Project outline

The evolution of information and communication technologies (ICT) over the past few years brought the entire world to a new era of earth-wide connectivity. Henceforth, the achievement of novel technologies will not be cloistered by nations but catalyzed by the synchronization of international research and development efforts. The deployment of worldwide cellular telephone networks is one example of such accomplishments which continue with this China-Quebec partnership project.

COMunity, in collaboration with industrial partners Wavesat and ZTE Corporation, as well as the Shanghai Research Center for Wireless Communications, also known as International Center for Wireless Collaborative Research (WiCO), will work at developing novel broadband wireless access (BWA) technologies.

These technologies, among which exists the WiMAX standard, will allow high-speed services at a very attractive price to performance ratio in various telecom markets worldwide.

The overall goal of the project is to assist our industrial partners, Wavesat and ZTE Corporation, in resolving deployment and interoperability issues related to state of the art 802.16e compliant networks; by targeting the actual version of a BWA network, and by addressing the evolution of the air interfaces.

The upcoming deployment of broadband wireless access technologies carries enormous potential. China’s market for wireless access, already surpassing fixed services, is growing at vertiginous speeds with 60 million new subscribers each year. Such numbers, combined with the need for a connectivity solution for vast remote and rural areas, make BWA the technology of choice for deployment across China and Canada as well.

Results to date

• Wavesat Wireless Broadband Solutions Central to Successful Launch of Remote Research Collaboration Facility for Canadian and Chinese Companies
• ETS takes part in the Virtual Laboratory China-Canada - ETS press release (French only)
• Launch of Transcontinental Virtual Laboratory
• Launch of the first R&D partnership with China (pdf)
• ISTP - Press Releast, May 22nd 2008 (pdf)
• Publications

Expected results

• Identification and mitigation of BWA network deployment issues related to a high level of terminal heterogeneity
• Development of realistic channel models
• Development of novel algorithms for MIMO, beamforming, and intercellular transfers for high speed mobile communications
• Experimentation results obtained from the integration of the developed algorithms into a broadband wireless access test bench

Our partners

• Wavesat
• ZTE Corporation
• WiCO
• MDEIE
• Prompt
  

Team members

Professors : François Gagnon and Honglin Hu
Specialists: Jonathan Gagnon and Olivier Munger
Post-doc researcher: Mohamed Sahmoudi
Students: Saîf E. Abdelmalek and Monem B. Hassine
Technical support:  Tommy Bouchard

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