High data rate communication for future wireless systems

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A recent survey by the Wireless Innovation Network in British Columbia (WinBC) found that the wireless communication sector sales in British Columbia (BC) total $1B and over 50 % of the companies started after 1999. Moreover, 75 % of the employees had a university degree, including 24 % with graduate degrees. This clearly shows the importance of the wireless communications industry for Canada and for BC in particular. However, the Canadian communications industry can only stay internationally competitive if high quality research supplies it with new ideas for its products and with highly qualified personnel. The proposed research program was carefully designed to address these needs. Furthermore, although in the last few years we have witnessed several major advances in the wireless communications area, many more scientific and technological challenges have to be overcome to satisfy the still exponentially increasing demand for high speed wireless communication and to improve the quality of wireless services.