Grant: Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)
Institut national de la recherche scientifique
$125,299.00
Radio Channel Emulator for ""Over-the-Air-In-Lab"" Testing, Validation and Assessment of Advanced Wireless Transceiver Designs
EF 2012-13
Résumé
The applicant has been recently able to mount a new laboratory, the Wirelesslab <www.wirelesslab.ca>, with a prime objective to provide a showcase and demos for the new wireless transceiver technologies developed by the applicant's group. From early exposure to major industry-university projects, the applicant has been a strong advocate of the adoption of a challenging ""system-integration-oriented approach"" in research on signal processing for wireless communications that jointly tackles most of physical-layer issues, takes into account interaction between subsystem components, any source of imperfection such as estimation and modeling errors, implementation feasibility and costs, etc..., and that integrates prototyping and real-world evaluation in the assessment methodology, thereby providing tremendous added values in terms of scientific impact and potential technological transfers. The Wirelesslab has been already able to gain the strong support of many industrial partners among manufacturers, service providers, SMEs, start-ups or governmental regulation agencies, through major and successful partnership projects on the development of multi-modal antenna-array wireless transceivers, advanced flexible antenna structures, and universal multi-carrier transceivers for future beyond-4G (B4G or 4G+) wireless technologies. In the very short term, this RTI application will punctually provide timely support and essential leverage to new upcoming initiatives under the CRD and I2I programs of NSERC on the development of new major paradigm-shifting wireless access virtualization schemes and cognitive transceiver structures at critical design and testing phases to be scheduled in 2013. In the longer term, it will endow the Wirelesslab with a new essential ""over-the-air -in-lab"" testing and validation tool for improved hardware implementation of advanced wireless transceiver technologies, increased potential of technology transfers and further enhanced quality of HQP training.
Programme
Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)
Bénéficiaire
Emplacement
Quebec, Canada
Type de bénéficiaire
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
Tel que publié
Application id
440760-2013
Name nom
Affès, Sofiène
Department département
Centre Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunication - Montréal
Organization id
56
Institution établissement
Institut national de la recherche scientifique
Province en
Québec
Province fr
Québec
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2012
Competition year année de concours
2013
Award amount
125299
Program id
EQPEQ
Program name en
Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)
Program name fr
Outils et instruments de recherche - catégorie 1 (<150 000$)
Group en
Discovery grants programs
Group fr
Programmes de subventions à la découverte
Committee code
1510
Committee name en
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Committee name fr
Génie électrique et informatique
Area of application code
514
Area of application group en
Manufacturing processes and products
Area of application group fr
Procédés et produits industriels
Area of application en
Communications equipment
Area of application fr
Matériel de télécommunications
Research subject code
2525
Research subject group en
Electrical and electronic engineering
Research subject group fr
Génie électrique et électronique
Research subject en
Wireless communication systems
Research subject fr
Systèmes de télécommunications sans fil
Partie
1
Nb partie
1
Application title
Radio Channel Emulator for ""Over-the-Air-In-Lab"" Testing, Validation and Assessment of Advanced Wireless Transceiver Designs
Keyword
NSERC
Application summary
The applicant has been recently able to mount a new laboratory, the Wirelesslab <www.wirelesslab.ca>, with a prime objective to provide a showcase and demos for the new wireless transceiver technologies developed by the applicant's group. From early exposure to major industry-university projects, the applicant has been a strong advocate of the adoption of a challenging ""system-integration-oriented approach"" in research on signal processing for wireless communications that jointly tackles most of physical-layer issues, takes into account interaction between subsystem components, any source of imperfection such as estimation and modeling errors, implementation feasibility and costs, etc..., and that integrates prototyping and real-world evaluation in the assessment methodology, thereby providing tremendous added values in terms of scientific impact and potential technological transfers. The Wirelesslab has been already able to gain the strong support of many industrial partners among manufacturers, service providers, SMEs, start-ups or governmental regulation agencies, through major and successful partnership projects on the development of multi-modal antenna-array wireless transceivers, advanced flexible antenna structures, and universal multi-carrier transceivers for future beyond-4G (B4G or 4G+) wireless technologies. In the very short term, this RTI application will punctually provide timely support and essential leverage to new upcoming initiatives under the CRD and I2I programs of NSERC on the development of new major paradigm-shifting wireless access virtualization schemes and cognitive transceiver structures at critical design and testing phases to be scheduled in 2013. In the longer term, it will endow the Wirelesslab with a new essential ""over-the-air -in-lab"" testing and validation tool for improved hardware implementation of advanced wireless transceiver technologies, increased potential of technology transfers and further enhanced quality of HQP training.
