOVINOS BARDAJÍ obtained the Engineer of Telecommunications and PhD degrees from the

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. He has been working at UPC

and at the University of Zaragoza (UZ), where he is a full professor. He leads the Mobile Communications and

Wireless Technologies Research Group in the I3A. He has been responsible of more that 30 research projects

funded by public administrations and by major industrial and mobile companies. He has been involved in the

PULSERS-II project working on UWB. He has published more than 100 international journal and conference

papers. His research interests include 4G technologies, heterogeneous networks and location techniques.

José RUIZ MAS received the Engineer of Telecommunications degree from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

(UPC), Spain, in 1991 and the PhD degree from the UZ in 2001. In 1994 he joined the UZ, where he is an

Associate Professor. He is co-investigator since 1995 of projects funded by public administrations and by major

industrial and mobile companies. He has published more than 20 scientific papers. His research activity lies in the

area of mobile networks with special emphasis on security, heterogeneous networks and ad-hoc networks.

Ángela HERNÁNDEZ SOLANA obtained the Engineer of Telecommunications and PhD degrees from the

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain, in 1997 and 2005, respectively. She has been working at UPC

and at the UZ, where she is an associate professor. She is co-investigator since 1997 of research projects funded by

public administrations and by major industrial and mobile companies. She has published more than 30

international journal and conference papers. Her research interests include cross-layer design for wireless

networks, UWB-based location techniques and 4G technologies.

B2.2.16 ACORDE TECHNOLOGIES S.A. (ACO)

ACORDE is a Spanish SME, whose activities are focused on high technology sub-systems and components for

Space, Telecommunications and Defence Sectors mainly related to Radiocommunications systems. The company

was created in 1999, it has grown very fast, and nowadays it has business in Europe, Asia, Middle East and Latin

America.

ACORDE is a young and dynamic business with high R&D capacity, dedicated to design and manufacture (small

and medium production series) of radio frequency, microwave and mm-wave components, equipment and systems

for satellite and terrestrial communications.

Our main activities are system engineering, industrial prototype development and manufacturing of small and

medium series. The most important Spanish companies of these sectors are customers of ACORDE (Telefónica,

Alcatel Espacio, Indra, Electrónica El Corte Inglés and others). There are three main divisions in the company:

1. RF systems design and developments, digital and analog communication sub-systems;

2. System engineering activities;

3. Home networking, data transmission and network communication.

ACORDE R&D: The company has an intense research activity in different field of telecommunications. With

regards to 3G ACORDE has developed a radio over fibre system for UMTS to transmit the signal from a B Node

to several microcells, up to 16 microcells. It participates actively both in European projects and in the Spanish

National Plan of Research. Under the European Research Programme, ACORDE was and is participating in many

projects of the 5th and 6th Framework mainly related to WLAN, WPAN and beyond 3G. Some of those European

projects where ACORDE participated are WINE, UCAN and Windflex (5th Framework), MAGNET (1st and 2nd

phase), PULSERS (1st and 2nd phase), 4–MORE and WISE (6th Framework), GREAT and POSIRIS under the

Galileo Joint Undertaking, and WINTSEC under the PASR programme.

ACORDE will bring its expertise as system designer and developed as well as system integrator. The contribution

will be mainly focused on the following topics:

Multiband/multimode UWB: Working on the integration and test of the joint verification platform.

Advanced location tracking: On the implementation and verification of the location and tracking

algorithms over the demonstration platforms selected by WP7.

UWB demonstration platforms: Contributing to the platform development and Implementation, mainly on

the control and monitoring software, and GUIs.



UWB applications: Working both on the implementation and development of the application of the public

transport application, as well as on the channel modelling and characterisation and system implementation

for the automotive environment.

Our experience in UWB systems, as well as in the development of wireless systems in different scenarios, with

different requirements, give us the required background for these tasks.

Key personnel

Manuel LOBEIRA RUBIO was born in Santander, Spain, in 1977. He received his MSc in Electrical

Engineering (cum laude) in 2000, and his DEA (pre-PhD degree) in 2005 from University of Cantabria, Spain. His

studies were financially supported by the “Fundación Marcelino Botín” grant. He has participated in various

research projects dealing with system design and channel characterisation for ad-hoc wireless networks. He is

working for ACORDE S.A. as Head of the R&D Department, while pursuing his PhD Mr Lobeira has been mainly

involved in IST (FPV, FPVI) and Galileo projects. He has published several papers in international conferences

and magazines, where he has participated as reviewer and chairman as well. Mr Lobeira is a member of the IEEE

and of the Spanish Association of Telecommunications Engineers.

Beatriz QUIJANO RUIZ was born in Santander, Spain, in 1978. She obtained her degree in Telecommunications

Engineering at the University of Cantabria, in 2003. Her works on coexistence between UWB and legacy radio

services started in 2002, while performing her Master Thesis at the Information and Telecommunication

Technology Center of the University of Kansas, under the supervision of K. Sam Shanmugan, Southwestern Bell

Distinguished Professor. She worked then for Accenture (consulting) in the fields of technological consultancy.

Mrs Quijano joined the Communications Engineering Department (DICOM) of the University of Cantabria in

2003 performing interference studies to analyse the influence of UWB and GSM. In January 2004 she joined

ACORDE, where she is studying the coexistence between UWB and UMTS or WLAN. She is currently in active

collaboration with TG3 of ETSI and RAS Cluster (ICT FP7), dealing with UWB regulation in Europe.

Álvaro ÁLVAREZ VÁZQUEZ was born in Oviedo, Spain, in 1978. In 2002 he obtained his degree in Tele-

communications Engineering at the University of Cantabria. He worked in the Department of Communications

Engineering (DICOM) of the University of Cantabria from 2000 to 2001, developing radar technologies and push-

push oscillators. In 2001 he finished his Master Thesis at the Information and Telecommunication Technology

Center of the University of Kansas, working in UWB signal processing simulations, under the supervision of K.

Sam Shanmugan, Southwestern Bell Distinguished Professor. Mr Álvarez joined ACORDE in May 2002, as

Project Manager. Actually he is working in different fields of UWB technologies, from system simulation and

hardware design to radio-channel characterisation. He has also re-joined the University of Cantabria as PhD

student and Associate Professor in the field of signal theory and electronic circuit‟s simulation.

B2.2.17 TES Electronic Solutions Ltd. (TESUK)

TES Electronic Solutions Ltd. a member of TES Electronic Solution Group and wholly owned by TES S.A., is a

UK limited company located in Edinburgh, Scotland, TESUK is a wireless systems design service company,

which was originally launched by Thales as a subsidiary in November 2002. Thales built this business by retaining

the core resources of the Wireless and Multimedia Group from Cadence Design Foundry, along with Cadence‟s

industry proven Bluetooth and DECT hardware and software Intellectual Property. The TESUK wireless team of

20 experienced engineers have been developing wireless solutions together for the past 7 years.

TESUK as part of TES Electronic Solution Group, one of the biggest design services businesses in Europe, offers

complete wireless design capabilities using GSM/GPRS, low and high data rate UWB, Bluetooth, DECT, WDCT,

WiFi, Zigbee and various ISM band and customised technologies, and consists of:

13 design centres throughout Germany, France and UK;

Medium volume production facilities in France;

320 design engineers and 300 production staff including: 62 RF ASIC and PCB design engineers; 20

embedded communication software engineers; 6 wireless system architects.

Key personnel

Alexander WEIR graduated from Heriot-Watt University, UK, in 1996. He is a Software Systems Architect at

TES‟ UK Design Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland, having previously worked for British Aerospace, Cadence Design

Systems and Thales Electronic Solutions. For the past ten years he has been working on embedded software

protocol stack development for short range wireless technologies. With a background in Bluetooth and DECT

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protocol stack development, for the past two years he has been focused on UWB MAC and Protocol Adaptation

Layers. He is technical lead on TESUK high rate UWB projects and has contributed to PULSERS Phase II

WP2/WP2a.

Stephen MOSSOM graduated from Lancaster University, UK, in 1993. He is a Senior Software Design Engineer

at TES‟ UK Design Centre in Edinburgh. He has previously worked for British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic

Systems. Stephen has 13 years experience of real-time embedded software development and has strong knowledge

of all phases of the lifecycle. In the last year Stephen has been contributing to PULSERS Phase II WP2a by

utilising TES‟ Bluetooth protocol stack IP to create a hybrid prototype which utilises Bluetooth for device and

service discovery and VHDR UWB for high data rate communications.

Alister KINSMAN graduated in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Strathclyde University in 1998. A senior

software design engineer with TESUK in Edinburgh, he has previously worked across Germany and the UK, for

Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Cadence Design Systems, and others. Extensive Bluetooth core stack and profile

development, and IOT efforts, give him broad experience of full-lifecycle wireless development, which has more

recently been applied to (V)HDR UWB research and development at TES.

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B2.2.19 Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna (UNIBO)

The University of Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum, was founded in 1088 and is considered to be the oldest

university in Western Europe. It is one of the most important institutions of higher education across Europe with

more than 100,000 enrolled students, 23 faculties, 69 departments, 3,000 academic and 3,000 administrative staff

members.

The University of Bologna successfully participated in FP6 with a total of 103 projects funded by the European

Commission in the different specific programmes. In particular, in the Thematic Priority “Information and

Communication Technologies” the University of Bologna is involved in 27 projects.

At the University of Bologna research activities are promoted and co-ordinated by departments autonomously, and

this project will be developed by a research group within the Department of Electronics, Computer Science and

Systems (DEIS). The Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems is a research-led institute

employing about 70 professors, 40 research associates, 90 doctorate students, 40 graduated research assistants, and

several visiting researchers. The Department expertise spans the whole range of electronics, communications,

computer science and biomedical engineering. The DEIS research unit that participates in the present proposal

works on a wide spectrum of topics in wireless transmission systems, including multi-carrier modulation, ultra-

wideband systems, multiple antenna systems and low density parity-check codes.

In the EUWB project the group role is to conduct research in cognitive radio, multiple antennas and location and

tracking techniques for UWB. In particular, the research activity will focus on spectrum sensing, interference

classification, spatial interference distribution, spectral sculpting techniques, interference management and

coexistence, MIMO-UWB systems, advanced location algorithms, and theoretical enhancements for systems with

location awareness. The group is also committed to an intensive dissemination programme.

Key personnel

Marco CHIANI is a Full Professor of Telecommunications at the University of Bologna. He is a frequent visitor

at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he presently holds a Research Affiliate appointment.

His research interests include wireless communication systems, MIMO systems, wireless multimedia, low density

parity check codes (LDPCC) and UWB. He is a consultant to the European Space Agency (ESA-ESOC) for the

design and evaluation of error correcting codes based on LDPCC for space CCSDS applications. He published

more than 50 journal papers and 100 conference papers, mostly IEEE. He has chaired, organised sessions and

served on the Technical Programme Committees at several IEEE international conferences. In January 2006 he

received the ICNEWS award “For Fundamental Contributions to the Theory and Practice of Wireless

Communications”. He is the past Chair (2002–2004) of the Radio Communications Committee of the IEEE

Communication Society and the current Editor of Wireless Communication for the IEEE Transactions on

Communications.



Davide DARDARI is an Associate Professor at the University of Bologna. Since 2005, he has been a Research

Affiliate at MIT, U.S.A. His research interests are in UWB communication and localisation, wireless sensor

networks, OFDM systems. He published more than 90 technical papers and played several important roles in

various national and European projects. He is co-chair of the Wireless Communications Symposium of the IEEE

ICC 2007, and was co-chair of the IEEE International Conference on UWB (ICUWB) 2006. Currently, he is an

Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, as well as Lead Editor for the EURASIP Journal on

Advances in Signal Processing (Special Issue on Co-operative Localisation in Wireless Ad-Hoc and Sensor

Networks).

Andrea GIORGETTI received the PhD degree in electronic engineering and computer science from the

University of Bologna in 2003. From 2003 to 2005 he has been a researcher at the Istituto di Elettronica e di

Ingegneria dell‟Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni (IEIIT-CNR). Since 2006 he is an Assistant Professor at

DEIS, University of Bologna. During the spring 2006 he was Research Affiliate at the Laboratory for Information

and Decision Systems (MIT), working on UWB systems. He served on the Technical Programme Committees for

the IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications (ICC 2005), the Int. Work. on UWB Technologies (IWUWBT 2005), the

IEEE Int. Conf. on Ultra Wideband (ICUWB 2006) and the IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications (ICC 2007). He

is Co-Chair of the Wireless Networks and Applications Symposium at the IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications

(ICC 2008), Beijing, CHINA, May 2008.

B2.2.20 Universität Duisburg-Essen (UDE)

According to our credo “Leading Innovations in a Communications World” the Lehrstuhl für Kommunikations-

technik at the University of Duisburg-Essen has been establishing its competencies in following fields of expertise:

Wireless multimedia applications;

Wireless infrastructure aspects and concepts;

New techniques of signal demodulation;

Reconfigurable, i.e. software defined, and cognitive radio;

Smart antennas incl. diversity, beamforming, and MIMO concepts for future radio systems, and

Beyond 3G/4G system and transceiver techniques.

The services of the Lehrstuhl für Kommunikationstechnik include:

Scientific and technical consultation in PHY, MAC, LLC, and network layer aspects;

Further education in modern and advanced communications technologies;

Concept engineering for communication equipment and HW/SW implementations;

Real-time demonstrator realisation incl. the DSP firmware development and optimisation, and

JAVA based multimedia application development and optimisation.

Since its establishment in June 2000 the Lehrstuhl für Kommunikationstechnik:

Has earned their track record in about thirty industrial co-operation projects;

Has spent more than eighty person years in co-operations;

Has collected a strong expertise in international and intercultural collaborations;

Has co-operated with numerous large global players such as e.g. Siemens, Infineon Technologies,

Samsung Electronics, SK Telecom, Analog Devices, and Texas Instruments, as well as globally active

small and medium sized enterprises, e.g. Rohde & Schwarz, LeCroy, IMST and Tyntec;

Has contributed to the strengthening of the IPR position of our partners, and

Has contributed to the visibilty of our partners in the scientific world.

Meanwhile, members of the Lehrstuhl für Kommunikationstechnik have received recognition by a total of 44

prizes. Among these are awards from Texas Instruments, Siemens, and the German Association of Electrical

Engineers (VDE). Recently, the Lehrstuhl für Kommunikationstechnik was recognised by EEEfCOM for their

innovative approach to software defined radio techniques using irregular sampling based receivers, which could be

demonstrated and validated in one of the three hardware test-beds developed and implemented by the Lehrstuhl

für Kommunikationstechnik.

Key personnel



Peter JUNG received the diploma (MSc equiv.) in physics from University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 1990,

and the Dr.-Ing. (PhDEE equiv.) and Dr.-Ing. habil. (DScEE equiv.), both in electrical engineering with focus on

microelectronics and communications technology, from University of Kaiserslautern in 1993 and 1996, respectively.

In 1996, he became private educator (equiv. to reader) at University of Kaiserslautern and in 1998 also at Technical

University of Dresden, Germany. From 1995 until February 1998 he has been involved in the ACTS project

FRAMES (AC090) as the project team manager at the University of Kaiserslautern, also representing the University

of Kaiserslautern in the FRAMES project Co-ordination Committee. In the scope of the ACTS project FRAMES

he was involved in the development of joint detection algorithms and the definition of the TD-CDMA based mode

of the FRAMES air interface proposal and the Core Task Demonstrator where he was the editor of a most important

deliverable on the demonstrator concept. He left the University of Kaiserslautern in March 1998 and from March

1998 till May 2000 he was with Siemens AG, Bereich Halbleiter, now Infineon Technologies, as Director of

Cellular Innovation and later Senior Director of Concept Engineering Wireless Baseband. In June 2000, he became

Chaired Professor for Communication Technologies (Kommunikationstechnik) at the Gerhard-Mercator-University

Duisburg. In 1995, he was co-recipient of the best paper award at the ITG-Fachtagung Mobile Kommunikation,

Ulm, Germany, and in 1997, he was co-recipient of the Johann-Philipp-Reis-Award for his work on multicarrier

CDMA mobile radio systems. Professor Jung served as chairman of the Fakultätentag für Elektrotechnik und

Informationstechnik (FTEI) e.V., and member of the board of VDE/VDI-GMM. He has been member of the

editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and Springer Journal of Wireless Personal

Communications. His areas of interest include wireless communication technology, software defined radio, and

system-on-a-chip integration of communication systems.

Guido H. BRUCK has been with the faculty of electrical engineering of the Gerhard-Mercator-Universität

Duisburg since 1984. He joined the department Communication Equipment and Systems (Nachrichtengeräte und -

anlagen) since then and worked in the field of source image coding. He developed a method to improve the quality

of source coded images which contain high saturated colours. This can be done by considering the gamma distortion

and compensation, which can be found in nearly all common image transmission systems. He adapted this method

to image transmission systems like JPEG (Joint photographic experts group) and MPEG (Moving pictures experts

group). The image quality can be improved compared to a standard JPEG or MPEG encoding or the amount of

encoded data can be reduced by having the same image quality compared to a standard JPEG or MPEG encoding,

if the image contains areas with high saturated colours. When Prof. Peter Jung joined the faculty in June 2000 the

name of the department changed to Communication Technologies (Kommunikationstechnik). Since then, Dr.

