Active Integrated Antenna for Intelligent Arrays in 6G Non-Terrestrial Networks

用于 6G 非地面网络智能阵列的有源集成天线

• 批准号: EP/Y003144/2
• 负责人: Lei Wang
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lancaster University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY003144%2F2
• 关键词: Active; Integrated; Antenna; Intelligent; Arrays

This ECR international collaboration grant is aiming to build an international network and research hub together with the pioneering research on active integrated antennas for intelligent arrays in the emerging 6G non-terrestrial networks, to realize and boost the new telecommunication era of the internet of everything and the connection of everywhere. Regarding the B5G (5G-beyond) and 6G, there are still quite a number of challenges waiting to be solved. One of the most important issues is the power efficiency of the millimeter-wave (mmW) systems, so as to the mmW active antenna systems. According to the telecommunications company Ericsson's predictions, the market for the service providers in the 5G area will grow to around USD 700 billion by 2030. Thus there will be a huge market and demand of mmW active antenna systems especially for the massive MIMO systems, which requires at least 64 antenna elements (an 8 by 8 array). However, the current power amplifiers on market only offer a power-added efficiency around 22%, leading to significant energy into waste like the heat, which will destroy and reduce the operation life of the devices too. Hence, this project is dedicated to improve the power efficiency of the mmW array antennas by proposing a novel substrate integrated active array antennas, which is of great advantages in terms of manufacturing, cost and scalability. An additional technique of the active antenna in substrate packaging (AAiSP) will be explored to increase the application flexibility for the 6G service providers. Moreover, align with the EPSRC strategy plan 2022-2025 on the priority mission of AI, a machine leaning based precoding technology will be developed to optimize the mmW non-linear array antennas. This project integrates two ongoing Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions projects ANTERRA and HARMONY, both are dedicated to exploring the directly matched power amplified antennas and arrays. The PI also actively interacts with the EurAAP working group of Active Array Antennas. The collaboration project enables the PI actively working with and centered by experienced academics and engineers from the USA, France and Netherlands, leading the PI, his institute and the UK to be the world-class people, organization and place with world-class innovation, so as to be a world leader, which is also the vision of the latest EPSRC strategy plan.

这项ECR国际合作赠款旨在建立一个国际网络和研究中心，以及在新兴的6G非陆网络中针对智能阵列的主动综合天线的开创性研究，以实现和促进一切事物的新电信时代和无处不在的连接。关于B5G（5G-Beyond）和6G，仍有许多挑战等待解决。最重要的问题之一是MMW主动天线系统的毫米波（MMW）系统的功率效率。根据电信公司爱立信的预测，到2030年，5G地区服务提供商的市场将增长到约7000亿美元。因此，将有巨大的市场和MMW Active天线系统的需求，尤其是对于大型MIMO系统，特别是对至少64个天线元素（8阵列）。但是，当前市场上的功率放大器仅提供约22％的功率增添效率，从而导致巨大的能源造成诸如热量之类的浪费，这也将破坏和降低设备的运行寿命。 因此，该项目致力于提高MMW阵列天线的功率效率，通过提出一种新颖的基板集成的主动阵列天线，该天线在制造，成本和可扩展性方面具有很大的优势。将探索底物包装（AAISP）中主动天线的另一种技术，以提高6G服务提供商的应用灵活性。此外，与EPSRC战略计划2022-2025保持一致，将开发基于机器的基于机器的预码技术，以优化MMW非线性阵列天线。 该项目集成了两个正在进行的Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Anterra和Harmony，都致力于探索直接匹配的功率放大天线和阵列。 PI还与Euroaap Active Array天线的Euroaap工作组积极相互作用。该协作项目使PI能够与来自美国，法国和荷兰的经验丰富的学者和工程师一起积极合作和集中，领导PI，他的研究所和英国成为世界一流的人，组织，并通过世界一流的创新，成为世界领导者，这也是最新EPSRC战略计划的愿景。