Strategic Research Centre for High Speed Wireless Communication
- Reference number
- A3 05:184
- Start and end dates
- 060101-131231
- Amount granted
- 44 000 000 SEK
- Administrative organization
- Lund University
- Research area
- Information, Communication and Systems Technology
Summary
In recent years, the definition of “high-speed” data has changed. While previous systems worked at bit rates around 1-10 Mbit/s (comparable to ADSL), “broadband” these days implies data rates of 100 Mbit/s to several Gbit/s. The demand for such high rates is driven by a wealth of new applications, including consumer electronics. Optical fibers play an important role at the upper distribution levels, but economical ways must be found to move data from the street into the home or business and once there, to various digital appliances. A related problem is setting up high-speed links between different appliances, e.g., wireless USB/Firewire. The system must be cheap, have long battery lifetime, and be simple enough to use by anyone. Short range, very high rate radios are the solution. The centre will concentrate on the physical side of this problem, that is, on the radio propagation, antennas, circuitry, coding, modulation and data security. The centre incorporates senior investigators in three departments at Lund (Information Technology, Electroscience, and Physics) and one at Chalmers (Signals and Systems) VB för 2006: The centre has created a four-fold research program: Ultrawideband Radio and Propagatio, Andreas Molisch, Electroscience Lund and Signals and Systems at Chalmers MIMO Antennas and Channels, Mats Gustafsson, Electroscience Lund Nano Devices and CMOS GHz Electronics, Lars-Erik Wernersson, Electroscience Lund Coding, Modulation, Data Security and their Implementation, John B Anderson, Electroscience and Information Technology Lund