Mobile and wireless communications Enablers for Twenty-twenty (2020) Information Society (METIS)
Research Project, 2012 – 2015

In 2020, mobile and wireless traffic volume is expected to increase thousand-fold over 2010 figures. Moreover, an increase in the number of wirelessly-connected devices to counts in the tens of billions will have a profound impact on society. Massive machine communication, forming the basis for the Internet of Things, will make our everyday life more efficient, comfortable and safer, through a wide range of applications including traffic safety and medical services. The variety of applications and traffic types originating from or reaching mobile, WLAN, and sensor networks, will be significantly larger than today, and will result in more diverse requirements on services, devices and networks. METIS is set up by leading global players to prepare the migration from todays mobile systems, focused on human communications, towards tomorrows multi-purpose global communication infrastructure, serving humans and things. The main objective of METIS is to lay the foundation for, and to generate a European consensus on this future global mobile and wireless communications system. METIS will provide valuable and timely contributions to pre-standardisation and regulation processes, and ensure European leadership in mobile and wireless communications. METIS will provide fundamentally new solutions which fit the needs beyond 2020. Research will be conducted on network topologies, radio links, multi-node, and spectrum usage techniques. Horizontal topics will be used to integrate the research results into a system concept that provides the necessary flexibility, versatility and scalability at a low cost. The METIS concept will be evaluated, and a roadmap will be generated. METIS is a strong European consortium, completed by selected non-European partners to ensure global harmonisation. The consortium gathers major telecommunication stakeholders vendors, operators and academic researchers, together with a new partner from the automotive industry to provide new insights

Participants

Tommy Svensson (contact)

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Tilak Rajesh Lakshmana

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Jingya Li

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Erik Ström

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Sun Wanlu

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Sui Yutao

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Collaborations

Aalborg University

Aalborg, Denmark

Aalto University

Espoo, Finland

Alcatel-Lucent Germany

Stuttgart, Germany

BMW

Muenchen, Germany

Deutsche Telekom

Bonn, Germany

Docomo Communications Laboratories Europe

Muenchen, Germany

Elektrobit Wireless Communications

Oulu, Finland

Ericsson

Stockholm, Sweden

Huawei

Shenzhen, China

Nokia

Espoo, Finland

Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV)

Valencia, Spain

RWTH Aachen University

Aachen, Germany

Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

Stockholm, Sweden

Technische Universität Kaiserslautern

Kaiserslautern, Germany

Telefonica

Madrid, Spain

Universität Bremen

Bremen, Germany

Uppsala University

Uppsala, Sweden

Funding

European Commission (EC)

Project ID: EC/FP7/317669
Funding Chalmers participation during 2012–2015

Related Areas of Advance and Infrastructure

Information and Communication Technology

Areas of Advance

Sustainable development

Driving Forces

Building Futures (2010-2018)

Areas of Advance

Publications

More information

Project Web Page at Chalmers

http://www.chalmers.se/en/projects/Pages/M...

Latest update

4/13/2021