Three years re­search on next gen­er­a­tion of mo­bile com­mu­ni­ca­tion (5G) sucess­fully fin­ished

The EU-​funded re­search project 5G-​XHaul, co­or­di­nated by IHP – In­no­va­tions for High Per­for­mance Mi­cro­elec­tron­ics, con­cluded at the end of June 2018 with the final event at the Uni­ver­sity of Bris­tol, UK. The event in­cluded a set of tech­ni­cal demon­stra­tions hosted at the Smart In­ter­net Lab and a final field trial across the city of Bris­tol.
The main pur­pose of 5G-​XHaul was to help en­sure that every smart­phone user has a re­li­able, un­in­ter­rupted and very high speed net­work con­nec­tion. The project also aimed to find so­lu­tions to the grow­ing de­mand for broad­band con­nec­tions. To meet this de­mand cost-​effective yet pow­er­ful net­works had to be de­vel­oped and one of 5G-​XHaul’s main fo­cuses was on en­sur­ing inner city areas, sta­di­ums, air­ports and other trans­port hubs are con­nected to the core telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions net­work with dy­nam­i­cally adap­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion. It also sup­ports mass events where peaks in de­mand are likely and dy­namic al­lo­ca­tion of re­sources is, there­fore, nec­es­sary to ef­fi­ciently meet the qual­ity re­quire­ments of the end-​users.
A city-​wide field trial, car­ried out in Bris­tol, in­te­grat­ing the novel 5G-​XHaul op­ti­cal and wire­less tech­nolo­gies, show­cased the over­all project ar­chi­tec­ture. The func­tion­al­ity and end-​to-end per­for­mance of this field demon­stra­tion ver­i­fied the suit­abil­ity of the 5G-​XHaul so­lu­tion for 5G. “All demon­stra­tions ran very smoothly and ro­bustly show­ing the de­vel­oped con­cepts in prac­ti­cal ap­pli­ca­tions. This is the re­sult of some in­tense work and con­struc­tive co­op­er­a­tion over the last three years. All part­ners will ben­e­fit from the out­come of this joint work which is re­flected in sci­en­tific pub­li­ca­tions, stan­dards, patents and prod­uct de­vel­op­ments. In fact, most part­ners are con­tin­u­ing their co­op­er­a­tion in an­other Eu­ro­pean Project with the acronym 5G-​PICTURE.”, said Prof. Eck­hard Grass (IHP).
5G-​XHaul is a Phase 1, col­lab­o­ra­tive project under the frame­work of the 5G-​Public Pri­vate Part­ner­ship (5G PPP), which it­self is a joint ini­tia­tive be­tween the Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion and the Eu­ro­pean in­for­ma­tion and com­mu­ni­ca­tions in­dus­try and has been set up to spec­ify the re­quire­ments for 5G and once done aid in de­vel­op­ing 5G so­lu­tions. The Project was funded by the EU re­search and in­no­va­tion pro­gram Hori­zon 2020. “IHP has ac­tively and suc­cess­fully co­or­di­nated the H2020 project 5G-​XHaul, and was in­volved in sev­eral Work­ing Groups of the Eu­ro­pean 5G Pub­lic Pri­vate Part­ner­ship ini­tia­tive (5G-PPP). 5G-​XHaul, a project of 12 Part­ners from in­dus­tries and acad­e­mia has fos­tered sev­eral in­di­vid­ual part­ner­ships to the ben­e­fit of all par­ties in­volved. IHP has mainly con­tributed its ex­per­tise in mmWave com­mu­ni­ca­tions and lo­cal­iza­tion tech­niques and has de­vel­oped fur­ther the ex­ist­ing skills, which is re­flected in the dif­fer­ent tan­gi­ble re­sults, as well as pub­li­ca­tions and patents pro­duced within the du­ra­tion of the project. One key re­sult has been the de­vel­op­ment and in­te­grat­ing of the 5G-​XHaul mmWave beam­form­ing Ana­log Front-​End so­lu­tion, which will be used in fu­ture ac­tiv­i­ties and projects.”, stated Dr. Jesús Gutiérrez Terán (IHP).

https://ec.eu­ropa.eu/pro­grammes/hori­zon2020/
https://www.5g-​xhaul-project.eu/
http://www.bris­tol.ac.uk/en­gi­neer­ing/re­search/smart/projects/5g-​xhaul/

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