Project objectives and main concepts Clause Samples

Project objectives and main concepts. The objectives and the main concepts of the DREAM project are presented in the following subsections. 2.1 Project strategic and technical objectives Providing broadband wireless communications to a majority of European citizens is a major objective of the European Commission. With a current annual growth rate in the range of 70%, the mobile data traffic of the smartphones, tablets, machine-to-machine and other portable devices dramatically challenges the 4G wireless cellular network, which is currently under deployment. To sustain this growth, the high data-rate millimeter-wave (mmWave) technologies, that demonstrate striking capabilities for the short- and medium-range wireless communications, can bring a tremendous performance improvement. The main goal of the DREAM project, through the exploitation of the radio spectrum in D-band (130-174.8GHz) and by the antenna array beam forming technology, is to enable wireless links with data rate exceeding current V-band and E-band wireless backhaul solutions by at least a factor of 10 and thus, to bring wireless systems to the speed of optical systems. DREAM will develop the key radio, antenna and packaging technologies for the implementation of a mmWave transceiver front end addressing the backhauling links in the future and beyond 5th generation heterogeneous cellular mobile networks. Those technologies will take advantage of the wide unlicensed or light-licensed frequency bands which are available to allow a flexible spectrum usage as well as peak capacities above 100Gbit/s aggregated throughput. Installed in the dense urban environments, miniature mmWave small-cell access-points connected to the cellular network through the optical fibre or D-band wireless backhaul will support massive data exchanges for mobile users with low latency, low interferences, high QoS and low power consumption per bit. They will also contribute to a reduced exposure of the public to electromagnetic fields (EMF) thanks to lower transmitted power and reduced skin penetration at mmWave, steerable directive antennas focusing the signals in the directions of interest, and reduced data traffic through the lower frequency legacy base stations (BS). The technical objectives of the project are listed in the following: 1) Technical Objective 1: demonstrate the feasibility of low-cost SiGe BiCMOS transceiver analog front end enabling link data rate up to 100Gb/s in D-band. The project targets to enable innovative mmW systems beyond 100GHz del...