European Union
7th Framework Programme
MIMAX Project
A smart approach to combine low power consumption and costs with high performance.
Satisfying the need - the need for speed.
MIMAX Project
Project MIMAX
MIMAX for IPTV streaming
The analysis of mobile applications and services revealed wireless Triple-Play as a promising use-case for MIMAX because exiting Wi-Fi solutions are not able to offer reliable links. Therefore, the connection is often lost and TV streaming is rather difficult.
During the project, the partner investigated MIMAX to handle IPTV streams. The developed system prototype was tested and evaluated for such a use-case. Performance parameters, like throughput, jitter, and lost IP packets, were investigated and qualitative performance improvements were studied.
The prototype was integrated in PrimeTel's IPTV platform by using two MIMAX stations. They consisted of the developed MAC boards, which were connected by a link emulator. This test setup allows emulating a MIMAX communication scheme. During the experiments, an IPTV stream was transmitted over a MIMAX link and the performance was measured under various link settings. MIMAX was able to guarantee a stable, wireless link with low jitter and low packet losses. Therefore, it successfully proves it performance improvements.
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Announcing the Future Network and MobileSummit 2011
One major European event in the area of wireless communication networks and future network topologies consists of the Future Network & MobileSummit 2011, which is supported by the European Commission and regularly attracts over 600 delegates from industry and research. This year, the Future Network & MobileSummit 2011 will address all the challenges of building the Future Internet, which will be based on mobile, wireless and fixed broadband communications infrastructures. It showcases European research in the field, and positions it within the multiplicity of related initiatives supported in other regions of the world.
The Scientific Programme incorporates all the key constituents of Future Communication Networks including the themes Radio Access and Spectrum, Converged and Optical Networks, and Future Internet Technologies.
This year, the conference takes place takes place in the Historical City of Warsaw, Poland, 15 - 17 June 2011. Further information can be found on the conference website.
MIMAX testbed
The concept of MIMAX was evaluated and tested using an integrated testbed with the developed algorithms and antennas. Find more information about the assembled system, the testbed, and the performance results here. It describes the measurement and evaluation campaigns in low mobility and nomadic indoor environments.
MIMAX at a glance
MIMAX is an European Union funded project within the 7th Framework programme that develops smart radio access in wireless communication networks. Because mobile wireless communication represents a rapidly growing market segment, existing network infrastructures are not able to tackle the increased amount of data and users in the near future. Therefore, innovative and novel concepts to overcome these limits are needed. In this context, MIMAX develops a smart MIMO transceiver in state-of-the-art silicon technologies that allows a significant improvement concerning the relation between performance at the one hand and power consumption and costs at the other hand.
The project has started in January 2008 and is ending in December 2010. Six partners from industry, research institutes and universities from four different European countries are involved in the development. The partners bring profound expertise into the project and the industrial end-users from different countries open a significantly large business potential for MIMAX, which will concentrate on Wi-Fi application at 5 GHz.
MIMAX received innovation award
In October 2008 MIMAX received the EEEfCOM Innovation Award. GEROTRON COMMUNICATION GmbH annually awards and promots innovative research and developments in information technologies and electronics.
Founded in 2002 in collaboration with the industrial sponsors Agilent Technologies and Rohde&Schwarz, the Innovation Award aims at promoting new ideas, inventions and developments for communication technologies and at supporting award winners to successfully realize their concepts.
In 2008, MIMAX received the first price for its innovative research and development in the area of smart antenna systems. The price was awarded during the RadioTecC in Berlin. Find more information about the ceremony ín the press section.