Collaboration agreed
Symena Software & Consulting GmbH, a spin-off from the Mobile Communications Group of the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, is to collaborate with the university’s Institute of Communications and Radio-Frequency Engineering (INTFHT) on technology for the next generation of mobile telephony, 3GPP.
The company and the university will work together on the investigation and further development of Automatic Cell Planning (ACP) functionality for the Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard of 3GPP.
“LTE is a rapidly evolving standard,” said Thomas Neubauer, Managing Director of Symena. “To stay in the lead we need to understand the impact of changes to the technology on our customers’ future business. Working with the INTHFT gives us access to leading edge research and understanding in critical and rapidly developing areas such as MIMO simulation and field measurements, fractional frequency reuse, traffic localisation techniques and their advanced LTE link level simulator.”
“Symena’s early commercial success with Capesso LTE delivers real world experience to the institute,” said Professor Christoph Mecklenbräuker, Head of INTHFT. “Working with Symena means that we can use their very practical industry experience to guide our research into the most productive areas.”
Symena released the world’s first ACP for LTE, Capesso LTE, in March 2008.
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