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SEcure Network Coding for Reduced Energy nexT generation Mobile Small cells (SECRET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

SECRET is a collaborative European Training Network (ETN) committed to create an “excellent” educational training platform; that is multi-disciplinary and intersectoral in nature, for Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) in the field of wireless communications and networking. In this dynamic field, the challenges are always evolving and more stringent in line with market expectation, and socio-economica ...
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Advanced European Network of E-infrastructuresfor Astronomy with the SKA (AENEAS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The objective of the AENEAS project is to develop a concept and design for a distributed, federated European Science Data Centre (ESDC) to support the astronomical community in achieving the scientific goals of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The scientific potential of the SKA radio telescope is unprecedented and represents one of the highest priorities for the international scientific communit ...
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Evolving FIRE into a 5G-Oriented Experimental Playground for Vertical industries (5GINFIRE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Key industrial sectors e.g. automotive, are rapidly transformed by digital and communication technologies leading to the fourth industrial revolution. New ones are in the making, e.g. Smart Cities, which inspire a new breed of applications and services. The salient characteristic of these sectors, known as verticals, is that they are rapidly becoming open ecosystems built on top of common physical ...
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Power Semiconductor and Electronics Manufacturing 4.0 (SemI40)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

Addressing European Policies for 2020 and beyond the “Power Semiconductor and Electronics Manufacturing 4.0” (SemI40) project responds to the urgent need of increasing the competitiveness of the Semiconductor manufacturing industry in Europe through establishing smart, sustainable, and integrated ECS manufacturing. SemI40 will further pave the way for serving highly innovative electronic markets w ...
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FUTEBOL: Federated Union of Telecommunications Research Facilities for an EU-Brasil Open Laboratory (FUTEBOL)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

FUTEBOL composes a federation of research infrastructure in Europe and Brazil, develops a supporting control framework, and conducts experimentation-based research in order to advance the state of telecommunications through the investigation of converged optical/wireless networks. Current wireless trends (cell densification, coordinated communication, massive MIMO) pose a new set of challenges tha ...
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Machine Sensing Training Network (MacSeNet)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The aim of this Innovative Training Network is to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researchers (ESRs) in the research area of measurement and estimation of signals using knowledge or data about the underlying structure. With its combination of ideas from machine learning and sensing, we refer to this research topic as “Machine Sensing”. We will train a ...
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Sparse Representations and Compressed Sensing Training Network (SpaRTaN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

The aim of this Initial Training Network is to train a new generation of interdisciplinary researchers in sparse representations and compressed sensing, contributing to Europe’s leading role in scientific innovation. By bringing together leading academic and industry groups with expertise in sparse representations, compressed sensing, machine learning and optimization, and with an interest in appl ...
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Smart and Networking UnderWAter Robots in Cooperation Meshes (SWARMs)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Nowadays, the major part of offshore operations is done by divers in dangerous missions. Since their number is limited, the dependency on their work represents a real threat to the offshore industry. The extended use of unmanned underwater vehicles (AUVs/ROVs) could solve this problem but since they are usually tailor-made for a specific task and difficult to operate their deployment is very expen ...
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THINGS2DO (THINGS2D0)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Jan 1, 2018,

Develop the FDSOI ecosystem in Europe, beyond the PLACES2BE Pilot Line, in order to increase the impact of this European technology. At the time of set up of the first KET pilot line the proof of FDSOI was mainly technological. In between then and now, the first realization of a complex silicon chip in FDSOI has shown to the worldwide microelectronics community the capabilities of this technology. ...
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quality of Service Provision and capacity Expansion through Extended-DSA for 5G (SPEED-5G)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The objective of SPEED-5G is to research and develop technologies that address the well-known challenges of predicted growth in mobile connections and traffic volume. A major challenge is the cost of meeting the objective, in terms of both infrastructure and deployment. Today, lack of dynamic control across wireless network resources is leading to unbalanced spectrum loads and a perceived capacit ...
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Scalable & Low-Power Microwave Photonics for Flexible, Terabit Telecom Payloads & High-speed Coherent Inter-satellite Links (BEACON)

