Working within the Mobile VCE a team formed from several leading UK univers
ity departments, in association with industry representatives, has been add
ressing challenges of the modern wideband radio environment. A focus of the
team's work has been to generate new mobile radio data-centric architectur
es capable of delivering a high quality of service and a high network capac
ity while coping with the little-known outdoor-to-indoor interface. In orde
r to address this latter interface, unique propagation data have been captu
red and new channel models have been proposed-to describe their behaviour.
Finally, performance predictions have been conducted using a new simulation
platform.