Presentation of ORCIP in Advanced Wireless Technologies Challenges Seminar

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ORCIP is an open infrastructure of the National Roadmap of Research Infrastructures
of Strategic Relevance that will allow the scientific community and industry to test,
measure and certificate advanced optical & radio systems.
Who can benefit:
SMEs:
 The infrastructure will be an instrument to lower the barrier of entry of SMEs
in innovation activities in the next-generation telecommunications areas.
Universities and Research Institutes:
 Increasing the capability of generating research results and/or project
gathering;
 Training
Operators & Large Enterprise:
 Field and Lab trials involving vendors and operators;
 Collaborative R&D projects.
ORCIP - Optical Radio Convergence Infrastructure for
Communications and Power Delivering

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ORCIP - Optical Radio Convergence Infrastructure for
Communications and Power Delivering
Technical areas covered:
 5G solutions for radio and converged access networks
 Machine to machine communications
 Multi-gigabit wireless transmission using Millimeter Waves
 Wireless power transmission
ORCIP testbed purpose:
• Combines the realism of physical testing with the scalability and flexibility of
simulations.
• Allows the network reconfiguration for heterogeneous wireless and optical
communications with multiple protocol stacks for next generation physical
technologies.
• Provide researchers and industry with a platform infrastructure, which
allows testing and evaluation in an integrated (realistic) way: taking into
account every layer from physical devices to applications.

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2G, 3G, WiMAX,
LTE, IMT-A
 The testbed will include a set
of radio heads deployed within
the University of Aveiro
Campus and connected
through optical fibre to a
central location where all the
processing and interfacing is
performed.
 Transparent support of the
legacy (2G, 3G) and the future
high capacity RATs (4G, 5G)
over a single infrastructure
 Allows the implementation and
testing of Cooperative and
Massive MIMO
 Allows protocol and service
testing
ORCIP LAB
Services provided
• Characterization and testing facilities for
Optical and Wireless Devices
• Integrated testing of Optical-Wireless
communication networks and applications.
ORCIP - Optical Radio Convergence Infrastructure for
Communications and Power Delivering

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Physical radio &
optical deployment
Simulation Domain
Central Laboratory
(Transmission interfaces, Automatized measurements)
FPGA-based
platforms and
development
Support
Interfacing For Remote Access
This allows developers to characterize solutions based on existing systems and
also to evaluate novel proposals at the algorithmic or protocol level for future
systems
Interfacing for existing systems, as well as a framework to develop novel
algorithms and hardware for future developments

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ORCIP - Optical Radio Convergence Infrastructure for
Communications and Power Delivering
Services provided (I)
Characterization and testing facilities for Optical and Wireless
Devices
• The laboratory support of the testbed includes a set of programmable
equipment allowing testing devices for optical and wireless communications
systems.
• The laboratory will also allow remote access for testing.
• A support team from IT will receive the devices to be tested and prepare the
experimental test setup to be remotely controlled and measured.
Integrated testing of Optical-Wireless communication networks
• Dynamic characterization of the network by using KPIs.
• The services provided will include: Set-up of the system to be evaluated by
including the appropriate functionalities in the central room and
configuration of the radio-heads; Integration of physical signals in the
simulators if needed; test running and result collection.

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ORCIP - Optical Radio Convergence Infrastructure for
Communications and Power Delivering
Services provided (II)
Integrated testing of Optical-Wireless communication applications
• Application and service testing for different network resources.
• The central unit connected to the physical radio head development will be
equipped with transceivers of several commercial systems, allowing
telecommunication service providers to test specific applications.
• Wireless Power Transmission (WPT) technologies and strategies
Training in wireless, optical communications and integrated
wireless optical networks
• Training courses tailored to the industry;
• Modules to be integrated in the curriculum of academic courses both at the
undergraduate and graduate levels.

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Paulo Monteiro
paulo.monteiro@ua.pt
Atílio Gameiro
amg@ua.pt
Nuno Borges de Carvalho
nbcarvalho@ua.pt
Marcelino Pousa
mpousa@av.it.pt
Pedro Miguel Cruz
pcruz@av.it.pt
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