HARP

High capacity network Architecture with Remote radio heads & Parasitic antenna arrays

Coordinatore	THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH    more  Organization address address: Roxburgh Street 1-7 city: Edinburgh contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Angela Cognome: Noble Email: send email Telefono: +44 131 650 9024 Fax: +44 131 651 4028
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	4˙643˙292 €
EC contributo	3˙158˙000 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Code Call	FP7-ICT-2011-8
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2012
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2012-11-01   -   2015-10-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH  Organization address address: Roxburgh Street 1-7 city: Edinburgh contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Angela Cognome: Noble Email: send email Telefono: +44 131 650 9024 Fax: +44 131 651 4028	UK (Edinburgh)	coordinator	0.00
2	ALCATEL - LUCENT BELL LABS FRANCE  Organization address address: AVENUE OCTAVE GREARD city: PARIS contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Laurent Cognome: ROULLET Email: send email Telefono: 33130778542	FR (PARIS)	participant	0.00
3	DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET  Organization address address: Anker Engelundsvej 1, Building 101A city: KONGENS LYNGBY contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Lars Cognome: Dittmann Email: send email Telefono: 4545253851 Fax: 4545881799	DK (KONGENS LYNGBY)	participant	0.00
4	EURECOM  Organization address address: ROUTE DES CRETES - SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS city: VALBONNE contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Sophie Cognome: SALMON Email: send email Telefono: +33 4 93 00 81 16 Fax: +33 4 93 00 82 00	FR (VALBONNE)	participant	0.00
5	IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE  Organization address address: Exhibition Road, South Kensington Campus city: LONDON contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Shaun Cognome: POWER Email: send email Telefono: +44 207 594 8773 Fax: +44 207 594 8609	UK (LONDON)	participant	0.00
6	NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU  Organization address address: Hogskoleringen city: TRONDHEIM contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Ralf Cognome: Müller Email: send email Telefono: 4773594417 Fax: 4773507322	NO (TRONDHEIM)	participant	0.00
7	ORANGE SA  Organization address address: PLACE D ALLERAY city: PARIS contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Florence Cognome: VIAUD Email: send email Telefono: 33145295904 Fax: 33140957015	FR (PARIS)	participant	0.00
8	RADIOCOMP APS  Organization address address: KRAKASVEJ city: HILLEROED contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Georgios Cognome: Kardaras Email: send email Telefono: +45 29 26 66 14 Fax: 4570231022	DK (HILLEROED)	participant	0.00
9	RESEARCH AND EDUCATION LABORATORY IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES  Organization address address: Adrianiou 2 & Papada city: Athens contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Alexandra Cognome: Spyropoulou Email: send email Telefono: +30 210 668 2717 Fax: +30 210 668 2719	EL (Athens)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

To meet the growing capacity demands in cellular networks by mobile application users, several advanced technologies of increased complexity have recently emerged for wireless access. These capitalize on the increased number of degrees of freedom made available by the combined use of multiple antennas in several neighboring cell sites. However, such cooperative / coordinated wireless access schemes remain largely unproven due to practical limitations. In HARP, we plan to bring distributed multi-antenna wireless access to reality by combining two powerful emerging technologies: 1) remote radio heads (RRHs), which allow for widely geographically distributed access via radio-over-fibre connections to a central base station; and 2) electronically steerable passive array radiators (ESPARs), which provide multi-antenna-like functionality with a single active RF chain only. The proposed combined network design concept is expected to yield the benefits of high capacity multi-antenna multi-cell cooperative wireless access while doing so in a realistic, low-cost and, equally importantly, environmentally-friendly manner. In order to put together this novel wireless network solution in a credible fashion, HARP will focus on 1) The physical layer transmission and channel estimation techniques required for efficient wireless access with ESPAR-equipped RRHs; 2) The obtaining, processing and sharing of channel state information required for cooperative communication and 3) The RRH aggregation network, required for efficient coordination between disparate access areas. A hardware end-to-end demonstration from the base station all the way to the ESPAR antenna transmitters to the user terminals, will serve as a proof-of-concept of the proposed architecture. With the above, HARP holds the potential of enabling in a disruptive manner distributed multi-antenna wireless access providing, in turn, unprecedentedly high capacity for emerging and next generation wireless networks.