Grant: Engage Grants Program

The Company is a major player in the wireless telecommunication systems market, specifically for BaseStation (BS) for cellular networks. The Long Term Evolution (LTE) is the technology actually deployed incellular networks. The main objective of the project consists to study the implementation of LTE physical layerof BS in multicores. LTE implementation complexity of physical layer is not trivial and presents a greatchallenge consisting to evaluate the principal key LTE subsystems such as the fast Fourier transform (FFT) inOFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access), channel estimation, matrix inversion for multiuserMIMO (Multi-Input Multi-Output). The question is: How can we implement the LTE BS physical layer on aparallel multicore processor and maximizing the system capacity while meeting the latency constraints?This project is an opportunity to create a new relationship between the applicant and the Company. Based onthe know-how accumulated from many years at the Laboratory of Signal and Systems Integrations (LSSI) fromUniversité du Québec a Trois-Rivières concerning the BS physical layer, we proposed to explore the keyelements of LTE and to implement these on general-purpose multicore processors minimizing the latency. Theresults will serve the Company to give some key directions to the development and to deploy the commercialBS for cellular networks.