Our society is on the brink of a new age with the development of new visionary concepts such as internet of things, smart cities, autonomous driving and smart industries. This stimulates the use of the millimetre-wave frequencies up to 100 GHz to support much higher data rates and increase the capacity of mobile wireless communication systems. To achieve this, new system concepts are needed, such as Distributed Massive Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (DM-MIMO), which replaces the concept of a single base station per cell by multiple remote antenna stations connected to a central unit. To overcome existing limitations, such as poor power efficiency and signal quality, the MyWave project proposed to investigate an innovative antenna system concept utilizing both silicon and III-V semiconductor technologies, advanced signal processing concepts and radio-over-fibre interconnect between a central unit and the remote antenna stations.
MyWave is a European funded Marie Curie project that started October 1, 2019, with partners from Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Italy and The Netherlands. Its main purpose was to train 15 early stage researchers (ESRs, PhD students) to become experts in key technologies for future mobile telecommunication systems. Throughout the training programme, the ESRs worked on an individual research topic that is of high relevance for the successful further development of next generation mobile telecommunication systems (5G and beyond). Each ESR spend at least 18 months at an industrial partner. In this way, the outcome of the research directly benefited the European industry, while the ESRs gained experience in an industrial work environment.