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Project Deliverable D2.3.1: Final Dissemination and Exploitation Report

Grant Agreement for: Collaborative project Project acronym: ADEL

Grant Agreement number: 619647

Deliverable D2.3.1 – Dissemination and Exploitation Plan and Report 12-12-2016

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Advanced Dynamic spectrum 5G mobile networks Employing Licensed shared access

Project Deliverable D2.3.1:

Dissemination and Exploitation Report

Contractual Date of Delivery: November 2016

Actual Date of Delivery: November 2016

Editor: Hicham Anouar (TCS)

Authors: Nicola Marchetti (TCD), Florian Bahlke (TUDA), Kostas Voulgaris (AIT), Alvaro Gomes (PTIN), Valerio Frascolla (IMC), Dirk Slock (EUR), Tharm Ratnarajah (UEDIN),

Work package title: WP2 – Dissemination and Exploitation Planning

Work package leader: AIT

Contributing partners: TCD, TCS, UEDIN, AIT, IMC, EUR, PTIN, TUDA

Nature R1

Dissemination level PU2

Version V1

Total Number of Pages: 33

File: D2.3.1

1 Nature of the Deliverable:

R = Report, P = Prototype, D = Demonstrator, O = Other 2 Dissemination level codes:

PU = Public PP = Restricted to other programme participants (including Commission Services) RE = Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Services) CO = Confidential, only for the members of the consortium (including the Commission Services)


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Abstract: This deliverable presents the final Dissemination and Exploitation report for the ADEL project, covering the whole duration of the project.

Keywords: LSA, dissemination, exploitation, project results, deliverable, plan

Document Revision history:

Version Date Send to Summary of main changes Approved by

V1 Nov. 2016 Final version Tharm


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Copyright

© Copyright 2014 – 2016, the ADEL Consortium

Consisting of:

Coordinator: Dr. Tharm Ratnarajah, University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) - UEDIN

Participants:

Athens Information Technology (Greece) – AIT

Thales Communications and Security (France) - TCS

Technical University Darmstadt (Germany) - TUDA

Intel Mobile Communications GmbH (Germany) - IMC

EURECOM (France) - EUR

Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) - TCD

Portugal Telecom Inovacão SA (Portugal) – PTIN

This document may not be copied, reproduced, or modified in whole or in part for any purpose without written permission from the ADEL Consortium. In addition to such written permission to copy, reproduce, or modify this document in whole or part, an acknowledgement of the authors of the document and all applicable portions of the copyright notice must be clearly referenced.

This document reflects only the authors’ view. The European Community is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained herein.

All rights reserved.


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Executive Summary

This document presents Deliverable D2.3.1 “Final Dissemination and Exploitation Report” of the FP7 project ADEL (ICT- 619647). This work was carried out as part of WP2: Dissemination and Exploitation Planning, specifically Tasks T2.1 and T2.2. An important goal of the ADEL project was to ensure sustainability of the project’s outcomes through the Dissemination and Exploitation (D&E) activities carried out throughout the entire duration of the project. This report summarizes all the actions and activities done throughout the course of the ADEL project. The main dissemination and exploitation activities revolved around the followings:

• Strong online presence through ADEL website and social networks disseminate project research outputs

• Dissemination of ADEL’s scientific and technical results through publications in high-impact international journals and conferences

• Showcase and advertisement of proof-of-concept prototypes

• Development of liaisons with national, European and international projects and organisations that are active in areas relevant to the ADEL concepts

• Organisation of a summer school and a number of conference special sessions in topics related to ADEL concepts and scientific objectives

• Effective exploitation mechanisms for the results obtained and technologies developed within the project

• Alignment of ADEL’s concepts and technologies with the ongoing work in relevant standardization bodies

By implementing the aforementioned dissemination and exploitation roadmap, ADEL became a reference for the research in the field of LSA standards.

This document presents the results and accomplishments of ADEL's dissemination and exploitation activities during the project's duration, including assessment of impact created and exploitation opportunities generated. Contributions to various standardization committees and regulatory bodies are also detailed.


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Table of Contents

1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................ 7

2 PURPOSE AND SCOPE ........................................................................................................................... 7

3 REFERENCE DOCUMENTS ..................................................................................................................... 7

4 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS ....................................................................................................... 7

5 OVERVIEW OF WP2 – DISSEMINATION AND EXPLOITATION PLANNING ........................................ 8

5.1 DESCRIPTION OF WORK ...................................................................................................................................... 8 5.2 DELIVERABLES & MILESTONES ......................................................................................................................... 8

6 DISSEMINATION – INTERNAL AND PUBLIC ......................................................................................... 9

6.1 INTERNAL DISSEMINATION .................................................................................................................................. 9 6.1.1 E-mail communication .......................................................................................................................... 9 6.1.2 Dissemination Section within Quarterly Report ............................................................................. 9 6.1.3 Teleconferences ................................................................................................................................... 10 6.1.4 Plenary meetings ................................................................................................................................. 10

6.2 PUBLIC DISSEMINATION .................................................................................................................................... 10 6.2.1 Project Identity ...................................................................................................................................... 10 6.2.2 Project website – structure and description ................................................................................. 10 6.2.3 Printed & online press ........................................................................................................................ 11 6.2.4 Video material ....................................................................................................................................... 11 6.2.5 Information material: Leaflets, brochures, posters ..................................................................... 11

6.3 TARGET GROUPS .............................................................................................................................................. 12 6.4 DISSEMINATION CHANNELS .............................................................................................................................. 13

6.4.1 Conferences .......................................................................................................................................... 13 6.4.2 External relations ................................................................................................................................. 15 6.4.3 Standardization activities .................................................................................................................. 15

6.5 PARTNER-SPECIFIC DISSEMINATION ACHIEVEMENTS ...................................................................................... 16 6.5.1 UEDIN ...................................................................................................................................................... 16 6.5.2 AIT ............................................................................................................................................................ 17 6.5.3 TCS .......................................................................................................................................................... 19 6.5.4 TUDA ....................................................................................................................................................... 19 6.5.5 IMC ........................................................................................................................................................... 21 6.5.6 EUR .......................................................................................................................................................... 22 6.5.7 TCD .......................................................................................................................................................... 25 6.5.8 PTIN ......................................................................................................................................................... 26

7 TASK 2.2 EXPLOITATION ...................................................................................................................... 27

7.1 KEY ASPECTS ................................................................................................................................................... 27 7.1.1 Potential impact .................................................................................................................................... 28 7.1.2 Risks & limitations ............................................................................................................................... 28

7.2 EXPLOITABLE RESULTS .................................................................................................................................... 29 7.3 CONTRIBUTIONS TO STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS ..................................................................................... 30 7.4 EXPLOITATION ACHIEVEMENTS PER PARTNER ................................................................................................ 30

7.4.1 Exploitation achievements of industrial partners ....................................................................... 30 7.4.2 Exploitation achievements of academic and research partners ............................................. 31

8 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS .......................................................................................................... 32


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1 Introduction This deliverable presents the achievements in terms of dissemination and exploitation of the ADEL project. The ADEL Consortium saw dissemination activities as an obligation and an opportunity to expose project results, innovative aspects coming out of extensive research tasks in order to communicate our findings throughout the wide research community, regulatory and standardization bodies, the industry and the general public. In order to communicate our research results and key events held, we have identified the dissemination channels in order to know where can we disseminate the information (conferences, journals, stakeholders forums, meetings with the regulators, etc.) as well as the ways to increase the visibility of our project (website, information materials, press releases, video material, etc.) All partners, and especially industrial partners, in the project vigorously pursued the exploitation of ADEL's results, both by the ADEL consortium as a whole and within the respective partners' organisations.

2 Purpose and Scope The main achievements of the ADEL’s Dissemination and Exploitation are:

� Effective dissemination ADEL's scientific and technical results through publications in high-impact international journals and conferences.

� Showcase and advertisement of the proof-of-concept prototypes to interested parties. � Development of liaisons with national, European and international projects and

organisations that are active in areas relevant to the ADEL concepts. � Organisation of a summer school, and a number of conference special sessions and

journal special issues in topics related to ADEL concept and scientific objectives. � Effective exploitation mechanisms for the results obtained and technologies developed

within the project. � Alignment of ADEL's concepts and technologies with the ongoing parallel work in

relevant standardization bodies. � Proposal of modifications and enhancements to regulatory requirements based on the

results of the project.

In order to build awareness of the project and to communicate research findings to stimulate interest in the work of the project, the ADEL consortium used the dissemination channels identified in this document and exploited the results according to the exploitation agendas of industrial and academic partners within the consortium.

