Integrated Telematics for Next Generation 5G Vehicular Communications

ITN-5VC

About the project

ITN-5VC aims to investigate the key problems of the integration of multi-band multi-antenna communications, including mmWave, with radar heads and other wireless sensors into the same telematics unit, so that transmission chains and radiation systems were efficiently reused in a cost-efficient manner while delivering the required performance

Objective

The specific main research objectives of the ITN-5VC project are:

Design an optimum multi-antenna deployment for enhanced performance of the new hyper connected car concept.
Integrate Cellular-assisted Vehicular to Anything (C-V2X) protocols, basically NR Release 16 on (Releases 17 and 18 according to 3GPP current time plan), with autonomous driving sensor systems.
Adapt signalling (RRC) and MAC protocols on IoT specific 5G NR chipsets.
Explore new hardware solutions for radar and SoC integration and configure the new design of the car electronics.

Our role

Fivecomm has hired a PhD student to work in the project as the Early-Stage Researcher number 11. The work of this person is to research about new integrated telematics unit with sensors and communications capabilities, with the next objectives:

To integrate multi-antenna multi-band system into the telematics unit.
To develop a single platform for communications and sensoring.
To design a new hardware solution for radar and SoC integration.

The expected results of this project are to design a prototype of the integrated telematics unit with sensoring and 5G V2X communications capabilities, and a multi-antenna and multi-band communication platform.