Start date: Oct 2, 2013, End date: Jun 1, 2017,

Telecom satellites are growing like giants employing multiple beams to provide high speed connectivity and broad coverage. Under exploding capacity requirements, vendors admit that a technology and payload architecture switch is mandatory. The new technology has to deliver practical, low-power and scalable components with high performance under harsh environment conditions. BEACON aims to provide ...
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Generalizing Truth-Functionality (GETFUN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The Fregean-inspired Principle of Compositionality of Meaning (PoC), for formal languages, may be construed as asserting that the meaning of a compound expression is deterministically (and often recursively) analysable in terms of the meaning of its constituents, taking into account the mode in which these constituents are combined so as to form the compound expression. From a logical point of vi ...
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Phonon-Assisted Processes for Energy Transfer and Sensing (PAPETS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

There is mounting experimental and theoretical evidence that suggests that coherent electronic and vibrational dynamics are essential to understand physiological processes. This project addresses this newly emerging frontier between biology and quantum physics by aiming to determine the role of coherent vibrational dynamics in the efficiency of energy storage in natural and artificial light harves ...
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A cost effective and efficient approach for a new generation of solar dish-Stirling plants based on storage and hybridization (BIOSTIRLING-4SKA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

In the context of the Energy SET-Plan of the European Commission relevant research and developments channelled to increase the percentage of renewable energy sources. It is crucial the collaboration of the Industry, SME’s and research institutions to bring together the step forward to finally integrate renewable energies as the main source of electricity.Renewable energies represent a wide field u ...
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RealTime Monitoring Power Reduction Gearbox (RTMGear)

Start date: Sep 15, 2014, End date: Oct 14, 2016,

...ure variations, and metal debris in the oil. In this RTMGear activity, Active Space Technologies (AST) intends to develop a telemetric system based, as much as possible, in proved technologies, while Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) will focus their research in innovative Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) technologies for measuring temperature and strain in rotating parts.
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GaN powered Ka-band high-efficiency multi-beam transceivers for SATellites (GANSAT)

Start date: Sep 23, 2013, End date: Oct 1, 2016,

GANSAT – GaN powered Ka-band high-efficiency multi-beam transceivers for SATellitesGaN technologies appear to be a key element for the space industry. Their use in the power amplification stage of satellites will represent a significant progress versus actual designs and benefit to broadcast systems. In addition, the good noise feature opens the door to high performing low noise amplifiers and loc ...
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Security And InteroperabiLity in Next Generation PPDR CommUnication InfrastructureS (SALUS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

"Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) agencies in EC member states are relying on digital Private Mobile Radio (PMR) networks for mission-critical voice and data communication. These networks are highly resilient and properly dimensioned to cope with crisis and emergency handling, and are well protected against monitoring and intrusion by means of encryption, authentication and integrity. ...
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Beating Landauer’s Limit in the Quantum Regime (QUANTUMLANDAUER)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

"Irreversible processes, such as resetting a logical register in a computer, result in heat dissipation. Landauer’s principle, linking information theory and thermodynamics, states that there is a minimum amount of heat dissipation, proportional to the reduction in the entropy of the logical register, imposed by the laws of thermodynamics. To possibly beat Landauer’s limit, we must first gain a be ...
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Adaptive Cooperative Control in Urban (sub) Systems (ACCUS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

Urban systems like traffic, energy, and outdoor lighting are managed by self-contained embedded systems – though the managed processes are deeply interconnected. New applications and collective optimization require integration of these systems which represents a truly “systems of systems” integration problem: these urban systems evolve independently, have their own purpose and internal policies wh ...
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Quantum Technologies for Europe (QUTE-EUROPE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