3 Reference Documents [1] ADEL Description of Work, version October 2013. [2] Project Consortium Agreement, version December 2013.

4 Abbreviations and acronyms

3GPP – 3rd Generation Partnership Project ANFR - Agence Nationale des Fréquences CEPT – European Conference on Postal and Telecommunications Administrations CRS-i - Cognitive Radio Standardization Initiative DSA – Dynamic Spectrum Alliance ECC – Electronic Communications Committee EMMIA - European Mobile and Mobility Industries Alliance FCC - Federal Communications Commission GSMA - Groupe Spéciale Mobile Association


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LSA – Licensed Shared Access Ofcom – Office of Communications (UK) RSPG – Radio Spectrum Policy Group

5 Overview of WP2 – Dissemination and Exploitation Planning

5.1 Description of work WP2 covers the ADEL activities related to dissemination and exploitation planning. The work in WP2 occurred during the entire lifetime of the project. Dissemination and exploitation Tasks within this WP focused on demonstrating our project results in the scientific community, industrial and academic environment. The ADEL team made an effort to intensively engage with EU regulatory and standardization bodies, where Licensed Shared Access as a new approach to spectrum sharing in demand for new regulatory framework is currently being discussed and considered. In line with targeting the publication of results in conferences and journals, the goal was also standardization of relevant technologies as well as creation of their broader awareness in business fora. ADEL worked on intensifying collaboration with relevant stakeholders, recognized for their potential contribution to the scope of the project, since they were expected to have the most benefit from the platform proposed in this project. In other words, early identification of potentially marketable technologies ensured that the R&D work in the project will stay relevant for the years to come.

5.2 Deliverables & Milestones Deliverables and Milestones to be reached within WP2 are listed as follows.

WP2 - Dissemination and Exploitation Planning Leading Partner

Delivery date Lead Beneficiary: AIT

TASKS T2.1 – Dissemination TCD T2.2 – Exploitation Planning TCS

DELIVERABLES Leading Partner

Delivery date

D2.1.1 - Project Dissemination and Exploitation plan TCS 4 D2.1.2 - Project Dissemination and Exploitation plan – public summary

TCD 4

D2.2.1 - Dissemination and Exploitation Plan and Report

TCS 18

D2.2.2 - Dissemination and Exploitation Plan and Report - public summary TCD 18

D2.3.1 - Final Dissemination and Exploitation Report AIT 36

D2.3.2 - Final Dissemination and Exploitation Report – public summary TCD 36

MILESTONES Leading Partner

Delivery date

MS2 - ADEL 1st dissemination event organization AIT 6


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MS3 - ADEL summer school organization EUR 35

MS4 - Commercially exploitable results identification IMC 25

MS5 - ADEL 2nd dissemination event organization UEDIN 30

ADEL 3rd dissemination event organization IMC 31 ADEL 4th dissemination event organization TUDA & EUR 32 ADEL 5th dissemination event organization IMC & EUR 34

6 Dissemination – internal and public

The objective of Task 2.1 was to coordinate and pursue the dissemination of the research outcomes of the project to the academic and industrial scientific communities, in order to ultimately create impact on future standards and products. Towards this goal, we established an efficient information flow within the project and an interface to the general public. The project’s website (developed in WP1) enabled the project members to share information and coordinate their work but also allows for communication with the general public.

In addition to this website, we published widely in international research conferences and journals, and organized special sessions at recognized international conferences.

We also organized an international school for PhD students and research engineers, in which individual project partners gave advanced tutorials on their respective areas of expertise within the research topics investigated by ADEL.

Relevant project results were presented to regulatory authorities in order to influence their rulemaking towards more efficient usage of available spectrum, especially within the context of LSA. An example of such authorities is Ofcom, where ADEL has a representative sitting in the Spectrum Advisory Board, and other national spectrum regulators. The first such presentation of ADEL to OFCOM was organised in M3 of the project in conjunction with the 2nd ADEL plenary meeting in London, U.K. Others were organised in M7 of the project to ANFR in Paris, France, and in M32 in Ofcom.

6.1 Internal dissemination

6.1.1 E-mail communication ADEL partners were in a responsive and active manner engaged in e-mail communication, through ADEL mailing list ([email protected]) – enabling all partners to be informed about the project dynamics, relevant discussions and tracking of the work progress for each work package.

6.1.2 Dissemination Section within Quarterly Report Within every Quarterly Report, each partner reported their dissemination activities as part of the WP2 work. Quarterly Reports were sent to Project Coordinator every three months for a review, to ensure that the correct flow of relevant information within the consortium was maintained and for the purpose of efficient progress track and successful preparation of yearly reports.


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6.1.3 Teleconferences Teleconferences were organized frequently, every 2-4 weeks. The calls lasted approximately one hour. The goal was to inform on progress, identify important discussion points and discuss according to the meeting agenda. Separate discussion meetings were also organized between partners leading the tasks within the same WP.

6.1.4 Plenary meetings Plenary meetings were organised every 3-4 months with the physical participation of at least one representative from each partner. When possible, an effort was made to combine the plenary meeting with a relevant dissemination activity such as a scientific conference, industry exhibition or meeting with a national regulator.

6.2 Public dissemination The ADEL partners took appropriate measures to engage with the public and mass media to disseminate project results and highlight the EC financial support, throughout the duration of the project. Any type of publicity, including conferences, seminars and promotional material, specified that the project received EC research funding and displayed the EU emblem.

Publications and other dissemination material included the following statement, as acknowledgement that the work was generated with the financial support of the EC:

"This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 619647."

6.2.1 Project Identity The ADEL team created a consistent identity in order to inform the community, spread our dissemination messages and raise awareness of the project. The same general design identity was used in presentation templates and other material, for internal usage and for external events. This included:

� The logo of the project � Presentation templates � Deliverable and reports templates

6.2.2 Project website – structure and description The project’s website is available at: http://www.fp7-adel.eu/. The website served as a source of information for partners and as an interface to the general public. Apart from the website, acting as a dissemination vehicle for the project outcomes, ADEL’s restricted website and file repository were also used - important tools for project management, partner coordination, technical discussions and reports preparation. The project’s website has been developed and regularly updated throughout the project with information about: announcements of workshops and other events where we were presenting our results, information about project meetings, publishing delivered public reports, etc. All publishable material and reports were put online, as they were produced. The current website is composed of 8 pages, as depicted below:

� Home � Overview � ADEL Leaflet � Partners � Key Members


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� Literature Publications � Member Access � More… (Deliverables, Updates, Discussions, Other projects, Contact)

6.2.3 Printed & online press As industrial partners are involved in the project, dedicated press such as professional magazines published the ADEL project progress.

6.2.4 Video material Short video clips were created throughout the project simulation and testbed demonstrations. Video material made was used as dissemination material, communicating ADEL results at different events.

6.2.5 Information material: Leaflets, brochures, posters Dissemination material (leaflets, brochures and posters) were created in order to be distributed when we attended different conferences, workshops, meetings targeted etc. The project’s leaflet served the purpose of introducing the ADEL project to the public, including: its motivation, vision, objectives, ADEL architecture and relevant information about the consortium.


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6.3 Target groups The Dissemination and Exploitation activities within the ADEL project aimed to promote and raise awareness about the achievements throughout the project and communicate its benefits to the identified target groups.

Stakeholders for this project are: EU regulators, i.e., those of UK, France, Greece. ETSI, was a main targets of interest to disseminating project results within standardisation.

Target groups of ADEL (EC, Regulators, Industry, Research sector, General public, Standardization bodies) have been addressed throughout three main phases:

Phase 1: Awareness raising phase, where the goal was to inform about the project, its objectives, its partners.

Phase 2: Results oriented phase, where the goal was to promote the results of the project, at appropriate times during and after the project.

Phase 3: Exploitation phase, where the goal was to conduct activities for results exploitation.

Target group / Dissemination

Tool EC Regulators Industry

Research sector

Standardization bodies

General public

Project Website

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Deliverables - restricted

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Deliverables - public

� � � � � �

Publications � � � � Workshops � � � � � Social Media � � � Video material �

Leaflets, posters, flyers � � � �

Printed and online press �

In addition to traditional means of dissemination such as peer-reviewed articles, conferences, workshops or seminars, we implemented the following dissemination actions as well. We are also planning to continue disseminating our research findings, beyond the formal completion of the project.


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6.4 Dissemination channels To make sure that the project results were disseminated appropriately within the scientific and stakeholders fora, the ADEL team has been performing dissemination activities starting from the early months of the project.

