Sunday Workshop - WS2

MIMO Implementation Aspects
Sunday, September 19, 2004
10:00 AM – 5:30 PM

Organizer:

Thomas Kaiser, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Speakers:

• Frederick W. Vook, Motorola Labs
  2×2 MIMO-OFDM Field Experiments with Realistic Portable Antennas
• S. Haene, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
  Implementation Aspects of a Real-Time Multi-Terminal MIMO-OFDM Testbed
• Mary Ann Ingram, Georgia Tech
  Georgia Tech MIMO-OFDM Link Prototype
• Matthias Stege, Signalion, Germany
  Hardware in a Loop - A Wireless Communication System Prototyping Platform for IEEE 802.11n
• Daniel Borkowski, RWTH Aachen, Germany
  Hardware Implementation for Real-Time Multi-User MIMO Systems
• Steve Ellingson, Virginia Tech
  MIMO Development Efforts at Virginia Tech
• Andreas Wilzeck, Uni Duisburg-Essen, Germany
  A Flexible and Modular Multi-User Realtime MIMO System
• Jürgen Rinas, University of Bremen, Germany
  A Demonstrator for Multi-Antenna Transmission - Real Channels and their Impact on MIMO Algorithms
• Steffen Paul, Infineon Technologies, Germany
  High Design-Level Comparison of MIMO Base-band Hardware Architectures
• S. Caban, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  Design and Subsystem Verification of a Flexible and Scalable 4X4 MIMO Testbed
• Nam-kyu Ryu, Hanyang University, Korea
  The implementation and performance analysis of channel card using flexible devices(FPGA/DSP/CPU) in smart antenna system for CDMA 2000 1X
• Ramón Martínez Rodríguez-Osorio, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
  ADAM: A realistic smart antenna implementation for UMTS
• Ludwig Schwörer, Nokia, Germany
  FPGA-based 4G MIMO concept demonstrator

Abstract:

MIMO techniques have emerged as a key technology for third and higher generations of wireless communication systems because they add a new spatial dimension to the currently used time, frequency, and code multiple access technologies. The recent past of 3G wireless systems licensing process in Europe has shown that spectral bandwidth may cost billions of EURO to wireless system providers. In light of this fact, MIMO techniques offer an elegant and relatively inexpensive opportunity of increasing system capacity, number of users served, and quality of service. Today developments and progress in this strategic area are away from cost efficient practical implementation. The MIMO workshop at RAWCON 2004 will demonstrate the numerous implementation challenges from different perspectives. Distinguished speakers will cover a multitude of typical applications, i.e. drawing the bow from smart antennas and MIMO techniques for CDMA based cellular networks and ending up with multi-antenna techniques for wireless local area networks.