Bruck has worked in the field of software defined radio and on adaptation of source coding methods to mobile

communication systems. He is now Akademischer Oberrat (Senior Member of the staff) at Kommunikationstechnik,

being responsible for the administration of Kommunikationstechnik and managing several industrial projects.

B2.2.21 Technische Universität Ilmenau (UIL)

Technische Universität Ilmenau is located in the centre of Germany and has a long academic tradition since 1894.

It hosts about 7,000 students in fourteen different majors. In addition to intensive basic research, applied and

industrial-oriented research has become a trademark of the university. Since 2001 the Thuringian Ministry of

Science, Research and Art (TMWfK) has been funding a long-term focus programme on mobile communications

at UIL with the involvement of more than 10 different research laboratories including the Communications,

Microwave and RF, Measurement Engineering Research Labs. UIL will take active part in the MIMO work in

WP3, WP4, and WP9. Ilmenau University of Technology was one of the pioneers in broadband multi-dimensional

high resolution channel sounding. Gathered results and experience of measurement campaigns during the last 10

years is unique and led to a highly sophisticated channel sounder device. The channel measurements are the key to

develop, verify, and improve efficient algorithms for applications like DOA/DOD estimation by super resolution

techniques (ESPRIT, SAGE, …) or MIMO transceiver schemes. The research activities related to the broadband

channel sounding can be summarised by following topics:

Development of novel device architectures for broadband real-time channel sounders;

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) measurement and modelling;

Superresolution parameter identification and modelling of multi-path propagation;

Measurements in various environments;

Link and system level simulations based on measured data;

Realistic performance evaluations of mobile radio links based on measurements.



Ilmenau University of Technology has also experience with the development of UWB measurement technology

working in different frequency bands (DC to 5 GHz, 3.5–10.5 GHz). The electronics uses MLBS signals instead of

sine waves or pulse signals. This allowed high device integration resulting in a small, lightweight device with high

measurement rate and low power consumption. The research activities related to UWB field of experience can be

summarised by following topics:

Development of system architectures for correlative UWB radar;

Design of very fast UWB signal generation and data acquisition circuits based on integrated Si-Ge circuits

and LTCC ceramic modules;

Design of UWB antennas and RF interfaces;

GPR application of UWB radar and landmine detection;

Industrial and medical application of UWB electronic;

Location and navigation in multi-path environment;

Ultra-wideband real-time channel sounding.

Key personnel

Reiner S. THOMÄ has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering (Electronic Measurement) at Ilmenau University

of Technology since 1990 and from 1999 until 2005 he was the director of the Institute of Communication and

Measurement at the same university. He received the Dr.-Ing. (PhDE.E.) from TH Ilmenau in 1983. Fields of

research include: Measurement and modelling of mobile radio propagation channels including MIMO and ultra-

wideband, space-time signal processing, system identification and high resolution parameter estimation, spectral

analysis and correlation measurement, time-frequency and spectral correlation methods. Reiner Thomä is Fellow

of IEEE, member of German VDE/ITG and URSI (Comm. A). He is the chairman of IEEE Instrumentation and

Measurement Soc. TC-13 “Measurement in Wireless and Telecommunications” and a frequent reviewer of IEEE

Trans IM, VT, AP. He is an elected reviewer of “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft” (DFG) and became speaker

of the DFG-focus project UWB Radio Technologies for Communications, Localisation and Sensor Applications.

Wim KOTTERMAN graduated in 1984 from Delft University of Technology, Delft, NL, in Applied Physics on

wave-field extrapolation for seismic acoustics. After two years of development of industrial acoustic equipment,

he changed to the radio communication research lab dr. Neher Laboratorium of KPN in the Netherlands. As

researcher involved in the standardisation of GSM, Kotterman was the official Dutch representative in the COST

projects 207, 231, and 259. The main topics were radio propagation for coverage prediction, comprising

developing measurement methods and equipment, performing and analysing measurements, and propagation

modelling. In 2000 he took a job as associate professor at the former CPK at Aalborg University, Denmark, where

he received a PhD in 2004 on the use of multiple antennas on small handsets. In 2005, he joined the Electronic

Measurement Research Lab at TU Ilmenau, Germany, where his research activities are spatio-temporal channel

characterisation and modelling, UWB localisation, Time Reversal techniques and high resolution measurement

methods indoors for diffuse fields. He was active in the EU-FP6 NoE Newcom and is a delegate to COST2100.

Rudolf ZETIK is a research assistant at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at

Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany. He received his PhD degree at Technical University of Košice

(Slovakia) in 2001. His research interest include following areas: digital signal processing, frequency/time-

frequency signal analysis, ground penetrating radar, spread-spectrum, digital modulations and CDMA, ultra-

wideband systems, real-time channel measurements including MIMO and ultra-wideband and positioning.

B2.2.22 Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden (HTW)

Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden is located in Dresden, the heart of silicon Saxony in the south east

of Germany. HTW was founded in 1992 being the second largest university in the area. The combination of

technology, business and art is characterising the scientific environment and the academic life. Facilitating 8

faculties, 180 full professors and more than 4,800 students the university is large enough to realise interdisciplinary

project work and teaching with high degree of synergy effects in practice. On the other hand the moderate size

allows still the professors to care personally about the individual student. Numerous new laboratories, a highly

sophisticated computing centre, an excellent research service are characterising the research environment.

Besides teaching the HTW is establishing a centre of applied sciences, research and development for industrial

partners. National and international well known departments are the automotive research laboratory and the

research laboratory Technische Elektrostatik. Since 1998 a centre for applied research and technology is existing at



HTW (ZAFT e.V.). There specialists from different areas such as construction, electrical engineering and

mechanical engineering work together towards highly innovative system concept solutions.

Key personnel

Sven ZEISBERG graduated from Dresden University of Technology, Germany, in 1994. He has been involved in

several research projects considering the physical layer of wireless communication systems since then. He

received his PhD degree with summa cum laude in 2002 from Dresden University of Technology. Prof. Zeisberg is

IEEE member. He published more than 30 technical papers. Interests include, but are not limited to, digital signal

processing, multi-carrier communications and ultra-wideband communications. He was leading PULSERS and

PULSERS Phase II integrated projects and is active in ECC TG3 as well as in ETSI TG31c. He became full

professor for telecommunication technology at University of Applied Sciences (HTW) in October 2007.

Markus WEHNER studied information systems engineering at Dresden University of Technology (TUD) and

finished it in February 2009. During his studies he was involved in the implementation of UWB demonstration

platforms especially in the field of image processing. Currently he is working as research engineer at the HTW

responsible for LDR topics. In parallel he is studying at TUD for his PhD degree, related to the field of localisation.

B2.2.23 Staccato CommunicationsArtimi Ltd. (STC)

The former company Artimi Ltd. has been renamed Staccato Communications Ltd., following its merger with

Staccato Communications Inc of San Diego, Ca. Staccato Communications provides WiMedia Ultra Wideband

(UWB) solutions for systems that require low cost, small footprint and low power consumption. Staccato‟s

Ripcord2™ product family of 65 nm all-CMOS ICs include RF, digital baseband, MAC, memory, processor, I/O

and 128-bit AES encryption engine. Various interfaces are supported including PCIe, USB 2.0 Host, USB 2.0

Device, and SDIO 2.0 Device. Staccato has taken a leading role in the definition of the UWB industry including

the formation of the WiMedia Alliance, and has contributed strongly within WiMedia, USB-IF and Bluetooth SIG

on the standardisation of UWB technology.

Key personnel

Peter TRAPPS is a Principal Engineer at Staccato Communications Ltd. (formerly Artimi Ltd.). He holds a BSc

from the University of Kent and an MSc from University College London, and has over 30 years of experience

with industrial control, video telephony, broadcast and wireless technology companies including Honeywell, ST

Microelectronics and Symbionics. Within WiMedia he has been active in the development of the platform

certification test specifications, and is a member of the Certification and Registration Board. He leads the

implementation of the Staccato WiMedia MAC.

B2.2.24 FBConsulting S. à r.l. (FBC)

FBConsulting S. à r.l. is a newly created micro SME in Luxembourg with the main activity in the domain of short

range wireless devices. The activities covered are:

Spectrum management and regulation;

European and world-wide standardisation;

Project management and organisation for R&D projects in the field of short range wireless devices;

Consulting activities for companies and universities in the field of wireless communications and the

corresponding regulatory and standardisation environment;

Technology transfer from the University R&D and Project R&D results into the market place;

IPR and knowledge management.

FBConsulting is member of ETSI and contributes actively to the development of the UWB standards in Europe

and world-wide. The founder Dr. Friedbert Berens is an expert in the field with several years of experiences in the

domain of R&D projects, regulation and standardisation.

Key personnel

Friedbert BERENS received his diploma in 1992 from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. From 1992 to

1999 he was member of the scientific staff of the Centre for Microelectronics at the University of Kaiserslautern In

1996 he joint the University of Kaiserslautern ACTS-FRAMES (AC090) project team. He received his PhD

degree in 1999. In the same year he joint STMicroelectronics, Geneva Application Lab. Here he worked on the

development of advanced algorithms for the use in UTRA-FDD and TDD systems. Since 2004 he has been



involved in the ST internal UWB development. As Senior Principal Engineer he was responsible for regulation,

standardisation and future evolution of UWB systems including 60 GHz systems. In 2008 he created the

consulting company FBConsulting S. à r.l. where he is the CEO.

B2.2.24B2.2.25 Bitgear Wireless Design Services d.o.o. (BITG)

Bitgear Wireless Design Services d.o.o. is a small innovative Serbian enterprise. The company is working intensively

on building its own IPR under its own brand. The core of the new set of products to be launched during 2010 is the

Vehicle Dynamics Technology – a sophisticated technology based on principles of inertial navigation which is

envisaged to be implemented in vehicle road safety devices. The technology is optimised for embedded applications.

Besides this BITG has been actively involved in providing fully customised hardware related set of design services

during the R&D process of new products. These namely include: wireless and wired networks customisation and

design according to standards; PCB design optimised per cost and functionality; embedded software design; DSP

hardware and software; reconfigurable computing based systems; general purpose software design. As a service

provider the company is specialised in implementations and customisations of PHY layers.

The company maintains close connections with academic institutions in Serbia, the Electrical Engineering Schools

in Belgrade and Niš, with a goal to provide a stable basis for future evolution. BITG is a member of the embedded.rs

industry cluster (www.embedded.rs).

Key personnel

Dejan M. DRAMIĆANIN is founder and CEO of the company. Mr. Dramićanin brings over 10 years of experience

gained in international technology companies. Prior to founding Bitgear, he worked at California-based design

services company Signum Concepts Inc, where he established and managed Belgrade (Serbia) engineering team.

His areas of expertise are digital signal processing applications, mixed signals electronics design and production,

and Software Defined Radios. He holds the MSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the School of Electrical

Engineering of the Belgrade University, and is active in academic society.

Vukašin PEJOVIĆ is the VP Business Development and Marketing the company. His extensive expertise in

industry lays in different types of reconfigurable and embedded computing based systems interconnects design and

deployment, including security related aspects of wired and wireless networks. He holds the BS title in Electrical

Engineering from the School of Electrical Engineering of the Belgrade University, and MSc degree from

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

Srdjan TADIĆ is a VP Digital Signal Processing and specialist in inertial navigation systems. He is the main

contributor and architect of the Vehicle Dynamics Technology, Bitgear‟s technology for advanced, low-cost

vehicle road safety devices. He also has profound knowledge of telecommunications systems and their design. He

holds a MSc title form School of Electrical Engineering of the Belgrade University.

B2.2.24B2.2.26 České Vysoké Učení Technické v Praze (CTU)

Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU; in Czech ČVUT) is the largest technical university in the Czech

Republic. Established 1707, it has a 300 years long history of providing higher education in all technical disciplines.

Currently, it has 7 main faculties and numerous research institutes. Every year around 23,000 students are enrolled

into variety of bachelor, master, and PhD study programs.

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEE) provides education in the fields of electrical engineering, automation,

telecommunications, informatics and computer science. FEE has strong research background based around

numerous research groups and PhD study programs. FEE has long established record of the co-operation with the

industry.

The Digital Radio Communications (DiRaC) group headed by Prof. Jan Sýkora is a research group focused on the

physical layer research problems. The DiRaC group has expertise in PHY layer transmission technique, modulation,

coding and signal processing demonstrated by the activity in research, EU projects and co-operation with the

industry. Particular topics covered by their research and results from the application of those results in the industry

are: Linear and non-linear space-time coded modulation for MIMO systems, Linear and non-linear receiver pre-

processing for decoding complexity reduction, Iterative decoding and synchronisation in parametric channel,

FG/SPA algorithms for iterative decoding with various constraints (modulation waveform, H/W imperfections,

complexity limitations, differential detection etc.), OFDM based space-time coded systems, Implementation of the

PHY layer in DSP for space-time coded OFDM system developed for Dicom company (PR20 personal radio





receiver), the DiRaC laboratory actively develops experimental testbed for 22 MIMO communication system in

2.4 GHz band devoted to the evaluation and verification of the PHY layer DSP/FPGA processing and algorithms.

Key personnel

Jan SÝKORA is head of the Digital Radio Communications (DiRaC) group. He became full professor in 2007,

PhD in 1993, MSc in 1987, all at Czech Technical University in Prague. The research activity of Jan Sýkora

focuses on the digital transmission technique (modulation, coding) and physical layer signal processing. Particular

targets are spatial diversity MIMO systems, non-linear space time modulation and coding and iterative and

distributed processing (detection, synchronisation). He is author of more than 70 papers in that field. He has

experience as a project leader and member in number of national projects (GACR, MSMT-OC) and also EU

projects (COST, Copernicus). He has served as a TPC member on large number of IEEE conferences (ICC,

GlobeCom, WCNC, VTC, PIMRC, ISWCS, APCC, EW) and serves as active reviewer for number of journals

(IEEE-T-COM, IEEE-T-SP, IEEE-T-WC, IEEE-L-COM, ET-COM, IEE-P-COM). He actively co-operates with

the industry. He has developed the PHY layer processing for PR20 MIMO communication system manufactured

by the Dicom company.

Martin MAŠEK starts it PhD studies in the DiRaC laboratory under a supervision of prof. Sýkora in 2010. He

recently worked on Modulation and coding for Hierarchical Decode and Forward strategy in Multi-Node/Source

Wireless Networks as a part of his master thesis and also under national research project. His particular focus was

on i) information theorethic analysis of the rate regions under various complementary side-information exclusive

constellation alphabet (including multi-dimensional and MIMO) and channel parametrisation constraints, ii)

practical synthesis of the coding/modulation scheme for selected special network configuration cases and the

verification of the performance by a computer simulation.

B2.2.24B2.2.27 Universitatea Politehnica din Bucureşti (UPB)

University Politehnica of Bucharest (UPB) is the largest technical university in Romania. About 26,000 students

are enrolled in different forms of education and research activities (undergraduate, master and PhD) and more than

1,500 students are studying Computer Science and Engineering. The Romanian National Center for Information

Technology (NCIT) is part of the UPB and is run by the Computer Science and Engineering Department. The

NCIT staff is composed of 18 professors and 34 teaching assistants, researchers and PhD students. The centre

promotes advanced inter-disciplinary research and development of human resources by postgraduate educational

programs. The UPB team has been involved in international projects such as EU-NCIT FP6 SSA project no.

017101 leading to EU IST Excellency, FP7 SENSEI and FP7 P2P-Next, RoDiCA – Romanian Distributed

Collaborative Architectures, LAPE (Local Acquisition and Processing Element) for monitoring environmental

parameters in large buildings, NOMAD for providing positioning information by tracking, recording and

analysing human movement, Synairgy – a personal air quality monitoring system for measuring the concentration

of air pollutants. Our university organises complementary training in programs such in the CISCO Networking

Academy, the IBM Excellence Center, the Microsoft Academic Initiative and a Grid Computing Summer School.

UPB has extensive experience in monitoring of distributed resources in projects such as MonALISA, a fully

distributed monitoring system based on autonomous, self-describing agent-based subsystems. MonALISA, which

stands for Monitoring Agents using a Large Integrated Services Architecture, has been developed over the last four

years by Caltech University and its partners (UPB and CERN). The framework is based on Dynamic Distributed

Service Architecture and is able to provide complete monitoring, control and global optimisation services for

complex systems. More recently UPB was involved in developing a plug-in based on MonALISA technology to

monitor, reconfigure and reprogram wireless sensors and actuators across heterogeneous WS&ANs islands.

Key personnel

Emil SLUŞANSCHI is an associate professor at the UPB. He received his MSc in Computer Science from the

UPB in 2001 and his PhD from the Institute for Scientific Computing at the RWTH-Aachen University in

Germany in 2008. His fields of interest include wireless sensor networks, parallel and distributed system

architectures and algorithms, automatic differentiation, and computer networks.