Research in Quantum Information and Communication Technologies (QICT) has since many years gained an important European dimension. The number of research groups active in the field as well as the number of publications testify to the vigorous and scientifically proliferate state of the community and show that QIPC research in Europe is well on par and highly competitive with comparable activities ...
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Virtual Embodiment and Robotic Re-Embodiment (VERE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

VERE aims to carry out research on the fusion of the human body with virtual or physical surrogates. By fuse we mean that human participants would operate under the illusion that the virtual body is their own, or that they are actually in the physical space of the real world in a robotic body that they perceive as their own. As well as providing a radical extension of traditional virtual reality ...
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Advanced Network Coding for Video Surveillance (CodeLance)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

CodeLance is about an industry-academia cooperation that will exploit the know-how on ICT of both academic and commercial companies, in order to provide an efficient product for video surveillance over wireless multihop networks to support services like, traffic monitoring, fire detection and real-time events (such as natural disasters) broadcasting for the societies of the smart cities.Video surv ...
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Networked energy-aware visual analysis (GreenEyes)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The potential of the Internet of Things is leading to a paradigm shift with an ambitious long-term vision, in which battery-operated sensing nodes are empowered with sight and are capable of complex visual analysis tasks. Unfortunately, this is out of reach with the current technology. GreenEyes will develop a comprehensive set of new methodologies, algorithms and protocols, to empower wireless se ...
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Cognitive Radio Experimentation World (CREW)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The main target of CREW is to establish an open federated test platform, which facilitates experimentally-driven research on advanced spectrum sensing, cognitive radio and cognitive networking strategies in view of horizontal and vertical spectrum sharing in licensed and unlicensed bands.The CREW platform incorporates 5 individual wireless testbeds (heterogeneous ISM @ iMinds-Gent, heterogeneous l ...
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Operating ICT basic switches below the Landauer limit (LANDAUER)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

The scientific objective of this project is to test the fundamental limits in energy dissipation during the operation of physical switches representing the basic elements of logic gates. We address the physical limits arising from a generic switch mechanism that is common to any digital device, with specific reference to the fundamental limit arising from the decrease of information in the computa ...
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ENERGY TO SMART GRID (E2SG)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 1, 2015,

The target of the overall E2SG project is to devise and design mechanisms and policies to assemble, monitor and control smart grids, i.e. a set of interconnected nodes whose primary goal is to generate, exchange and consume electrical energy in the most efficient and reliable way by exploiting distributed information that is sensed, transmitted and processed over the same set of nodes and links. F ...
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An early stage training network in enabling technologies for GREEN radio (GREENET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Current 4G vision envisages higher data rates and multi standard radio interfaces to provide all users with a continuous seamless connection. The large number of foreseen devices coupled with the surge in power requirements for future emerging handsets raises significant challenges in terms of: i) reducing the energy consumption; and ii) reducing the amount of electromagnetic radiations.GREENET ta ...
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Remote Collaborative Real-Time Multimedia Experience over the Future Internet (ROMEO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

The delivery of 3D media to individual users remains a highly challenging problem due to the large amount of data involved, diverse network characteristics and user terminal requirements, as well as user's context such as their preferences and location. As the number of visual views increases, current systems will struggle to meet the demanding requirements in terms of delivery of consistent video ...
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Realistic Virtual Humans (GOLEM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

GOLEM will share knowledge between relevant partners in Industry and Academia in order to carry out multidisciplinary research to streamline the production pipeline for virtual (digital) characters. It will radically improve their appearance and animation, while keeping them affordable and easy to customize. A unique aspect of GOLEM is that its technological and engineering advances will be used t ...
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Agile RF Transceivers and Front-Ends for Future Smart Multi-Standard Communications Applications (ARTEMOS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 1, 2014,

