What’s IRACON about? A layperson description
Researchers from the IRACON COST Action are developing new technologies that will enable the usage of new services in mobile phones, such as augmented reality games where a 3D view of fantasy scenario...
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
COST IRACON associates itself with the celebrations of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, on February 11th, contributing to promotion of full and equal access to and participation in...
Why we became researchers…
Why did you become a researcher? For sure, there are as many different (and good) reasons as people you ask. However, when confronting some students, friends or colleagues of mine with this question, ...
Make Antenna Great Again !
These should be great times for people engaging in Over-the-Air (OTA) testing. First, the standardisation of a measurement procedure for radiated performance of MIMO devices has been brought to a succ...
3G, 4G, …and 5G.
I write this few lines assuming the risk to read it again in ten years from now and realize that I am wrong: The 5th generation of 3GPP mobile networks will be the last one. I am not predicting any ca...
Satisfaction
There was a gag on a TV show where a man in a store asks for the best PC that he could buy with, let’s say 800 €.  The commercial brings him one while explaining the details of the marvellous HW&...
Back to the Future
With the growing demand of wireless facilities in mobile, indoor and personal communications for speech, data and image services, the millimeter (mm) frequency band appears to be a strong candidate fo...
Research, results and dissemination: what would Humboldt say?
It is now quite established that the current 5G channel models discussed in 3GPP are still far from complete. However, 5G is still planned to be commercialized rather sooner than later. This is actual...
Telecoms in 2050?
I would like to launch a competition on what telecoms will be in year 2050, i.e., in roughly 30 years from now.  If you look at the last decades, we witnessed the emergence of two technologies, i.e.,...
Success of mobile radio comms. in COST
Have you ever wondered why we (the COST mobile radio communications community, currently, IRACON) are so successful?  What I mean is that, if you look into the many communities that have been active ...