Dissemination within Academia, Standardisation and Regulatory Bodies

The ADEL consortium disseminated its achievements within the academic community by pursuing publications in top journals and conferences, organizing special sessions and tutorials at high-level international conferences such as ICASSP, EUSIPCO, CROWNCOM, Asilomar, DySPAN, ICC, GLOBECOM, etc.. Moreover, we arranged a summer school for PhD students and research engineers from the industry, to spread the outputs of the ADEL project and establish links to more and more outside partners.

The ADEL consortium has presented its findings a few times to ETSI during the project’s lifetime.

ADEL had a specific strategy to hold project meetings at the premises of national regulators, when possible. Two such meetings have been held at Ofcom and ANFR.

6.4.1 Conferences Partners of ADEL have organized and participated with their papers to Special Sessions in the following conferences; ISCCSP 2014 (6th International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing); EuCNC 2016 (European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC); IEEE SPAWC 2016 (International workshop on Signal Processing advances in Wireless Communications).

ADEL won the best booth award at EuCNC 2016.

ADEL participated in the IEEE DySPAN 2015 5G Spectrum Sharing Challenge where spectrum sharing was demonstrated using real equipment (including a database). This allowed the project to further study and improves the collaborative sensing, cooperative communication, and dynamic spectrum access techniques that are investigated in the ADEL project using the WARP testbed of the B-WiSE Lab. We reached the 3rd place in this competition.

ADEL also co-organized (with the SOLDER and SPEED5G projects) the Workshop “SAS5G: Workshop on Spectrum Aggregation and Sharing for 5G Networks”, at ISWCS 2016 (International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems).

An ADEL representative gave the plenary talk "Licensed Shared Access and the Potential Role of Multiple Antennas for Context Aware Access" at the IEEE COMSOC TCCN SIG CR5G 2nd Remote Workshop in November 2014. This invited talk gave an overview of the ADEL project and presented possibilities for multi-antenna LSA and context-aware LSA.

As part of the dissemination activities, the work was presented at international conferences relevant for the research areas addressed by ADEL. The proceedings will be appearing on IEEEXplore. The actual participation to the above mentioned events and output produced by it, is being documented in the yearly reports. The lists of the journals and conferences where ADEL partners published and presented their contributions, are shown in the two tables below.


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JOURNALS – PUBLICATION VENUES

Elsevier Journal on Signal Processing

IEEE Communications Letters IEEE Journal of Communications and Networks IEEE Systems Journal

IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networks IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications IEEE Wireless Communications Letters IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine

PT Inovação Corporate Magazine ZTE Communications

CONFERENCES – PUBLICATION VENUES Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers EAI Int’l Conf. on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks (CROWNCOM) European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)

European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) European Wireless (EW) IEEE COMSOC TCCN SIG CR5G Remote Workshop

IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Network (DySPAN) IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GLOBALSIP)

IEEE Global Wireless Summit (GWS) IEEE Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA) IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)

IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS) IEEE International Workshop on Cognitive Cellular Systems (CCS) IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP) IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC)

IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM) IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP)

International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT) International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications and Coding (SCC) International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing (ISCCSP)

Joint NEWCOM/COST Workshop on Wireless Communications (JNCW) Mathematical Algorithms for Future Networks Workshop


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6.4.2 External relations

Joint workshops with other FP7 projects

ADEL consortium responded in a positive manner to every possibility of joint FP7 projects collaboration, and participates in a few workshops, as an opportunity to exchange research ideas and results with other projects of similar topics. An ADEL representative participated to a panel discussion on cognitive radio application in 5G wireless communication system, in occasion of the International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS) in August 2014, organized by SOLDER project. ADEL’s main objectives and views on LSA concept were presented.

Connections with: Collaborative institutions, regulatory bodies

Concerning regulatory bodies, ADEL had a specific strategy to hold project meetings at the premises of national regulators, when possible. As mentioned earlier a first such meeting was held at Ofcom on 26/02/2014. A second such meeting with the French regulator was held at TCS premises in June 2014. A meeting with the Greek regulator regarding the concept and the achievements of ADEL has been held in AIT premises.

6.4.3 Standardization activities ADEL collaborated with the relevant standardization project clusters, such as Cognitive Radio Standardization Initiative, CRS-i (http://www.ict-crsi.eu/). The ADEL consortium engaged with ETSI activities that fall in the scope and interest of our project, in order to contribute to standardization efforts of the LSA system architecture and challenges within spectrum sharing models currently examined for implementation in the EU regulatory environment.

At the very beginning of the project, an ADEL representative introduced the project to ETSI RRS group and the objectives we aim to accomplish, in occasion of the ETSI RRS#24 meeting, Mainz, Germany.

In occasion of the ETSI RRS#26 meeting, in the context of CRS-i (Cognitive Radio Standardisation Initiative), Canada, June 2014, the ADEL research directions were mapped with Target standard: ETSI RRS WG1, contributing to LSA system architecture work in ETSI RRS WG1.

An ADEL representative attended the "ETSI workshop on Reconfigurable Radio Systems - Status and Novel Standards“, which had a particular focus on LSA in December 2014, where an ADEL poster was presented at the EURECOM demonstration booth. Information was provided to the ADEL consortium on a number of other LSA related demos that were present at the workshop.

We were invited by the coordinator of CRS-i, which is also a member of ETSI RRS, to disseminate ADEL proposals during the ETSI RRS WG1 #30 meeting that took place in Aveiro, Portugal, in the period 30 March - 2 April, 2015. Merits were recognised to ADEL proposals for dynamic frequency assignments, and minor changes to the naming of the basic architectural blocks were suggested so the ADEL architecture could be in line with ETSI definitions.

We participated in audio conference in June 2015 with ADEL, CRS-i and ETSI representatives. The objective was to get updates about ETSI’s LSA standardization documents and discuss future contributions from ADEL to ETSI.


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PTIN sent the ADEL slides presented in EuCNC’2015 to the ETSI RRS WG1 chairman Dr. Michael Gundlach; and the deliverable D3.1 was sent to CRS-i representative Dr. Paulo Marques.

In occasion of the 3GPP TSGSA WG1 meeting #74, held in Venice in May 2016, an ADEL representative from IMC presented the vision of ADEL on enhanced spectrum access use cases for 5G systems, contained in the paper “S1161174: Enhanced spectrum access use cases for 5G systems: the vision of the European funded projects ADEL and SPEED-5G”. The discussion paper was very well accepted and some off-line discussion followed after the meeting, focusing on the clarification of some of the mentioned aspects.

6.5 Partner-specific Dissemination achievements

6.5.1 UEDIN UEDIN has published many ADEL research results in a number of IEEE journals and conferences during the project. Journal papers:

1. Cirik, M. C. Filippou, and T. Ratnarajah, "Transceiver Design in Full-Duplex MIMO Cognitive Radios under Channel Uncertainties," IEEE Trans. on Cognitive Communications and Networks, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 1-14, March 2016.

2. M. C. Filippou, G. A. Ropokis, D. Gesbert, and T. Ratnarajah, "Joint Sensing and Reception Design of SIMO Hybrid Cognitive Radio Systems," IEEE Trans on Wireless Communications, Vol. 15, No. 9, pp 6321-6341, Sep. 2016.

3. Y. He, J. Xue, T. Ratnarajah, M. Sellathurai, and F. Khan, "On the Performance of Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Random Cognitive Radio Networks," IEEE SYSTEMS JOURNAL, in press.

4. M. C. Filippou, P. d. Kerret, D. Gesbert, T. Ratnarajah, A. Pastore. G. A. Ropokis, "Coordinated Shared Spectrum Precoding with Distributed CSIT," IEEE Trans on Wireless Communications, Vol. 15, No. 8, pp. 5182-5192, Aug. 2016.

5. E. H. G. Yousif, T.Ratnarajah and M. Sellathurai, "A Frequency Domain Approach to Eigenvalue-Based Detection with Diversity Reception and Spectrum Estimation", IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp.35-47, Jan. 2016.

6. E. H. G. Yousif, T.Ratnarajah and M. Sellathurai, "Modeling and Performance Analysis of Multitaper Detection Using Phase-Type Distributions over MIMO Fading Channels", IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 63, No. 22, pp.5882-5896, Nov. 2015.

7. Y. He, T. Ratnarajah, E H.G. Yousif, J. Xue, M. Sellathurai, "Performance Analysis of Multi-antenna GLRT-Based Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio," Signal Processing, in press, Available online 24 October 2015.

Conference Papers:

1. E. H. G. Yousif, F. A. Khan, T. Ratnarajah and M. Sellathurai, "On the Spectral Coexistence of Colocated MIMO Radars and Wireless Communications Systems," In Proc IEEE 17th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, Edinburgh, UK, July 3-6, 2016.

