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THE UNIVERSITY OF VIGO, Spain, (UVIGO) is an institution devoted to higher education in a number of disciplines including arts and sciences as well as engineering: civil and telecommunications engineering.

The UVIGO research group participating in this proposal, belongs to the Signal Theory and Communications Department (TSC). It carries out its academic activities at the Telecommunications Engineering school (ETSET). The group is in charge of the following subjects: "Radiocommunication systems" and "Mobile communications".

The main research topics of the group are in the characterization of radio propagation channels both to fixed and mobile terminals, for navigation and communications applications. The frequency bands of interest range from UHF to Ka- and V-Band. The groups has also carried out work in systems and network planning studies.

The group has been involved in a number of European Space Agency, ESTEC/ESA projects dealing with propagation and systems studies related to land mobile satellite (LMSS), broadband fixed communications systems as well as in navigation projects (GNSS2, GALILEO).

The group has also been involved in a number of projects funded by the regional and national governments as well as by mobile operators. At international level, the group has participated in European collaborative projects like COST 255 (Radiowave propagation modeling for new SatCom services at Ku-Band and above) and COST 280 (Propagation Impairment Mitigation for Millimeter Wave Radio Systems) and currently participates in the newly started EU Network of Excellence SatNex (Satellite Communications Network of Excellence).

At standardization level, the group actively participates in ITU-R Study Group 3 activities dealing with the development of propagation related recommendations.