
WP 1: Project management
• Coordinate activities according to the work plan
• Progress monitoring
• Management of technical risks and possible internal conflicts
WP 2: Scenarios, system requirements and business cases
• Definition of considered systems and scenarios
• Definition of interfaces to RF and MAC/DLC layers
• PHY and MAC/DLC requirements
WP 3: Universal radio-link description
• Canonical parametric description of air interfaces
• Environment, multiple access and interference modelling
• GMC approach
• Selection of target groups of air interfaces
• Functional mapping and resulting architectures
• Adaptivity and reconfigurability challenges
• Algorithm specifications and complexity analysis
WP 4: Simulation platform
• Specifications of a simulation platform, based on the legacy of previous IST projects (such as MATRICE or WINNER)
• Development methodology
• Definition and implementation of a GMC baseline chain
• Performance assessment
• Performance and complexity metrics
• Analytic and numerical evaluations
• Comparison with selected existing chains
WP 5: Validation platform
• Specifications
• Validation scenarios
• Implementation complexity assessment
• Detailed validation platform specifications
• Fixed point implementation
• HW/SW partitioning
• Implementation, test and validation of building blocks (HW and SW)
• Integration of building blocks in the validation platform
• Validation
WP 6: Dissemination and standardisation
• Review activities of standardisation bodies on broadband air interfaces and propose inputs from WP3, WP4 and WP5
• Set up and maintain a WWW site
• Promote dissemination of the achieved results in conferences, journals and the WWW site
• Participate in activities of the “Reconfigurability” and “Broadband Air Interfaces” IST clusters
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