2. Y. He, J. Xue, T. Ratnarajah, and M. Sellathurai, "Full-Duplex Spectrum Sensing for Multi-Antenna Non-Time-Slotted Cognitive Radio Networks," In Proc IEEE 17th


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International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, Edinburgh, UK, July 3-6, 2016.

3. E. H. G. Yousif, M. C. Filippou, F. A. Khan, T. Ratnarajah and M. Sellathurai, "New LSA-based Approach for Spectral Coexistence of MIMO Radars and Wireless Communications Systems," In Proc. the IEEE International Conference on Communications, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 23-27, 2016.

4. A. C. Cirik, S. Biswas, O. Taghizadeh, A. Liu, and T. Ratnarajah, "Robust Transceiver Design in Full-Duplex MIMO Cognitive Radios," In Proc. the IEEE International Conference on Communications, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 23-27, 2016.

5. E. H. G. Yousif, T. Ratnarajah and M. Sellathurai, "Accurate Formulation of the Multitaper-SVD detector over Fading Channels" In Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference, San Diego, CA, USA, 6-10, Dec. 2015.

6. Y. He, T. Ratnarajah, J. Xue, E. H. G. Yousif and M. Sellathruai, “Optimal Decision Threshold for Eigenvalue-Based Spectrum Sensing Techniques”, in Proc. of IEEE 39th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Florence, Italy, May 4-9, 2014.

7. E. Yousif and T. Ratnarajah, “FP7 ADEL Project Intermediate Results and Standardization Strategy”, European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC’2014), Bologna, Italy, June 23-26, 2014.

8. R. Qian, M. Sellathurai and T. Ratnarajah, “Directional Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Using ESPAR Arrays with a Single RF Chain”, European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC’2014), Bologna, Italy, June 23-26, 2014.

9. E. Yousif and T. Ratnarajah, “On the Design and Throughput Analysis of a New MME Detector Using Bartlett’s Method”, in Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Honolulu, HI, USA, June 29 - July 4, 2014.

10. A. Morgado, A. Gomes, V. Frascolla, K. Ntougias, C. Papadias, D. Slock, E. Avdic, N. Marchetti, N. Haziza, H. Anouar, Y. Yang, M. Pesavento, F. Khan, T. Ratnarajah, “Dynamic LSA for 5G wireless networks: The ADEL perspective, Accepted in European Conference on Networking and Communications (EuCNC), Paris, France, June/July 2015.

11. M. C. Filippou, G. A. Ropokis, D. Gesbert, and T. Ratnarajah, "Performance Analysis and Optimization of Hybrid MIMO Cognitive Radio Systems", In Proc. the IEEE International Conference on Communications, London, UK, June 8-12, 2015 (Workshop on MIMO and Cognitive Radio Technologies in Multihop Network).

12. E. H. G. Yousif, T. Ratnarajah and M. Sellathurai, "MIMO-based Multitaper Detection over Nakagami Channels for Dynamic Spectrum Access Devices," in Proc. 16th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2015.

6.5.2 AIT The dissemination achievements of AIT during the ADEL project were the following ones:

1. AIT presented the vision of ADEL as part of a Special Session on Communication Techniques for Licensed Shared Access in the 6th International Symposium on Communications, Control, and Signal Processing (ISCCSP) 2014, held in Athens, Greece.

2. AIT participated in the IEEE DySPAN 2015 Spectrum Sharing Challenge with a spectrum sharing solution designed in-house and implemented on two NI USRPs. Custom made antennas were also used. AIT’s solution came third in the competition in terms of the achieved sum-rate throughput. The DySPAN challenge participation


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increased the community’s awareness of ADEL and provided important research feedback to the B-WiSE Lab’s team.

3. The ADEL concept and regulatory constraints were discussed with the Greek NRA, EETT, in a meeting held at AIT’s premises.

4. AIT organized the ADEL demonstration for the 2016 EuCNC. The demo booth included inputs from AIT, Eurecom, and TCD and won the best booth award, maximizing the visibility of the ADEL project. AIT’s demo contribution included an LSA implementation using an AIT- designed and built hexagonal sectored antenna and spectrum sensing algorithms.

5. Prof. Papadias of AIT presented a speech “on the role of antenna arrays in collaborative spectrum sensing and sharing” at EuCNC2016’ s special session on Dynamic Spectrum Management.

6. AIT, together with UEDIN, met with Ofcom to present the vision and achievements of ADEL and discuss the regulatory constraints that will need to be lifted to enable the ADEL architecture. The meeting took place in Ofcom’s premises in London.

7. Prof. C. B. Papadias presented ADEL as part of his invited talk with title "Antenna Arrays with less RF Chains than Elements: An Emerging Technology for Multi-Antenna Wireless Systems," at 2015 SEU-UESTC Workshop on Advances in Wireless Communications (WAWC 2015) UESTC, Chengdu, China & Southeast University, Nanjing, China, July 7 & 9, 2015.

8. Prof. C. B. Papadias presented ADEL as part of “Parasitic antenna arrays for single and multi-user wireless communications,” invited talk University College London, London, UK, June 14, 2016.

9. Prof. C. B. Papadias presented ADEL as part of “Low complexity antenna arrays and techniques for wireless communication and sensing,” invited talk, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA, 7 October 2016.

Recognition of ADEL

AIT achieved the following recognitions for the ADEL project:

1. Reached third place in the IEEE DySPAN 2015 Spectrum Sharing Challenge. The challenge and its results is detailed in S. Rajendran, B. Van den Bergh, T. Vermeulen, S. Pollin, “IEEE 5G Spectrum Sharing Challenge: A Practical Evaluation of Learning and Feedback,” in IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. PP, no.99, pp.2-8, October 2016. doi: 10.1109/MCOM.2016.1600209RP.

2. Received the best booth award in EuCNC2016 demonstrating technologies that constitute the proof of concept of ADEL. (http://www.eucnc.eu/2016/www.eucnc.eu/index7a24.html?q=node/155)

Papers 1. N. Taramas, G. C. Alexandropoulos, C. B. Papadias, ”Opportunistic Beamforming for

Secondary Users in Licensed Shared Access Networks”, 6th International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing, Athens, May 2014.

2. K. Ho-Van, P. C. Sofotasios, G. C. Alexandropoulos, S. Freear, “Bit error rate of underlay decode-and-forward cognitive networks with best relay selection”, IEEE Journal of Communications and Networks 17(2), pp. 162-171, April 2015.

3. D. Ntaikos, K. Ntougias, B. Gizas, F. Verdou, C. B. Papadias, “Low-complexity air-interface-agnostic cooperative ESPAR-based multi-antenna spectrum sharing system,” in Proc. IEEE DySPAN 2015.


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4. K. Ntougias, N. Taramas, C. B. Papadias, "Low-Feedback Cooperative Opportunistic Transmission for Dynamic Licensed Shared Access," in Proc. 23rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 31 August – 04 September 2015.

5. C. B. Papadias, “On the role of antenna arrays in collaborative spectrum sensing and sharing,” in Proc. 25th European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) 2016, Athens, Greece, 27 – 30 June 2016.

6. K. Voulgaris, B. Gizas, and C. B. Papadias, “Realizing spectrum sharing through the use of a database-assisted MAC protocol,” The 17th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2016), Edinburgh, UK, July 3-6, 2016.

7. G. Papageorgiou, K. Voulgaris, and C. B. Papadias, “Sparse modeling methods for misbehavior detection in LSA Networks,” in Proc. 2016 IEEE Global Wireless Summit (GWS 2016), Aarhus, Denmark, Nov. 27-30, 2016.

Invited Talks 1. C. B. Papadias, "Antenna Arrays of Low Complexity: How to Use Less with less RF

Chains than Elements in Single and Multi-User Applications," invited seminar, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, November 2015.

2. C. B. Papadias , "Single-RF Transmission: An Emerging Technology for both Link and Multi-User MIMO Systems," plenary talk, VTC-Spring 2015, Glasgow, UK, May 2015.

3. C. B. Papadias, "Antenna Arrays with less RF Chains than Elements: An Emerging Technology for Multi-Antenna Wireless Systems," invited talks, SEU-UESTC Workshop on Advances in Wireless Communications (WAWC 2015), UESTC, Chengdu, China & Southeast University, Nanjing, China, July 2015

6.5.3 TCS The dissemination achievements of TCS during the ADEL project were the following ones:

1. Participation to the meeting with Ofcom, London, UK, February 2015.

2. Organization of a meeting with ANFR representative in Paris, France, June 2014.

3. Presentation of ADEL in the working sessions of a jointly organized (CRAFT and SOLDER projects) workshop at ISWCS 2014 conference, held in Barcelona, Spain, August 2014.

