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 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.
Announcing the Future Network and MobileSummit 2010
One major European event in the area of wireless communication networks and future network topologies consists of the "Future Network and MobileSummit 2010". This year, the conference takes place in the Historical City of Florence, 16 - 18 June 2010. This is the nineteenth in a series of Annual Conferences supported by the European Commission, which regularly attracts over 600 delegates from industry and research to share experiences and research results, identify future trends, discuss business opportunities and identify opportunities for international research collaboration under the ICT Theme of Framework Programme 7 (FP7). Therefore, it is an important networking event, which contributes to showcasing European research in the field, and position it within the multiplicity of related initiatives supported in other regions of the world. Further information can be found on the conference website.
MIMAX at MOBILIGHT 2010
In the context of the MOBILIGHT 2010, MIMAX organizes a special session about Advanced Radio Access Techniques for Energy-Efficient Communications. The scope of this session is about energy-efficiency as one of the key aspects for the next generation radio access technologies.
Current wireless standards use sophisticated signal processing techniques that imply more dissipated power and higher costs. As an example, MIMO techniques typically require complex RF transceivers and large amount of signal processing that lead to increased power consumption and large system sizes. These reasons have delayed the wide scale commercial deployment of multi-antenna wireless transceivers in low-cost terminals, such as those required for handheld cellular phones, WLAN or WPAN systems. These aspects are even more challenging for other energy-constrained applications such as those encountered in wireless sensor networks)and RFID systems, for which existing multi-antenna techniques might not be realistic.
This session at MOBILIGHT 2010 brings together several experts from circuit design, digital signal processing and network theory to discuss the latest trends and solutions to overcome those stumbling blocks of energy-efficient wireless communication networks.
Do not forget to register for the MOBILIGHT 2010!
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.