Nicolae TĂPUŞ is a full professor at UPB, his main fields of expertise being Computer Architecture, Embedded

systems, Distributed Systems, Local Area Networks. He has significant experience in the development, management

and co-ordination of national and international research projects.

Dan Stefan TUDOSE is a teaching assistant and PhD student at the Computer Science and Engineering Department

of Politehnica University of Bucharest, where he also received his Bachelor in Computer Science. His fields of

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interest include microprocessor design, embedded systems and distributed systems. He implemented the hardware

solution for the Synairgy project and is currently involved in designing and implementing UPB‟s Sparrow WSN

architecture. He is part of the UPB team involved in the FP7 SENSEI project.

Alexandru HERIŞANU holds a MSc in Advanced Computer Architectures from the University Politehnica of

Bucharest and is currently a PhD student at the Distributed Systems Center of the Computer Science Faculty. His

field of interest include parallel and distributed system architectures and algorithms, large scale networking

systems and grid systems middleware. He is part of the UPB team involved in the FP7 SENSEI project.

Razvan TĂTĂROIU received his diploma in Computer Science and Engineering from UPB, where he now holds

the position of teaching assistant. He is working towards obtaining his doctoral degree with the UPB. His interests

include embedded systems, data acquisition, and low-power wireless networks, more specifically: hardware design

and prototyping, network protocols, management software.

B2.2.24B2.2.28 Wrocławskie Centrum Badań EIT+ Sp. z o.o (WRC)

Wroclaw Research Centre EIT+ was established in 2007 as a new look at the research to perfect innovation and

applied science for the Silesian Region of Poland. The institute was created and is owned by Wroclaw Commune,

Regional Parliament of the Lower Silesia Province, Wroclaw University of Technology, University of Wroclaw,

Wroclaw Medical University and Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Science. The seed funding

received equals 200 million Euro together with large campus with targeted 25,000 square meters of the office and

lab space dedicated to research and development activities. WRC focuses on 4 pillars: Biotechnology, Nano-

materials, Energy and ICT. The ICT Research Centre (RC) hires its own permanent staff as well as associated

researchers from Wroclaw universities. ICT RC specialises in cognitive radio and networks, mobile networks

modelling and simulation, networks planning and optimisation, Self Organising Networks (SON) aspects and

reconfigurable optical networks as well as on broad range of information science aspects. Members of the team

participated in dozens of European projects including FP6/FP7 in the area of ICT. In FP7 Call 4, ICT RC acquired

three STREP projects (C2Power, SAPHYRE and Fiver) in the area of cognitive radio, infrastructure and spectrum

sharing and hybrid wireless-optical networks. With this achievement it became the best institution in Poland to

acquire EU funding. Furthermore, ICT RC has collaboration agreements with IBM Research and Nokia Siemens

Networks. ICT RC also successfully acquires Polish funding from structural funds including Innovative Economy

Program and Regional Development Programs.

Key personnel

Radosław PIESIEWICZ obtained his MSc degree in Microwave Engineering and Optical Communications with

Golden Badge distinction from Technical University of Gdańsk, Poland, in 2002 and PhD degree in Communications

Technology with summa cum laude from Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, in 2008. Since May

2009 he holds a position of Director of R&D: ICT Development at Wroclaw Research Center EIT+ where he is

responsible for the overall acquisition and development activities in the area of ICT. Between March 2008 and

May 2009 he was heading Broadband & Wireless Area at CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy, where he was leading staff

and research activities in cognitive radio and optical networks. Prior to this, he held a position of research engineer

in the Terahertz Communications Lab in Braunschweig, Germany. In recognition of his results in interdisciplinary

research in terahertz communications systems he was awarded the prestigious Walter-Kertz Prize in 2008. In his

research, he specialises in cognitive radio and networks, reconfigurable optical networks as well as in ultra high

data rate short range communication systems. He is author of 10 journal and more than 50 conference publications.

He was a key-note speaker at the IEEE NGMAST 2008. Moreover, Dr. Piesiewicz acquired, co-ordinated and

contributed to a number of international research projects in the frame of MEDEA+ (Mesdie, QStream), FP6

(Ming-T), and FP7 (C2Power, SAPHYRE, Fiver, EUWB – here he was WPL2 when at CREATE-NET, Diconet).

He was also involved in several industrial projects with CISCO and Airbus. Dr. Piesiewicz served as expert

evaluator for the EC in FP6/7 and for the National Centre for R&D in Poland. He also participates in standardisation

activities in ETSI TC RRS, in FP7 RAS cluster Spectrum & Enablers group and in COST Action IC0902. He was

organising and steering committee member of EuropeComm 2009 and organiser/session chair/TPC member of

international conferences like FutureTech 2010, PIMRC 2009, ICT-MobileSummit 2009 and CrownCom 2009.

Jakub OSZMIANSKI graduated from the Faculty of Electronics at Wroclaw University of Technology in 2006,

with MSc degree in Signal Processing in Digital Telecommunications. He started his professional career at Nokia

Siemens Networks in the department of Radio System within Research Technology and Platform unit as a System

and Software Architect. Under the EU-funded WINNER project he was involved in the research on advanced link

adaptation, radio resource management, channel modelling for multi-antenna systems and MIMO processing for

4G network based on OFDM technology. As a NSN Poland representative in the FP7 SOCRATES project, Jakub

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worked on Self Organising Networks techniques (SON). His research work resulted in several publications on the

IEEE Forum and participation in international conferences. In 2008 Jakub joined Research & Engineering Center

Sp. z o.o. where he was involved in product development for automotive industry. He specialised in the area of

broadcast technologies for advanced multimedia system designed for premium sector cars. Jakub was in charge of

a 5-person team using SCRUM for agile software development. In June 2010 Jakub joined WRC where he holds

the Senior Radio Technology Specialist position. His main research topics are impairment compensation algorithms

for Radio over Fibre, dynamic spectrum allocation and resource sharing in wireless networks.

Lukasz CYWINSKI graduated from the Faculty of Electronics at Wroclaw University of Technology in 2006,

with MSc degree in Signal Processing in Digital Telecommunications. He started his professional career at Nokia

Siemens Networks in the department of Radio System within Research Technology and Platform unit as a System

and Software Architect. Lukasz was responsible for development of a LTE system level simulator and 3GPP

standardisation support. Under the EU-funded WINNER project he was involved in the research on advanced link

adaptation, radio resource management, channel modelling for multi-antenna systems and MIMO processing for

4G network based on OFDM technology. In 2008 Lukasz joined Research & Engineering Center Sp. z o.o. where

he was involved in product development for automotive industry. He specialised in the area of broadcast technologies

(DAB, SDARS, IBOC, RDS) for advanced multimedia system designed for premium sector cars. In June 2010

Lukasz joined Wroclaw Research Centre EIT+ where he holds the Senior Radio Technology Specialist position.

Currently he is working within two European projects: FIVER and EUWB. His main research topics are impairment

compensation algorithms for Radio over Fibre, dynamic spectrum allocation and resource sharing among current

and future wireless networks.

B2.3 Consortium as a Whole

B2.3.1 Complemetaries of the Consortium

EUWB will include resources providing expertise and experience in the fields of Telecommunication and

Consumer and Semiconductor industry, several SMEs, followed by one telecom operator as well as by a strong

contingency of academic and public RTD organisation. The total RTD head count per year (RTDHC/Y) is quite

exactly 50, divided into following areas:

Structure of human resources Distribution of requested

EC contribution 36,2%

17,0%

22,6%

24,2%

IND

SME

RES

UNI

7 industrial organisations 36.2 %

5 SMEs 17.0 %

4 public RTD organisations 22.6 %

6 universities 24.2 %

Table 1313: Personnel vs. type of participants.

These partners are regionally distributed within the EU member states and beyond as follows:

21 partners from EU member states (funded by the EC);

1 partner from an associated country (Israel – funded by the EC).

In the scope of the proposed three project years summing up to 1,812 person months, the projects will mobilise

approximately 50 researchers per year or a total of 150 person years.

Figures provided in the A3-form depend on the selected cost model. These are estimated costs based on real

personnel costs including overhead and other related project costs such as equipment depreciation, services,

material and travel costs. These costs will be calculated according to the usual accounting principles of each

partner and be handled by dedicated cost models.

EUWB project introduces a specific management model, which comprises a total management effort of about 2

persons per year, with total costs of 7 % of the total project EC contribution in WP1.



The industrial partners are the major players in the telecommunication, semiconductor and consumer market, with

significant operational involvement on the international markets. The consortium academia and public RTD

partners have profound expertise on the field and in general on communication systems. The composition of the

consortium is in the way to provide complementary expertise on the related field. Each key partner is leaded by

experienced RTD staff with track record on the field and with experience on co-operative RTD work on the

international and in major cases world-wide level. The geographical partner distribution reflect the efforts to

simultaneously strength the RTD activity on the field, through the Europe, by choosing the key expertise.

However, if one looks at the partner concentration in Germany, than this can be explained by the fact, that some

multi-national European companies participate with their German branch, e.g. EADS. The same holds for TES,

having the European head office in Stuttgart and concentrating there now. Given this fact it is quite obvious, that

results, which these partners gain from the project will be beneficial for all other countries, where these companies

have branches, e.g for EADS it is obvious France and Spain and for TES these are Germany, France and UK.

B2.3.2 Sub-contracting

The large majority of the EUWB work will be developed by the experts selected for each of the tasks within the

participant organisations. In some particular cases specialist skills will be required to support EUWB partners in

clearly identified isolated tasks for the sake of efficiency and due to traditional work sharing in partners

organisations with their business partners. The allocation of sub-contracting will be done in compliance with the

provisions of article II.7.2 and associated guidelines. Following activities will require sub-contracting within EUWB:

GWT will co-operate with an Internet Service Provider and development company to ensure that the

EUWB web site is of high quality as well of high security standard and easy to use for all its members and

the open site for visitors (4 k€ per year). GWT will also use the services of a professional communication

company for the design of promotional material. EUWB intends to increase public awarness and to present

outcomes of the project to a broad audience. For this, some resources are planned in order to realise a

short project video (12 k€).

During the development of the open technology platforms the design and manufacturing of the PCB

boards might be sub-contracted by WIS and HTW. This depends on the available internal resources of the

partner. The needed effort has been allocated by the corresponding partners in the project (25 k€ and

23 k€, respectively).

BOSCH will sub-contract car measurements in an anechoic chamber, which is not available in BOSCH in

this size (20 k€) as well as some mechanical work related to the demonstrator (in a garage shop, 10 k€).

According to the Commission‟s rules, financial audits will be performed by independent auditing

companies. In most cases this task will be sub-contracted under the management cost category.

B2.3.3 Funding for Beneficiaries from Third Countries

The consortium does not include any beneficiary from third countries.

B2.4 Resources

B2.4.1 Resources to be Committed

In the following two sections major costs as well as additional costs which are not planned to be reimbursed by the

EC are listed for the most significant cases.

P05-BOSCH

Software costs:

Ray tracing tool 7 k€;

CAN-bus analyser 17 k€;

Maintenance costs for CAE software 20 k€.

Hardware costs:

Car 7 k€;



Measurement equipment (antennas, amplifiers) 4 k€.

Consumables:

Sample builds (prototypes) 20 k€.

P06-CEA

CEA is among the principle providers of HW platforms in the project. In particular, in WP7, it provides the LDR-

LT platform in sufficient copies for the whole EUWB needs. The work performed in WP7 also includes the

upgrade of these platforms, and therefore the redesign of RF chips and boards and there associated costs in the

design process which include CAD tools. Finally, antennas are studied and produced for the purpose of WP7 and WP3.

Equipment (depreciation of investments over the project duration):

Spectrum analyser, oscilloscope, power supply 17 k€;

PCs 3 k€.

Consumables/Sub-contracting:

Be N the number of platforms to be provided (N=20), V the number of versions (in theory V=2 but we take V=1.5

assuming only half the building blocks needs an upgrade).

Non Recurrent expenses (NRE): total = 28 k€

RF chip packaging 2.5 k€;

RF chip dedicated test board 12 k€;

Antenna CAD 10 k€;

Boards CAD and tools 3.5 k€;

Packaging CAD 5 k€.

Recurrent expenses (RE): total = 1.2 k€

Batteries, sensors, antennas: 200 €;

Components: 250 €;

Boards manufacturing and cabling: 500 €;

Packaging: 250 €.

Total for N = 20 platform copies and V = 1.5 versions:

C=V*(NRE+N*RE) = 72 k€.

Costs for antenna CAD manufacturing and measurements cables: 8 k€.

Other costs:

Fixed rate per person month comprising CAD tools for RF, antennas, mixed signals architectures evaluation

and RF chip design: 107.5 k€.

P07-LUH

Software costs:

System level simulator (incl. maintenance) 15 k€.

Hardware costs:

2 FPGA platforms (Virtex 4 or better), e.g. 2x Sundance SMT 348-SX55 + carrier + software 30 k€;

Leasing of second Tektronix AWG7102 20 k€.

Consumables:

RF components, e.g. amplifier, mixer 15 k€;

Lab equipment (small parts) 2 k€;

RF cabling 3 k€.



P13-VTT

The equipment budget request of 60 k€ includes FPGA evaluation boards embedded with adequate FPGA chips

for the purpose of implementing selected digital baseband features of the MIMO-UWB verification platform. At

least two sets are required to be able to implement both the transmitter and receiver. In addition, several

peripherals may be required such as interface modules, software etc which require extra funding. The exact

hardware requirements or the prices at the time they will be purchased are known not until the mid of the project

and the budget request is thus a rough estimate. Some examples of the list pricing with different resources are (for

FPGA boards and chips):

BenNUEY-PCI-XC2V3000-4: 10.0 k€;

BenNUEY-PCI-XC2V6000-4: 13.6 k€;

BenNUEY-PCI-XC2V8000-4: 18.8 k€.

P14-WIS

The budget requested of 60 k€ is mostly (35 k€) intended for consumables required for platform manufacturing

(various chips: UWB, FPGA and other chips, most often interface related). The budget may also serve for

additional lab equipment if we will find it is required for platform development.

The additional 25 k€ are intended for sub-contracting of minor platform development assignments, such as board

layout and board manufacturing which WIS often outsource.

P19-UNIBO

Research equipment: The simulation of cognitive systems involves the joint characterisation of different layers,

i.e. physical, MAC and network. Performance evaluation of algorithms requires both analytical characterisation

and extensive simulations. The personnel involved will use laptops to programme the algorithms, and more

powerful PCs will be used to improve the simulation cluster.

The total cost has been estimated to be 16 k€ (5 laptops * 2 k€ + 5 * 2 k€ PC simulation cluster) * 80 % time.

P21-UIL

In the present state, the UWB channel sounder at UIL is mainly used for configurations of array sizes up to 2 Tx ×

4 Rx, with the respective antennas being confined to the direct vicinity of the RF processing and control hardware.

For operations as a distributed UWB MIMO sounder in the context of EUWB, an extension to 4×8 MIMO

capability is desirable for use in WP3. The required two additional pieces of RF hardware will be available during

the project, but UIL does not have the extra UWB antennas. For these items, funding is applied for, amounting to 6

times 3 k€ for 6 antennas. The total funding applied for by UIL for UWB measurement equipment therefore

amounts to 18 k€.

P22-HTW

In order to support WP7 “Open UWB Technology Platforms” within T7.2 an alternative commercially available

platform (from UWB chip manufacturer Alereon) had been pointed out to be a very good potential candidate for

VHDR (based on ECMA 369) to be usable for WLP integration. To evaluate and to be able to further transfer this

platform technology to related work packages, a number of DevKits and the associated support will be bought.

P25-BITG

Measurements set-up (depreciation) 2.0 k€;

Evaluation boards and development kits (WP8) 5.0 k€;

Complementary materials 2.0 k€.

P26-CTU

Existing simulation tools need to be upgraded to support simulation based algorithm verification/design.

Fees for simulation software (SYNOPSYS) 2.0 k€;

Upgrade of simulation cluster (WP2) 4.0 k€;

Small supporting equipment 1.0 k€.



P27-UPB

Supporting equipment for UWB H/W integration (WP8) 1.0 k€.

P28-WRC

2 laptops incl. monitor and docking station (depreciation) 3.0 k€;

Fees for simulation software (2x Matlab) (WP2) 12.0 k€.

B2.4.2 Resources to Complement the EC Contribution

P04-PHI

Philips will provide the following non-funded contributions:

Provision of the necessary computing facilities plus the related licences for the development of the

required software applications;

State-of-the-art video streaming appliances;

State-of-the-art HD display units;

State-of-the-art audio streaming appliances (including home theatre systems);

The necessary test and measurement equipment to be used for performance evaluation activities.

P05-BOSCH

Bosch will provide the following non-funded equipment.

Simulation software:

Electromagnetic solvers (Microwave Studio, Feko);

Circuit simulation (Advanced Design System);

System simulation (Matlab).

Hardware:

Electronic lab and infrastructure for prototype building (machining workshop for prototype building).

Measurement equipment:

Anechoic chamber for antenna measurements;

Measurement equipment up to 140 GHz;

RF laboratory;

Standard software for measurement automation and data analysis.

