National Mobile Communication Laboratory
Communication and Information System is among the first national key disciplines approved by the Ministry of Education. The National Mobile Communication Laboratory, approved by the State Education Commission and the State Development Planning Commission in 1990 and constructed at Southeast University with loans from the World Bank and domestic funds, is the only national key laboratory specializing in mobile communication research in China’s institutions of higher learning. The Laboratory passed the acceptance inspection of the State and officially opened in 1995. With over a decade’s development, the Laboratory has accomplished a lot in terms of both scientific research and talent cultivation, and now it has become an internationally influential research institute of its kind.
At present, “Cheung Kong Scholar” Distinguished Professor You Xiaohu, IEEE Fellow and Chief Expert for BBN (wideband network) special project started during the “12th Five-Year Plan” as part of the National High-Tech Research Program 863, acts as director of the Discipline and the Laboratory; and Professor Wu Hequan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Chief Technician for the special project of the “new generation wideband wireless mobile communication network”, holds the post of director of the academic committee of the Discipline. The laboratory boasts 4 Cheung Kong Scholars of the Ministry of Education, 3 members of the Recruitment Program of Global Youth Experts initiated by the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the CPC and 2 winners of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (NSFDYS). The Laboratory boasts 55 full-time staff members, including 25 professors and 20 associate professors. In addition, it has now 9 post-doctors, 90 PhD candidates and 305 master’s degree candidates.
Currently, the Laboratory mainly covers the five research orientations as follows: the wideband wireless transmission theory and multiple-access technology; modern signal processing and its applications in mobile communication; the theory and application of mobile communication network and system; short-range wireless communication and ubiquitous network; and the information theory and coding.
Over the past five years, the Laboratory has taken the lead in many national major projects, with the total funds exceeding 150 million RMB. Of those there are 34 national major special research subjects of science and technology, 2 national science-and-technology-supported projects, 2 research subjects of National Program 973, 15 research subjects of National Program 863, 24 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (including one funded by NSFDYS), 23 provincial- and- ministerial-level projects, as well as 107 projects in collaboration with international bodies or enterprises. In addition, the Laboratory won the 1st prize of National Technological Invention; and it has published nearly 200 academic papers in international core journals, one even awarded with the Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper Award in 2011, an enormously influential award in the field of communication worldwide.
The Laboratory has successively taken the lead in the “R&D of 3G mobile communication” and “FuTURE”, two major projects included in National Program 863, the “basic theoretical and technological research on future mobile communication”, a major project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), as well as the “R&D of IMT-A wireless network technology”, a national major special project of science and technology, etc.. In addition, the Laboratory has accomplished outstanding achievements in research on theories and technologies concerning the CDMA reception of the multipath energy window, the capacity approximation transmission in wideband mobile communication as well as distributed network, thus contributing tremendously to the updating of China’s mobile communication technology.
Major research results of the Laboratory
Participating in the R&D and realization of China’s first GSM testing system in 1996;
Completing the R&D and realization of China’s first CDMA testing system in 1998;
Carrying out successfully China’s first 3G mobile communication system field test in 2002 as the first undertaker;
Completing the development of the heterogeneous network convergence terminal and access equipment and realizing their large-scale application in 2004;
Completing the R&D of China’s first UWB wireless transmission testing system in 2005;
Taking the leading in completing the R&D of China’s first 4G mobile communication out-field testing system in 2006;
Completing the R&D of China’s first Gbps wireless transmission experimental system in 2009.
Major Awards of the Laboratory
The “wideband mobile communication capacity approximation transmission technology and its industrialized application” won the 1st prize of National Technological Invention of 2011;
The “wideband multi-carrier universal MIMO transmission and iteration access technology” won the 1st prize of Technological Invention of the Ministry of Education of 2009;
The “WPAN-based short-range wireless access key technique research and application” won the 1st prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of the Ministry of Education of 2005;
The “multipath-energy-window-based CDMA reception technology” won the 1st prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of Jiangsu Province of 2004;
The “development and industrialization of underpower wireless access serial equipment” won the 1st prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of Jiangsu Province of 2004;
The “R&D of China’s 3G mobile communication system” won the 2nd prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress of 2003.
In terms of international exchange and cooperation in scientific research, the Laboratory has established close relationship of cooperation with various enterprises, research institutes and colleges and universities abroad, such as Ericsson, Nokia, Qualcomm, Motorola, Siemens, Fujitsu, Docomo, Alcatel-Lucent, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of South Korea, MIT, Stanford University, Kaiserslautern University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of California, University of South California, Victoria University of Canada, University of London, University of Delaware, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Uppsala University of Sweden, etc.. Domestically, the Laboratory has established close cooperative ties with various research institutes, institutions of higher learning and such enterprises as China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom, Huawei, ZTE, Datang Group and Spreadtrum. Furthermore, its open research subjects have covered dozens of colleges and universities and research institutes nationwide.