6.5.4 TUDA During the ADEL project, TUDA has published research results in several highly recognized international conferences and IEEE journals.

1. O. D. Ramos-Cantor, J. Belschner and M. Pesavento, "A cooperative power control scheme for interference management in LTE-Advanced based cognitive radio networks," 2014 6th International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing (ISCCSP), Athens, 2014, pp. 530-533

2. Y. Yang, M. Zhang, M. Pesavento and D. P. Palomar, "An online parallel algorithm for spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks," 2014 48th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, 2014, pp. 1801-1805

3. D. Ciochina and M. Pesavento, "A clustering approach for admission control and optimal beamforming in cognitive radio networks," 2014 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), Austin, TX, 2014, pp. 1192-1197.


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4. N. Bornhorst and M. Pesavento, “Filter-and-forward beamforming with adaptive decoding delays in asynchronous multi-user relay networks”, Signal Processing, Volume 109, April 2015, Pages 132-147

5. K. L. Law, X. Wen, M. T. Vu and M. Pesavento, "General Rank Multiuser Downlink Beamforming With Shaping Constraints Using Real-Valued OSTBC," in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 63, no. 21, pp. 5758-5771, Nov.1, 2015

6. Y. Yang, M. Pesavento, M. Zhang and D. P. Palomar, "An Online Parallel Algorithm for Recursive Estimation of Sparse Signals," in IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 290-305, Sept. 2016 [Arxiv:1503.03773]

7. F. Bahlke, O. D. Ramos-Cantor and M. Pesavento, "Budget constrained small cell deployment planning for heterogeneous LTE networks," 2015 IEEE 16th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Stockholm, 2015, pp. 1-5

8. W. Suleiman, M. Pesavento and A. M. Zoubir, "Decentralized cooperative DOA tracking using non-Hermitian generalized eigendecomposition," 2015 23rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Nice, 2015, pp. 2626-2630

9. Y. Yang and M. Pesavento, "A novel line search method for nonsmooth optimization problems," 2015 23rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Nice, 2015, pp. 1726-1730

10. Y. Yang and M. Pesavento, "A novel iterative convex approximation method," 2015 IEEE 6th International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP), Cancun, 2015, pp. 297-300

11. W. Suleiman, M. Pesavento and A. Zoubir, "Performance analysis of direction-of-arrival estimation using the decentralized root-MUSIC," 2015 IEEE 6th International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP), Cancun, 2015, pp. 329-332

12. Y. Yang, G. Scutari, D. Palomar, M. Pesavento, “A parallel stochastic approximation method for nonconvex multi-agent optimization problems,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

13. Ganapati Hegde, Oscar Dario Ramos-Cantor, Yong Cheng, Marius Pesavento, “Optimal Resource Block Allocation and Muting in Heterogeneous Networks”, in the 41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 20-26, March 2016, Shanghai, China, pp. 3581-3585

14. X. Wen and M. Pesavento, "Long-term general rank multiuser downlink beamforming with shaping constraints using QOSTBC," 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Shanghai, 2016, pp. 3561-3565

15. O. D. Ramos-Cantor, J. Belschner and M. Pesavento, "Improved link adaptation with coordinated scheduling in non-fully loaded wireless networks," 2016 IEEE 17th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Edinburgh, 2016, pp. 1-6

16. W. Suleiman, M. Pesavento and A. M. Zoubir, "Decentralized cooperative detection based on averaging consensus," 2016 IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM), Rio de Janerio, 2016, pp. 1-5

17. C. Steffens, Y. Yang and M. Pesavento, “Multidimensional Sparse Recovery for MIMO Channel Parameter Estimation”, in 24th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Sept., 2016, accepted for publication

18. Wassim Suleiman, Ansab Abdul Vaheed, Marius Pesavento and Abdelhak M Zoubir, “Decentralized Direction-of-Arrival Estimation for Arbitrary Array Geometries”, in 24th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Sept., 2016, accepted for publication


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19. Y. Liu, G. C. Alexandropoulos, L. Li and M. Pesavento, "Artificial noise design for secure multi-relay networks over generalized fading channels," 2016 23rd International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), Thessaloniki, 2016, pp. 1-5

20. W. Suleiman, M. Pesavento and A. M. Zoubir, "Performance analysis of eigenvalue based distributed spectrum sensing," 2016 International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), Poznan, 2016, pp. 481-485

21. Y. Yang, M. Pesavento, “A Parallel Algorithm for Energy Efficiency Maximization in Massive MIMO Networks”, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Dec 2016

22. A. Colonna Walewski, C. Steffens and M. Pesavento, “Off-Grid Parameter Estimation Based on Joint Sparse Regularization”, 11th International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications and Coding (SCC), Hamburg, Germany, Feb. 2017, accepted for publication

23. C. Steffens, W. Suleiman, A. Sorg, M. Pesavento, “Gridless Compressed Ssensing Under Shift-Invariant Sampling”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Mar 2017

Invited Talks 1. “Multidimensional Sparse Recovery for Multidimensional Harmonic Retrieval in

Application to ParametericMIMO Channel Estimation” at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, on March 17, 2016. The proposed multidimensional spectrum sensing method under the ADEL project was presented and broadcasted among scientific researchers

6.5.5 IMC IMC contributed to the dissemination activities of the ADEL project, both being the main driver and being a contributor, with several actions, listed below.

Regulatory bodies impact: 1. Organization and participation to the meeting with Ofcom, London, UK, February 2015.

2. Participation to the meeting with ANFR representative in Paris, France, June 2014.

Standards bodies impact: 1. ETSI RRS: in occasion of the ETSI RRS#24 meeting, Mainz, Germany, in 2014, Biljana

Badic represented the vision of the ADEL project to ETSI RRS group and the objectives that were planned to accomplish.

2. 3GPP SA WG1: In occasion of the 3GPP SA WG1 meeting #74, held in Venice in May 2016, Valerio Frascolla presented the vision of ADEL on enhanced spectrum access use cases for 5G systems. The discussion paper was very well accepted and some off-line discussion followed after the meeting, focusing on the clarification of some of the mentioned aspects.

Other dissemination activities: 1. Co-organizer of the ADEL/SPEED-5G/SOLDER driven summer school; Sofia Antipolis,

October 2016.

2. V. Frascolla, A. J. Morgado, A. Gomes, M. Butt, N. Marchetti, K. Voulgaris, C. B. Papadias, “Dynamic Licensed Shared Access - A new architecture and spectrum allocation techniques”, in Proc. IEEE VTC2016-Fall, Montreal, CA, 18–21 September 2016.


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3. A. Morgado, A. Gomes, V. Frascolla, “ADEL: the next stop in the LSA Roadmap”, Special Session no. 7 of EuCNC’2016 on Dynamic spectrum management, a building block for 5G networks, Athens, Greece, 29 June, 2016.

4. Organized and driven a presentation and relevant questions for a meeting with people from Finnish national CORE+ project in Oulu, Finland, September 2015.

5. "Dynamic spectrum management, a building block for 5G networks", V. Frascolla. Special Session at EuCNC2016, Athens.

6. "Licensed Shared Access – State-of-the-Art and current Challenges", M.D. Mueck, V. Frascolla, B. Badic; IEEE CCS 2014 - 1st IEEE International Workshop on Cognitive Cellular Systems; Bonn 2014.

6.5.6 EUR EUR has contributed to ADEL dissemination as follows:

� EUR and AIT have organized a special session entitled “Special session on Communication Techniques for Licensed Shared Access” at the IEEE Int’l Symposium on Communications, Controls and Signal Processing (ISCCSP), held in Athens, Greece, May 21-23, 2014. The session contained contributions from ADEL partners EUR, TCD, AIT, TUDA.

� At the recent IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC2014) in Istanbul, EUR gave a tutorial on “MIMO Broadcast and Interference Channels towards 5G”. The material for this tutorial reflected developments in the past CROWN and the ongoing ADEL ICT projects. The material of this tutorial is being integrated in the “Signal Processing for Communications” course at EUR, which is taught to Master’s and PhD students.

� EUR has given a plenary presentation at the 2nd Remote Workshop of the Special Interest Group (SIG) on Cognitive Radio in 5G (CR5G) of the Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN) of the IEEE Communications Society. In particular the multi-antenna aspects and more dynamic LSA as advocated in ADEL were emphasized.

� EUR addressed MIMO LSA in three invited talks. A version of the last talk was also presented at a seminar at CWC at Oulu University in Sept. 2015.

� EUR addressed MIMO LSA in an IEEE Workshop tutorial and in an IEEE Conference tutorial.

