innovating communications - CTTC

More documents

Recommendations

Info

Vision and Mission_Statement of the Director_Organization and Management_Research and Demostration_Business Development_Intellectual Property Rights_Highlights 2007_Research Projects_Technology transfer_Training activities_Partnerships, Cooperation and Communication_Publications_Financial Report 22
6 INTEllECTuAl pROpERTy RIGHTS One of the main objectives of CTTC is to promote the technological innovation. After six years of Research and Development (R&D) activities, this objective has been achieved by starting an IPR (Intellectual Property Right) Portfolio based on trade marks and patent applications. In particular, during the last two years, CTTC has registered five trade marks and has submitted eigth patents to the European Patent Office (EPO). As for the Trade Marks, CTTC registered the following: ADRENALINE Testbed®, EXTREME Testbed®, GEDOMIS®, DEMOCLES ®, ULAND ®. A more detailed description of these testbeds can be found in the section related to Innovation Testbeds. With respect to the patents, during 2006 CTTC submitted to EPO five patent applications based on PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty), which propose new methods to face problems related to current mobile and wireless communications systems. In the context of mobile and wireless communications, CTTC has designed a methodology to estimate the arrival times in localization applications, which will allow to locate persons and objects with a higher precision than the one allowed by the GPS system. A second patent submission solves the problem of estimating and correcting the frequency carrier in OFDM systems with multiple antennas. On the other hand, CTTC researchers designed two multi-user wireless communications systems, where the terminals are also characterized by multiple antennas. Those systems will allow to minimize mobile terminal power transmission. The fourth patent submission intends to improve IP networks performances. In particular, it focuses on the design of different evaluation methods of the performances of wireless cards and on the automatic monitoring and configuration of IP based networks. Extreme Testbed ® Uland ® The fifth patent submitted by CTTC has already been internationally published with the number WO 2007/101451 A1. The inventor of this research is Dr. Xavier Mestre, coordinator of the radio communications area of the center. The developed invention presents a system and a methodology for estimating the directions of arrival of one or several radio signals. The typical mechanisms used in this kind of detection need a minimum power level. The CTTC proposed solution, permits to considerably decrease the value of this threshold, that is, it allows the correct estimation of the directions of arrival of the signals with lower power. Besides, the method invented is especially useful in situations in which the number of available observations is small. To sum up, we can say that the patented system allows to improve the reception of signals when conditions are deficient. 23
Page 1 and 2: ANNuAl REpORT 2007 innovating commu
Page 3 and 4: 0 CONTENT 1. Vision and Mission 4 2
Page 5 and 6: 1 VISION Vision AND MISSION CTTC is
Page 7 and 8: 2 STATEMENT OF THE DIRECTOR The Cen
Page 9 and 10: 3 ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT In Se
Page 11 and 12: The Management Team of CTTC is orga
Page 13 and 14: 4 RESEARCH Organization AND DEMOSTR
Page 15 and 16: Research and innovation lines Curre
Page 17 and 18: Radio Communications Lab. Access Te
Page 19 and 20: 5 BuSINESS DEVElOpMENT Project Volu
Page 21: 2007 - Structure of R&D personnel S
Page 25 and 26: Highlights 2007 First Contract with
Page 27 and 28: CTTC participates in NOBEL 2 demons
Page 29 and 30: 7 RESEARCH Overview pROJECTS The ma
Page 31 and 32: FP6-027305 NOBEL2 Started: March 20
Page 33 and 34: FIT-330225-2007-14 PLANETS Started:
Page 35 and 36: COST Action 295 DYNAMO Started: Jan
Page 37 and 38: FP6-IST-27402 WIP Started: January
Page 39 and 40: 20547/07/NL/JD MIMO SAT Started: Ma
Page 41 and 42: National R&D projects Mònica Navar
Page 43 and 44: TEC2006-10459/TCM PERSEO Started: O
Page 45 and 46: FIT-330503-2006-2 m:CIUDAD Carles F
Page 47 and 48: All the researchers of CTTC and ass
Page 49 and 50: Networks of excellence and thematic
Page 51 and 52: TEC2006-27651E RT-Multilayer Starte
Page 53 and 54: TEC2006-27633-E R-MPLS Started: May
Page 55 and 56: 8 TECHNOlOGy TRANSFER During 2007,
Page 57 and 58: MUMO-I Started: January 2007 Durati
Page 59 and 60: QUETZAL Started: January 2004 Durat
Page 61 and 62: Technology transfer Innovation test
Page 63 and 64: DEMOCLES Testbed ® Started: Januar
Page 65 and 66: GEDOMIS ® Started: June 2006 Fundi
Page 67 and 68: Anechoic Chamber CTTC The CTTC anec
Page 69 and 70: 9 TRAINING ACTIVITIES CTTC offers a
Page 72 and 73:
Vision and Mission_Statement of the
Page 74 and 75:
Cooperation Besides the former part
Page 76 and 77:
Page 78 and 79:
A. Georgiadis, A. Collado, A. Suare
Page 80 and 81:
E. Kartsakli, A. Cateura, J. Alonso
Page 82 and 83:
C. Pinart, E. Le Rouzic, I. Martín
Page 84 and 85:
D. Gregoratti, X. Mestre, Asymptoti
Page 86 and 87:
Page 88 and 89:
Simó Aliana General Administrator
Page 90:
Responsible for contents and Editor
show all

innovating communications - CTTC

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?