P07-LUH

General overview of non-funded resources provided at the Institute of Communication Technology (IKT).

Signal sources:

Arbitrary waveform and function generators with up to 5.8 GHz analog bandwidth and 20 GS/s

conversion rate;

Vector signal generators, up to 6 GHz and 160 MHz RF bandwidth, with very low phase noise;

Pulse generators with a minimum pulse length of 22 ps;

Rubidium frequency standards.

Network and signal analysis:

Digital storage oscilloscope with up to 16 GHz analog bandwidth and 50 GS/s synchronous sampling rate

per channel;

Network analysis up to 13.5 GHz;

Spectrum analysis up to 26.5 GHz;

Handheld spectrum analysis up to 6 GHz;

Power meter for various frequency ranges.



Modular and scaleable MIMO rapid prototyping platform:

Texas Instruments C6000 digital signal processors (DSPs);

Xilinx Virtex II/II-pro/4 field programmable gate arrays (FPGA);

High speed analog/digital und digital/analog conversion with up to 1 GS/s conversion rate;

RF modules for 2.4, 5.2 and 5.8 GHz ISM-bands (can be used to set up interferes for UWB systems);

Software tool based or hand-coded algorithm implementation;

3L Diamond real-time operating system (RTOS).

Highlights of UWB measurement equipment:

Tektronix DPO71604 digital storage oscilloscope with 4 channels and synchronous sampling with 50 GS/s

on each channel, analog bandwidth of 16 GHz;

Tektronix AWG7102 arbitrary waveform generator with 2 channels, up to 20 GS/s conversion rate and

5.8 GHz analog bandwidth;

Picosecond PSPL-4015D pulse generator and impulse forming network generating a step, pulse or

monocycle. The minimum pulse length is 22 ps;

Beside this the IKT has access to the equipment and research labs of the High Frequency Technology

(HFT) department (Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. Eul) at LUH, so that the covered frequency range for network and

signal analysis can be extended towards 110 GHz. In addition the IKT has dedicated access to the antenna

measurement chamber and antenna production facilities of the HFT department.

LUH provides the following research laboratories:

MIMO Communications Research Lab – This research lab offers 8 workstations. The 78 m² large room

offers enough space for advanced experiments in MIMO communications under real conditions.

UWB Communications Research Lab – On 68 m² this air conditioned lab offers 6 workstations and

allows experiments under controlled conditions.

Localisation Research Lab – This air conditioned lab is 54 m² large. There are no dedicated workstations

or furniture inside the lab, to provide space for different experimental scenarios, e.g. moveable walls

consisting of different materials for NLOS scenarios; possibility to set up reference environments.

P11-TID

TID will provide as non-funded contributions the following resources:

Development (software) of a bridge between UWB and UMTS that interworks forwarding the data

between both radio interfaces. This programme is executed on a laptop and has been developed within

PULSERS Phase II;

Laboratory equipment for radio frequency tests that includes network analysers, spectrum analysers;

Matlab simulation framework developed in IST eSense project to evaluate UWB communications.

All these inputs will support the work to be performed in WP6.

P15-UZ

General facilities (only partly covered by the 60 % flat rate overhead):

Staff office rooms, power, heating, cleaning, toilet service, telephone, fax, copy service, secretary service,

laboratory library, internet service, project data server, project data backup, project email service;

Specific facilities: (not covered by the 60 % flat rate overhead);

2 hardware complete communications laboratories equipped with vector network analysers, scalar

network analyser, synthesised sweepers, noise figure meters, spectrum analysers, signal generators, digital

oscilloscopes, digital signal analysers, soldering stations, power supply stations, etc.;

1 communications laboratory equipped with LAN analysers, WAN analysers, frame relay routers, ATM

switches, ATM routers, PBXs, etc.

Computing resources hardware:

30 PCs, high power computing cluster for grid computing services, workstations, laser printers, network

backbone incl. optical fibre system and switching/hub sub-systems, power backup station.



UWB equipment:

DV9110M development kit by Wisair, Time Domain PulsON P210 evaluation kit by Time Domain,

Ubisense academic research package.

Software:

Signal processing, simulation, RF and antenna design and network planning software (MatLab, OPNET,

OMNet+, ICS Telecom from ATDI, Microwave Office, Zealand).

P19-UNIBO

The University of Bologna has a platform used for intensive numerical computation composed of a cluster of

several PCs based on RAID (Redundant Array of Intensive Disk) technology dedicated to fast simulation of

communication systems, which can be usefully exploited for the validation of algorithms that will be developed in

this project. This platform that will be used in the EUWB project is composed of a RAID unit memory where data

are stored during the simulations, and several computers (independent and remotely accessible through the use of

the SSH protocol). The RAID technology is based on the fact that it is less expensive to implement a storage unit

using elementary units instead of a unique device with high performance. UNIBO will also provide a limited set of

computer to be used with the RAID for computation, the necessary room with temperature control, and the

network support. The system will be computationally empowered by acquiring 5 more PCs. UNIBO will also

provide the necessary software tools and licenses, e.g. Matlab, Mathematica.

P20-UDE

The work will be done integrated in a team of skilled engineers, having experience in building and using simulators

and demonstrators in the field of wireless communications. UDE will provide the necessary office space, support

through the university administration services. The computers to be used are provided from UDE. More than 25

PCs for personal use of employees in the office area including notebooks and desktop PCs are available. The

notebooks are mainly used for office applications, the desktop PCs for simulations. In the laboratory area more

than 35 PCs act as servers and are used for simulation and measurement purposes. Licenses to use for the use of

software, e.g. Matlab are provided. The laboratory is equipped with necessary measuring equipment in the field of

wireless communications

P21-UIL

UIL will provide following non-funded contributions:

Radar test bed containing mechanical localisation portal;

Anechoic chamber for antenna measurements in the far-field, 0.8–40 (100) GHz, quiet zone ~2 m³, near-

field measurements optional, high precision positioner, VNA-equipment (PNA E8362B) with multi-

frequency option;

Coaxial vector-network-analyser up to 50 GHz (HP 8510C);

Network analyser Agilent PNA E8361A (10 MHz–67 GHz, 4-port test set 10 MHz–50 GHz, pulsed test

set 200 MHz–40 GHz, frequency offset for nonlinear measurements);

Spectrum analysers 50 GHz (Agilent PSA E4448A), 26 GHz (Rohde & Schwarz FSEM), 32 GHz

(Anritsu MS2802A);

Spectrum analyser (National Instruments NI PXI 1042Q) with down-converter and digitiser;

Real-time MIMO Channel sounder developed in EU projects PULSERS and PULSERS Phase II. for the

ultra-wideband measurements of the time variant channel impulse responses. The sounder has modular

construction in 19 inch rack. Each of the available modules contains usually one transmitter and two

receivers. Modules can operate also displaced from the sounder connected with it by extension cable. This

allows using the sounder for the simulation of the mobile robots and deployable sensor nodes in unknown

environment. Thus, localisation, navigation, imaging and target recognition can be analysed directly on

measured date. The sounder operates currently in baseband (DC to 3.5 GHz), but other operational

frequency bands like FCC (3.1–10.6 GHz), or 60 GHz (±3.5 GHz) will be also available for the

investigation at the beginning of this project;

Numerous test sets, signal analysers, and wave generators from different manufacturers.

P26-CTU

Existing simulation tools need to be upgraded to support simulation based algorithm verification/design.



Fees for simulation software (SYNOPSYS) 2.0 k€;

Upgrade of simulation cluster (WP2) 4.0 k€;

Small supporting equipment 1.0 k€.

P27-UPB

Supporting equipment for UWB H/W integration (WP8) 1.0 k€.



B3 POTENTIAL IMPACT

B3.1 Strategic Impact

The EUWB – Coexisting Short Range Radio by Advanced Ultra-Wideband Radio Technology – proposal is

clearly addressing Objective ICT-2007.1.1: The Network of the Future within Challenge 1: Pervasive and Trusted

Network and Service Infrastructures as described in Section 3.1 of the ICT – INFORMATION AND

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES Work Programme 2007–2008. In particular the target outcome a) and b)

are corresponding to the goals of the EUWB project.

Challenge 1 addresses mainly to deliver the next generation of ubiquitous and converged network and service

infrastructures for communication, computing and media. UWB radio technology (UWB-RT) will be an important

element providing very high speed portable and cellular devices network access over short range.

In addition, UWB radio technology as planed to be developed and implemented inside the EUWB project will

enable complete networking solutions in sensitive environments such as public transport, where there are

particular strong requirements concerning EMC. As an example, explained in detail in the relevant section, an

analysis performed by a major aviation industries, AIRBUS, has shown, that UWB-RT has a competitive

advantage in terms of interference potential towards the on-board equipment compared to other wireless solutions.

Another example is the Automotive environment, where BOSCH will be leading the work package WP8b on

Automotive applications and the Regulation and Standardisation work package WP9. In this application case

UWB is mainly forming its own network on-board. Daimler, a leading car manufacturer, is supporting the

development of UWB based integrated networks for applications including entertainment, sensing and command

and control inside vehicles.

It is important to note, that UWB-RT is developed and coming along with appropriate protocol stacks enabling it

to create own networks (based on several architectures including mesh-networking) as well as to serve as part of a

larger heterogeneous network.

Following items can be mapped to the relevant work packages objectives of the proposed EUWB project:











development of multi-radio interface (UWB, HSPA, WiMAX) devices will enable to make easier a





services by means of platform architecture like IMS enables to offer services independently on the access

architecture. The services developed in the project will be integrated taking into account the IMS

recommendations.

In Sections B1.1.2 to B1.1.9 the detailed scientific and technical objectives are described and their relation to the

topics addressed in the work programme referred to in call 1 are highlighted.

The proposed research has the potential to:

Improve the coexistence of existing and future wireless networks.;

Enable a UWB device as the control unit for all other air interfaces in order to allow for a smooth

operation of all devices under restricted conditions like in a plane or in hospitals;



Enable terminals in mobile wireless environment to simply obtain an environment message, including the

interference, the spectrum usage, time and location information via Cognitive Pilot Channel (CPC), to

optimise the spectrum usage.;

In particular, in the short-term, the CR-UWB approach may prove useful to address the current and forthcoming

DAA (detect-and-avoid) requirements for UWB devices, e.g. IEEE 802.15.4a, to comply with regulations,

therefore speeding up product commercialisation.

As anticipated, in the longer-term, CR-UWB devices can serve as centralised control to take over the command

over the usage of different communication mode in the public transport and automotive environment, to limit the

interference and optimise the operation performance of different devices.

Also, CR-UWB devices may become key components of as environment information provider/broadcaster,

serving multiple air interfaces of mobile wireless devices, to guarantee smooth operation and coexistence in a

variety of wireless environments. Likewise, the concept of Cognitive Pilot Channel, if adopted by a wide basis of

wireless systems and standards, will have a tremendous economical impact.

The research on Multiple Antenna Systems will allow for innovations, evaluation of application-aware algorithms

and verification of enhanced implementation solutions based on real MIMO-UWB channel measurements. It will

further define the system concepts, practical requirements and measurement set-ups for specific application

environments, in particular for UWB in home environment, UWB in automotive environment, and UWB in public

transport. A MIMO-UWB test-bed for evaluation and verification of multiple antenna algorithms and system

designs will allow the study of multi-user and interference scenarios by providing access to the real MIMO-UWB

channel. The development of application-aware algorithms for link quality improvement, range extension, and

multi-user enhancements will be a major impact of this work package in order to exploit the benefits offered by

the multiple antenna technology. Implementation-aware algorithms and system design to solve the challenges

arising from various application-oriented solutions will be developed. Main output of this work will be the

resource evaluation and verification of certain multiple antenna solutions via prototyping approaches as to deliver

system reference documents for oncoming MIMO regulation and standardisation activities.

The research carried out in WP4 will allow the development of advanced localisation and tracking algorithms and

communication systems based on location awareness. Knowledge on nodes‟ locations might be a necessary tool to

improve studies on:

Novel DAA strategies for UWB mitigation;

Novel strategies for mobility management and location-based services.

Innovative application in public transport, home, automotive environment with location awareness. Beyond the

scientific improvement achievable via the knowledge of the node location, following, a list of potential technical

and economical impacts due to the research carried out in WP4 is presented:

Technical impacts:

Localisation and tracking strategies suitable for heterogeneous information, under mixed (static-dynamic)

scenarios;

Improved DAA-UWB strategies for interference/coexistence mitigation;

Definition of future location aware systems to be used within UWB networks.

Economical impact:

Improvement in QoS due to enhanced mobility management.

The multimode UWB system are predicted to be an essential driver for deployment evolution of the UWB radio

technology in two directions:

Related to the WPANs enhancements based on Bluetooth old generation toward new generations of the

Bluetooth with more throughput but also with interoperability with old Bluetooth versions, having

WiMedia as basic approach for Bluetooth Version 3 Physical Layer.

Related to reduced WPAN applications scenario, more close to pear to pear very shorts range

communication over less than half meter but with extra high data throughput in the range of 10 Gbit/s,

where the basis PHY layer related down compatibility, and interoperability with WiMedia devices is given.

Both proposed approaches are giving essential improvements of the existing state-of-the-art potential allowing the

customers wider deployment of the “state-of-the-art” technology with “new” technology with clear benefits, which

will allow faster deployment of the new UWB technology and produce a clear economical impact. On the other



side proposed innovation approach allowing deployment of the 60 GHz frequency range would allow further

evolution and development of the current WiMedia Solution to the NEW WiMedia Enhanced Solution being able

to address the date rate in the scope of 10 Gbit/s. The clear development road maps of the state-of-the-art UWB

technology will allow introduction of the new sets of the devices and new application scenarios, which may bust

the impact of the UWB radio technology penetration. Both proposed approaches to be investigated in WP5 may

substantially impact UWB radio technology deployment in short range wireless communication area with clear

benefit for industry.

Development of UWB access points will complement existing wireless technologies and lead to a converged

ubiquitous high capacity networks, providing very high data rate radio access in picocells.

Location and tracking information provided by UWB will be used for optimised control of wireless networks in a

heterogeneous mobile network scenario. For instance enhanced handover techniques based on localisation

prediction will be developed and location awareness will be applied to network control and management. Location

and tracking capabilities of UWB will be exploited also in order to design and develop new and innovative

services. These services will be designed according to IMS specifications independently on the access architecture.

The study of coexistence of UWB with future radio technologies like LTE or WiMAX evolution will impact in the

convergence and interoperability of mobile broadband technologies in order to guarantee a harmless coexistence

between the different technologies and the efficient use of the spectrum.

The open technology platforms concept followed in the EUWB project will allow the easy exploitation of the

results achieved in the application and research WPs for a broader market. Especially the flexible and

programmable approach used for the MAC and higher layer based on a standard platform will allow small and

medium companies to enter the market of UWB with specific products which can be differentiated by software

and hardware (using the eASIC included in SPEAR). The development in EUWB should lead to a software and

hardware toolbox for further integration of the open platforms in future products. Based on open standards (IEEE

and ECMA) these potential products can be used with a broad range of devices which will be on the market soon.

The planned combined platforms (LDR-LT + HDR, HDR + 60 GHz, WiMAX + HDR) can be used as reference

designs for further product developments. By including results from the research activities in EUWB these

products will have a significant competitive advantage.

STM itself will deploy the most promising results in their future product developments. In addition the open

platform concept and the use of the open technology platforms in a broad range of applications will allow STM to

provide optimised silicon solutions even for smaller volume markets, which has not been possible up to now. Here

the involvement of project partners in the exploitation will help towards a broader usage of the platforms.

For the public transport the expected impacts coming from the results of the work carried out in EUWB and

specifically the application performed in WP8 are:

Enable fast and extended customisation of passenger services and system architecture during production;

Increase flexibility through fast and unproblematic layout change inside transport compartment, e.g.

changing sits and furniture configuration inside of an aircraft cabin;

Weight saving through cable reduction;

Enable new possibilities for improved maintenance and system health monitoring by using wireless UWB

technologies;

Through the work performed in regulation bodies enable the use of UWB devices inside trains, ships and

aircraft.

The expected impact for the automotive industry in Europe is:

Prove feasibility of wireless data communication inside a car;

Enable fast and extended customisation of car equipment;

Increase flexibility through fast and easy exchange of components;

Allow for cost and weight reduction by reducing cable harness complexity;

Eenable new applications using location tracking capabilities inside the car.

For home application the project is expected to result in the following impacts:

Provision of wireless streaming of high definition video content in a reliable manner;



Allowing a flexible way to access high definition content without the limitations of cables hence enabling

a clean and simple solution (both in terms of ease of use and design);

Novel and innovative audio application optimised to the position of the user and the specific arrangement

of the audio equipment.

Regulatory efforts in the project is intended to support the scenarios and applications developed in the other WPS.

The purpose of the EUWB regulatory effort is widen the limits on UWB in a manner that would allow additional

applications, and take advantage of the advanced cognitive concepts developed in the project.

Special emphasis is intended for regulation concerning UWB in specific outdoor scenarios such as mass transport

(including aircraft) and cars.

