Berlin LTE-Advanced Testbed

An LTE-Advanced Testbed has been set up in a typical European metropolitan deployment in the center of Berlin. It serves for the early evaluation of LTE-Advanced concepts in a realistic cellular environment and for the demonstration of key technology features... 

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Cooperative Systems

A paradigm change in mobile communications enables the transition to cooperative systems. Research here focuses on cooperative communication strategies for distributed antennas. Permitting cooperation between several distributed antennas offers advantages... 

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New Cross-Layer Optimisation Approaches For QoS Enhancement

We demonstrate scalable video broadcasting with a crosslayer design approach using H.264/Scalable Video Coding (SVC) over a 3G-LTE air interface... 

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Multi-Cell-Simulations

We are developing a multi-cell system-level simulator using a distributed computing environment. The multi-cell system-level simulator enables us...

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Technologies Beyond 3G-LTE

Consider the downlink of cellular multi-user MIMO OFDM systems. In this case, users may be scheduled to the transmission resources defined over time, frequency and space. Targeting a practical solution, we assume the use of fixed DFT-based pre-coding beams at the... 

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Relaying for LTE-Advanced

Long term evolution technology utilizes MIMO-OFDM concepts to deliver high data rate over small cells. ... One of the study items of LTE-Advanced (LTE-A)/IMT-Advanced (IMT-A) is therefore to enhance existing LTE networks by deploying full decode and forward relays. 

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60 GHz Communications

Broadband millimetre-wave transmission in the 60 GHz range is seen to be a promising method in order to meet with the demanding requirements of future WPAN systems with regard to increasing data rates... 

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