� EUR and TUDA organised a special session entitled “Licensed shared access” at IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Edinburgh, UK, July 2016, which itself was organised by UEDIN.

� EUR and INTEL organised a joint ADEL-SOLDER-SPEED5G workshop entitled “SAS5G: Spectrum Aggregation and Sharing for 5G Networks“ at the IEEE Int’l Symp. On Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), Poznan, Poland, Sept. 2016. The program can be found here: http://iswcs2016.org/welcome/menu/wp3 . The workshop was quite successful (e.g. chairs had to be added to the workshop room), in particular the panel discussion was well attended.

� EUR lead the organisation of the ADEL Indian Summer School on Spectrum Aggregation and Sharing for 5G Networks (SSSAS5G) at EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech, Sophia Antipolis, France, Oct. 17-19, 2016. The program can be found here: http://www.euracon.org/index.php/2013-02-12-09-41-49/sssas5g . The event was quite successful. The presentations of the invited speakers can be found on the school website.


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� EUR contributed to the ADEL booth at EuCNC2016 in Athens with an intermediate version of the T6.2 Proof of Concept demo. The ADEL booth won the “Best Booth Award”, elected by the attendees, out of 32 booths.

Papers 1. M. Bashar, Y. Lejosne, D. Slock, Y. Yuan-Wu, "MIMO broadcast channels with Gaussian

CSIT and application to location based CSIT", in Proc. IEEE Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA), San Diego, CA, USA, Feb. 2014,

2. Y. Lejosne, D. Slock, Y. Yuan-Wu, "Ergodic interference alignment for the SIMO/MIMO interference channel", in Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Firenze, Italy, May, 2014.

3. Y. Lejosne, M. Bashar, D. Slock, and Y. Yuan-Wu, “Decoupled, Rank Reduced, Massive and Frequency-Selective Aspects in MIMO Interfering Broadcast Channels,” in Proc. IEEE Int’l Symp. on Communications, Control and Sig. Proc. (ISCCSP), Athens, Greece, May 2014.

4. Y. Lejosne, M. Bashar, D. Slock, and Y. Yuan-Wu, “MIMO Interfering Broadcast Channels based on Local CSIT,” in Proc. European Wireless (EW), Barcelona, Spain, May 2014.

5. Y. Lejosne, M. Bashar, D. Slock, and Y. Yuan-Wu, “From MU Massive MISO to Pathwise MU Massive MIMO,” in Proc. IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Toronto, Canada, June 2014.

6. M. Bashar and D. Slock, “Cognitive Multi-User MIMO Downlink with Mixed Feedback/Location based Gaussian CSIT,” in Proc. IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Toronto, Canada, June 2014.

7. Y. Lejosne, D. Slock and Y. Yuan-Wu,"Net degrees of freedom of decomposition schemes for the MIMO IC with delayed CSIT", in Proc. IEEE Int'l Symp. Information Theory (ISIT), Honolulu, HI, USA, July 2014.

8. Y. Lejosne, D. Slock and Y. Yuan-Wu, "Achieving full sum DoF in the SISO interference channel with feedback delay", IEEE Communications Letters, July 2014.

9. D. Slock, "Licensed Shared Access and the Potential Role of Multiple Antennas for Context Aware Access", plenary talk, IEEE COMSOC TCCN SIG CR5G 2nd Remote Workshop, Nov. 4, 2014.

10. D.T.M. Slock,"Multi-user multi-cell MIMO towards 5G", invited talk at the Mathematical Algorithms for Future Networks Workshop, Huawei, Jan. 22, 2015, Paris, France.

11. W. Tabikh, D.T.M. Slock, Y. Yuan-Wu,"The pathwise MIMO interfering broadcast channel", invited talk at the IEEE Information Theory and Applications (ITA) Workshop, 2-6 Feb.2015, San Diego, CA, USA.

12. W. Tabikh, D.T.M. Slock, Y. Yuan-Wu,"The pathwise MIMO interfering broadcast channel", in Proc. 16th IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), June 28-July 1, 2015, Stockholm, Sweden.

13. D.T.M. Slock, P. Elia,"MIMO broadcast and interference channels towards 5G: Feedback, performance and topological considerations", tutorial presented at 16th IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), June 28-July 1, 2015, Stockholm, Sweden.

14. D.T.M. Slock, S. Valentin, R. Chrabieh,"From network based location estimation to location aided communications", tutorial presented at 12th IEEE Int'l Symp. on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), 25-28 Aug. 2015, Brussels, Belgium.

15. A. Bazzi, D.T.M. Slock, L. Meilhac,"On Spatio-Frequential Smoothing for joint Angles and Times of Arrival Estimation of Multipaths", IEEE Int'l Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March, 2016, Shanghai, China. (Accepted).


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16. A. Bazzi, D.T.M. Slock, L. Meilhac,"On Maximum Likelihood Angle of Arrival Estimation using Orthogonal Projections", IEEE Int'l Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March, 2016, Shanghai, China. (Rejected).

17. A. Bazzi, D.T.M. Slock, L. Meilhac,"Detection of the Number of Superimposed Signals using Modified MDL Criterion: A Random Matrix Approach", IEEE Int'l Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March, 2016, Shanghai, China. (Accepted).

18. K. Gopala, D.T.M. Slock,"Location Aided Doppler Compensation and Beamforming for High Mobility OFDM Transmissions in Multipath", IEEE Int'l Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March, 2016, Shanghai, China.

19. K. Gopala, D.T.M. Slock,"Doppler Compensation and Receive Beamforming for High Mobility OFDM Transmissions in Multipath", 11th EAI Int’l Conf. on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks (CROWNCOM), May 30–June 1, 2016, Grenoble, France.

20. W. Tabikh, D.T.M. Slock, Y. Yuan-Wu,"Massive MIMO inspired 2-stage design of the multi-cell multi-user MIMO downlink", in Proc. Joint NEWCOM/COST Workshop on Wireless Communications (JNCW), Oct. 14-15, 2015, Barcelona, Spain.

21. D.T.M. Slock,"Sum utility optimization in MIMO multi-user multi-cell: Centralized and distributed, perfect and partial CSIT, fast and slow CSIT", invited talk at the GdR Inpainting of Missing Audio Data meeting on "Cloud and fog based PHY communications in 5G: performance, feedback and complexity", Nov. 20, 2015, Paris, France.

22. W. Tabikh, D. T.M. Slock, Y. Yuan-Wu, “Optimal Beamforming with Combined Channel and Path CSIT for Multi-cell Multi-User MIMO”, Information Theory and Applications (ITA) Workshop, San Diego, Feb., 2016.

23. A. Bazzi, D. T.M. Slock, L. Meilhac, “On spatio-frequential smoothing for joint angles and times of arrival estimation of multipaths,” International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Shanghai, March 2016.

24. A. Bazzi, D. T.M. Slock, L. Meilhac, “Single Snapshot Joint Estimation of Angles and Times of Arrival: A 2D Matrix Pencil Approach,” Int’l Conf. on Communications (ICC), Kuala Lumpur, May, 2016

25. A. Bazzi, D. T.M. Slock, L. Meilhac, “On Joint Angle and Delay Estimation in the Presence of Local Scattering ,” ANLN Workshop, Int’l Conf. on Communications (ICC), Kuala Lumpur, May, 2016.

26. K. Gopala, D.T.M. Slock, “Doppler Compensation and Beamforming for High Mobility OFDM Transmissions in Multipath”, CROWNCOM, Grenoble, France, May, 2016.

27. W. Tabikh, D. T.M. Slock, Y. Yuan-Wu, “Weighted Sum Rate Maximization of Correlated MISO Interference Broadcast Channels under Linear Precoding: a Large System Analysis”, IEEE VTC Spring FANTASTIC-5G Int’l Workshop on 5G New Air Interface, Nanjing, China, May 15, 2016.

28. A. Bazzi, D. T.M. Slock, L. Meilhac, “Online angle of arrival estimation in the presence of mutual coupling”, IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP), June 26-29, 2016, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

29. W. Tabikh, D.T.M. Slock, Y. Yuan-Wu, “Weighted Sum Rate Maximization of MISO Interference Broadcast Channels via Difference of Convex Functions Programming: a Large System Analysis”, IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP), June 26-29, 2016, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

30. K. Gopala, D.T.M. Slock, “MIMO OFDM Capacity Maximizing Beamforming for Large Doppler Scenarios”, SPAWC, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July, 2016.

31. A. Bazzi, D. T.M. Slock, L. Meilhac, S. Panneerselvan, “A comparative study of sparse recovery and compressed sensing algorithms with application to AoA estimation”, IEEE Int’l Workshop on Signal Processing advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), July 3-6, 2016, Edinburgh, UK.