The period of the project is expected to be a period of consolidation of practical test criteria for the regulations

currently under decisions. EUWB will contribute to the testing standardisation in order of achieving efficient and

sufficient testing procedures.

B3.1.1 Policy Impact

EUWB focuses entirely on UWB-RT, a relatively new wireless technology, operating in a potentially (virtually)

unlicensed frequency band in Europe, that will have significant benefits for public safety, consumers, businesses,

and the environment alike, through the introduction of a potentially vast array of products and applications.

UWB devices operate in spectrum bands already occupied by existing radio services, thus permitting the scarce

spectrum resources to be used more efficiently, a core concern of any radio regulatory body. The project‟s acronym

EUWB, “CoExisting Short Range Radio by Advanced Ultra-WideBand Radio Technology”, reflects its major

objective, namely to provide a new wireless core technology with features that can change the way how people use

and interact with their environment through advanced wireless communications and localisation technologies, be it

in their daily life at home, in public places, or in the work environment.

At the component level, EUWB will now (after the first basic technology has been developed for first generation

devices) start to develop the more advanced and truly innovative and competitive PHY/MAC and system building

blocks taking into account the recent European regulation developments and technical requirements arising from

other radio systems coexistence requirements, e.g. WiMAX, WRC 2007. This is enabling the realisation of a

surrounding “Ambient Intelligence” for more natural and easy interactions with the envisaged future IST

applications and services including the already now very mature and detailed SYSTEM and APPLICATION

concepts provided within this proposal.

The timely introduction of UWB in the application scenarios has been recently requested by several European

major industry sectors towards the European R&D community as well as towards the European and national

policy makers. Driver are mainly the following sectors, requesting to apply the UWB-RT as soon as possible in

order to introduce advanced services and increase their competitiveness: consumer electronics, transport, aviation,

automotive, communications network operations and semiconductor manufacturers. They all have at this time well

defined specific application requirements forcing the R&D to improve the basic technology significantly and

combine the innovative concept of UWB with advanced technologies to even further increase its performance,

which is currently limited in Europe by some more stringent regulation rules than in the U.S.A. for example.

Besides the innovation in advanced 2nd generation PHY/MAC and protocol building blocks an other main focus

of EUWB is on system aspects, where the integration of technology elements derived in previous research

programmes (internal, national and EU projects), and further optimised in the EUWB advanced R&D work

packages WP2–WP5 and WP7, will constitute system level verification of representative and KEY ECONOMIC

applications based on UWB-RT. When considering the various usage scenarios, EUWB will take on the challenge

to bring the users – i.e. people – to the foreground and thus to the centre of attention. This is expected to be

achievable with UWB-RT communications and localisation technologies for the background (pervasive and almost

invisible) and embeddable in every day objects.

In a broader sense, the research and development activities within EUWB address major challenges in areas such

as mobility, safety, environmental protection, leisure, industrial automation and control, surveillance and

monitoring, human-human and human-machine interaction, as well as support systems for people with disabilities

to provide barrier free access and personal autonomy. The applications specifically addressed in this proposal are

key, but still only examples out of a virtually unlimited space of possibilities to use this “disruptive” technology.

Even if in Europe there seems to be still a bit reluctance in accepting UWB-RT as a new key wireless solution, in

other parts of the world it has been considered already as a new key element of Next Generation Networks, e.g. in



South Korea it will form an integral part of the new high speed wireless public network infrastructure. UWB-RT

has the potential to contribute significantly towards the IST vision of tomorrow, including “Ambient Intelligence”,

the notion that the “Surrounding is the Interface”, the intuitive use of all senses, availability of “Infinite Bandwidth

and Performance”, mobile/wireless full multimedia, effortless mode of interaction and context-based knowledge

handling, to name a few. The general and the technically interested public will benefit from the dissemination of

knowledge and results gained within EUWB and in particular the advances further to be introduced in the

regulation update process will give an example for future regulation of cognitive systems in general. Finally,

Europe‟s wireless industry will derive benefits from a new generation of engineers trained by their active

participation or through the educational activities induced by EUWB.

B3.1.1.1 Declaration of Collaboration Within the eMobility Technology Platform

One of the major objectives of the eMobility Technology Platform is to reinforce Europe‟s leadership in mobile

and wireless communications and services and to master the future development of relevant technologies, so that

they serve Europe‟s citizens and the European economy in the most effective manner (http://www.eMobility.eu.org).

eMobility was publicly launched in March 2005. The platform supports part of the agenda set by the European

Council (A new start for the Lisbon Strategy COM (2005) 24 02.02.2005).

The eMobility Technology Platform is representative of the mobile and wireless communications systems,

applications and services area within Europe. It is open to all organisations active in the sector in Europe. At

present, almost 500 organisations, covering the whole value chain, have joined the eMobility Technology

Platform. Specifically, collaboration between on-going R&D projects, future projects under the 7th Framework

Programme, EUREKA projects and national projects and programmes will be supported through working groups

of the platform and the activities of the eMobility Mirror and Liaison Group and Expert Group. Existing

international links are being extended, for example, through liaisons with the National Science Foundation in the

U.S.A., relevant Universities in the Americas, the FuTURE project and FuTURE Forum in China, NiCT and mITF

in Japan, NGMC in Korea and through the Wireless World Research Forum. Collaboration with other European

Technology Platforms is at a mature stage and has been promoted by eMobility, which has organised a number of

joint platform events, activities and press releases.

Relationship of this Project with the eMobility Technology Platform

This proposed project is part of the R&D in the area of mobile and wireless technology, which will implement

parts of the eMobility Strategic research agenda. In this area the eMobility Technology Platform has set up a

framework of collaboration, consultation and information, which is of mutual benefit to all eMobility members

and the projects and programmes working in this domain. eMobility has developed, and published on its web site,

a Co-operation agreement for each project that intends to establish close co-operation on common overall

objectives. There are two versions, with or without access rights, depending on the intended grade of co-operation,

providing a legal basis for collaboration and the agreement supports collaborative working groups through

organising meetings, mailing lists and wiki tools. These processes will support the collaboration of projects and

programmes within the context of the vision and Strategic research agenda of the eMobility Platform.

It is the intention of this project to co-operate with other accepted projects towards common overall objectives and

to contribute to the collaborative activities and processes established within the framework of the eMobility

Technology Platform. The sets of co-operating projects will be defined after the acceptance of project proposals in

a process of consultation between relevant projects.

B3.1.1.2 Contribution to EC Policies

The majority of the project partners of EUWB have actively contributed to a large extend to a White Paper

towards Radio Spectrum Committee (RSC), this was supporting the initiation of the RSC mandate towards CEPT

(see below), which is considered as a milestone in European UWB regulation process.

White Paper and Presentation to RSC#7 Excerpt from Doc. RSC#7–Cluster: top5

“The Radio Spectrum Committee has welcomed the objective to increase synergy between European R&D

projects and spectrum policy as described in two working documents presented respectively on 1 October

and 10 December 20033. As part of this initiative, the Commission has identified the current EU research

3 RSCOM03-20 – Linking Community RTD and Spectrum Management and RSCOM03-42 – Proposed modalities to increase

synergies between EU-funded RTD and spectrum policy.



work on UWB technology as a relevant activity to report to the Committee, in particular in the context of

the forthcoming CEPT work regarding the UWB Mandate submitted for regulatory procedure at this

RSC#7 meeting.”

The U.S.A. have adopted a legal status for the marketing and use of UWB radio devices, at the time of writing this

proposal, there is quite recently released a European-wide regulations in place covering the use of UWB radio

devices. However, efforts to update this initial regulation are already underway within both CEPT and ETSI based

on a recent mandate following the two initial mandates issued by the European Commission. All three mandates

reflect the strong interest of the European Commission enabling the UWB-RT as a potential means to support

European policies.

EC Mandate to ETSI

The first one on 25 February, 2003 Ref: (11)38 Standardisation mandate UWB.doc, DG ENTR/G/3, M/329, was

issued by the DG ENTERPRISE: Conformity and standardisation, new approach, industries under new approach –

Mechanical and electrical equipment; (including telecom terminal equipment). ETSI has formally accepted the

EC‟s mandate.

Brussels, 25 February 2003

Ref: (11)38 Standardisation mandate, UWB.doc, DG ENTR/G/3, M/329

STANDARDISATION MANDATE FORWARDED TO CEN/CENELEC/ETSI IN THE FIELD OF

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

TITLE: Harmonised standards covering Ultrawide band (UWB) applications

PURPOSE: The purpose of this mandate is to establish a set of Harmonised Standards covering UWB

applications to be recognised under Directive 1999/5/EC (the R&TTE Directive) giving a presumption of

conformity with its requirements.

JUSTIFICATION: This mandate derives from the R&TTE Directive. This Directive, following the New

Approach on Technical Harmonisation and Standards4, defines the essential requirements R&TTE equipment must

meet to be placed on the market and to be put into service for its intended purpose. Although various definitions

exist for the term, UWB is generally understood to be a technology which, by transmitting exactly timed pulses,

spreads transmitted electromagnetic energy over a very large frequency range with as a result a spectral power

density, which lies below classical EMC limits. Proposed applications of the technology range from

communications, anti-collision radar and imaging techniques (see through a wall). Their proponents argue that

UWB devices can operate without causing interference to other users of the spectrum. As a technology, UWB thus

doesn‟t fit in the classical radio regulatory paradigm, which bases itself on a subdivision of the spectrum in bands,

which are allocated for specific usage(s).

Incumbent spectrum users are concerned that the accumulative effect of UWB devices raises the background noise

for their spectrum, rendering operation of their services difficult or sometimes even impossible.

Public authorities, especially in the United States and in Europe, are studying these effects.

The European Communications Committee held two workshops on the matter, whereas the Federal Communication

Commission issued a first order on the matter in February 2002.

Such studies should lead to the formulation of specific protection requirements for critical services to be taken into

account in harmonised standards for UWB devices.

ORDER: The European Standardisation Organisations are mandated to:

Develop a work programme for harmonised standards covering UWB applications;

Report the progress of the work to the Commission at regular intervals and at least prior to each meeting

of the TCAM5;

Deliver harmonised standards for the work items confirmed by the TCAM, the references of which will

be published in the official journal of the European Communities as giving presumption of conformity

with the R&TTE Directive.

4 Council Resolution of 7th May 1985 on a new approach concerning technical harmonisation and standardisation (85/C 136/01). 5 Telecommunications Conformity Assessment and Market Surveillance Committee, which is the standing Committee set-up by the

Directive.



RECOMMENDATIONS: The experts should liaise intensively with regulatory bodies and their experts.

PROPOSED SCHEDULE: December 2003 Presentation of the work programme to TCAM; as of December

2004 delivery of harmonised standards.

ALIGNMENT WITH OTHER INTERNATIONAL WORK: Where appropriate alignment with equivalent

activities in the ITU and in ISO/IEC should be ensured. Due account should be taken of regulations and draft

regulations adopted in other economies so as to ensure a global market for UWB devices.

STANDSTILL: For the terms of Article 7 of the Directive 98/34/EC, the standstill applies for the standards

developed within the present mandate.

PUBLICATION IN THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL: The title in the languages of the Community is required.

Table 1414: The European Commission‟s UWB mandate towards ETSI.

The content of this mandate is of great importance to EUWB both in terms of regulatory issues as well as implied

technological and economical matters. The EC‟s mandate indicates that UWB-RT shall play an important role in

Europe; the relevant statements in the cited EC‟s mandate document are reproduced to emphasise the EC‟s policy

in this area.

The mandate to CEPT, is an order to identify the conditions relating to the harmonised introduction in the

European Union (EU) of radio applications based on UWB-RT. In response to the EC‟s mandate, the CEPT has

reorganised their ongoing UWB work in a new task group (ECC-TG3).

The content of the mandate towards CEPT indicates clearly the strong interest of the European Commission to

enable the introduction of UWB-RT to support the various EC policies, i.e. “UWB technology may provide a host

of applications of benefit for various EU policies”.

EC Mandate to CEPT

Brussels, 18 February 2004

Ref: RSCOM04-08 EN, DG INFSO/B4/(2004)

MANDATE TO CEPT TO HARMONISE RADIO SPECTRUM USE FOR ULTRA-WIDEBAND SYSTEMS IN THE

EUROPEAN UNION

TITLE: A mandate to CEPT to identify the conditions relating to the harmonised introduction in the European Union of

radio applications based on ultra-wideband (UWB) technology.

PURPOSE: Pursuant to art. 4 of the Radio Spectrum Decision, CEPT is mandated to undertake all necessary work to

identify the most appropriate technical and operational criteria for the harmonised introduction of UWB-based

applications in the European Union.

JUSTIFICATION: UWB technology may provide a host of applications of benefit for various EU policies. However,

its characteristic broad underlay over spectrum already used by other radio services may also have an impact on the

proper operation of radio services of significance for the successful implementation of EU policies. It is therefore

important to establish conditions of the use of radio spectrum for UWB which will allow UWB to be introduced on the

market as commercial opportunities arise, while providing adequate protection to other radio services.

Furthermore, economies of scale and consequent benefits to the consumer will only accrue if an effective single market

for these applications is set in place by harmonising spectrum usage rules across the EU. This approach will also address

the fact that the expected mobility of UWB devices would likely render the enforcement of divergent national

regulations impracticable.

Considering the potential impact of UWB regulation on a high number of EU policies and initiatives, this Commission

mandate aims to ensure that the technical work already underway or planned by CEPT will fulfil EU policy

requirements, as well as to formally align spectrum access harmonisation activities with standardisation work being

carried out by ETSI in response to Commission Mandate M/329.

ORDER:

1. CEPT is hereby mandated to undertake all relevant work to identify harmonised conditions of use of radio spectrum

for ultra-wideband applications in the European Union. A high degree of consideration shall be given to the interests of

all parties involved, including the existing services in the bands which could be employed for ultrawideband

applications. At the same time, this must be balanced with the overall requirement of avoiding undue regulatory delays

in the development and introduction in the European Union of new technologies, such as UWB.



To do so, the technical feasibility of coexistence of UWB applications with existing and planned radio services shall be

explored in detail. The near-totality of UWB applications are expected to be operated without requirement for an

individual right to use radio spectrum (“licence-exempted”) and on a “no protection, no harmful interference” basis. In

order to compute “safe” operating parameters for UWB in the European Union, future individual and aggregation effects

of UWB devices should be fully considered and operational mitigation techniques explored.

At the same time, usage and power level constraints proposed in the light of all the possible factors affecting the degree

of harmful interference from UWB to other services ought to remain proportionate, taking into account that many

sources of radio “white noise” already exist, in particular in indoor environments.

CEPT should also undertake this mandate in full awareness of the developing regulatory context for UWB outside

Europe and of the potential benefits to consumers of achieving globally-compatible conditions of radio spectrum use for

UWB. However, the protection of other radio users should be ensured, by considering the European specificities in

spectrum use compared to other regions of the world.

This mandate is intended to provide a general framework for the development of a common European position on

UWB, and to consider all possible UWB types of applications (i.e. communications, imaging, surveillance, etc.), except

automotive shortrange radar, for which a separate Commission mandate has already been issued to CEPT (see RSCOM

03-37).

In scheduling the work, CEPT is requested to take into account the state of progress in the development of UWB

standards and the fact that sharing studies have been focussed until now on communication applications operating

between 1 and 6 GHz. It is therefore expected that under this Mandate CEPT will finalise its activities in this area and in

this range at first, while addressing other possibilities, both concerning other applications and other frequency ranges.

Depending on developments of UWB technology, more mandates may be required subsequently.

2. In order to achieve the above, CEPT is mandated to:

• undertake all the necessary technical compatibility work between UWB systems and potentially affected radio services

required to develop a harmonised regulation for the use of radio spectrum for UWB in the European Union; including

- scheduling and prioritising activities under this mandate to reflect the work already undertaken in this area; justifying

this selection on the basis of clear criteria, notably industry demand and potential impact of UWB applications on EU

policies;

- determining the frequency range(s) it wishes to focus upon first, and justifying this selection on the basis of clear

criteria; studying the possible use of additional frequency ranges in the future;

• identify the technical parameters of UWB systems to be included in the overall harmonised regulatory approach; for

this, work in close collaboration with ETSI, in its development of harmonised standards for UWB pursuant to

Commission Mandate M/329; in this context, consider where design guidelines for existing and new radio standards

could improve suitability of spectrum for underlay by UWB devices;

• identify the conditions of use of radio spectrum by UWB required to protect other radio services from harmful

interference, including the potential impact of UWB out-of-band emissions on other services. Give due consideration to

appropriate measurements techniques for UWB emission, as well as to the use of mitigation techniques compliant with

the application of EC law;

• consider the existing and developing regulatory environment, in particular ongoing ITU activities, and the extent of

convergence which is feasible with non-EU regulation. The application across the EU of ITU RR article 4.4, but also the

implications of UWB emissions in frequency bands covered by ITU RR footnote 5.340, should also be studied;

• report on actual or planned real-life testing within the European Union; consider the possible benefits of experimental

rights to use radio spectrum (or licences) for UWB applications;

• consider the designation of one or more harmonised frequency band(s) for generic or specific UWB uses; the choice of

particular technical conditions of use applicable to UWB in this/these band(s) shall be duly justified. Alternatively,

technical “options” shall be provided for discussion and approval by the Radio Spectrum Committee.

