TU Dresden became member of 5G Public Private Partnership programme and joined international research project mmMAGIC - an international consortium, which will develop technologies to unlock spectrum above 6 GHz, including millimeter wave bands, for 5G’s massive mobile broadband.

mmMAGIC kicked off its race to develop concepts and key components for a new 5G mobile radio access technology which is expected to operate in a range of frequency bands between 6 and 100 GHz, including mm-Wave frequencies. The use of such extremely high frequencies for mobile communications is challenging but necessary for supporting 5G’s massive mobile broadband service which will require very high (up to 10 Gbps) data rates, and in some scenarios, also very low end-to-end latencies (less than 5 ms). The project aims to accelerate standardisation of millimetre wave technologies for 5G so that the industry and citizens will benefit from commercialisation by 2020.

mmMAGIC is coordinated by Samsung and Ericsson acts as technical manager. The project was launched 1st of July and will last for two years. mmMAGIC will develop and design new concepts for mobile radio access technology (RAT) for deployment in the 6-100 GHz range, including novel waveform, frame structure and numerology, novel adaptive and cooperative beam-forming and tracking techniques to address the specific challenges of millimetre wave mobile propagation. This new RAT is envisaged as a key component in the overall 5G multi-RAT ecosystem. TU Dresden’s Vodafone Chair Mobile Communications Systems will make use of its expertise by providing solutions for channel characterisation and estimation problems for the targeted frequency range 6-100 GHz. The targeted advances will enable better beamforming and transmission schemes for a superior networking performance and increased users’ quality of experience. The ambition of the project is to pave the way for a European head start in 5G standards and to be a focal point for European and global consensus building on the architecture, key components and spectrum for 5G systems operating above 6 GHz.

The mmMAGIC project is co-funded by the European Commission’s 5G Public Private Partnership program, bringing together major infrastructure vendors (Samsung, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei, Intel, Nokia), major European operators (Orange, Telefonica), leading research institutes and universities (TU Dresden, Fraunhofer HHI, CEA LETI, IMDEA Networks, Universities Aalto, Bristol, and Chalmers), measurement equipment vendors (Keysight Technologies, Rohde & Schwarz) and one SME (Qamcom).

Contact:
Steffen Watzek
Vodafone Chair Mobile Communications Systems
Technische Universität Dresden
 
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