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32. W. Tabikh, Y. Yuan-Wu, D.T.M. Slock, “Decentralizing multi-cell maximum weighted sum rate precoding via large system analysis”, in Proc. EUSIPCO 2016, 24th European Signal Processing Conference, 28 August-2 September 2016, Budapest, Hungary.

33. K. Gopala, D. T.M. Slock, “High Doppler MIMO OFDM Capacity Maximizing Spatial Transceivers Exploiting Excess Cyclic Prefix”, in Proc. SAS5G Workshop, Int’l Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), Sept. 2016, Poznan, Poland.

34. A. Bazzi, D. T.M. Slock, L. Meilhac, “A mutual coupling resilient algorithm for joint angle and delay estimation”, in Proc. GLOBALSIP 2016, 4th IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, December 7-9, 2016, Washington DC, USA.

35. A. Bazzi, D. T.M. Slock, L. Meilhac, “On a mutual coupling agnostic maximum likelihood angle of arrival estimator by alternating projection”, in Proc. GLOBALSIP 2016, 4th IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, December 7-9, 2016, Washington DC, USA.

6.5.7 TCD The dissemination achievements of TCD during the ADEL project are the following ones:

1. A talk was been given at the ADEL Special Session on Communication Techniques for Licensed Shared Access of International Symposium on Communications, Control, and Signal Processing (ISCCSP), which was held in Athens, Greece, May 2015.

2. Two presentations were prepared and discussed in occasion of the meeting with Ofcom, London, UK, February 2015. We presented the objectives of the project, scenario proposals and regulatory issues ADEL plans to tackle by extending the Licensed Shared Access framework to a more dynamic sharing arrangement.

3. A presentation was prepared and given in occasion of the meeting with ANFR representative, including preparing the questions and topics for discussion to be debated at the meeting, Paris, France, June 2015. We presented ADEL’s view of LSA. Discussion was focused on regulatory issues as seen from a regulatory point of view. Further collaboration with French regulation and following up on the project results were announced from the ANFR representative.

4. A presentation and relevant questions were prepared for a meeting with people from Finnish national CORE+ project in Oulu, Finland, September 2015. ADEL team successfully initiated collaboration with CORE+ project (which is doing research on LSA topic and developing LSA trials on live LTE network). We have plans to strengthen the collaboration in the future.

5. ADEL work was presented at the annual plenary meeting of CTVR (Irish National Telecom Research Centre), where academic and industrial attendees were present, Kilkenny, Ireland, September 2014. This meeting was a scientific and industrial gathering of national relevance.

6. The presentation “Dynamic LSA for 5G Networks - The ADEL and TCD perspective” was given in occasion of the workshop “A Meeting on Civilian Use of Military Spectrum Bands: Technologies, Impacts and Opportunities”, Maynooth, Ireland, March 2015.

7. TCD contributed to the ADEL booth at EuCNC 2016 in Athens with an intermediate version of the T6.3 System Level Simulator demo. The ADEL booth won the “Best Booth Award”, elected by the attendees, out of 32 booths.

8. Prof Luiz Da Silva gave a keynote speech on “Introduction to Game Theory applied to Dynamic Spectrum Access”, in occasion of the ADEL Summer School on Spectrum Aggregation and Sharing for 5G Networks, October 2016.

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Publications 1. M. Butt, J. McMenamy, A. Farhang, I. Macaluso, C. Galiotto, N. Marchetti, “Resource

Management Techniques in Licensed Shared Access Networks”, book chapter, to appear in book “Networks of the Future – Architectures, Technologies, and Implementations”, CRC Press

2. I. Macaluso, H. Ahmadi, I. Gomez-Miguelez, L. Doyle, L. DaSilva, “Substitutability of Spectrum and Cloud-based Antennas in Virtualised Wireless Networks”, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine (to appear)

3. G. Ropokis, M. Filippou, A. Rontogiannis, L. DaSilva, N. Marchetti, V. Frascolla, P. Mathiopoulos, “Optimal Sensing and Power Allocation in Pilot-Aided Shared Access Systems: A BER Minimization Approach”, IEEE SPAWC 2016 E. Avdic, I. Macaluso, N. Marchetti, L. Doyle, “Census Tract License Areas: Disincentive for Sharing the 3.5GHz band?”, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), December 2016.

4. J. McMenamy, A. Farhang, N. Marchetti, I. Macaluso, “Enhanced Auction-Assisted LSA”, International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), September 2016

5. M. Butt, C. Galiotto, N. Marchetti, “Fair and Regulated Spectrum Allocation in Licensed Shared Access Networks”, IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), September 2016

6. N. Marchetti, “Towards 5th Generation Wireless Communication Systems”, ZTE Communications, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 11-19, March 2015.

7. I. Gomez-Miguelez, E. Avdic, N. Marchetti, I. Macaluso, L. Doyle, “Cloud-RAN platform for LSA in 5G networks - tradeoff within the infrastructure”, International Symposium on Communications, Control, and Signal Processing (ISCCSP), May 2014.

6.5.8 PTIN During the project lifetime, PTIN achievements regarding dissemination consisted in a corporate magazine article, two submissions to standardization bodies (ETSI, 3GPP), a talk, and three conference articles:

Corporate Magazine article containing ADEL vision:

• A. Gomes, J. Carapinha, C. Paradas, P. Jesus, A. Morgado, “5G: high speed ubiquitous access”, in PT Inovação Corporate Magazine - “Saber & Fazer Telecomunicações”, no.12, December 2014, pp. 243-252. Published in Portuguese.

Submission to standardization bodies (ETSI, 3GPP) on ADEL scenarios and system architecture

• PTIN submitted a document to the 30th meeting of the workgroup no.1 of ETSI Technical Specification Group (TSG) on Reconfigurable Radio Systems (RRS), which was in charge of producing the 1st European standard dealing with LSA. During the meeting, PTIN made the presentation of the results achieved by WP3 during the 1st year of the project, focusing on the selected LSA reference scenarios and network architecture. The presentation included also a comparison of ADEL and ETSI architectures. The presentation motivated an intense discussion afterwards. Albeit the significant resistance to consider ADEL proposals for the 1st edition of the ETSI standard on LSA, the motivation behind such resistance and the willingness to hear additional details on some scenarios, makes PTIN believe that some of the ADEL proposals might be suitable for future editions of the standard. The reference of the document is:


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o Antonio Morgado, Alvaro Gomes, “Dynamic LSA by ADEL”, doc. no. RRSWG1(15)030010r1, Aveiro, Portugal, 30 March-2 April, 2015.

• PTIN submitted, jointly with IMC, a document to 74th meeting of the workgroup no. 1 of 3GPP Technical Specification Group (TSG) on System Aspects (SA1). In this contribution, PTIN described, step-by-step, the use of ADEL’s LSA system in each of the ADEL scenarios. The document also mentioned how spectrum sensing can be implemented using 3GPP technology features, and how the sensing information should be processed and sent to the LSA system. The reference is:

o Valerio Frascolla, Antonio Morgado, “Enhanced spectrum access use cases for 5G systems: the vision of the European funded projects ADEL and SPEED-5G”, 3GPP TSG-SA WG1 doc. S1-161174, Venice, Italy, 9-13 May, 2016.

Talk

• A talk on the contextualization of ADEL activities within the “LSA Roadmap” has been given at the Special Session on Dynamic Spectrum Management that took place in EuCNC’2016, held in Athens, Greece, June 2016. The document mentions LSA regulation and standardization activities, presents ADEL system architecture, and proposes a frequency agile spectrum allocation algorithm. The reference is:

o Antonio Morgado, Alvaro Gomes, Valerio Frascolla, “ADEL: the next stop in the LSA Roadmap”, Special Session no. 7 of EuCNC’2016 on Dynamic spectrum management, a building block for 5G networks, Athens, Greece, 29 June, 2016.

Conference Papers

• A. Morgado, A. Gomes, V. Frascolla, K. Ntougias, C. Papadias, D. Slock, E. Avdic, N. Marchetti, N. Haziza, H. Anouar, Y. Yang, M. Pesavento, F.Khan, T. Ratnarajah, “Dynamic LSA for 5G networks – The ADEL perspective”, 2015 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), Paris, June 30-July 2, 2015.

• A. Morgado, A. Gomes, “Licensed Shared Access: a simple, fast and cost-effective way to add capacity to mobile networks”, 10th Conference on Telecommunications, Aveiro, September 17-18, 2015.

7 Task 2.2 Exploitation

The exploitation task is difficult to schedule at the beginning of the project, and before a more accurate view of the architectural and design options that to have to been developed in the project. Detailed exploitation initiatives have been described after the main project design orientations were known and the performance evaluation metrics were identified.

