Past Events

17th European Wireless Conference (EW 2011) (Vienna, Austria, from 2011-04-27 09:00 to 2011-04-29 17:00) — by Christoph Mecklenbräuker

The 17th European Wireless Conference will take place in the city of Vienna, Austria, from April 27 to April 29, 2011.

Second Multiuser MIMO Industry Course (Berlin, February 16, 2009) (Heinrich-Hertz-Chair, Technical University Berlin, Germany, from 2009-02-16 09:00 to 2009-02-16 16:30) — by Christoph Mecklenbräuker

The wireless industry has started to integrate MIMO techniques into existing multiuser cellular standards and to define new cellular standards based on MIMO. The goal of this second industry course is to provide an introduction and overview of state-of-the-art research in multiuser MIMO. For selected topics we will provide background material as well as new results that have been obtained within the MASCOT project.

Second ETHZ Open House Event (Zürich, February 13, 2009) (ETH Zürich, from 2009-02-13 09:00 to 2009-02-13 16:30) — by Christoph Mecklenbräuker

The goal of the second ETH Zurich open-house event is to present selected results that have been obtained within the 6th framework EU project MASCOT, whose focus is on the design, assessment, implementation, and demonstration of multi-user MIMO wireless systems. In the first part of the open-house event, the MASCOT partners give a series of talks covering various theoretical, algorithmic, and implementation aspects of multi-user MIMO systems. In the second part, the multi-user MIMO-OFDM testbed, which has been developed at ETH Zurich (partly within MASCOT), will be demonstrated. Here, the emphasis will be on recently implemented advanced MIMO detection algorithms and on collision-based multi-user MIMO uplink transmission.

EUSIPCO 2008 Special Session on "Complexity Reduction in Multiuser MIMO Systems" (EUSIPCO 2008, Lausanne, from 2008-08-27 15:50 to 2008-08-27 17:30) — by Christoph Mecklenbräuker

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems, pioneered a decade ago, have by now become a mature and well-established research field. Consequently, MIMO technology has been increasingly attracting the attention of industry and standardization bodies over the past years, leading to the inclusion of MIMO concepts in standardized wireless systems like WiMAX, WiFi, and 3GPP/3GPP2. First MIMO products have begun to penetrate the WiFi market. However, current practical MIMO implementations are still far from theoretical performance limits because system designers are experiencing difficulties to reconcile the complexity of sophisticated MIMO techniques with the implementation constraints imposed by existing hardware. Thus, one of the main challenges in the realization of multiuser MIMO wireless systems - and in fact a critical factor for the success of MIMO in WiMAX, WiFi, and beyond 3G - is the efficient implementation of advanced MIMO concepts. Here, the goal is to devise tunable algorithms that use clever complexity reduction techniques (especially at the receiver side) to achieve graceful performance degradation. This special session intends to promote this important new thread in MIMO research by bringing together some of the top experts in the field. The planned contributions to this session range from recent work on reduced-complexity MIMO detection schemes (including modern sphere decoding and lattice reduction algorithms) to novel approaches for space-time codes that are designed with robustness issues and receiver complexity in mind.

First ETHZ open-house event (ETH Zürich, Switzerland, from 2008-02-22 09:00 to 2008-02-22 16:00) — by Christoph Mecklenbräuker

 

Industry course "Multiuser MIMO" (Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland., from 2007-11-16 09:00 to 2007-11-16 17:30) — by Christoph Mecklenbräuker

The MASCOT project organises an industry course on multiuser MIMO communications.

EUSIPCO 2007 Special Session "Optimization of wireless multiuser MIMO communication systems " (Poznan, Poland, from 2007-09-03 00:00 to 2007-09-07 00:00) — by Christoph Mecklenbräuker

This special session with contributions from the MASCOT and SURFACE projects is scheduled for Thursday, Sep 06, 2007, afternoon (14.40--16.20)

SPAWC 2007 Special Session T3A "Advances in Multiuser MIMO" (Espoo, Finland, from 2007-06-19 11:30 to 2007-06-19 12:45) — by Christoph Mecklenbräuker

Session organizer and chair: Ari Hottinen, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland. Session with contributions from the MASCOT and SURFACE projects.

6th PSC Meeting (FBM-UPF, Barcelona., from 2007-05-21 09:30 to 2007-05-21 16:30) — by Christoph Mecklenbräuker

The sixth project steering committee meeting will be held on May 21, 2007 in the "Franca Building" of UPF in Barcelona.

Tutorial on Multiuser MIMO (Vienna, Austria, from 2007-02-28 08:30 to 2007-03-02 18:00) — by Christoph Mecklenbräuker

A tutorial intended for professionals, academics, and students which is jointly organised by the FP6-IST projects MASCOT and SURFACE. Tutorial participation requires registration (not included in the workshop fee for WSA2007).

WSA 2007 (Vienna, Austria, from 2007-02-26 09:00 to 2007-02-27 17:00) — by Christoph Mecklenbräuker

ITG/IEEE Workshop on Smart Antennas 2007

4th PSC Meeting (phone meeting, from 2006-12-05 09:00 to 2006-12-05 10:00) — by Christoph Mecklenbräuker

MASCOT Project Steering Committee Meeting 04/2006. (Note changed time: Meeting start 09:00 CET instead of 10:00 CET)

Special session on MIMO equalization - methods and implementation (Pacific Grove (CA), USA, from 2006-10-29 09:00 to 2006-11-01 18:00) — by Christoph Mecklenbräuker

40th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers 2006

Special session on multi-user MIMO communications (Firenze, Italy, from 2006-09-08 08:40 to 2006-09-08 13:00) — by Christoph Mecklenbräuker

A special session on multi-user MIMO communications is planned at EUSIPCO 2006.

2nd PSC meeting (phone meeting, from 2006-04-20 14:00 to 2006-04-20 16:00) — by Christoph Mecklenbräuker

Phone Conference (Dial-In +43 1 22 43 12312)

Concertation meeting (Brussels, from 2006-03-22 09:00 to 2006-03-23 17:00) — by Christoph Mecklenbräuker

Concertation Meeting for Communication Technologies for projects from strategic Objectives 'Mobile and Wireless Systems Beyond 3G' and 'Broadband for All'. First day “plenary” meeting. Second day projects meet in “clusters” around specific technical topics.

Multiuser Detection in a Dynamic Environment (UCLA, Los Angeles (CA), USA, from 2006-02-02 14:00 to 2006-02-02 15:00) — by Ezio Biglieri

UCLA / HSSEAS, Electrical Engineering Department, Visitor's Seminar

Kick-off Meeting (FTW, Vienna, from 2006-01-19 12:00 to 2006-01-20 17:00) — by Christoph Mecklenbräuker

The kick-off meeting is planned as a two-day event: The first day is devoted to the 1st project steering committee (PSC) meeting for agreeing on administrative and organisational matters. A scientific workshop is held on January 20, 2006.