Geir E. Øien
Professor, dr.ing.
(project manager)


Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunications,
Norwegian University of
Science and Technology (NTNU),
7491 Trondheim, Norway
Phone: +47 73594315
Fax: +47 73592640

E-mail
oien@iet.ntnu.no

Welcome to the website of the BEATS project. The acronym "BEATS" is an abbreviation of the project title "Bandwidth-Efficient and Adaptive Transmission Schemes for Wireless Multimedia Communications". BEATS is a part of the IKT-2010 research programme funded by the Norwegian Research Council (NFR). The main research ideas covered by the BEATS project are:

• Explore rate-adaptive coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) in combination with advanced antenna diversity.
  
• Explore signal processing aspects of smart antennas for further bandwidth-efficiency increase, optimum space-time detection and space-time multiplexing.
• Design of joint source-channel coding schemes for optimal efficiency and robustness, particularly in uplink transmission of source-specific, high-capacity parts of multimedia data streams, e.g. video.
• Design of transcoding schemes in heterogenous systems, for efficient digitization and coding of jointly source-channel coded signals, e.g. after decoding at the basestation, before further transmission takes place in the system.
• Design and study of optimized Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) schemes.
• Estimation and analysis of wireless communication channels, in order to establish realistic benchmarks for practical system performance.
  

The collaborating researchers are:

• Professor, dr.ing. Geir E. Øien (project manager),
  Signal Processing Group, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
• Professor, dr.scient. Kjell J. Hole,
  Coding Theory Group, University of Bergen / Signal Processing Group, NTNU.
• Professor, dr.ing. Tor A. Ramstad,
  Signal Processing Group, NTNU.
• Professor, dr.ing. Nils Holte,
  Signal Processing Group, NTNU.
• Associate Professor, dr.ing. Lars Lundheim,
  Signal Processing Group, NTNU.
• Dr.ing. Henrik Holm
  
• Dr.ing. student Bengt Holter
• Dr.ing. student Greg Harald Håkonsen
• Dr.ing. student Fredrik Hekland
• Dr.ing. student Duc Van Duong
• Dr.ing. student Lin Gang
• Dr.ing. student Anna Na Kim
  

Professor Hole will be residing in Bergen with an office address at the University of Bergen. In addition,
Ola Jetlund, Assistant professor Mohamed-Slim Alouini, associate professor David Gesbert, and research scientists Bjarne Risløw, Pål Orten, and Per-Hjalmar Lehne, are external collaborators on the project. Jetlund is a dr.ing student of the TURBAN project (TURBo codes, Access and Network Technology). Alouini is the leader of the AWACCS (Analysis of Wireless and Cellular Communication Systems) group at Univ. of Minnesota. Gesbert is an associate professor in signal processing and communications in the Digital Signal Processing and Image Analysis Group at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Risløw and Orten are both with Nera Research, while Lehne is with Telenor Research & Development.

Questions regarding the BEATS project may be e-mailed to the project manager Geir E. Øien