The need for fast mobile communication with ever higher data rates is an important driver of the telecommunications industry. The future technologies Smart Antenna and MIMO (multiple inputs - multiple outputs) have the potential to increase the channel capacity by means of space-time frequency multiplexing with an increased number of antennas. The group Wireless Communications positions itself on this key area and operates several projects in co-operation with considerable scientific think tanks.

The "Future Mobile Communications Systems" project funded by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) should generate new mathematical methods, which will permit high transmission speeds in future communication systems during high speed travel (in the car or on the train). The "MIMO UMTS for future packet services" project aims at research in the area of MIMO channels for the High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) subsystem of the UMTS standard and will develop WCDMA receiver algorithms of low complexity. The "MIMO Algorithms for Wireless LAN" project should help to improve the performance of WLAN systems through the implementation of MIMO technology. In addition MIMO algorithms are being developed, suitable for OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing).