SOURCE: Broadband Wireless Consortium of India

TITLE: CEWiT and BWCI

AGENDA ITEM: Opening Plenary - Presentation

CONTACT: R. David Koilpillai (david@cewit.org.in)

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CEWiT – Centre for Excellence in Wireless Technology

and

BWCI - Broadband Wireless Consortium of India

R. David Koilpillai

Presentation at GSC-12 Meeting, Kobe, JapanJuly 9-12, 2007

India Market Summary

Population ~1.1 Billion– 70% in villages, 600,000 villages– 190 million households (urban + rural)

Communications– Lowest tariffs, fastest growth in the world – Low ARPU market – Will cross 200M subscribers in 2007– 3G delayed due to spectrum issues

Factors– Very high user densities in metros – Very low user densities in rural – Dense fibre optic grid (national network) – Limited reach of wired infrastructure – Wireless – attractive option for broadband

Stringent requirements on future broadband

CEWiT Overview

Centre for Excellence in Wireless Technology (CEWiT) An initiative of the Government of India

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Set up in 2004 - a public-private partnership

Between the Indian government, industry and academia. Located in Chennai to leverage synergy with wireless R&D at IITM 2004-06 - CEWiT studying emerging broadband wireless technologies

Focus on the market requirements of India Downloadable from CEWiT website: www.cewit.org.in

CEWiT has started a number of key research activities in OFDM IEEE 802.16 d/e (WiMAX), 3GPP-LTE WiFiRe - a proprietary extension of WiFi MAC for rural applications Results in the form of patents and publications

Participant in Wireless World Research Forum Developed a comprehensive simulator for OFDM - BWSim

BWCI

Broadband Wireless Consortium of India (launched March 2007) India will be a large market by 2010 Need a national consortium to leverage opportunity to become global player

Involvement of all major stake holders of wireless broadband in India Operators, Equipment manufacturers, Technology services,

semiconductor companies, Indian Govt agencies, academic R&D Participation in key global standards

IEEE 802.16m, 3GPP, 3GPP2 and IMT Advanced Develop consensus on requirements of India market requirements Dissemination of latest information from international standards forums Develop a HW/SW technology demonstrator Coordination with Indian government on spectrum issues Focused research with a view to develop strategic IPR

Facilitate collaboration with international R&D groups

Summary

BWCI – a carefully planned strategic initiative

BWCI vision and activities formulated with

– Technology neutrality and commercial focus

BWCI membership – large number of potential participants

– Indian operators will play a key role

Launch of BWCI is important from national perspective

– Has full support of Government and Industry players

– Need to create visibility within India and internationally

BWCI will facilitate India’s entry to global forums – GSC, 3GPP, 3GPP2, …

CEWiT and BWCI to play an active role in generating IPR

BWCI plans are ambitious and aggressive

BWCI’s success can ensure a global presence for India wireless

Thank You !!

Best Wishes to GSC-12 from BWCI

David Koilpillai Profile

EducationB.Tech, IIT Madras, MS, PhD Caltech, USA

Work Experience IIT Madras (2002 – present)

Professor, TeNeT Group, EE DepartmentCEWiT – Chief Scientist (Jan 2007 – present)Ericsson Inc, USA (1990-2002)

Director, Advanced Technologies, Research and Patents

(R&D team of 75 engineers, annual budget US $20 Million)

Professional Areas of expertise: Cellular, wireless systems, DSP 32 Issued US patents Publications: 10 Journal, 32 Conference Research Interests: DSP applications in Wireless Ericsson Inventor of Year Award 1999 Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering