{"id":454,"date":"2015-01-07T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.eda.kent.ac.uk\/news-ext\/2015\/01\/07\/university-of-kent-leads-major-5g-research-project\/"},"modified":"2015-01-07T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T01:00:00","slug":"university-of-kent-leads-major-5g-research-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2015\/01\/07\/university-of-kent-leads-major-5g-research-project\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Kent leads major 5G research project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A \u20ac3.8M Horizon 2020 research project, iCIRRUS (intelligent Converged network consolIdating Radio and optical access aRound USer equipment) started on 1 January 2015.  It is a 10-partner, 36-month project, led by University of Kent (Nathan Gomes, Jiangzhou Wang and Huiling Zhu).  The other participants are ADVA, Orange, Telekom Slovenije, Primetel, Wellness Telecom, Heinrich-Hertz Institute, University of Essex, JDSU and IAF GmbH.<\/p>\n<p>The central aim of the project is to examine the advantages and challenges of bringing an Ethernet based optical fibre fronthaul to fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks, considering the benefits of such an architecture and its effects on performance on key 5G service aims such as device-to-device (D2D) communications and mobile cloud networking.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Nathan Gomes, the project&#8217;s coordinator, said &#8220;This is an exciting project which can help build the foundations for much future 5G network research and development.  The ideas have already generated considerable interest in the research community &#8211; now the partners have to surmount the not inconsiderable challenges involved.  It builds on other 5G research projects announced in October, NIRVANA, a \u00a3926,417 EPSRC project led by Kent, and RAPID, an EU-Japan H2020 project for which Kent receives \u20ac289,500 funding.  It underlines our importance as a centre for 5G research.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A kick-off meeting for iCIRRUS is scheduled in Canterbury on 5th February.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u20ac3.8M Horizon 2020 research project, iCIRRUS (intelligent Converged network consolIdating Radio and optical access aRound USer equipment) started on 1 January 2015. It is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2015\/01\/07\/university-of-kent-leads-major-5g-research-project\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}