CTIF-supported international partnership project wins Gold medal · 1. April 2011
The collaborative research project WINNER+ under the support of the European-funded programme CELTIC and coordinated by Center for TeleInFrastruktur (CTIF), Aalborg University, received Award of Excellence in Gold by the Celtic Core Group at the 2011 Celtic-Plus Event in Heidelberg, Germany.
Celtic-Plus is an industry-driven European research initiative to define, perform and finance through public and private funding common research projects in the area of telecommunications, new media, future Internet, and applications & services focusing on a new "Smart Connected World" paradigm.
WINNER+ had a strong international impact in shaping the technology choices and standards for the fourth generation (4G) wireless communication technologies and contributed to the development, standardization and evaluation of the IMT-Advanced system. CTIF was an active contributor in the work on advanced radio resource management techniques in support of the system concept, spectrum sharing and trials.
The participation of CTIF was a natural follow up of the work performed in the preceding EU-funded projects under the Framework Programme 6 WINNER and WINNER II that were acknowledged by the European Commission as main contributors to the final concept of the LTE system.
As the WINNER+ project partners agreed on basic concepts and algorithms, and adopted these results for their contributions to 3GPP for LTE and IMT-Advanced, the project results were exploited by 3GPP for a smooth and fast development of LTE toward a world-wide accepted standard. This shows that collaborative research in the pre-commercialization phase of a new technology is an important means for consensus building toward future standards.
WINNER+ official Website: http://projects.celtic-initiative.org/winner+/
Related information: http://www.celticplus.eu/
