Coordinating European Future Internet Research

next generation networks

Noisy Networks

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SUMMARY

This project aims to study theoretical aspects of networked digital communications. It will focus on information-theoretic considerations, to investigate both new fundamental theoretical results and also propose designs and guidelines inspired by these results. The suggested research is motivated by wireless sensor and ad-hoc networking, and by future cellular wireless systems with advanced cooperation between cells (relaying and coordinated multi-point transmission). However the principles are general and will find applications also in related fields, in particular in the evolution of the (wired and wireless) Internet.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Contributing to the forefront of basic/theoretical research in the area, by publishing in high-quality international (IEEE) conferences and journals, and by producing top-quality Ph.D. graduates in the field.
  • Emphasising the general importance of wireless systems and communication networks to Swedish industry, and the particular importance of providing the Stockholm area with well-qualified researchers in communications engineering.
  • Making significant progress on solving open problems related to transmission of information in lossy networks.
  • Advancing knowledge in the field of lossy networks in the areas of new (bounds on) capacity regions, new coding schemes, novel cooperation protocols, and contributions to general information-theoretic performance characterizations and scaling laws.

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LINK:http://www.cse.unibo.it/en/research/areas/artificial-intelligence-autonomic-and-complex-systems/adaptive-and-self-organising-systemshttp://www.sciencenet.se/converis/publicweb/contract/16558

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SAMURAI

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 6, 2014   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

For safety-critical applications based on global satellite navigation systems (GNSS) a highly accurate and highly reliable time-delay estimation of the received signal needs to be ensured. Therefore, it is extremely important to develop and explore powerful innovative methods for highly accurate synchronisation of navigation receivers, even under difficult reception conditions. The use of array antennas together with appropriate signal processing methods, such as adaptive digital beamforming or high resolution parameter estimation methods (maximum likelihood parameter estimation) has been proven to be one of the key technologies for an effective and highly reliable suppression of multipath and radio interference.

Based on previous work in the project IMPOSANT, the SAMURAI (Sensor Array Processing for Multipath and Radio Interference Identification and Suppression ) project team will carry out further investigations and developments in this area. The work is concentrated in three main activities: development of signal processing, development of implementation concepts and testing under realistic conditions.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing robust high-resolution estimation methods and parameter tracking algorithms
  • Investigating robust and efficient model order estimation method (number of dominant signals)
  • Assessing and considering signal quantization on the performance of the space-time signal processing
  • Studying optimal noise matching under presence of antenna coupling and the effects on the above signal processing methods
  • Preparing cost models for early estimation of power losses and area of ​​the base band processing
  • Developing, implementing and simulating application specific processors for very low power consumption and space requirements
  • Analysing the performance requirements of novel high resolution estimation methods
  • Defining reference scenarios
  • Testing high resolution estimation methods
  • Testing selected algorithms for beamforming with the DLR IKN developed multi-antenna hardware demonstration platform (GALANT)
  • Using the Galileo Test Environment (GATE) for further testing underrealistic conditions and implementation of long-term tests

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LINK:http://itu.dk/en/Forskning/Forskningsprojekter/SmartOSN

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Performance of Large-Scale, Ad Hoc Networks and Cognitive Wireless Systems

Posted by www.cefims.eu on July 24, 2014   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

It is imperative to understand better the performance and capacity analysis of large-scale ad-hoc networks and cognitive wireless networks. This is necessary in order to develop better system conceptualisation and to provide fact based comparisons between different system architectures. This project will study different mathematical modelling methods for such capacity and performance analysis.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing a methodology which is, in the first phase, focused on using network information theory, stochastic analysis and topology (differential geometry) based methods
  • Providing a strong methodological and theoretical basis for further work that tries to model whole wireless networks and architectures

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LINK:http://www.umic.rwth-aachen.de/mainmenu/research/projects/wireless-transport-platform/performance-of-large-scale-ad-hoc-networks-and-cognitive-wireless-systems/

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Control and verification of the complex properties of hybrid systems

Posted by www.cefims.eu on July 3, 2014   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The aim of the project is to support and extend cooperation between the Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems (ParaDiSe) at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, and the research team at Hybrid and Networked Systems Lab (HyNeSs Lab) at Boston University, in order to conduct research into the control and verification of hybrid systems. Both the control and verification of continuous and hybrid systems involves the application of advanced techniques for control strategy synthesis, analysis, verification and validation.
The research team at Boston University is specialised in control of hybrid and continuous systems, namely biological and robotic systems in particular. The lab has an extensive experimental environment for the implementation and testing of suggested concepts for robot motion planning. The team at Masaryk University aims to develop formal verification problematics.

