Project organisation and interests

M⁵HESTIA  is organized in 5 workpacakges

• WP1: Project managment and dissemination
• WP2: Antenna design and RF architecture
• WP3: Propagation channel and Modelleing
• WP4: Baseband signal processing
• WP5: Baseband implementation and platform integration

M⁵HESTIA is carried out in parallel with M5 b<>com project

Common objectives: 

• Comparison between different multi-user massive-MIMO processing techniques, by using the propagation channel model provided by the M⁵HESTIA project
• Integration, in the HW platform under development by IRT (5M), of the M-MIMO system developed in the framework of M⁵HESTIA

To reach these objectives, several advanced antenna systems have been designed and/or implemented in M⁵HESTIA:

• One Single Input Multiple Output (SIMO) system for channel sounding under M-MIMO conditions and further channel characterisation and modelling,
• One Multiple Input Single Output (MISO) system to be implemented in the M-MIMO HW platform and used to demonstrate SDMA in the 60-GHz band.

 

Main project interests

• For studying hybrid techniques the complementarity of the various expertises is essential: antennas, propagation, signal processing
• This rich partership (academics and industrial) allows for
  • interesting proof of concept  with important IRT b<>com means in terms of platform
  • identification of industrials needs in mmWave thanks to Orange