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4MORE

Mobiles Terminal des Demonstrators von CEA-Leti

4MORE is a project partly financed by the sixth framework programme (FP6) of the EC. 4MORE aims at complementing the former IST project MATRICE and advancing one step towards an optimised implementation. 4MORE will research and develop an innovative architecture compatible with advanced algorithms, and will validate a cost-effective, low-power System on Chip (SoC) solution on a demonstration system, for multi-antenna MC-CDMA mobile terminals, based on joint optimisation of L1 and L2 functions. The strong emphasis put on the achievement of a SoC design is motivated by the competition present in Japan that already includes the realisation of field trials and thus forces to accelerate the transition from concepts to design. 4MORE will take advantage of the potentialities offered by MIMO techniques in order to achieve the required broadband capabilities. Furthermore, the design of the L2 components (IP traffic mapping, dynamic resource allocation, etc.) will be deeply interrelated with L1 (space-time coding, array processing, interference cancellation, synchronisation, etc.), in order for the L3 IP-based services to fully exploit the high throughput offered by the physical layer. 4MORE will target high bit rates and high mobility in geographically restricted areas, i.e. a complement-type scenario according to the ITU-R vision for systems beyond IMT2000. As a result, the project will develop and integrate a set of IP (intellectual property) blocks at the terminal level. Moreover, a demonstrator will be implemented, including the RF front-end, and tested to validate the system capabilities.

During the project over 80 publications (patents, journal and conference publications) were published by all partners. DLR colleagues have filed three patent applications, and furthermore two journal and 22 conference publications were published. The volume of the project was 7.36M€ and the contract ID from the EC is IST-2002 507039. The project started in 2004 and was finshed in 2006.

List of Partners.

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