The main target of the proposed project can be divided into two areas. The first one is the formulation of new approaches for the abstraction and modelling of complex systems in order to obtain approximately accurate model of the systems, which is to be automatically verified and controlled under complex requirements. The second research area concerns the design and development of methods for the synthesis of control strategies based on principles of formal verification. Part of the research is also aimed at the usage of the new technologies for improving the efficiency of synthesis and verification process.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Designing the formal analysis of piecewise affine systems through formula-guided refinement
  • Producing a least-violating control strategy synthesis with safety rules
  • Developing timed automata approach to verification of systems with degradation

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LINK: http://paradise.fi.muni.cz/grants.html

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ACE 3

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 10, 2014   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The goal of the ACE 3 (Advancing the Customer Experience) project is to make Quality of Experience (QoE) measurable by integrating technical network parameters with user-centric quality indicators. Every technical service improvement should also ultimately result in an improvement of customer quality perception and satisfaction. However, since customers are the ultimate judges of service quality, it is vital for the industry to move beyond traditional Quality of Service (QoS) paradigms and adopt a more holistic understanding of quality that truly reflects the end-user perspective.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Making Quality of Experience (QoE) measurable by integrating technical network parameters with user-centric quality indicators.
  • Developing an integrated approach towards customer experience assessment through improved understanding of the relationship between QoS, QoE, and customer satisfaction.
  • Validating quality requirements for broadband services, focusing on the following aspects of broadband QoE: high-speed/LTE scenarios, the impact of user terminals (smart devices), convergence, QoE for Web and Cloud services, VoiP and video (adaptive streaming, IPTV) quality.

 

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LINK: http://ace.ftw.at/news

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IDSECOM

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 5, 2014   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The IDSECOM project aims to create a safe platform for autonomous systems and services not currently provided by the existing conventional Internet of Things environments.

The project will involve the implementation of functionality layer identifiers at the network level and the integration of autonomous mobility, security and privacy mechanisms into a single network infrastructure. Platforms incorporating the project’s technology outputs will thus offer safer and easier access to the Internet of Things.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing a platform which integrates new, autonomous facilities and services for the Internet of Things; eg: mobility, security and privacy mechanisms. This platform will be characterised by the implementation of functionality layer identifiers at the network level, thereby simplifying communication services in a heterogeneous Internet of Tings environment.
  • Designing new mechanisms and algorithms to ensure the security and privacy at the functionality layer.
  • Creating an Internet of Things test environment for performing tests on new facilities and services

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LINK: http://badania.ca.pw.edu.pl/index/projekt/4399

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Distributed Optimisation of Optical Access Networks

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The aim of this project is to design and implement efficient algorithms for the optimisation of optical communications access networks. Such optimisation should enable a significant reduction in the cost of investment in telecommunications infrastructure, and support the introduction of universal broadband access to ICT services. These algorithms will be made available in the form of an executable program running on a generic network model. End users should thus find it easy to implement the project outputs.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing an innovative optimisation module for designing optical access networks.
  • Optimising FTTx network topologies
  • Providing basic statistical indicators (such as the total cost for given level of demand) which would be of value to commercial end users.

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LINK: http://badania.ca.pw.edu.pl/index/projekt/4188

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COPWIN

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 4, 2014   |   Comments Off

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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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SOLUTIONS

  • Designing practical precoders for the downlink of multicell MIMO-OFDM based networks
  • Developing efficient multiuser detection techniques for the uplink of multicell MIMO SC-FDMA based networks.
  • Designing efficient signalling strategies both for the feedback of wireless link information and distribution among the cooperating network elements, aiming to optimize the trade-off between achieved performance and signalling overhead, with particular emphasis will be placed on inter-cluster feedback and quantization strategies.
  • Designing and optimising medium access control protocols for the considered clustered multicell architecture with joint scheduling and dynamic link adaptation.
  • Assessing and validating the proposed downlink and uplink algorithms under realist scenarios, trough a system level simulator based on LTE specification.
  • Developing an FPGA based testbed to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed algorithms, integrating and characterising the promising algorithms

