Research Agencies
Innovation Agency [external link]
Foundation for Science and technology [external link]
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Research Strategies and Priority Areas
Cohesion policy Supporting Research and Innovation [external link]
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Estimated Public Funding of ICT Research 2013
€160 – €190 million.
Best Estimate: €180 million
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Organisations
Instituto de Telecomunicações [external link]
Portugal Telecom Inovação [external link]
Grid Computing National Initiative [external link]
INESC-Lisboa [external link]
INESC-Porto [external link]
INESC-Porto [external link]
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto [external link]
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto [external link]
UNIVOVA [external link]
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PROJECTS & INITIATIVES
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4TELL Research Group
The 4TELL Research Group is focused on designing innovative solutions to enhance the ubiquity, convergence, optimisation and security of the communication networks of the future.
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AMazING
AMazING (Advanced Mobile wIreless Network playGround) is a free outdoor test system which seeks to achieve market differentiation through providing increased direct control for the user and high reproducibility of tests conditions and results.
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COPWIN
The main technical objectives of the COPWIN (Coordinated MultiPoint Strategies for Future Wireless Networks) project are to design, implement and validate techniques exploring BSS (baseline system specification) collaboration for future wireless systems. The aim is to design and demonstrate practical multicell transmission and reception techniques that improve user’s fairness and throughput.
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DependableCloud
he DependableCloud project seeks to solve dependability issues that arise when cloud infrastructures become higher scaled, more complex, and more societal-critical.
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Future Cities
The Future Cities Project is an FP7 funded project which aims at unlocking the full potential of interdisciplinary research in urban technologies, as well as strengthening knowledge transfer activities in close cooperation with local and global industrial partners.
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GLANCES
Broadband wireless systems require high power and spectral efficiencies, and transmission over severely time-dispersive channels. Using the concept of Linear Amplification with Non- Linear Components (LINC) as a starting poiny, the main technical objective of the GLANCES project is to design, implement and validate a new set of digital transmission techniques with high power and spectral efficiency for future wireless broadband systems to be employed in the uplink of mobile systems or in satellite communications.
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LifeSaver
The LifeSaver project will develop a set of ICT building blocks that combine context awareness, ambient intelligence monitoring and standard energy consumption data measurement.
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MUlti-view distributed coding for VIsual Sensor networks
Distributed video coding (DVC) is a technology used to compress video codes. Appling the DVC approach to developing the architecture for visual sensor networks can provide significant benefits and efficiencies over and above existing architectures. This project will advance the state-of-the-art by developing competitive multi-view DVC solutions for visual sensor networks.
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SwiftComp
SwiftComp seeks toImproving cloud computing architecture by designing data processing solutions which combine the low latency benefits of soft state based decentralized computations with the fault tolerance guarantees of a backing store.
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Virtual Traffic Lights
Through leveraging the new vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication capability of modern cars, the VTL (Virtual Traffic Lights) project proposes to design and validate an alternative scheme of urban traffic control that envisions traffic lights as in-vehicle virtual signs. Such a scheme would enable ubiquity of signalised intersections, and would allow the automatic synchronisation of light phases, cycle durations and green splits through the coordination of vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs).
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WiN – Wireless Networks
The Wireless Network group’s mission is to further the development of self-manageable, scalable, secure, and context-aware wireless networks.
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