The BEATS project

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The BEATS project

• Presentation at the Joint BEATS/Wireless IP
  workshop,
• Loen, Norway, June 4 - 6, 2003
• Geir E. Øien

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BEATS overview

• Research project at The Dept. of
  Telecommunications, NTNU
• Project manager Prof. Geir E. Øien
• Duration Nov. 2000 - Nov. 2006
• Funding The Research Council of Norway (5 PhDs,
  1 senior researcher 12 MNOK) NTNU (2 PhDs, 1
  post doc)
• Main objective Development of bandwidth-efficient
  , adaptive transmission schemes for wireless
  multimedia communications.
• WWW http//www.tele.ntnu.no/projects/beats

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BEATS personnel

• Prof. Geir E. Øien
• Prof. Kjell J. Hole
• Prof. Nils Holte
• Ass. Prof. Lars Lundheim
• Prof. Tor A. Ramstad
• Post doc. Henrik Holm
• Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini, UMN (guest researcher
  02/03)
• Prof. Heinrich Meyr, RWTH Aachen (guest
  researcher 03)

• PhD student Bengt Holter
• PhD student Duc Van Duong
• PhD student Fredrik Hekland
• PhD student Greg H. Håkonsen
• PhD student Lin Gang
• PhD student Anna Kim
• PhD student Ola Jetlund (joint with TURBAN
  project)

External collaborators Nera Research (Pål
Orten/Bjarne Risløw), Telenor FoU/TURBAN, Univ.
of Oslo (Prof. David Gesbert), Univ. of Bergen
(coding theory group).
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Achievements plans

• Approx. 30 research papers published (by June
  2003) in international fora (journals
  conferences).
• Several more under review.
• Main results To be discussed in later
  presentations!
• Participation in the 6th framework program NoE
  proposal NEWCOM (Network of Excellence on
  Wireless COMmunication), 2003.
• Closer cooperation and interaction with Wireless
  IP.
• Participation in COST 273 and COST 289.
• Follow-up project proposal CUBAN - Co-Optimized
  Ubiquituous Broadband Access Networks.