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LINK: http://www.it.pt/project_detail_p.asp?ID=1778

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GLANCES

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 4, 2014   |   Comments Off

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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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SOLUTIONS

  • Designing signals with low Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) or even quasi-constant envelope and high spectral efficiency, employing amplification techniques based on low- cost, highly efficient grossly NonLinear (NL) amplifiers (e.g., class D and E amplifiers)
  • Developing new signal designs and/or transmission techniques compatible with grossly NL amplifiers.
  • Combining theoretical development (including signal and receiver design), CMOS implementation of key components (with emphasis on matched amplifiers and output power combination with minimum losses) and FPGA-based implementation for an overall system’s proof of concept, for the most promising techniques.

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LINK: http://www.it.pt/project_detail_p.asp?ID=1939

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SmartenIT

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 9, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Recently, a trend has emerged of supporting and developing overlay applications for the internet. Such applications demand a coherent and integrated control in the underlying heterogeneous networks in a scalable, resilient, and energy-efficient manner. A tighter integration of network management and overlay service functionality can lead to cross-layer optimization of operations and management. Hence, such integration is a promising approach which offers large business potential in operational perspectives for all players involved.

Therefore, SmartenIT (Socially-aware Management of New Overlay Application Traffic combined with Energy Efficiency in the Internet) seeks to design an incentive-compatible cross-layer network management for providers of overlay-based applications, network providers, and end-users to ensure a QoE-awareness

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SOLUTIONS

  • Addressing accordingly load and traffic patterns or special application requirements and exploiting social awareness of user relations and interests
  • Ensuring an operationally efficient management of the overlay applications with respect to the the energy efficiency of both end-user devices and the underlying networking infrastructure
  • Designing incentive-compatible network management mechanisms for improving the metrics of all network layers and on an inter-domain basis for ISPs and telecommunication providers. These metrics include:
    • Inter-cloud communication through many operators where applications demand for dedicated traffic quality levels.
    • An integrated and energy-aware traffic management considering limited energy resources of mobile devices accessing the cloud.
    • The exploitation of meta-information by network operators for the purpose of socially-aware traffic management.

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LINK: http://www.smartenit.eu/

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Security for Future Home Networks and Services

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 9, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Home device and network security is an area with major research challenges and great potential for short concept-to-market cycles. Security in this space often builds on already established research trends. However, existing theoretical methods and best practices are then often applied in new innovative contexts and on new concepts leading to shortcomings in the areas of usability, ubiquity, privacy and simplification.

This project’s goal is to research and develop novel network and service security frameworks for Internet-connected devices such as smart phones, digital cameras, home hubs and Internet TVs.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Providing a novel security framework for home devices which is easier to use, minimising and eliminating identified security threats
  • Designing a simulation of the proposed framework for privacy and security in smart homes
  • Developing protocols to connect devices with cloud services
  • Analysing the security of remote management systems for home appliances
  • Producing a security framework for content sharing between the home and social networks

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LINK: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/?id=78

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Mobile Ad Hoc beyond-Line-of-Sight (b-LoS) Networks

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SUMMARY

Evaporation ducts, the layer in which rapid decrease in the refractive index occurs, can be used as communication medium in maritime and coastal environments for beyond Line of Sight (b-LoS) communications. Since the propagating signals at microwave frequencies are trapped between the ducting layer and sea surface due to the rapid change in the refractive index, the signal spreading through atmosphere becomes can become significantly weaker. As a result, the signals can travel over-the-horizon and this effect makes ducting layer a promising alternative for b-LoS communications.

On the other hand, the ducting layer forms lossy waveguides and introduces severe multipath effect due to reflection from rough sea surface and evaporation duct. Therefore, this project will develop a channel model for evaporation duct based b-LoS communications through utilising advanced communication techniques and ad-hoc networking.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Designing a channel model for evaporation duct-based beyond Line of Sight communications in maritime and coastal environments
  • Introducing advanced communication techniques in order to improve the system against the multipath effect
  • Utilising ad-hoc networking to both improve communication system against multipath effect and provide reliable high rate communication

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LINK: http://home.ku.edu.tr/~nwcl/index.html

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Optimisation of Networks against Malicious Attacks

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 9, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Contemporary society increasingly depends on complex systems such as the Internet, traffic, electrical power grids, social networks, ecological networks and so on. Due to the importance of these systems, the complex networks which are used to model them have been receiving much interest from multiple disciplines of the research community. Despite progress on several fronts, many crucial aspects of complex networks are not yet sufficiently understood. One of these aspects is the robustness of these systems to random failure and malicious attacks.