7.1 Key aspects

An essential aspect for the ADEL project is related to the overall goal, which is to convince of the benefits to introduce LSA in spectrum access domain. To this aim, a first step will be to identify the audience, and within ADEL identify focused audience that may be impacted according to the defined use cases.


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7.1.1 Potential impact In a pertinent report [Deloitte Report]3 was defined a framework to this end for spectrum sharing use. There are four key parties to spectrum sharing for MNO use:

- The incumbent: providing spectrum to be shared with the mobile industry and MNOs. - The MNOs and the mobile ecosystem: purchasing spectrum sharing licenses and

providing infrastructure. - The regulator: ensuring adequate spectrum for all parties. - The mobile industry customers: mobile purchaser while rewarding best MNOs offers.

The following table summarizes the role, the motivation and the costs & risks identified for the different parties involved in the LSA process.

From the ADEL project point of view, this was a guideline for exploitation of the results: as a necessary condition to sharing success, each of the groups mentioned above view sharing as a net-positive outcome for their interests, in essence weighing the expected and real benefits against the anticipated and real costs and risks.

The impact expected for ADEL was thus to convince each of these players of how LSA may be an asset for dedicated purposes.

The first step of the project, with the description of adequate use-cases and the definition of adapted metrics for comparison was to contribute to this aim.

7.1.2 Risks & limitations A major part of the exploitation task consisted in convincing LSA actors of the possible benefits of this new spectrum sharing. Inherent risks to adopt this technology appear according to each group these actors belong to:

- The incumbents: the risk is related to the reduction of freedom to use the spectrum. - The regulator body: negative impact on the industry if sharing policy fails.

3 « The impact of Licensed Shared Use of Spectrum » - A report for the GSMA association - 23 January 2014 -

Deloitte - prepared in collaboration with real wireless.


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- MNOs and mobile ecosystem: uncertainty in terms, infrastructure and operation investment.

- The mobile industry customers: possibility of service performance reduction.

From this point of view, ADEL has limited the analysed use-cases to the most relevant situations and/or restricted industrial areas to focus the exploitation of the results on specific aspects.

It is important to notice that the choice of metrics to compare the situations with and without LSA was relevant to stress out business aspects that may be improved thanks to LSA.

7.2 Exploitable results

The following tables are intended to summarize an analysis of the 2.3 GHz band in Europe [PLUM Report]4, with an explanation of the current and expected future use of this band, surveyed by CEPT in 2012. The survey showed that current use varies by country and includes one or more government use, PMSE applications, and amateur services.

In this survey, stakeholders were contacted in six countries in Europe to quantify the scale of current use and the sharing opportunity. The first table provides the anticipated role of LSA in these countries.

The nature of the sharing arrangements envisaged in each country is provided in the second table.

4 « The economic benefits of LSA in 2.3 GHz in Europe – a report for Ericsson, NSN and Qualcomm – Tony Lavender,

Phillipa Marks, Sarongrat Wongsaroj – December2013


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A similar methodology was used in ADEL for the exploitation purpose within the different WPs, as for each identified use-case the purpose was to precisely to describe the nature of the sharing (frequency, location or time), the role of LSA in this sharing (related to incumbent, to infrastructure and MNOs or for a more regulatory point of view), and the resulting quantified metrics to evaluate the improvement at the customer level.

7.3 Contributions to standards and regulations

A continuous monitoring of, an alignment with and a possible impact on standardization and regulatory bodies has been pursued throughout the project lifetime. IMC was active in a number of standardisation bodies, such as ETSI-RRS (secondary access systems) and 3GPP RAN (minimisation of drive tests, SON, etc), which might have on-going discussion related to ADEL’s topics, e.g. cognitive radio or energy efficiency.

7.4 Exploitation achievements per partner

7.4.1 Exploitation achievements of industrial partners

7.4.1.1 TCS TCS work within ADEL has permitted the analysis and the optimization of a new TCS’s MAC protocol suited for shared and distributed spectrum access. The multi-frame version, suited to handle realistic traffic patterns, was derived within ADEL and was added to the initial protocol patent and helped ensuring the viability of the solution.

The patent info are as follows:

• “Access protocol and method in an ad hoc network”, EP3041309 A1/US20160192359, Publication date 30 June 2016, filling date 31/12/2014

7.4.1.2 IMC ADEL has been instrumental to strengthen IMC knowledge and impact on the ecosystem w.r.t. advanced shared access technology enablers. The meetings held at regulator bodies and the discussions that followed the presentation at the 3GPP body were very useful in giving good hints at the next wireless platforms that can support advanced spectrum management techniques. The co-work with all the project partners, especially the academic ones, gave IMC a


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special view on the feasibility of new technology enablers that will be key for future 5G wireless systems. Attendance of international events and the several dissemination activities gave IMC also an increased visibility on the wireless ecosystem and further improved the already good network of collaboration in Europe. Finally, the novel techniques learned will help the European R&D sites to establish themselves as centers of excellence, thus giving more solidity to the European sites w.r.t. future working opportunities.

7.4.1.3 PTIN During the project lifetime, PTIN achievements regarding exploitation consisted in a publication in the 2014 edition of “Saber & Fazer Telecomunicações” (translation: To know and to do telecommunications), the company corporate magazine, published in Portuguese.

The article entitled “5G: acesso ubíquo de alta velocidade” (translation: “5G: high speed ubiquitous access”), presents spectrum sharing as one of the key technologies for the fifth generation of mobile communications systems. Project ADEL is presented in this context, highlighting the main objectives of the project and the major technical proposals allowing to achieve those targets. The authors believe this publication improved ADEL visibility among PTIN executive board, staff and clients (e.g. MNO inside the PT group), making them aware of the possibility to share licensed spectrum in way that is effective both in the technical and economical domains.

7.4.2 Exploitation achievements of academic and research partners

7.4.2.1 UEDIN UEDIN has organized special sessions on topics related to ADEL in IEEE SPAWC 2016. In the summer school - SSSAS5G ADEL Summer School 2016, UEDIN presented a keynote talk. UEDIN also presented a keynote talk in the following workshop: http://iswcs2016.org/welcome/menu/venue_rooms.

7.4.2.2 AIT AIT is a non-for-profit educational and research organisation and as such has no commercial products development. AIT’s contribution to the exploitation of ADEL’s results was through targeted dissemination to interested ICT companies, as well as by engaging with policy makers.

Targetted industrial dissemination

AIT has established collaboration with Coralia, which is an organization that supports and facilitates the operation of technological startups in Greece. Under the “umbrella” of Coralia are three technology clusters and three innovation hubs with more than 12,000 employees. The concepts and methods developed in ADEL have been presented in multiple meetings with start-up companies that are members of Coralia.

Policy shaping

AIT engaged with the Greek and UK National Regulatory Authorities (EETT and Ofcom, respectively) to present the ADEL concept and discuss the regulatory barriers that need to be lifted in order to take advantage of Dynamic LSA.

7.4.2.3 TUDA TUDA has presented results of ADEL in multiple lectures:


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- M. Pesavento: “ "The Iterative Descent Direction Method for Nonlinear Programming", July 20th 2015, Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan, France

- M. Pesavento: “A compact mixed-norm reformulation for the multiple measurement vector problem in compressed sensing”, Oct. 14th 2016, Technische Universität Wien, Austria

- C. Steffens: “Sparse Spectrum Modeling and Estimation” , Oct. 18th 2016, EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech, Sophia Antipolis, France

7.4.2.4 EUR EUR attended the RRS Workshop at ETSI, Sophia Antipolis, France, on Dec. 4, 2014

http://www.etsi.org/news-events/events/807-etsi-rrs-workshop-2014

EUR was present with a spectrum aggregation demo on its wireless testbed OAI, and had a poster presenting the ADEL project. The RRS workshop was the occasion to interact with several other demos on LSA that were present and helped shape further work within ADEL. EUR wrote a report to the ADEL consortium partners about the LSA demos present at the RRS meeting and also about a number of LSA impact factors.

EUR, together with AIT and UEDIN, are preparing an edited book on LSA and related spectrum access sharing techniques. This book will report on key outcomes from the ADEL project, and put them in the context of the larger unlicensed spectrum picture which has been exploding over the course of the ADEL project. Initial contact has been established with the publisher Cambridge University Press, who has expressed interest.

7.4.2.5 TCD A presentation was prepared for the ETSI RRS#26 meeting, in the context of CRS-i (Cognitive Radio Standardisation Initiative), Canada, June 2014; ADEL research directions mapped with Target standard: