Descrizione del progetto
Soluzione per reti wireless 5G veloci ed economiche
Oggi, il settore industriale, gli operatori e gli accademici si aspettano che le reti wireless 5G forniscano un accesso wireless a banda larga e una capacità computazionale onnipresente ovunque e in qualsiasi momento. Tuttavia, questo scenario richiede un massiccio miglioramento delle prestazioni delle infrastrutture wireless a medio raggio. Questa modernizzazione può essere ottenuta solo attraverso la convergenza di nanotecnologie avanzate nel campo dei semiconduttori e di una solida infrastruttura wireless basata su reti a maglie con caratteristiche di fibra senza interruzioni. Il progetto DRAGON, finanziato dall’UE, affronterà i vincoli delle attuali soluzioni di backhaul wireless in banda E sfruttando lo spettro radio in banda D (130-174,8 GHz). Svilupperà una soluzione radio di piccole dimensioni e ad alta capacità per accelerare i sistemi ottici verso i sistemi backhaul in modo economico. Un front-end analogico per ricetrasmettitori BiCMOS a basso consumo energetico e basato su silicio che opera in banda D consentirà di realizzare reti di telecomunicazioni a costi contenuti con prestazioni in fibra senza interruzioni.
Obiettivo
Nowadays there is a shared vision among industry, operators and academy that 5G wireless networks will have to provide wideband wireless access and ubiquitous computing anywhere and at any time. The human life of the majority of the EU citizens will be surrounded by intelligent wireless sensors, which will bring radical changes to the way we live and do things. Supporting this scenario is a challenge for network operators and wireless network infrastructures and it will demand a tremendous performance improvement of medium range wireless infrastructure. This challenge needs to be addressed by a convergence of advanced semiconductor nanotechnology and a robust wireless infrastructure based on meshed networks with seamless fiber performances.
The DRAGON project, through the exploitation of the radio spectrum in D-band (130-174.8 GHz) , will overcome the constraints of current E-band wireless backhaul solutions to achieve a small-form factor and high-capacity radio solution, suitable for massive deployment, that will enable bringing the speed of optical systems to backhaul systems in a cost effective way. The DRAGON project vision and objectives rely on a power efficient and silicon based BiCMOS transceiver analog front end, operating in D-band and enabling cost efficient deployment of telecommunications networks with seamless fiber performance. A beam steering integrated antenna array using an intelligent low-cost packaging technology will be developed for the implementation of the 5G network demo trial on field, with fine beam alignment for facilitating the installation and compensating pole vibration.
The DRAGON consortium has a well-balanced and complementary know-how in the relevant areas for designing and demonstrating the feasibility of a small cell cellular network architecture based on meshed D-band backhaul links. DRAGON will therefore secure Europe’s industrial leadership and pave the way towards innovative 5G telecommunications networks.
Campo scientifico
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringfibers
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationstelecommunications networksmobile network5G
- engineering and technologynanotechnology
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technology
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Meccanismo di finanziamento
IA - Innovation actionCoordinatore
02150 Espoo
Finlandia