The goal of this project is to optimise model networks in a dynamical process, changing their topology in the search for robust structures which can withstand malicious attacks. The project’s applications will be of special interest to epidemiologists who want to break up disease transmission networks by targeted vaccinations and to police forces when disrupting criminal networks.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Utilising Monte-Carlo based optimization technique as well as novel, bioinspired optimization processes such as the evolutionary modification of populations of networks
  • Developing generally applicable methods for enhancing robustness based on the connection between the network’s topology and its resilience to malicious attacks
  • Using the tools for network optimisation to devolvop strategies for social, and in particular criminal, network disruption
  • Adopting fragmentation optimisation an inverse robustness optimisation simulation methods to develop efficient attack strategies and to learn how to immunise and protect benign networks
  • Applying the found strategies to disrupt real world criminal networks in collaboration with the federal police forces

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LINK: http://p3.snf.ch/project-126853

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MAPS

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 8, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The MAPS (Management, Pricing and Services in Next Generation Networks) group conducts research into network management, planning, architecture and service engineering. Taking advantage of inter-domain synergies generated through the collaboration of its wide-ranging, expert members, the group conducts research in a variety of diverse areas, primarily:

  • Service Engineering (creation, deployment, management of context-aware ubiquitous services)
  • Management of Service-aware Networks and Supporting Resources (autonomic management systems)
  • Business and Economic Aspects of Telecommunication Services (SLAs, pricing)
  • Enabling Management Technologies (network virtualization, policy-based management, context-awareness, information and data modelling, reasoning and learning techniques)

The MAPS group is actively involved in international and national projects and has been declared as a consolidated group by the Generalitat de Catalunya

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SOLUTIONS

  • Decoupling the operation of access networks and transport networks so as to facilitate independent management of the access network
  • Introducing industry-standards-based IT Service Management (ITSM) in Federated e-Infrastructures
  • Investigating the creation of a network virtualisation environment over a fully heterogeneous network infrastructure
  • Developing a business-oriented management framework for mobile communication systems
  • Designing a two-dimensional architecture for end-to-end resource management in virtual network environments

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LINK: http://www.maps.upc.edu/

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4TELL Research Group

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SUMMARY

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.

The group’s mission is to contribute to the development of a real IP multimedia world of services through researching the next generation of ubiquitous and converged network and service infrastructures for communication, computing and media. This entails addressing the evolution from today’s large legacy infrastructures towards the new infrastructures by striking a balance between backward compatibility requirements and the need to explore disruptive architectures to build the future internet, mobile, broadband, broadcasting and associated service infrastructures.

The group is currently involved in European-wide collaboration on 9 different FP7 projects.

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SOLUTIONS

  • The team has developed solutions in many, diverse areas of their research domain including:
    • Radio Resource Management
    • Cooperative Strategies for Energy Efficiency
    • Cognitive Radio Networks
    • Localization based Wireless Communications
    • Media Independent Handover and Security

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LINK: http://www.av.it.pt/4TELL/index.html

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Igov2

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Igov2 seeks to examine a set of important issues that arise from recent and ongoing changes to the way in which the Domain Name System (DNS) of the internet is governed. The project has two aims. Firstly, the project team will critically assess the ongoing enlargement of the generic Top-Level Domain namespace. Secondly, the team will evaluate the relative utility of contractual mechanisms and of legislative and treaty-based mechanisms for global governance structures in Internet governance generally, but with focus particularly on the management and steering of the DNS.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Improving understanding of current and proposed changes to governance of the internet DNS

  • Assessing the suitability and advisability of changes to the DNS with respect to the Future Internet

  • Elucidating for the main stakeholders in DNS governance (and internet governance more generally) the policy choices they face in designing the parameters for the Future Internet, including the legal elements of those parameters

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LINK: http://igov2.org/

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System Software Research Group

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The SSRG focuses its research in the general area of system software, including operating system software, multi-threading, system software for shared memory and distributed memory multiprocessors, as well as efficient exploitation of high speed network technologies.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Producing techniques for fast thread scheduling on SMP workstations
  • Designing lock-free synchronisation primitives for IPC and run queue management in SMP multithreading
  • Exploiting Networks of Workstations as multiprocessors and offloading messaging protocols onto intelligent Gigabyte Ethernet adapters

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LINK: http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~ssrg/

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CONFES

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SUMMARY

One of the biggest challenges facing the telecommunications industry is to satisfy user requirements and optimally utilise network infrastructure to achieve sustainable solutions for industry while also providing affordable products and services to end-users.