• consider what could be the possible elements of a monitoring and review mechanism aimed at ensuring that regulation

of radio spectrum for UWB remains responsive to technical and societal developments, and to actual or perceived

changes in the risk of harmful interference with other radio services.

CEPT is expected to summarise the results on the above-mentioned tasks in its reporting to the Commission.

3. CEPT is mandated to provide deliverables according to the following schedule:

July 15th 2004 – First Report from CEPT to the Commission: Description of initial work undertaken under this



Mandate and schedule for future work.

Nov 15th 2004 – Interim Report from CEPT to the Commission: Description of first phase of work finalised under this

Mandate and orientation for second phase.

April 2005 – Final Report from CEPT to the Commission: Description of work undertaken and results achieved under

this Mandate. Suggestions for further work.

In addition, CEPT is requested to report on the progress of its work pursuant to this Mandate to all the meetings of the

Radio Spectrum Committee taking place during the course of the Mandate.

4. The result of this Mandate can be made applicable in the European Community pursuant to Article 4 of the Radio

Spectrum Decision.

In implementing this Mandate, the CEPT shall, where relevant, take the utmost account of Community law applicable.

Table 1515: The European Commission‟s UWB mandate towards CEPT.

From the minutes of the first TG3 meeting, it follows that the EC‟s representative expressed his wish to follow the

work of ECC-TG3 and help whenever necessary with the interpretation on the objectives of the mandate. He also

insisted on the need for rapid progress due to growing industrial demands for regulating this (UWB) technology

and explained that the tight and challenging schedule of the mandate was aimed at providing viable solutions in a

timely fashion. Moreover, the EC‟s counsellor also underlined that a large amount of funding is invested by the

European Union in various research projects on UWB6, indicating that the Commission strongly encourages CEPT

to make use of the resources available in these RTD projects to validate and complement UWB compatibility

studies by experimental tests.

As EUWB can be considered as the integral follow-up of whyless.com, UCAN, ULTRAWAVES, PULSERS,

PULSERS Phase II and UROOF concentrating all major European UWB related research activities in a single

Integrated Project it can be seen as essential participant in the regulation and standardisation process providing

scientific excellence as well as practical support (in terms of measurements and coexistence investigations).

B3.1.1.3 Co-operation with Major National Research Programmes in Europe

In 2006, in Germany a 6 years R&D programme dedicated to UWB related activities has been launched: UkoLoS

– Ultra-wideband Radio Technologies for Communication, Localisation and Sensor Technology. It is a Priority

programme SPP1202 launched by the DFG (German Research Foundation). EUWB will closely co-operate with

this programme through the programme leader being a member of the EUWB consortium, namely UIL.

B3.1.2 Socio-economic Impact

EUWB focuses entirely on UWB-RT, a new wireless technology, operating in a potentially unlicensed frequency

band in Europe, that will have significant benefits for public safety, consumers, businesses, and the environment

alike, through the introduction of a potentially vast array of products and applications. UWB devices operate in

spectrum bands already occupied by existing radio services, thus permitting the scarce spectrum resources to be

used more efficiently, a core concern of any radio regulatory body. The project‟s acronym EUWB reflects its major

objective, namely to provide a new wireless core technology with features that can change the way how people use

and interact with their environment through wireless communications and localisation technologies, be it in their

daily life at home, in public places, or in the work environment. At the component level, EUWB will continue to

develop basic PHY/MAC building blocks enabling the realisation of a surrounding “Ambient Intelligence” for

more natural and easy interactions with envisaged future IST applications and services. But the main focus of

EUWB is on the system aspects, where the integration of technology elements derived in previous projects, and

further optimised in previous PULSERS, will constitute system level verification of representative applications

based on UWB-RT. When considering the various usage scenarios, EUWB will take on the challenge to bring the

users – i.e. people – to the foreground and thus to the centre of attention. This is expected to be achievable with

UWB-RT communications and localisation technologies for the background (pervasive and almost invisible) and

embeddable in every day objects.

6 EC supported RTD projects related to UWB radio technology are whyless.com, UCAN and ULTRAWAVES as well as PULSERS

forming the integral FP6 follow up of the other three FP5 projects.



Figure 3434: Relative growth of UWB enabled devices (source: ISM research).

In a broader sense, the R&D activities within EUWB address major challenges in areas such as mobility, safety,

environmental protection, leisure, industrial automation and control, surveillance and monitoring, human-human

and human-machine interaction, as well as support systems for people with disabilities to provide barrier free

access and personal autonomy. UWB-RT has the potential to contribute significantly towards the IST vision of

tomorrow, including: “Ambient Intelligence”, the notion that the “Surrounding is the Interface”, the intuitive use

of all senses, availability of “Infinite Bandwidth and Performance”, mobile/wireless full multimedia, effortless

mode of interaction and context-based knowledge handling, to name a few. The general and the technically

interested public will benefit from the dissemination of knowledge and results gained within EUWB. Finally,

Europe‟s wireless industry will derive benefits from a new generation of engineers trained by their active

participation or through the educational activities induced by EUWB.

Figure 3535: EUWB driving European and international UWB related standards extension.



Figure 3636: UWB in the (extended) home environment.

The EUWB project will be:

Driving European (ECMA 368/369, ETSI TG31a/c) and international (IEEE 802.15.4a/3c) standards and

contributing to global (Bluetooth, WiMedia) industrial alliances ensures coverage of the new applications

services and the application specific extended user operational requirements;

Implementing important EC policy enabling new markets and applications contributing to European

frequency regulation (CEPT ECC TG3 and SE24) by re/double-using radio spectrum while ensuring

coexistence with other existing radio systems (intra and inter) – introduction of new paradigm;

Driving enhancement of several European industry sectors competitiveness (home CE, semiconductors,

automotive, public transport, public networks) by enabling new industrial and service opportunities;

Providing new means for convergence of NGNW with ultra high speed short range wireless access

inclusive local hybrid fixed/wireless systems by defining and validating interoperability in several

heterogeneous scenarios.

B3.1.3 Technological Impact

Scientific

EUWB will address the scientific objectives of the IST Priority at different levels. EUWB will effectively leverage

the scientific knowledge base emerging from the past UWB-RT related IST-FP5 and FP6 projects, i.e.

whyless.com, UCAN and ULTRAWAVES, by integrating some of their key partners and by continuing the

successful partnership established under the IST-FP6 projects PULSERS and PULSERS Phase II. New scientific

contributions will become available at an applied technological level through the demonstration platforms that will

be developed in the course of the project, and at a more fundamental level through the integration of advanced

research topics, which will lead to design guidelines and future extensions of the technology under development.

For example, EUWB will continue to addresses advanced concepts for future Multiple Antenna Systems (MAS)

with emphasis on fundamental scientific aspects as started in PULSERS, but now relying on less idealised

assumptions and taking into account real-world constraints; technology developed in the subsequent project will

benefit from this activity, e.g. distributed MAS will enable new applications in difficult industrial environment

where link reliability is a premium concern. The EUWB consortium pursues a proactive dissemination of the

scientific results to encourage further interactions and exchange with their peers, e.g. in the Networks of

Excellence (NoE).

Technological

UWB-RT is an emerging and disruptive wireless technology, facilitating the need for a paradigm shift in the design

and use of wireless systems. At the same time, it offers solutions for many known and probably also many yet to

be discovered indoor as well as outdoor wireless scenarios, e.g. [17][17], which will change the way we

communicate, handle everyday tasks, do business, etc. Focused entirely on UWB-RT, EUWB unites a critical mass



of organisations with proven expertise in the field, enabling significant contributions towards the technological,

regulatory (CEPT ECC TG3, ITU TG1/8), and standardisation (ETSI TG31a, IEEE 802.15.4a/3a) advancement of

UWB-RT in Europe and world-wide. EUWB will leverage and enhance the technical competence of almost forty

collaborating European and international partners, including large industrial members, SMEs, public RTD entities

and academic organisations. The involved partners and the wider public will benefit from new know-how

generated in the form of intellectual property, scientific publications, technological assets and experience that

support the implementation of low-cost and low-power PHY/MAC concepts and architectures leading to building

blocks for future, advanced UWB radio systems.

EUWB will assist and partly lead even the European RTD community in the field of UWB-RT to effectively reach

an internationally competitive technological status by following a dual approach in investigating, developing and

verifying the underlying system concepts and technologies. In particular, at the systems and PHY/MAC levels,

EUWB is primarily targeting two distinct classes of application areas of UWB-RT low data rate with localisation

and tracking (LDR-LT) and very high data rate (VHDR).

The project will include specific integration work for system verification and investigate coexistence issues related

to incumbent radio services. Many of the targeted technological objectives are well beyond the state-of-the-art of

UWB-RT known today. For example, a demanding objective of EUWB is to show and verify the feasibility of a

UWB-RT based digital visual interface (DVI) applicable to future wireless HDTV data streaming applications.

Another example is given by the challenging objective of identifying viable concepts that benefit from the

multiple antenna effect in UWB radio systems. An all important technological objective is to advance state-of-the-

art of low power and low complexity systems and devices based on UWB-RT.

B3.1.4 Contributions to Regulations and Standards

A prerequisite for establishing standards is a radio spectrum regulation in force permitting such activities. In

Europe the UWB standardisation process in TG31a of ETSI is stalled until the CEPT and RSC will provide a

regulation covering UWB in Europe. Until this time the ETSI TG31a members actively participate in CEPT

ECCC TG3 meetings together with the EUWB representatives and European administrations and major companies

representatives.

One of the most important objectives of the EUWB project is to support activities in Regulation and

Standardisation of UWB-RT. These activities have been the most successful and most visible ones already during

previous project PULSERS. There have been several PULSERS inputs to the Radio Spectrum Committee (RSC),

CEPT ECC TG3 and ITU-R TG1/8. This activities are planned to be continued under the umbrella of the EUWB

project.

Radio Spectrum Council (RSC) of the EU

- Submission of White Paper and Presentation to RSC#7 UWB Mandate to CEPT;

- Maintain liaison to EC‟s DG INFSO Radio Spectrum Policy Unit B-4 (F. Greco).

CEPT TG3

- Participated in 6 meetings;

- Submitted 10 contributions

PULSERS Comments on Draft ECC Report 64 (ERO/ECC Public Consultation);

- PULSERS partner co-ordinate UWB Industry Proponents ad-hoc Group (UIPaG) within TG3.

ITU-R TG1/8

- Representatives of PULSERS partner are members of the Swiss delegation (Ofcom);

- Participated in 2 meetings (3rd in Boston and 4th in Geneva);

- Submitted 8 contributions.

During the preparation of this proposal it has been difficult to forecast if the dedicated regulatory efforts for UWB-

RR technologies in Europe will indeed be terminated as planned in 2007. It is likely that regulatory efforts may be

extended to 2008 and behind in Europe and may re-appear on global recommendation level (ITU). EUWB

partners are fully committed to support this process by active contribution and will continue to support efforts on

UWB standardisation.

An older example is a PULSERS contribution to the public consultation process of the ECC Report 64 on UWB

regulation (more than 100 pages document with 18 Annexes):

PULSERS Comments on Draft ECC Report 64 – General Conclusions



Draft ECC Report 64 fails to enable a constructive path towards the collective targets set forth by the EC‟s

mandate, since the “generic PSD limits” in the report will:

… most likely deter anyone from investing in complying UWB devices and applications;

… prevent a much required harmonised and globally compatible UWB regulatory framework;

… prevent the development of an economically viable European UWB radio ecosystem.

As a continuation of this huge effort in EUWB partners are committed to following steps:

Investigation and development of UWB radio devices and systems within the EUWB project that are

compatible with current (U.S.A.) and up-and-coming (Europe, Asia) radio regulations, e.g. usage,

spectrum mask;

EUWB results will have a constructive impact on the directions and outcomes of i) the on-going and

future European UWB regulatory process and ii) current and future PHY/MAC standardisation efforts,

both in Europe and beyond, through the active support and contributions of partners

Individually and jointly support the efforts of EUWB partners that contribute towards a globally

compatible UWB radio regulation.

In addition, EUWB aims to influence the standardisation and regulation efforts by leveraging a unified

industrial front. To help achieve these objectives, close co-operation and liaisons with key international

partners and organisations established in the previous project PULSERS will be maintained and extended.

However, in the U.S.A. the IEEE has started standardisation for HDR UWB devices already directly after the

regulation was put in place by FCC (and has unsuccessful finished this time) and has very recently started

standardisation process on LDR-LT, where pulse based UWB is a major candidate. EUWB project members have

submitted earlier proposals for standard and are actively involved in the standardisation process in the U.S.A.

These activities are planned to be continued and even increased, as in Europe now an initial regulation is in place

and ETSI TG31a will again become active for further deploying the possibilities opened now.

Regulation (Spectrum Mask and Measurement/Test Procedures)

The EUWB project aims to contribute to the regulatory process through ETSI or ITU bodies, as required. This may

include dedicated measurements efforts, or other simulation activities which may be required by regulatory bodies;

for example modelling and evaluating the effects of interference from various types of UWB signals upon existing

radio systems. Those activities performed by PULSERS/PULSERS Phase II partners in the past will be further

developed in the EUWB project, and will be related to the outcome of update decisions on regulation, which are

unclear at the time of writing of this proposal, but an first update is expected to appear end of 2007 and from there

probably ones a year until the issue is settled. It may transpire that active participation in the CEPT ECC TG3

working Group will continue in 2007 and 2008, depending on changes or the emergence of new issues regarding

UWB-RT applications, as mandated by RSC.

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Figure 3737: European UWB regulation process compared to U.S.A. and Singapore after report 64.



The ECC TG3 report 64 defined a generic protection mask for the introduction of UWB in Europe as seen above.

This mask was derived from protection criteria for the victim services without any mitigating effects being taken

into account. In parallel the UWB industry representatives at the TG3 meeting proposed a document outlining the

future work needed to allow an introduction of UWB in Europe with conditions that are similar to those in the

U.S.A., including mitigating effect, limiting the initial studies to under 5 GHz and limiting UWB deployment to

include no outdoor fixed infrastructure. EUWB will be active in carrying forward this future work with a strong

possibility that it might continue into 2007 and 2008. A first success is the compromise solution presented in the

first UWB regulation in Europe in February 2007.

Standards (PHY/MAC specifications)

In Europe, the EC has mandated ETSI to investigate a “harmonised standard” for the introduction of UWB radio

technology. This mandate forces the harmonisation of safety, health and environment, efficient spectrum use

through avoidance of harmful interference, respect of electromagnetic compatibility and the ability to operate

properly in nationally defined radio spectrums. A further key aspect for consideration by ETSI is the creation of

additional public utility parameters, such as access to emergency services, privacy protection and features for

disabled people.

Within ETSI the work has been split into “devices below 10 GHz” (defined by ERM TG31a) and “automotive”

applications (defined by ERM TG31b). ETSI ERM TG31a has drafted an initial recommendation, EN 302065, for

UWB applications below 10 GHz. Although ETSI is responsible for delivering the EC mandate and is required to

produce a “harmonised standard”, there is also a collaboration mechanism provided by the establishment of the

European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) work group (SE24). The CEPT

SE24 group conducts numerous studies to establish the potential for coexistence of UWB devices with existing

legal radio services.

EUWB plans to actively contribute to the standardisation efforts, and WP9 is exclusively dedicated to this goal.

This will continue the driving effort the project partners have invested up to now into these fora.

The EUWB project is aiming to continue contributing to the UWB-related standardisation bodies, especially on

PHY/MAC concepts and their evaluation in relation to new standards enabling applications based on LDR-LT and

HDR devices, e.g. IEEE 802.15.4a (LDR-LT) and ETSI (HDR/LDR-LT) (long term effort). These efforts will be

disseminated further through:

Contacts to the Japanese Standardisation and regulations authorities, e.g. MPHPT, using our Israel project

partner (who is actively supporting TELEC);

Contacts to the NICT (EUWB plans to establish a MoU to exchange information);

Contacts to the Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R) in Singapore (EUWB will establish an MoU);

Contacts to the Korean Spectrum Engineering Forum.

It is very likely that some of the new research activities will be appropriate for contribution to standardisation bodies.

Two ETSI groups, namely ETSI TC RRS (Technical Committee on Reconfigurable Radio Systems) and ETSI TG

31a, are targeted. Principal investigator from WRC, Radosław Piesiewicz has already been active in the operation

of ETSI TC RRS and served as a liaison person of EUWB in it, when at CREATE-NET. There is a high potential

that developments of DCPC planned in T2.2 will generate interesting inputs to this body. Also, developments set

forth in WP8 might provide tangible inputs to ETSI TG 31a and if so will be disseminated to this body by EUWB

WP9 liaison persons Hartmut Dunger (BOSCH) and Friedbert Berens (FBC).

