WP1 is covering the management activities of the project. Both the project and the technical manager have worked on different means related to organizational (e.g. the organization of face-to-face meetings, interfacing the European Commission) and technical matters (e.g. coordination of the technical work, monitoring of the technical progress).
WP2 has focused on aspects being relevant for the other technical work packages such as setting up the framework each partner can rely on for his respective investigations (use case selection, requirements/KPIs to be satisfied) allowing all partners to work in a coherent manner. WP2 has integrated the technical solutions being proposed by the other work packages into a single air interface proposal being capable of supporting the set of use cases mentioned above. For each technical enabler the WPs have worked on, WP2 has provided the respective context related to e.g. dependencies between the various technologies, their relevance for the various services and their contribution to the functionality of the overall air interface. WP2 has covered the project efforts related to system level simulations. The respective partners have calibrated their simulation tools towards 3GPP specifications for the results to be relevant and internationally accepted. Several simulation campaigns have been conducted.
WP3 and WP4 have dealt with technical enablers related to setting up the links between devices and basestation and related to aspects of multi-node, multi-user and multi-antenna processing. WP3 and WP4 have developed the respective concepts (e.g. related to waveforms, channel coding, frame design, HARQ, RRC state machinery, dynamic resource allocation, efficient massive access protocols, system level integration of massive MIMO, network based interference coordination, etc.) and have evaluated those with various means (analytically, simulative, inspection). The partners in WP3 and WP4 have provided a tremendous amount of novel research results being presented in the respective deliverables and publications. Additionally, the industrial partners have pushed those towards 3GPP in numerous RAN contributions.
WP5 has covered the activities of the project related to hardware demonstrations and PoCs (proof of concept). During this period the partners have performed the required implementations of the PoC elements, integrated those into the platforms and conducted the respective investigations/measurements. Additionally, the partners in WP5 have conducted a high number of public demonstrations.
WP6 covers the activities of the project related to standardization, exploitation and dissemination. More than 70 contributions (Tdocs) have been submitted to the regular RAN meetings of 3GPP (Tdocs) by the industrial partners being highly related to the work of the project. More than 70 publications have been published. The project has organized more than ten workshops, special sessions and major 5G demo events both on its own and in cooperation with other 5GPPP projects all co-located with the international ICT flagship conferences. A very high number of these (Bachelor, Master, PhD) and university courses have been fed by the project.