The CONFES project aims to provide a solution to this challenge by developing an integrated wireless-wired transmission network infrastructure of ultra-high capacity, serving both next generation mobile networks and fixed metropolitan ones. The design output of the project will be based on optical technologies which offer considerable advantages in terms of flexible traffic management, operating costs and capacity for future network upgrades and expansions.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing flat design, dynamic reconfiguration and optimized processes for end-to-end resource allocation, traffic sharing and scheduling and technology convergence to reduce operational costs and investment costs
  • Designing techniques of automatic adaptation to the frequent traffic fluctuations that characterize a typical next generation wireless network
  • Creating suitable mechanisms for traffic management, routing, measurements and performance analysis through an integrated management platform
  • Providing flexible service and guaranteed quality of service (QoS).

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LINK: http://www.confes.gr/?q=en

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ImaginLab

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SUMMARY

Imaginlab is a telco grade Next Generation Network dedicated to experimentation in the realm of ICT. Imaginlab aims to be at the fore in developing the technologies at the core of the Future Internet to the benefit of telecommunication operators, broadcasters, content providers, application developers and end users.

Imaginlab promotes the notion of User Driven Innovation, where solutions are designed with the direct input of the end user into the process. This is accomplished through the use of various methodologies such as user panels, focus groups, benchmarking, online surveys etc.

In its work, Imaginlab makes use of interoperability and compliancy testing as well as product and services usability testing.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing the first 4G LTE open experimentation testbed and living lab in France
  • Connecting users with LTE devices
  • Collaborating with a vast range of projects such as the EU Sardana project, the EU COMESI project and the National Mazadoo project
  • Working with academics and SMEs in developing their own product/services strategies

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LINK: www.imaginlab.fr

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Cloud Software Programme (Tivit)

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SUMMARY

The Cloud Software programme aims to significantly improve the global competitive position of the software-intensive, Finnish industry in the areas of operational efficiency, user experience, web software, open systems, security engineering and sustainable development. As software becomes increasingly web-based, cloud software is fasting becoming one a basic infrastructure of the future internet. The Cloud Software Programme especially aims to pioneer in building new cloud business and lean software enterprise models as well as developing innovative open cloud software infrastructure.

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SOLUTIONS

Cloud Technologies:

  • Collecting a compilation of best practices for cloud computing
  • Developing a toolbox for cloud computing application development
  • Building a cloud demonstration environment
  • Defining guidelines for openness in the cloud
  • Developing sample applications that benefit from cloud computing and content mashupping

Lean Software Enterprise

  • Developing a framework for applying the lean principles towards an enterprise transformation.
  • Conducting Lean Enterprise Transformation. Making lean applicable in cloud software organizations.
  • Scaling Agile Software Development. Perfecting & automating the cloud software R&D engine.
  • Developing Integrated Software R&D Approaches. Seeking for competitive edge.

Superior User Experience

  • Creating a common UX framework that supports the overall objectives of the cloud SW research and development:
    • Cloud computing and Web services with excellent UX
    • Better security with improved UX
    • Market success of green SW with good UX
  • Developing, through industrial case studies, efficient and integrated methods and tools for UX design and evaluation, including SW development tools that provide good UX both for end users and developers
  • Providing tools for using UX as a business factor by development of measures and tools to communicate UX to decision makers

Cloud Security

  • Producing a feasible Secure Development Lifecycle methodology supporting agile and lean SW development, and
  • Designing vulnerability, complexity and robustness management and risk-driven security metrics methodologies and tools that help developers to achieve adequate security, trust, dependability and privacy goals cloud computing environment.

