Impact

“Europe must fully exploit the potential use of certain spectrum bands by new wireless products and services, so as to encourage market development,” said Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media. MIMAX matches very well with this vision because the project enhances the state-of-the-art in terms of existing wireless communication networks regarding the power consumption of the mobile devices, the network operability, the network capacity and the reliability of communication links. The results generates a significant potential for the European market, since performance improvement is achieved at low hardware costs. In this context, we refer to the following statement: “The introduction of market-based spectrum management combined with flexible spectrum usage rights could yield a further gain of €8-9 billion per year across Europe”.

To perform MIMAX on European level has several significant advantages

• The involved of end-users from different countries enable a significantly large business potential.
• MIMAX has to meet complementary challenges, both from technical and economic point of view. Within one nation, e.g. Cyprus, it would be very difficult to merge all competences regarding network services, MIMO, antennas, baseband and MAC design, radio frequency circuit design, IC technology, etc. In this context, a project on European level is very fruitful to combine the required experts.
• Standardisation issues are much easier when combining the aims, experiences and impacts of participants from different countries. MIMAX can benefit of European standardisation bodies such as GPP.
• MIMAX can participate in project cluster at European level.  Discussions, disseminations and benchmarking with respect to EU projects such are highly appreciated and provide excellent collaboration platforms.

Exploitation and dissemination

• Business: MIMAX will have a significant impact on various application and business areas such as reliable wireless networks, sensor networks, media-streaming, Triple Play (VoIP, High-speed Broadband Internet, Video-IPTV), eLearning, eHealth, eGovernment, etc. The application addressed can be found here. In addition to the industrial consortium members, large companies have shown their interest in the MIMAX results.
• Education: Most parts of the project tasks are performed by PhD students, which are supervised by highly motivated professors and engineers with extensive experience and proved didactic skills. Moreover, master students will be indirectly involved in sub-tasks, e.g. via master theses. Within the frame of MIMAX, student colloquia will be organised to provide an optimum basis for the knowledge transfer, e.g. in the field of MIMO algorithms, RF circuit design, and prototyping. 
• Organisation of workshop: a project workshop in the area of adaptive networks including topics on combining techniques, adaptive antenna combining, network access strategies and wireless communication networks will be organised. This will be an efficient platform for dissemination of results within the industry and the research community.
• Publications: The scientific results will be published in leading journals and presented on major conferences. These publications allow the circulation of knowledge to key target groups such as industry, academia and the public. A publication list can be found here.
• Cooperation with other projects: The MIMAX transceiver is a key component for existing standards in wireless communication networks to enable low cost network with improved network operability, communication link reliability and network capacity. Therefore, disseminating the gained knowledge and results in the MIMAX project to other EU-projects and cooperation activities are very important to exploit the results of MIMAX.
• MIMAX social network: MIMAX discuss and promotes its results, achievements, user and stakeholder related aspects and further aspects in its social network group. Join this network now.