B3.1.5 Impact for the Enlarged Europe

With the accession of 4 new highly qualified and competent partners from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe

to the industry-led, prime European IP project on advanced UWB communications technology, co-operation in the

enlarged Europe will be significantly reinforced. On one side, the new EUWB+ partners will gain access to very

advanced technology solutions and know-how provided by over 20 current EUWB partners from western

European countries. On the other hand, these new 4 partners will bring in new scientific concepts, expanding the

scope of EUWB activities and also strengthen hardware development in a number of demonstrators, hence

improving the exploitation of ICT R&D synergies across enlarged Europe with a common goal to reinforce the

European industrial and technological base in the field of advanced communication systems.

Needless to say, the accession of two universities, one research institute and one SME from altogether 4 different

countries will contribute greatly to wider participation in Community-supported ICT research projects across all

Member and Associated states. It is not only that these institutions will take part in FP7 project, but they will also




disseminate good practices and activate respective communities in their home countries by demonstrating added

value and showcasing results of their involvement in EUWB+. The researchers from the EUWB+ involved

institutions are highly recognised individuals in their countries in their fields of activity. They will spread

excellence and increase interest in participation to EU funded projects.

EUWB is a large integrated project, the prime one in Europe on advanced short-range UWB technology. It

comprises all key industrial and academic players in this field. EUWB is also crowning the successful sequence of

UWB oriented FP5 and FP6 projects with main focus on industrial exploitation manifested by purely application

and market oriented clusters, including public transport, automotive, home environment and heterogeneous

networks – all led by key industrial players including EADS, Philips, Bosch and Telefónica. It is the place to have

impact and learn best knowledge and practices in UWB technology in Europe. Hence, accession of 4 new

excellent partners from enlarged Europe to EUWB paves the way for strategic partnerships across enlarged

Europe. Their valuable contributions, focused on the true identified additional needs of EUWB project will bring

UWB developments forward and hence will strengthen European competitiveness. Also, contributions towards

standards and interoperable solutions can be expected, as outlined in further exploitation and dissemination

sections.

B3.2 Plan for the Use and Dissemination of Foreground

B3.2.1 Dissemination/Exploitation of Project Results

During the project run time a detailed plan for dissemination and for exploitation of knowledge will be developed

in an evolutionary way starting with an initial version already after two months project time. Then for each

reporting period an updated version and at the end a final version of this plan will be provided by the project.

Therefore each partner will provide for each version one month in advance before the end of the reporting period

the appropriate input to the project management for compilation of the document and delivery to the project and

also to the EC.

However, as the project builds on a preceding phase (where the first reporting period was finished recently) there

is already input and rough estimations available.

EUWB project partners have identified typical application areas where the UWB-RT may have a successful

deployment by fully utilising specific aspects of the technology and drive competitive advantage:

Home usage as integrated parts of the home related appliances like households goods not necessarily

classified as consumer electronics (switches, lights, home sensors, alarms) potential parts of the house

automation market;

Usage for consumer market appliances collectively described as multimedia devices (video, audio,

gaming, DVI content exchange devices like displays), which are not necessary computing devices;

Usage in PAN environments, such as PDA connectivity applications and private sensors networks such as

body area systems, and includes PAN connectivity on commonly used mobile communication devices or

other gateway nodes for long distance communications;

Usage in WLAN environments;

Usage in industrial markets for highly harsh environments by including localisation and tracking features

(manufacturing facilities, logistics);

Usage in wireless sensor markets including security, medical, automotive, avionics and transport;

Usage in mobile phone markets where UWB-RT technology will be integrated;

Usage in low cost localisation and Tracking market by inclusion of such functionality in the consumer

electronics devices;

Usage in professional localisation and tracking market for security and health reasons.

Following dissemination activities have been envisaged:

Regulation and standardisation activities;

Participation in scientific conferences;

Scientific and general technology papers;

Participation in related workshops;



Active participation in specific clusters;

Specific activities related to individual efforts of the dedicated project partners.

B3.2.1.1 Use Plan

It is anticipated that use plans for EUWB partners can be classified as follows:

Major EUWB partners providing a complete product may have their own individual usage plan for

deployment of the technology in commercial products on a global level. These plans are predominantly

influenced by the full deployment of the UWB-RT technology in a complementary manner compared to

the existing short range wireless technologies. The complementary approach uses advantages of the

UWB-RT technology, such as new localisation and tracking features, low power consumption, low

complexity and large spatial capacities;

Technology and sub-system providers have an internal use plan for providing mature technologies for

deployment of the UWB-RT related devices;

Public research institutes and universities plan to disseminate the UWB-RT knowledge to third parties

through IP usage, and to use it to build up knowledge of UWB-RT, providing the capability to further

develop and optimise the technology to make it product ready, further they use it in the education process

and therefore attract more students;

EUWB partners with mobile service provider capabilities will use the UWB-RT technology as an asset to

be integrated in mobile phones providing additional service provisions to the end user.

Each of the use plans will be provided initially after the start of the project and then being updated on an annual

basis forming part of the periodic and final review reports.

B3.2.1.2 Plan for Disseminating Knowledge

Concertation and Clustering

The project will actively participate in the activities organised at programme level relating to the ICT Future

Networks area with the objective of providing input towards common activities and receiving feedback, e.g. from

clusters and co-ordination groups, offering advice and guidance and receiving information relating to ICT

programme implementation, standards, policy and regulatory activities, national or international initiatives, etc.

Regulation and Standardisation

It is considered that dissemination of the UWB-RT knowledge and results in the scope of the Regulation and

Standardisation process are major objectives of the PULSERS project.

It is envisaged that by 2006 the major regulatory issues for deployment of the UWB-RT technology in Europe will

mostly be finalised. Further, it is expected that at a world-wide level, related recommendations may also be issued

or be very close to being issued. EUWB project partners will continue to contribute to the CEPT ECC TG3

Working Group as necessary to support regulatory UWB efforts in Europe.

The current Regulation and Standardisation activities supported are in the following areas:

UWB radio devices and systems being developed within PULSERS are compatible with current (U.S.A.)

and up-coming (Europe, Asia) radio regulations, e.g. usage, spectrum mask;

PULSERS‟ results have a constructive impact on the directions and outcomes of i) the on-going and

future European UWB regulatory process and ii) current and future PHY/MAC standardisation efforts,

both in Europe and beyond EUWB will continue these efforts after the end of PULSERS Phase II;

Support both individual and joint efforts of EUWB partners that contribute towards a globally compatible

UWB radio regulation. In addition, EUWB aims to achieve an impact in the standardisation and

regulation area by leveraging a unified industrial front. To help achieve these objectives, close co-

operation and liaisons with key international partners and organisations are established and will be

maintained and extended.

EUWB is aiming to contribute to regulatory processes to enable deployment of innovative UWB radio systems,

e.g. by modelling and evaluating the effects of interference from various types of UWB signals upon key existing

radio systems. Partner activities have been already initiated before the official project start. The same is planned



for the project with the addition of the provision of measurement results directly into TG3 and SE/FM regulation

process. For this reason one of the EUWB partners (GWT) is leading the “UWB in vehicle” working group.

Workshops, Conferences, Scientific Papers, Public Awareness

Participation in selected workshops related to the UWB-Technology and Short Range Wireless technologies will

be targeted by EUWB in order to disseminate the knowledge and also to raise the respective public awareness.

This will be especially true for European events, conducted and being initiated by European Commission bodies.

In particular, EUWB commits to participate in the ICT-event, 25.–27. November 2008, in Lyon and the ICT-2010.

In addition EUWB will organise a regular annual workshop to disseminate general information about the project

as well as relevant scientific results. This annular workshop may be part of another related event, in which case a

dedicated session or workshop day will be held for EUWB. Providing general information about EUWB will assist

both European and non-European organisations to better understand the focus of the objectives of EUWB. It will

also allow interaction between external organisations and those developing UWB experience within EUWB. The

EUWB workshops may be associated with conferences in Europe, Asia and the U.S.A.

EUWB will actively promote publication of scientific and general information in relevant conferences, journals

and professional magazines. In line with its obligations regarding dissemination of results and achievements, the

EUWB project insures that all public documents (including, but not restricted to, the following material: video

material covering experiments, trials; animations of “real-time” simulation results; presentations, animated/voice-

over or not; promotional material (leaflets, posters, etc.); press releases etc. generated by the project are duly

collected in a dissemination package which is associated with the periodic reports.

Given the increasing experience and understanding of UWB which is expected to by gained by the partnership,

UWB tutorials with emphasis on technically challenging, yet feasible UWB technologies will be developed and

presented by members of the EUWB consortium. They will also include general information on UWB technology,

project description and project status.

WEB Site Activities

The project undertakes to establish, not later than one month after the start of the project, a web site supported by

the project partners, to provide a unified view of the project; a copy thereof will be included in the Dissemination

Package. Amongst other documents available from the site, UWB related publications, as well as public

deliverables and a selection of the general presentations, will be placed on the web server. The EUWB web site

will also be established as the web site for major developments related to UWB-RT technology.

Marketing Strategies of Individual Partners

Basic postulated UWB exploitation and marketing strategy:

Exploitation of EUWB synergetic efforts will support Europe‟s plans to conceive and build a competitive

heterogeneous, wireless access network, containing UWB radio technology as a complementary means to

existing and upcoming radio technologies;

The consortium acts as incubator for strategic partnerships among numerous partners;

Exploitation of results in the areas of PHY/MAC and (mesh and ad-hoc) networking concepts for new

scenarios will be input to regulatory bodies and standardisation bodies;

A common dissemination strategy among the partners is agreed to be followed in the scope of the project.

However, individual plans for exploitation are driven by specific interests of specific partners and groups.

Following examples of the future products being identifies as basic approach for specific marketing strategy are:

Innovative and extremely low-power and low complexity UWB radio systems;

Precise positioning (would fit perfectly into the realisation of Philips‟ vision of “Ambient Intelligence” for

future connected, intelligent homes – HomeLab;

Tags and sensors (LDR-LT) (potential to manufacture billions of chips/year in industrial environment);

The scenarios appealing to an operator include extended WLANs and distributed sensor network, where

UWB radio offers advantages not found in other schemes, like interference robustness, and high capacity;

Academic partners will exploit their results and experience from the project to help the academic

formation of a new wave of engineers with specific UWB-RT know-how, ready to respond to future

market demands. This may result in providing skilled staff for industry and simultaneously open the door

for potential spin-off;



Deployment on the UWB-RT technology in licence free spectrum world-wide, with dedicated European

regulatory solutions if necessary.

It is estimated that UWB-RT will help to drive the European economy due to deployments in following industries:

Consumer electronics (home sensor, entertainment, computer) and mobile phone industry, e.g. wireless

data transfer interfaces, cables connections, localisation tracking (PDA, mobile phones, audio/video

equipment);

Automotive, industrial and security industry, e.g. home networks, sensors, cables connections, localisation

tracking;

European semiconductor industry expect benefits from a future mass-volume UWB chip production, e.g.

by new and affordable user applications.

These industries and related EUWB partners will deploy specific marketing strategies for respective market

segments. In the following some specific initial exploitation plans of individual EUWB partners are introduced.

P01-GWT

In the first place it is important for GWT to co-operate with large companies and establish itself as an competent

partner and source of excellence. For this the EUWB project is perfectly suited. On the other hand, GWT has a

diversity of high tech development branches, where the results of this project are expected to create a strong level

of interaction and synergy (public transport and health departments will strongly co-operate with the ICT

department during and after the project to implement results in products). Dissemination is another important

activity to become known on an international level.

P03-TESD

As a custom design and manufacturing company TES Electronic Solutions GmbH is strongly focussing on

providing innovative solutions in the areas of UWB, Bluetooth and new 60 GHz radios to customers in the

automotive, industrial, mass transport and home entertainment market segments. TESD will thus support the

dissemination of the project results at conferences, through publications in relevant technical journals and at

standardisation meetings. Additionally, TESD plans to exploit the results of the multimode/multiband platform by

developing customised products for the different applications and market segments. Even single components, such

as the mixer for the 60 GHz UWB to below 10 GHz UWB up-/down-conversion could be commercialised,

depending on the successful completion of the corresponding task.

P04-PHI

Bringing innovative solutions and applications to the consumer electronic market (particularly in the areas of high

quality video and audio applications) is the business of the innovation laboratory of Philips CE. UWB as an

enabling technology has the promising potential to open new opportunities for innovation within the home

entertainment domain. By joining the considerable expertise within the innovation lab and that of other partners in

the EUWB consortium the possibility of development, implementation and ultimately demonstration of these

innovative concepts become available. The know-how gained in the process will help Philips CE and its partners

in the consortium to gain scientifically as well as economically by exploiting these novel techniques in

commercial products.

P05-BOSCH

Based on the technology developed and demonstrated in this project, a new class of sensors with wireless

communication can be developed. Based on the results obtained concerning reliability, latency and cost,

appropriate sensor types will be identified. Series development of such sensors will be performed in close co-

operation with ECU platform development and OEMs.

The in-car location tracking technology developed will be transferred to the interested business unit for series

development.

P07-LUH

LUH has already an excellent visibility in UWB: LUH will host the IEEE International Conference on UWB 2008

(www.icuwb2008.org) in Hannover – an ideal forum for dissemination of project results. As has been successfully

demonstrated in 2007 by a special session of PULSERS Phase II, another good opportunity for dissemination is

the “Workshop on Positioning, Navigation, and Localisation (WPNC, cf. www.wpnc.net), also organised by LUH.



Moreover, LUH is leading an initiative on formulating the visions about UWB under the umbrella of the wireless

world research forum (www.wireless-world-research.org). Several journal and conference paper will round up the

dissemination activities of LUH.

P08-CNET

EUWB partners, notably CREATE-NET, are currently involved in the organisation of an annual international

conference dedicated to Cognitive Radio and Networks, namely the International Conference on Cognitive Radio

Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (CrownCom – www.crowncom.org). On one hand, CrownCom

is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc), the IEEE Microwave Theory and

Techniques Society (MTT-S), the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS), and the European Association for

Signal Processing (EURASIP). On the other hand, CrownCom has been in the technical co-operation with ACM

(The Association for Computer Machinery) and ACM SIGMOBILE (The ACM Special Interest Group on

Mobility of Systems, Users, Data, and Computing).

Moreover, a tutorial on “Wireless Environment (Spectrum) Sensing, Detection and Discovery Strategies” will be

co-organised by CREATE-NET and presented in the relevant conferences (CrownCom, DySPAN, ICC, Globecom,

etc.).

The Cognitive Radio technology developed within the EUWB project is expected to drive a number of

applications and market opportunities, both directly and indirectly. CREATE-NET is committed to work especially

with the industrial partners of the EUWB consortium in order to exploit the findings of the project in the context

of the envisaged environments. Moreover, the know-how on Cognitive Radio aspects and solving of coexistence

issues accumulated by CREATE-NET over the life-span of the project will be exploited in other relevant

research/applied projects.

P10-EADS

The result of the project will be the demonstration of a series of new wireless technologies which enable new

advanced communication infrastructure specifically developed for applications in the public transport environment.

The implementation of systems for public transport based on the results of EUWB will not just be an integration of

the technologies developed during the project, but will require a collective action by a number of key actors.

The effective dissemination of results is vital as it is the basis for promotion of future technologies for the public

transport environment and their world-wide acceptance by the involved communities.

To this aim EADS will during the project:

Present EUWB results within the main conferences and events related to public transport;

Present the results of the project to regulation, standardisation and certification authorities and

organisations (aereonautical or not);

Interact with other research activities.

Exchange the information results with all EADS Business Units in particular with Airbus for appropriate definition

and evaluation of the application scenarios and the requirements

This will also help to reach the necessary collective agreement between stakeholders like transport facilities

producers, public transport operators, government agencies and passenger groups to ensure that the proposed new

services, regulations satisfies all parties‟ requirements.

The industrial exploitation of EUWB results towards the public transport market, e.g. civil aviation, bus and train,

is for EADS the main objective. However, due to the complexity and openings to any application that EUWB wish

to achieve, it cannot be excluded that some of the results could be object of further development leading to dual

products.

P11-TID

Telefónica I+D, as R&D company of Telefónica Group, has the aim of innovating new ways of offering novel

services and enhancing the Telefónica customers‟ satisfaction. Telefónica is a global operator, providing fixed and

mobile communications including voice, data and video services. UWB will play an important role supporting the

improvement of provisioning such services thanks to high speed wireless broadband access. The work performed

within EUWB will allow TID to integrate UWB in an heterogeneous access environment. In this way, customers

will be able to enjoy anywhere a broadband access in a single device with multimode radios with low power



consumption. Location capabilities offered by UWB will enable the deployment of novel services exploiting the

information of accurate user position. Thus, the benefits that TID will offer to Telefónica Group exploitations are:

Improvement in wireless broadband networks in an heterogeneous environment;

Upgrading the user experience of truly mobile broadband access;

Enhancement of services by using user location information.

Telefónica I+D plans to disseminate the results achieved in the framework of EUWB in standardisation bodies and

operator organisations, like NGMN (www.ngmn-cooperation.com), 3GPP (www.3gpp.org), ZigBee Alliance

(www.zigbee.org).