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LINK: http://www.cloudsoftwareprogram.org/

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Linear

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SUMMARY

Local Intelligent Networks and Energy Active Regions (LINEAR) is a large-scale project focusing its research in the area of smart grids. This project seeks to facilitate a transition towards a sustainable energy supply. The project will develop and validate its technology through successful phases of field testing, each phase escalating in scope and complexity

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SOLUTIONS

  • Demonstrating the utility of smart grids in a typical Belgian residential area.
  • Realising active demand management incorporating many non-predictable energy resources such as (μ)CHP, heat-pumps, and thermal and electrical energy storage (including plug-in hybrid electric vehicles) concepts.
  • Testing the simulated results on a real test-infrastructure.

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LINK: http://www.linear-smartgrid.be/?q=home

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NGVB

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SUMMARY

The Next-Generation Video Browsing project aims to translate results from previous research on video browsing and 3D search interfaces to the expanding domain of modern mobile devices and answer several new research questions. The project focuses on video browsing with modern tablet computers which provide high computing power, new interaction features, and communication functions that enable completely new use scenarios for video browsing.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Investigating the use of ThumbBrowser technology as an application for mobile video browsing
  • Evaluating Interactive Search with Modern Video Players
  • Developing mobile video browsing with 3d Filmstrip technology

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LINK: http://ngvb.net/

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Future Communication

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SUMMARY

Future Communication is a research group of the Faculty of Computer Science at the university of Wien. It focuses its research on the design operation and engineering of future communication networks.

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SOLUTIONS

  • The group’s main research areas are:
    • The architecture of the Future Internet,
    • Network virtualisation, network federation and future network control planes,
    • Performance evaluation of communication networks (measurements, event-based simulation, analytical analysis),
    • P2P algorithms (mediation, resource exchange, mobile/wireline content distribution),
    • Algorithms for self-organization,
    • Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE),
    • Traffic-oriented network management, and
    • Network security (architecture and performance evaluation)

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LINK: http://cs.univie.ac.at/research/research-groups/future-communication/research/

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MAINS

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 6, 2011   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The MAINS project will design, develop and implement a novel metro architecture supporting sub-wavelength granularity. It addresses the expanding requirements of the Network of the Future at a metro level by proposing a novel solution leveraging combination of ring and mesh sub-wavelength switched metro network technologies, fully controlled by and advanced control plane.

The project team will develop an extended GMPLS control plane capable of controlling and provisioning end-to-end connectivity in a sub-wavelength switched network. The MAINS solution will also propose a novel service to network interface to enable direct access to network services at sub-wavelength granularity directly from the application layer. Furthermore, the MAINS project will evaluate its outcome in hybrid mesh-ring testbed that features innovative sub-wavelength switching nodes from University of Essex and Intune. Finally, MAINS will perform a field trial involving real users in Cyprus, which will demonstrate a virtual PC application over sub-wavelength network as a proof-of-concept.

The MAINS project output will allow for the efficient deployment of distributed application servers in a metro network by means of a novel service to network interface and an extended GMPLS control plane. As a result, both CAPEX and OPEX are reduced, while enhanced capabilities are achieved.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing standardised web-service network interfaces
  • Validating the improved performance of new innovative Optical packet switched networks with respect to current networks
  • Demonstrating results in national testbeds

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LINK: http://www.ist-mains.eu/

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EARTH

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 5, 2011   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Access to the Future Internet will be dominated by wireless devices. Resultant increases in traffic will challenge the sustainability of mobile networks. The EARTH project brings together a consortium of partners from industry and academia to address this challenge.

The overall goal of the project is to derive solutions that, when combined in an Integrated Solution, will decrease the energy consumption of wireless devices by 50 % without degrading quality of service. These solutions will be implemented at every level of production, from installing energy efficient components in the radio base stations  to providing solutions on the radio network level. The EARTH project will complement its theoretical studies with trustworthy proof-of-concepts for the individual solutions as well as for the overall integrated solution.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Analysing, for the first time, the impact of the Future Internet on sustainability and the energy demands of the mobile communications infrastructure.
  • Devising and Integrated Solution which avoids an increase of CO2e emissions and energy demands whilst expanding the mobile infrastructure to satisfy the future traffic demands.
  • Integrating hardware, deployment and management solutions efficiently into an Integrated Solution that allows decreasing energy consumption by more than 50 %.
  • Implementing key constituents of its solutions in hardware and software prototypes, illustrating the feasibility of and proving validity for the developed solutions

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LINK: https://www.ict-earth.eu/

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