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News 2006

News around AWE Communications and WinProp in 2006:

December 2006
MIMOWA (MIMO techniques for wireless access) project launched

The MEDEA+ project proposal MIMOWA (MIMO technologies for wireless access) was officially launched. The project is funded by the European union and the national ministry for reasearch and education. Partners in the project are Agilent, Alcatel-Lucent, Infineon, Telefonica, ST Microelectronics, CEA Leti and some more. 

Focus of the project is simulating, implementing, validating and evaluating MIMO building blocks for cellular 3G LTE, WiMAX and WiFI air interfaces. 

AWE Communications contributes with its highly sophisticated ray tracing to the simulation of the MIMO radio channel.

November 2006
EuCAP 2006: European Conference on Antennas and Propagation

WinProp is presented in the exhibition at the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2006).
Additionally three scientific papers are published:

• Propagation models for time variant scenarios
• Dominant path propagation model for urban, indoor, and hybrid scenarios
• Satellite multimedia broadcasting
  

October 2006
Winprop used for planning of W-LAN on campus of university

The W-LAN on the campus of the University of Stuttgart is planned with WinProp to get good coverage everywhere and to provide enough capacity for the expected throughput.

September 2006
Winprop used for planning of World Trade Center Transportation Hub

The wireless infrastructure of the new WTC (World Trade Center) transportation Hub in Manhattan (New York) is planned with WinProp.
Parsons, responsible for the planning of the wireless infrastucture of the WTC transportation hub, selected Winprop as their radio network planning tool.

September 2006
Exhibition at "Digital Broadcasting 2006"

WinProp is presented at the 7th Digital Broadcasting Workshop in Erlangen. 

August 2006
Windows 64 bit systems

WinProp tools released for systems running under Windows x64 Edition (TM). All WinProp tools are fully compatible to 64-bit Windows systems. Especially when computing multiple simulations in parallel this leads to an effective usage of the resources (e.g. two preprocessings can be computed in the timeframe of a single preprocessing).

August 2006
New Customers: Research Center of DLR

The German Aerospace Center DLR selects Winprop to model the propagation channels in satellite and hybrid (satellite and terrestrial) wireless networks (e.g. for broadcasting multimedia signals).

July 2006
Propagation models for time variant scenarios

WinProp is extended towards the simulation of time variant scenarios. Databases with time variant objects (e.g. vehicles, elevators, doors,....) can be defined in WallMan.
With a new ray tracing algorithm ProMan computes the propagation effects and displays the time-depending results (for different time steps). Prediction includes 3D spatial channel impulse responses incl. Doppler shift.

June 2006
New Customers: Fraunhofer Gesellschaft

The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the largest organization for applied research in Europe. selects Winprop to model the propagation channels in satellite and hybrid (satellite and terrestrial) wireless networks.
With the CNP mode of WinProp especially the indoor penetration (coverage) of wireless networks is examined (e.g. the  satellite-to-indoor problem).

June 2006
New Version of Urban Propagation DLL for Aircom Enterprise 

A new version of the successful urban propagation DLL including WinProp's famous 3D IRT Ray Tracing as well as the new 3D Dominant Path Model is now available for

• Aircom Enterprise
• Nokia NetAct
• Siemens TornadoN

May 2006
Êxhibition at ASMS 2006

Presentation of WinProp at the ASMS (Advanced Satellite Mobile Systems 2006).

May 2006
Further operator in customer list: Swisscom

Swisscom, the largest mobile operator in Switzerland, purchased WinProp's Dominant Path Model for urban, indoor and CNP scenarios together with the 3G Dynamic System Simulator.

May 2006
Two presentations at IEEE VTC Conference in Melbourne (Australia) 

Two scientific papers related to WinProp are presented at the 63^rd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference in Melbourne (Austraila). The focus of the two papers are:

• Wave Propagation inside and around Vehicles in Dynamic Time Variant Scenarios
• Impact of Building Database Accuracy on Predictions with Wave Propagation Models in Urban Scenarios
  

April 2006
Nokia selects WinProp indoor propagation models

Nokia, using WinProp's urban ray tracing (IRT) since 2001, purchased now WinProp's IRT ray tracing for indoor scenarios.

April 2006
Publication in European Transactions on Telecommunications (ETT)

AWE Communications published a scientific paper together with Alcatel Alenia Space about the deployment of SDMB with a radio network planning tool in the March issue of the European Transactions on Telecommunications (ETT). 

March 2006
Time Variant Propagation Simulator presented 

The new product time variant propagation simulator was presented for the first time at the 3^rd International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation (WIT 2006), Hamburg (Germany).

February 2006
Dominant Path Model now available in Atoll and A9155

WinProp's newest propagation model, the Dominant Path Model (DPM) is now included in Atoll (by Forsk) and A9155 (by Alcatel).
This new model extends the range of applications for the two planning tools significantly as the mode does no longer need any time consuming preprocessing of the database.

February 2006
ORTIGIA: New ESA funded project in Satellite Multimedia Broadcasting

Ortigia, a project funded by the European Space Agency ESA, is launched. Together with several European partners, AWE Communications is investigating the network infrastructure for broadcasting multimedia signals with an OFDM air interface. This work will influence significantly the next generation of DMB networks.

January 2006
German Universities are selecting WinProp for Research and Education 

Several universities in Germany (e.g. Aachen, Dresden, Giessen, Konstanz, Mannheim,...) are selecting WinProp's EDU license to be used for research and education.

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