P14-WIS

WiMedia UWB is WIS main business interest. Extension of the possible HDR UWB applications and services will

be exploited by WIS to extend the capabilities of its products in order of enhancing its products for better suiting

the new possibilities.

P15-UZ

As a research and educational organisation, UZ will focus on innovative research oriented tasks. UZ will target the

dissemination of research results through the publication of scientific papers in relevant conferences, workshops

and journals. Dissemination will be done also through presentations or sessions at national and local conferences

and events where UZ is an active contributor. UZ will benefit of gained knowledge using it for further research in

other local and national projects UZ is involved, which may lead to further develop and optimise the technology

and to its application in different scenarios.

P19-UNIBO

Dissemination is one of the most important tasks especially for work packages 2–4 which are more innovative

research oriented. The UNIBO has a long experience in presenting research results and materials in conferences/

workshops/journal papers as well as in organising international conferences. In particular, UNIBO researchers

took the role of chair and session organisers in many international conferences (UWBST, IWUWBS, IEEE

Globecom 2003, IEEE Globecom 2004, IEEE ICC 2002, IEEE ICC 2004, IEEE ICC 2007) and also in particular

in the IEEE International Conference on UWB (ICUWB). In addition, they are actively involved as Officers in the

IEEE Radio Communications Committee. Based on this experience we plan to present the main project results in

both journals and international conferences, with the opportunity to organise dedicated sessions and/or workshops

to promote the research activities of EUWB.

P17-TESUK

TES Electronic Solutions Limited, as the UK arm of the TES Group has an active consultancy business centred on

radio protocol stack intellectual property (IP). TESUK supplies embeddable protocol stacks and associated

consultancy and generates customer reference platforms which may be adapted to specific applications. As such,

UWB IP development is a natural extension to the extensive protocol stack IP TESUK has already developed.

Short range radio technology centred on UWB meets TESUK growing customer requirements for high speed,

short range communications in consumer, industrial, and medical markets.

TESUK supplies a full turnkey sub-contract product design and manufacturing capability based on its core skills

and IP and will incorporate IP developed during its involvement in EUWB into its portfolio. As a result, TESUK

will disseminate and exploit the IP generated during its involvement in the partnership through its normal

commercial channels and will supply detailed training, support and adaptation consultancy services based on the

EUWB deliverables with which it is involved.

P20-UDE

UDE plans to exploit their contributions in the EUWB project in both economical and scientific evolution of their

profile. In the economic arena, UDE plans to further the UDE PROMETHEUS platform which comprises several

hardware/software components providing a variety of wireless connectivity solutions already today. The UDE

PROMETHEUS platform improved with the EUWB results will serve as a marketing means in the acquisition of

new industry funded collaborations. Furthermore, UDE plans to contribute to the technology transfer of EUWB

results to small and medium sized enterprises in Germany and Europe. For instance, the “Peter Jung und Guido

Bruck Institut für Kommunikationstechnik GbR” (IKT) which was formed in 2005 as a first spin-off of the

Lehrstuhl für Kommunikationstechnik will benefit from the gained knowledge. In the scientific arena, UDE plans



to exploit the research work in the EUWB project in PhD and master theses carried out under the supervision of

Professor Peter Jung. Furthermore, UDE plans to contribute to a series of scientific books authored by members of

the EUWB Consortium. In addition, UDE plans to contribute to joint publications in journals and at conferences.

Also, UDE plans to jointly organise special sessions at conferences. These activities are intended to increase

UDE‟s scientific visibility. All the mentioned activities are seen as strategic efforts expected to result in the

increase of partnerships at national and international levels.

P25-BITG

Bitgear, as a commercial entity, plans to exploit the result of the EUWB+ project in a market oriented fashion. The

project, resulting in new algorithms and adequate demonstrators will yield a set of results with excellent market

potential. Of special interest are INS related topics. With a proficiency of building INS systems, the participation

in the project will bring a new opportunity for Bitgear to extrapolate new products, or to improve current product

line and its know-how. Similar applies for other direct results Bitgear is participating in. On the other hand, the

participation of Bitgear in a framework project will significantly improve the image of the company and contribute

to improved performance, besides resulting in valuable networking and new market and marketing channels to

different EU sub-markets.

P26-CTU

CTU is the largest technical university in the Czech Republic. It has numerous bilateral contacts to the Czech

industry and telecommunication operators and support companies. CTU is the primer research related contact

point for industry and naturally serves as dissemination point of new progressive research results. The research

teams frequently directly participate on the development of the new product. Thus, the results from this research

project have a very direct way to practical application in the industry. The communications industry in the Czech

Republic, due to typically small size of companies, mainly concentrates on flexibly filling the gaps in the

communications devices markets. Typical are custom solutions for customers with special demands. Those

solutions can quite benefit from the cutting edge research results.

P27-UPB

As a higher education and research organisation, UPB focuses on disseminating its results through the following

means:

Publications of scientific papers at relevant conferences and workshops, in journals and magazines;

Presentations, tutorials, poster presentations or dedicated sessions at national and international conferences

in the areas where UPB is an active contributor;

Organisation public events in Romania for the presentation of the EUWB+ developed technologies and

possible applications to concrete scenarios in research and industry;

Encourage other academic and industrial partners from Romania to participate in project involving UWB-

technologies in order to increase the partnerships at both national and international level in UWB-related

projects;

Elaborate national reports based on the public project deliverables;

Maintain a local website at the UPB dedicated to EUWB+ activities, outlining new research issues,

technological achievements, use cases, scenario descriptions, etc.;

Encourage master and PhD students to contribute to the project by working towards their dissertation

thesis on UWB-related subjects.

P28-WRC

The role of WRC as independent research entity, is to transfer the knowledge built in the EUWB+ project to

industries within Poland and across the world for further commercialisation of the results. The plan is to use the

results obtained within the EUWB+ project for further enhancement of WRC‟s knowledge and competence in the

field of telecommunication networks. The enhanced knowledge and competence obtained through the participation

in the EUWB+ project will be exploited and used for participating in new projects and setting up partnerships in

other ones, both in the academic and (national and European) industry world.

From the academic point of view, WRC will pay attention to include selected results from the research activities in

curricula in order to prepare the next generation of skilled scientist/engineers. This will be achieved, for example,

by updating the material of existing courses (WRC staff lectures at the universities) with results coming from the

project and by organising short courses for PhD students on specific topics. This is of great importance in order to




guarantee continuity, to educate the next generation of skilled engineers as well as to foster a long-term,

sustainable technological lead and excellence within Poland and European Union. The close collaboration that is

required between the partners of the project in order to come to the intended objectives of the project, allows for

training activities within the consortium itself. This is related to exchanging ideas and increasing knowledge by the

close co-operation that can be expected in the different project activities. The knowledge obtained within the

Project can also be spread to partners‟ personnel that are not directly involved to the project, by organising in-

house training sessions, inviting them to internal workshops, making available a project website with links and

documents as a base for e-training activities. This should allow to broaden the obtained knowledge within the

partners‟ internal organisation, to the level that people understand what happens within the project, and potentially

to see implications and possibilities in their line of work.

As a partner WRC will leverage on the project deliverables in order to understand the current market requirements

and help industries to create a product roadmap for new algorithms and their implementation in wireless systems.

WRC will put more emphasis on making IPR through all kinds of possibilities such as patents on techniques and

algorithms developed, copy rights on software and protocols developed, and demonstrations to industry through

showcase activities. Through IPR (patents, software, and algorithms) produced during the project WRC will also

plan to generate Spin-off Company which can directly exploit the results. WRC will also use the experience and

know-how coming from this project to drive the evaluation and study of emerging technologies in the wireless

systems field for their future evolution.

The major dissemination activities include participation in publications based on the project results as well as

workshop and meetings organisation. In addition, liaison with other EU projects in overlapping areas – COST

Action 2100 “Pervasive Mobile & Ambient Wireless Communications” and the forthcoming COST Action IC0902

“Cognitive Radio and Networking for Cooperative Coexistence of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks” – is planned

to confront methodologies and results.

B3.2.2 Management of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

EUWB partners have defined the IP rights strategy and their approach in a related Consortium agreement on

project level. The basic approach is fair access to the IP rights generated to the benefit of all EUWB partners and

towards strong non-discriminatory support to UWB-RT deployment in the products.

The management of know-how and IPRs activities will be part of the mandates of the PM, the Management Board

and in some special cases the Project Assembly. If required, the Project Assembly will adjudicate on difficulties

that are drawn to its attention related to know-how management and associated matters.

In this project the management of know-how, intellectual property and other aspects of innovation are allocated to

specific activities within the various technical work packages. They are threefold: First IPR application for

inventions and/or solutions that are new, if some, will be prepared by the work package participants. Second

information will be disseminated within the project and third information will be disseminated to external bodies

such as scientific publications, conference presentations and contributions to standardisation bodies. Before any

external dissemination activity takes place the necessary steps for ensuring the protection of IPRs have to be made.

This will ensure that the intellectual property will be secured in the interest of project partners. Contributions to

external bodies and especially regulation and standardisation contributions will have an impact on global

harmonisation of system concepts and even on the success of market strategies by targeting globally compatible

application scenarios legal frameworks and technical interoperability. The dissemination of information and the

influence, e.g. on standardisation bodies, is a prerequisite for the economic success of IPRs exploitation.

The general principles for handling know-how and intellectual property rights within EUWB are stated hereunder

and will be settled in a Consortium agreement to be signed by the EUWB consortium at the project start. These

principles are in line with FP7 IPR recommendations.

Foreground/Background: All results of the project (inventions, software, databases, cell lines, …) and

attached rights are called foreground. Background is the information and attached rights which are held by

participants prior to their accession to the grant agreement (no side ground) and which are needed for

carrying out the project or for using its results.

Ownership: Each participant owns the foreground it generates.

Joint ownership: When the foreground is generated jointly and it is impossible to determine the respective

share of the work, participants must reach an agreement. However, in absence of a specific agreement, a

fallback solution applies: any joint owner is entitled to grant nonexclusive licenses to third parties,



without any right to sub-license, subject to prior notification and fair and reasonable compensation to the

other owner(s)..

Transfer: Obligations regarding foreground must be passed on (especially regarding the granting of access

rights).

Notifications/Objections: Prior notification of transfer only to the other participants who may object if it

would adversely affect their access rights or who may waive their rights to be notified in advance

regarding specific third parties, e.g. mother companies. The Commission may object to transfers to third

parties established in non-associated third countries for ethical, competitiveness or security reasons

(where appropriate: requirements to notify the Commission).

Protection, use and dissemination: Foreground capable of industrial or commercial application must be

protected taking into account legitimate interests. Prior notice of dissemination must be given to other

participants (not to Commission, unless no protection, in which case the latter may request to protect on

its own behalf). Any dissemination and patent applications must indicate the Community financial

assistance.

Access rights: Participants may define the background needed in any manner, and may exclude specific

background. It is possible to grant exclusive licenses to foreground if the other participants waive their

access rights. The Commission may object to exclusive licenses being granted to third parties established

in non-associated third countries for ethical, competitiveness or security reasons (where appropriate, a

requirement to notify the Commission will apply). Participants may agree to additional or more

favourable access rights than those provided for in the Consortium agreement.

Based on past project experiences, the patent filing process need to be optimised especially for joined patents.

A special effort will be taken by the project management to encourage the research oriented WPs and partners to

protect the generated knowledge. It is planned to increase the awareness of the importance of IP protection at all

levels of the project especially at the participating universities. The project will work on a process of simplifying

the joined patenting between universities and industry partners. Here a close collaboration between the

corresponding partners is needed.

A Consortium agreement (CA) as agreed upon by the partners defines in detail rights and obligations with respect

to the carrying out of the project‟s plan with specific regard to confidentiality and IPR handling.

EUWB partners will respect the confidentiality of facts, information, knowledge, documents or other matters

communicated to them as confidential. During the term of the project and for a period of three years thereafter, the

partners will treat as confidential any information of whatsoever kind or nature and in whatever form in relation to

the project which is designated as proprietary by the disclosing partner by an appropriate notice. Accordingly, each

partner undertakes that the receiving partner shall not use any such information for any purpose other than in

accordance with the terms of the EUWB contract and Consortium agreement for carrying out the project.

In an article of its CA the EUWB partnership will agree on IPR provisions. Moreover, in general each partner will

be bound by the terms and conditions of the Commission contractual rules. Key elements of such provisions,

which will be detailed in legally binding wording in the mentioned documents, are:

Know-how will be the property of the partner generating it;

A partner will not publish know-how generated by another partner or any pre-existing know-how of such

other partner without the other partner‟s prior written approval;

A partner will provide the other partners and the Commission with a prior notice of any planned

publication of its know-how and may request their approval where necessary;

If dissemination of know-how does not adversely affect its protection or use partners will ensure further

dissemination of their own know-how.

Each partner will take appropriate measures to ensure that it can grant access rights for the execution of the project

and for use, for which no costs shall be charged.

New project partners will abide by the IPR strategy in a related Consortium agreement on project level. The basic

approach is fair access to the IP rights generated to the benefit of all project partners and towards strong non-

discriminatory support to UWB-RT deployment in the products.



B3.2.3 Management of Other Innovation-related Activities

EUWB can be regarded as the research, implementation and technology demonstration project of the UWB in ICT

programme. Since the majority of exploitable innovations usually surface at this stage of research, the proper

management of innovation is an important and continued subject throughout the EUWB. The EUWB management

team will carefully assess innovations as to whether greater socio-economic benefits can be achieved through

dissemination, i.e. through stimulation of continued research, or through industrial exploitation. Whereas in the

area of systems concepts, spectrum access strategies and mechanisms providing connectivity between the various

modes of UWB operation dissemination may provide the highest impact, algorithmic and technology related

innovation are typical candidates for direct exploitation. In any case of innovation it will be checked to what extent

both strategies can be pursued in parallel.

The “European paradox” is not at last furthered by the sheer (economical) dimension of standardisation processes,

which makes the market involvement of (spin-off) innovators extremely unlikely. However, UWB, due to its

unique features, offers a real chance to explore alternative roads to the market which could increase the number of

actors, the number of economically successful innovations and hence the socio-economic benefits of publicly

funded research.

The EUWB web page is planned to provide a section which attracts interested non-EUWB organisations to enter

into discussion and potential agreements with EUWB in the joint exploitation of knowledge obtained in the project.

A major dissemination element is the scientific and technological support of UWB regulation bodies in Europe

and the co-operation with such authorities in other regions of the world. Work plans have been set up already and

will be followed in the project execution. Particularly coexistence measurements supported or conducted by EUWB

will substantiate theoretical investigations leading to an updated and more feasible European UWB regulation.



B4 ETHICAL ISSUES

EUWB is aiming the development of innovative short range radio technology based on UWB techniques. The

objectives of the project and the related approach will not include any trials and experiments related to the animals

or human beans, or human embryos.

The EUWB project is working on a new technology known as ultra-wideband technology. The key issue of the

technology to be investigated would be very small radiation power level in large frequency domain spectral bands.

Inherently to the applied technology electromagnetic radiation is spread in the frequency spectrum over several

Gigahertz of bandwidth, minimising the frequency dependent SAR issue. The UWB technology is providing

significant advantage over existing narrow band systems according to the set rules for spectrum masks and SAR

issues inherent.

Nevertheless, in the scope of the antenna designs activities an objective of minimising the SAR issues by

dedicated antenna design will be still considered.

The partners of the EUWB are confirming that activities of all partners comply with filled issues of associated

ethical issues form.

Due to its inherent wide frequency range the radio technology is well suited for precise ranging and thus can

enable precise location tracking. This will be used in normal cases only up to distances of 30–50 metres due to the

very low power spectral density. However, in exceptional cases the technology can be also applied to detect living

persons or animals in crashed buildings after earthquake for example. For this purpose an exceptional high output

power must be used together with special antennas.

One application, where the UWB technology is applied, but what is not considered in the project, is the so called

through wall identification of living objects. This method is used by police operational forces to detect living

person behind a wall.

In this proposal the location capability of UWB will be used inside the public transport, inside the automotive

environment and inside the home environment.

The corresponding WPL will report any location tracking related project activity to the Management Board, where

the DPM is at the same time the Ethical Issues Manager (EIM), which can set-up an Ethical Board within the

project and which will invite also outside project evaluators for the evaluation of the ethical issues in particular.

This is foreseen on request, but ones every year, during a full project meeting the EIM is providing an Ethical

report in form of a presentation at the full project meeting. The Management Board will decide whether the Ethical

Board will meet and in which form it will meet.

Location tracking in the automotive environment is used only in-car and in close proximity. It is restricted to the

specific car corresponding to a tag. The acquired location information is only processed locally in the in-car

system. No communication takes place to any outside infrastructure or other cars. Therefore, personalised

localisation is restricted by design to each users own vehicle. However, eavesdropping may be an issue, so all

related application scenarios will be included in the EIM review.

Issue Yes? Reference

Privacy

Does the proposal involve tracking the location or observation of people? YES

Section B1.1.4 and

all subsequent

sections in LDR-LT

incl. application

scenarios in WP8

Table 1616: Ethical issues.

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