The Consortium Agreement was signed in Oct. 2017 and the kickoff of the project took place in Nov. 2017.
In May 2018, an amendment was signed to change the coordinator from the University of Sheffield to the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and to include the University of Twente instead of Chalmers University.
AXIÓN and Nokia Bell Labs were added as Partner Organizations.
All 11 ESRs were enrolled in a PhD program. ESRs have been working on their established Career Development Plan (CDP), which has been reviewed every six months. ESRs attended post-graduate courses at their PhD hosting university on topics related to their research sub-program.
The consortium organized two training schools. The 1st WAVECOMBE Training School (WATS-1) was held on Sep. 4-5th 2019 in the University of Twente. The 2nd Training School (WATS-2) was organized by the UPV on Feb. 4-5th, 2020.
Moreover, 8 workshops were held:
- "Joint IRACON-WAVECOMBE Training Workshop on Radio Channel Modelling for 5G Millimetre Wave Communications in Built Environments”, organized by the University of Durham on June 15th.
- "is3DMIMO – WAVECOMBE Joint Workshop" organized by the University of Sheffield on July 12nd, 2019.
- 2 online sessions of "WAVECOMBE Training Seminar on Public Engagement" organized by the University of Sheffield (Sep. 22nd 2020, Oct. 8th 2020).
- Online "WAVECOMBE Training Seminar on IRP & Patents", organized by Televic on Dec. 9th, 2020.
- Online "WAVECOMBE Training Seminar on Propagation model in Ranplan Professional Network planning and optimization", organized by Ranplan, on Feb. 25th, 2021.
- The UPV organized an online seminar with an Expert of the Supervisory Board on "Research Aspects of the Next Generations of WiFi technologies" on Oct. 14th, 2020.
- 2 online sessions of “Workshop on Product and mixed-signal design organized by Televic on April 26th and 30th 2021.
- Online "WaveComBE Final Workshop” organized by the UPV, on Sep. 28th, 2021.
Following the IRACON/WAVECOMBE workshop, a Special Issue in Radio Science special section “Radio Channel Modelling For 5G Millimetre Wave Communications In-Built Environments” was organized.
Gapwaves AB and the University of Twente delivered courses in the "European Association on Antennas and Propagation and Chalmers University Technology" on May 20–24, 2019.
Some ESRs participated in the 7th Global 5G Event and the 28th EuCNC that was held in Valencia in June 2019.
Some supervisors and ESRs participated in the 1st Post-IRACON meeting on Sep. 14-15th 2020.
A special session on "Novel Antennas and Propagation Modelling for the 5G Millimeter-Wave Bands" was also organized in ISAP2020, Osaka, on Jan. 27th, 2021.
In total, 36 academic papers have been published in international conferences and journals. Besides, 2 patents have been requested and 5 contributions to the Radiocommunication Study Groups - ITU have been published.
From the beginning of the project, the main means of dissemination of the WaveComBE have been the official website and social networks, which have been continually updated.
