D2.4 Report on Best Practice Cookbook
This document describes the design flows reviewed and updated by the ESRs after 28 months into the project MyWave. 14 PhDs are working on their theses, and the following report gives an short overview on their status with respect to the proposed design flows and best practices established in the education and research work for mm-wave antenna design and deployment for next generation communication. With the beginning of mm-weave usage in real radios in 5G, these techniques will be beneficial for European system deployment up to the years 2030.
D2.1 Report on existing design-flows and requirement for MyWave design flow
This report summarizes the design flows that currently exist for the research topics that are conducted in the individual ESR projects. This state-of-the-art overview is summarized per ESR project in Section 2. Based on this input, requirements for a joint, multi-disciplinary design flow are defined in Section 3. The requirements as well as state-of-the-art design flows will be used in deliverable D2.2 to define the design flow for the MyWave project.
D3.1 Literature report on state-of-the-art mm-wave antenna technology
In the past few years, with the accelerated growth of information globalization (e.g., mobile cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), UHD 3D video, satellite and mobile communications), the capacity of the wireless networks has been scales up with the increasing data traffic. Recent studies find that data traffic is expected to experience a 1000-fold capacity increase in the incoming decade [1, 2] and the microwave band (300 MHz to 3 GHz) where various radio access technologies operate cannot provide this capacity demand. Thus, using new less-congested spectrum bands such as millimeter wave (mm-wave) bands, from 30 to 300 GHz, is a solution to increase network capacity mainly contributed by the improvement of the area spectral efficiency (bits/s/Hz/m2) [3, 4]. However, several open issues and technical challenges must be adequately addressed at this band. These issues can be classified into the following categories: channel propagation, antenna technologies, RF solutions, and modulation schemes [5-8]. This report provides an overview of the existing antenna technologies.
D4.1 Literature report on state-of-the-art mm-wave electronics
The use of millimeter-wave frequencies for communications brought several challenges for its system deployment. Large attenuation, demanding linearity and efficiency are just a few goal parameters to be enhanced in the design of power amplifier. The design of such modules involves not only a selection of material but also application-specific architectures. This report is organized as follows: In the first chapter, provides a compilation of state-of-the-art designs for the millimeter-wave power amplifiers. In the second chapter, the recent advances in power amplifiers (PA) design are presented to show what is currently available for antenna engineers. The third chapter will define the system architectures and will show the development of RF synchronization concepts. The last chapter is dedicated to architecture and technology choices for power-efficient-mm-Wave frontends.
D6.2 Detailed planning of all training events
The main objective of MyWave is to train early-stage researchers (ESRs) by means of the research projects in which the ESRs will work together to form a large multi-disciplinary and collaborative research team. In this way, the ESRs will learn to work across disciplines and sectors. On top of the training by doing research, the training programme includes specific training of scientific and technical skills, soft-skills and an industrial orientation. Next to the training programme, specific workshops will be organized that complement the training and research activities and will stimulate the interaction between the fellow ESRs. Upon successful completion of the training programme, the ESRs will receive a PhD degree.
In this deliverable, we briefly summarize the MyWave training programme and present the planning. The COVID-19 pandemic has made it necessary to revise the planning of the training activities compared to the initial plan. Since the duration of the pandemic is still not known, the planning of the training events, particularly summer schools and joint workshops, may therefore still change. All such changes are made in discussions with the MyWave Management Team and done with the intention to maximize the quality of the ESR training.