This project aims at developing architecture and technologies for implementing agile radio frequency (RF) transceiver capacities in future radio communication products. These new architecture and technologies will be able to manage multi-standard (multi-band, multi-data-rate, and multi-waveform) operation with high modularity, low-power consumption, high reliability, high integration, low costs, l ...
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Development of Pre-operational Services for Highly Innovative Maritime Surveillance Capabilities (DOLPHIN)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"Taking benefit from the previous and on-going efforts in the GMES context, the DOLPHIN project intends to develop the key technological and operational gap-filling innovations, leading in the mid-term to a full and sustainable operational exploitation of Earth Observation Satellites capabilities in the EU and MS maritime policies applications.DOLPHIN aims at developing new tools providing effecti ...
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Open Flow in Europe: Linking Infrastructure and Applications (OFELIA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

The aim of the OFELIA project is to create a unique experimental facility that allows researchers to not only experiment 'on' a test network but to control the network itself precisely and dynamically. To achieve this, the OFELIA facility is based on OpenFlow, a currently emerging networking technology that allows to virtualize and control the network environment through secure and standardized in ...
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Wireless Hybrid Enhanced Mobile Radio Estimators - Phase 2 (WHERE2)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

The availability of position information plays an increasing role in wireless communications networks already today and will be an integral part of future systems. They inherently can offer the ability for stand-alone positioning especially in situations where conventional satellite based positioning systems such as GPS fail (e.g., indoor). In this framework, positioning information is an importan ...
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MultimEDia transport for mobIlE Video AppLications (MEDIEVAL)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

Video is a major challenge for the future Internet. This traffic type is foreseen to account for close to 90 percent of consumer traffic already by 2012. However, the current Internet, and in particular the mobile Internet, was not designed with video requirements in mind and, as a consequence, its architecture is very inefficient when handling video traffic. It is the vision of this consortium th ...
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Live Immerse Video-Audio Interactive Multimedia (3D VIVANT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2013,

The aim of the project 3D VIVANT is to capture events automatically in 3D and deliver them for realistic, interactive and immersive play back to home users-viewers. This will require the project to create, develop and integrate a comprehensive range of components from the generic technology of 3D imaging. Real and virtual 3D content will be homogeneously combined/mixed producing a novel form of ri ...
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Service-oriented Operating Systems (S(o)OS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

Processor and network architectures are making rapid progress with more and more cores being integrated into single processors and more and more machines getting connected with increasing bandwidth. Processors become heterogeneous and reconfigurable, thus allowing for dynamic adaptation to specialised needs. In future, thousands of billions of devices may be connected to form a single computing un ...
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Quality of Service and MObility driven cognitive radio Systems (QoSMOS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

QoSMOS is a 3-year Integrated Project that aims at researching, developing and integrating a Cognitive Radio (CR) framework to enable mobile broadband systems to improve utilisation of licensed and/or unlicensed bands, by adding dynamic exploitation of under-utilised spectrum. The technical focus is on opportunistic use of spectrum combined with managed Quality of Service (QoS) and seamless mobili ...
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COgnitive radio systems for efficient sharing of TV white spaces in EUropean context (COGEU)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

The complete transition from analogue to the digital TV is planned in Europe for 2012. This will release significant amount of valuable spectrum in VHF/UHF bands. In fact, the Digital TV Switchover provides a "once in a lifetime" opportunity for the development of innovative services and the introduction sophisticated new technologies into the VHF/UHF bands.However, despite the grand words about o ...
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Cognitive radio and Cooperative strategies for POWER saving in multi-standard wireless devices (C2POWER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

The promise of a truly mobile experience is to have the freedom to roam around anywhere and not be bound to a single location. However, the energy required to keep mobile devices connected to the network over extended periods of time quickly dissipates. In fact, the operational time, has been identified as the number one criteria by the majority of the consumers purchasing a mobile device. Moreove ...
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Fully-Converged Quintuple-Play Integrated Optical-Wireless Access Architectures (FIVER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

FIVER project proposes and develops a novel integrated access network architecture employing only OFDM signals for the provision of quintuple play services (Internet, phone/voice, HDTV, wireless -WiMAX, UWB and LTE femtocell- and home security/control). FIVER architecture is completely integrated: The optical access FTTH, the in-home optical distribution network and the final radio link become par ...
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