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COST Action 280 [2001 - 2005]

Propagation Impairment Mitigation for Millimetre Wave Radio Systems

COST (COperation européenne dans le domaine de la recherche Scientifique et Technique ) is a European Union forum for cooperative scientific research.

This page provides information about COST Action 280.

For registered members of COST Action 280, working documents are available in a restricted access area. Access is by a userid and password which may be obtained from the COST 280 Secretary, Sue Upton.

People or Organisations outside the COST Action 280 may be granted access to the restricted document area. Applications should be addressed to any of the chairmen (see below for email links).

Contents:

    Objectives
    Action Status
    Meetings
    Workshops
    The Memorandum of Understanding 
    COST280 Documents
    Links


Objectives

The main objective of the Action was to improve the design and planning of present and future millimetre wave broadband telecommunications systems (including broadcast) and services (especially multimedia) through the development of knowledge and tools for a refined evaluation of their performance.

To achieve this goal it has been necessary to co-ordinate European research activity in the following areas:
1. Designing and planning of millimetre-wave broadband telecommunications systems (including broadcast, and especially for multimedia services)
2. Development and implementation of propagation impairment mitigation techniques
3. Channel modelling for Earth-satellite and terrestrial paths above about 20 GHz

The Action addressed the interest of European Industry to introduce terrestrial and satellite-based broadband telecommunication systems, which would make optimal use of the limited frequency spectrum.  The work has built on the results of earlier successful COST Actions such as COST Action 255.
 

Action Status

The action is now closed.

Action Signatories, main contacts and the list of MC members are all available from the main COST web site.

Enquiries may be addressed to the chairman.
 

Elected Officials:

Chairman: M. Filip (UK)
Vice Chairman: M. J. Willis (UK)
Chair Working Group 1: A. Martellucci (ESA)
Chair Working Group 2: M. J. Willis (UK)
Action Secretary and Grant Holder: S. Upton
Advisory Group 1 Chair: M. Bousquet (FR)
Advisory Group 2 Chair: L. Castanet (FR)

Meetings

MCM#1 (Inaugural meeting)  was  held on 18/19 June 2001 in Brussels, Belgium
MCM#2 was held on 29 and 30 October 2001 in Toulouse, FranceMCM#3 was held on 1 and 3 July 2002 in Malvern, UK
MCM#4 was held from 4 to 6 November 2002 in Prague, Czech Republic
MCM#5 was held on 26 May 2003 at ESTEC in Noordwijk, Holland
MCM#6 was held from 22 to 24 October 2003 in Abingdon, UK
MCM#7 was held from 1st to 3rd June 2004 in Madrid, Spain
MCM#8 was held from 4th to 5th November 2004 in Rome, Italy
MCM#9 was held on 8th June 2005 in Prague, Czech Republic

Workshops

[click on the links for the Proceedings]
 
  1. First International Workshop was held from 1 to 3 July 2002 in Malvern UK
  2. The second International Workshop of the Action was held from 26 to 28 May 2003, jointly with Action 272, at ESTEC in Noordwijk, Holland.
  3. The third International Workshop (and the final one) of the Action was held on 6 & 7 June 2005 in Prague, Czech Republic.

 

The Memorandum of Understanding

Click on the icon to download the MoU.
 

Documents

COST Action 280 published all technical working documents on a limited-access web page on the Worldwide Web. Documents that were approved by the Mangement Committee to be available to general public are kept in the public access document area.


Links

 
Secure Document Area (requires userid and password)

Public Domain Documents

COST web site

COST documents (lots of useful stuff here)

COST Action 280 individual web page on the main COST web site

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Page last updated on 30 June 2005 by the Chairman