High data rate communication for future wireles systems

不列颠哥伦比亚省无线创新网络（WinBC）最近的一项调查发现，不列颠哥伦比亚省（BC）的无线通信部门销售额总计10亿美元，超过50%的公司是在1999年之后成立的。此外，75%的员工拥有大学学位，其中24%拥有研究生学位。这清楚地表明了无线通信行业对加拿大，特别是不列颠哥伦比亚省的重要性。然而，只有高质量的研究为其产品提供新的想法和高素质的人才，加拿大通信业才能保持国际竞争力。拟议的研究计划是精心设计的，以满足这些需求。此外，尽管在过去几年中我们已经见证了无线通信领域中的若干重大进展，但是必须克服更多的科学和技术挑战以满足对高速无线通信的仍呈指数增长的需求并提高无线服务的质量。

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.