GROW Partners with multiple entities in order to develop field work related to wireless technologies.
Below you will find the projects we are currently working on, you can also view the finished projects developed over the years.
Railway communications systems
Railway communication systems are a key component of railways, providing the required conditions for a secure and effective operation of trains. In the transition from GSM-R to FRMCS (Future Rail Mobile Communications System), also known as 5G-R, many new problems have to be addressed, namely the implementation of MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output), which implies locating multiple antennas on trains, in a way that the MIMO system works efficiently. Given the multiple obstacles existing on the roof of a train (e.g., air-conditioner convectors and pantographs), the proper location of antennas in these circumstances requires evaluating their characteristics (e.g., radiation patterns, gain, polarisation and beamwidths) on the exact positions and their influence on MIMO performance and numerical methods have been used for this evaluation, Nullspace (https://www.nullspaceinc.com) has been our choice for this project.
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Intelligence-Enabling Radio Communications for Seamless Inclusive Interactions
Radio communications have become one of the pillars on which our Society relies for performing many daily tasks. Indeed, they have not only changed the way we interact with each other, but, in the next future, they will have an even broader purview, enabling new interactions that will make industries more efficient, lives more convenient, transportation safer and contribute to better well-being.
The Intelligence-Enabling Radio Communications for Seamless Inclusive Interactions (INTERACT) vision is to go beyond the capabilities of the 5G vision and to make the radio network itself intelligent, meaning aware, adaptive and parsimonious. Radio network intelligence is required to enhance the human experience of both human-to-human and human-to-machine communications and make it seamless, with the perception of no intermediary. In a long-term vision, wireless networks will not only become intelligent, but they will constitute the nervous system to foster intelligence in other systems, such as transportation, factories and cities.
This COST Action aims at contributing to this societal transformation, by developing the next generation of radio communication networks, 6G. Challenges include:
--- to perform fundamental research in the fields of antennas and propagation, signal processing and localisation, network architectures and protocols, to design intelligent-enabling radio communications;
--- to exploit Machine Learning tools for the implementation of many aspects of this network intelligence;
--- collecting sufficient evidence of real-world data and making them available to the research community by building the INTERACT datasets.
EuCNC & 6G Summit
6GStart, a Coordinating and Supporting Action, includes the organisation of 2 editions, 2023 and 2024, of the EC sponsored conference in the area of communication networks and systems, EuCNC & 6G Summit. The conference is sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) and the European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP), and focuses on all aspects of telecommunications ranging from 5G deployment and mobile IoT to 6G exploration and future communications systems and networks, including experimentation and testbeds, and applications and services. It brings together cutting-edge research and world-renown industries and businesses, globally attracting in the last years more than 1 300 delegates from more than 40 countries all over the world, to present and discuss the latest results, and an exhibition with more than 70 exhibitors, for demonstrating the technology developed in the area, namely within research projects from EU R&I programmes.
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Information on Electromagnetic Radiation in Mobile Communications
FAQtos is a national project that aims to provide relevant information on electromagnetic fields from mobile communication systems to the public. With the exceptional development of mobile communication systems in recent years, and hence, the growth of the number of base stations, the public consciousness in this issue has increased. Through a set of different activities, FAQtos tries to clarify public’s concerns about the possible health hazards, as a consequence of being exposed to electromagnetic fields in every location, or when using a mobile phone.
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