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SUMMARY
COMMONSENS is a Spanish research consortium whose goal is to formulate solutions to new and existing problems and to enable fundamental insights into the performance bounds and limitations of large-scale networks within the domain of mobile and wireless communications.
The project aims to develop the methods and technology needed to render large-scale, robust, ad-hoc sensor networks a reality. The team will utilise the various experimental test-beds already developed within the COMONSENS consortium to validate assumptions and operating constraints and to effect timely technology transfer of the project results. Moreover, the team will conduct real deployments of the technological output so as to demonstrate its practical impact in several important areas of societal interest.
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SOLUTIONS
- Deriving novel theoretical tools using cross-disciplinary techniques with the aim of improving the understanding of the capabilities and limitations of complex communication and processing systems, specifically multipoint-to-multipoint communication scenarios
- Providing theoretical guidelines for the subsequent design of optimum algorithms
- Merging tools from other disciplines, such as random graph and random matrix theory, statistical physics, percolation theory, developmental biology, evolutionary algorithms, game theory, general theory of distributed systems, machine learning, Monte Carlo statistical methods, and advanced optimization theory
- Designing efficient signal processing algorithms and coding techniques for multipoint-to-multipoint communication and sensor networks based on the previously obtained theoretical guidelines
- Testing and validating algorithms with extensive use of two testbeds already available within the COMMONSENS consortium: a testbed for MIMO communications with several transmit and receive antennas, and a testbed for wireless ad-hoc sensor networking
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LINK: http://www.comonsens.org/
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