Enhance PHY for Cellular Low power communication IoT – EPHYL

EPHYL proposes to evaluate and experiment improvements to the new cellular networks that have been emerging in the context of the internet of things (IoT). The project will be based on the extremely active standardization in the field of Cellular IoT that will be closely followed by the industrial partner of the consortium. Then, the research entities will evaluate and propose improvements to these emerging standards considering the physical layer and the radio resource management levels. Coverage aspects, data link quality and energy consumption will be used for comparison as performance criteria. Some of the most promising technologies will be implemented on a prototype and tested within the mutualized research facility of the FIT-CorteXlab. The impact of the project will principally be found in innovations where patents, publications and contributions to standardization are to be expected.