RAPID (643297)

  https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/643297

  Horizon 2020 (2014-2020)

  Radio technologies for 5G using advanced photonic infrastructure for dense user environments

  Access networks for densely located users (EUJ-3-2014)

  5G  ·  4G  ·  WiFi

  2014-10-01 Start Date (YY-MM-DD)

  2017-09-30 End Date (YY-MM-DD)

  € 1,549,755 Total Cost

  Description

In RAPID, we propose to use a centralized radio access (C-RAN) architecture to support high-capacity heterogeneous (3g, 4G and 60 GHz) radio access technologies through low-cost, but ultra-high-bandwidth photonic techniques for the fibre distribution. To meet the requirement to transport the high-frequency (and wide-bandwidth) wireless signals at low-cost, a novel coherent radio-over-fiber (CRoF) scheme is proposed in RAPID. Furthermore, for the mobile receiver, novel extremely low-cost (<10€) integrated transceivers will be developed based upon a SiGe technology. The radio resource management of the heterogeneous network using the developed mm-wave and photonic technologies together with legacy 3G/4G wireless will be demonstrated in RAPID and the developed hardware will be tested in life-cycle assessments within different real life networks scenarios including a public stadium, an operators fiber-optic and wireless network, as well as in train, airport scenarios.

  Complicit Organisations

1 Israeli organisation participates in RAPID.