HARP

HARPs ESPAR-based RRH wireless network architecture

High capacity network Architecture with

Remote radio heads & Parasitic antenna arrays
November 2012 October 2015

University of Edinburgh (Coordinating Institution)

Technical Manager: Prof. C. B. Papadias

papadias@ait.edu.gr

EURECOM

Person in charge: Prof. D. Slock

dirk.slock@eurecom.fr

Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
Person in charge: Dr. B. Clerckx
b.clerckx@imperial.ac.uk

Seventh Framework Programme for Research of the European

Commission under grant number, HARP-318489.

Athens Information Technology (Technical Lead)

Project Partners

Project Coordinator: Dr T. Ratnarajah

t.ratnarajah@ed.ac.uk

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Person in charge: Prof. R Muller
ralf.mueller@lnt.de

Technical University of Denmark
Person in charge: Prof. L Dittmann
ladit@fotonik.dtu.dk

MTI Radiocomp
Person in charge: Dr. B Bossen
Bjarne.Bossen@m;group.com
Alcatel Lucent
Person in charge: Dr L Raoullet
laurent.roullet@alcatel-lucent.com

Orange Labs (France Telecom R&D)
Person in Charge: Dr S Senecal
stephane.senecal@orange.com

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Motivation

Conventional wireless networking paradigm

To meet the growing capacity demands in cellular networks imposed by the

increasing customer base and data-hungry mobile applications.

Multiple antennas appear to be the major contending technology for

increasing the spectral efficiency of wireless networks.

Having exhausted their potential in a standalone fashion (at the level of a

single link or single cell), multiple antennas are now explored for further
capacity.

Key Idea

To bring distributed multi-antenna wireless access to reality by combining two
powerful emerging technologies:

Radio Remote Heads (RRHs), which allow for widely geographically

distributed access via radio-over-fibre connections to a central base station.

Electronically Steerable Passive Array Radiators (ESPARs), which provide

multi-antenna-like functionality with a single active RF chain only

Emerging wireless networking paradigms for high capacity

WP1: Management of the Project (Leaders: UEDIN)

Technical Management and Coordination, management of the knowledge and intellectual property, preparation of the annual
project reports, communication with the FP7 central office of the European Commission
WP2: Dissemination Activities and Exploitation Plan
(Leader MTI RADIOCOMP)

WP5: Multi-point ESPAR-enabled RRH Access

(Leader IMPERIAL)

WP3: Network requirements and

Fundamental Limits (Leader ORANGE)

WP6: Aggregation Network (Leader DTU)

WP4: Single-point ESPAR-enabled RRH Access

(Leader AIT)

WP7: Experimentation and Demonstrations

(Leader ALBLF)