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The NEWCOM Network of Excellence

The NEWCOM Network of Excellence. Geir E. Øien Department of Electronics and Telecommunications NTNU, Norway. Overview of talk. What does NEWCOM mean? What is a Network of Excellence? NEWCOM motivation and main goals NEWCOM history NEWCOM partners NEWCOM scientific content

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The NEWCOM Network of Excellence

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  1. The NEWCOM Network of Excellence Geir E. Øien Department of Electronics and Telecommunications NTNU, Norway

  2. Overview of talk • What does NEWCOM mean? • What is a Network of Excellence? • NEWCOM motivation and main goals • NEWCOM history • NEWCOM partners • NEWCOM scientific content • NEWCOM management and organization • NTNU’s share in NEWCOM • Examples of research topics • Status

  3. What does NEWCOM mean? http://www.ismb.it/newcom

  4. What is a Network of Excellence? • One of the major mechanisms designed to advance European research within the EU’s 6th framework program. • Does not fund research per se, but rather integration of existing research. • The idea is to give excellent research groups within a field better opportunities to come together and stake out common goals for coherent scientific advances within the field, and share information. • Funding for e.g. • inter-network communication • internal workshops • joint education and training initiatives • joint identification of scientific ”knowledge gaps” • development of common software and hardware tools • joint dissemination activities • …?

  5. NEWCOM motivation and main goals • NEWCOM aims at creating a European network that links in a cooperative way a large number of leading research groups, addressing the Strategic Objective "Mobile and wireless systems beyond 3G" which is a frontier research area of the Priority Thematic Area of IST (Information Society Technologies).  • The main dimensions of the NEWCOM vision are • Strengthening, development and integration of research in the field • Empowerment of groups and individuals via dissemination activities • Effective use of produced knowledge via exploitation-commercialisation-standardization strategies.

  6. NEWCOM history • In April 2002 prof. Sergio Benedetto (Politecnico di Torino) consulted a number of colleagues, proposing preparation of a proposal within the EU’s 6th Framework Program, for a Network of Excellence in the Wireless Communication field. • The first meeting was held in May 2002. All 12 participants liked the idea, and went on contacting new potential partners. • NTNU (Geir Øien) was contacted by one of the participants, prof. Arne Svensson (Chalmers), and invited to join the network. • In June 2002 an Expression of Interest (EoI) was submitted concerning the NoE, which we decided to call NEWCOM.

  7. NEWCOM history, cont’d • Successively, colleagues from all European countries read the EoI and expressed interest in participating. Admission was based on a majority decision among NEWCOM founders. • In February 2003, we had the first plenary NEWCOM meeting to formalise decisions on acceptance of new partners and organisation of the proposal writing. • The European Commission was very positive about NEWCOM, and encouraged us to prepare the proposal along the lines of the EoI. • The NEWCOM proposal was submitted in April 2003. • NEWCOM successfully completed the review phase by June 2003. • The proposal was ranked first among all proposals within the “Systems beyond 3G” action (23.5 out of 25 possible points!).

  8. NEWCOM history, cont’d • A pre-negotiation meeting was held in Brussels in July 2003 with agreement of a ceiling grant of 8 millions Euro for 2.5 years. • In Sept. 2003 we had the first informal plenary meeting of the NEWCOM Scientific Committee, preparing the first negotiation meeting, electing NEWCOM Director and Executive Board, etc. • The first negotiation meeting in the presence of the EC Contract Officer subsequently took place in Brussels. • Lots of meetings, changes, discussions, disappointments, work followed for the next 4 months … • Finally, in January 2004, after thorough examination of and agreement on all workpackages, EC proposed a grant of 8 millions Euro for an effort of 867 person-months over a 30 months period. • Official kick-off date for NEWCOM was March 1st, 2004.

  9. The NEWCOM partners UoO NTNU UU KU Chalmers KTH LU Ericsson UiB Nera UoE UoSu VUM UoY UnivBris AAU UGent UCL IMEC ESA Vodafone TUM RWTH Aachen DLR PUT UoSo ENST Bret. TurboCPT BUE France Telecom Thales UEN TUI ENST SUPELEC CNRS ETH TUW FTW BUTE POLITO ISMB I3P UPC CTTC UPF Telefonica Eurecom ASTER TUL UoC UoP CNIT UPV NCUA CERTH Intracom Technion Bilkent ISIK

  10. NEWCOM scientific content 1: Departments • Dept. 1: Analysis and Design of Algorithms for Signal Processing at Large in Wireless Systems • Dept. 2: Radio Channel Modelling for Design Optimisation and Performance Assessment of Next Generation Communication Systems • Dept. 3: Design, Modeling and Experimental Characterisation of RF and Microwave Devices and Subsystems • Dept. 4: Analysis, Design and Implementation of Digital Architectures and Circuits • Dept. 5: Source Coding and Reliable Delivery of Multimedia Contents • Dept. 6: Protocols, Architectures and Traffic Modeling for Reconfigurable/Adaptive Wireless Networks • Dept. 7: QoS Provision in Wireless Networks: Radio Resource Management, Mobility, and Security

  11. NEWCOM scientific content 2: Projects • Project A: Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks • Project B: Ultra-Wideband Communication Systems • Project C: Functional Design Aspects of Future Generation Wireless Systems • Project D: Reconfigurable Radio for Interoperable Transceivers • Project E: Cross Layer Optimisation

  12. NEWCOM management and organization

  13. NEWCOM management and organization, cont’d • Director: • Prof. Sergio Benedetto, ISMB/PoliTo. • Overall responsibility for the project, both scientific and administrative aspects. • The Network Office: • Led by the Operations Director (Mr. Stephen Sadler, ISMB) • Supports all NEWCOM partners and Departments/Projects administratively, and drives forward the Joint Programme of Activities (JPA). • The Scientific Committee: • The Local Representatives of each NEWCOM partner (NTNU: Geir), plus the Operations Director. • he highest governing body; takes strategic decisions on activities to be undertaken, and on distribution of funds.

  14. NEWCOM management and organization, cont’d • The Advisory Board: Independent body evaluating the JPA and annual activity reports; also Award Committee for the NEWCOM best paper award.World-wide known scientists from outside Europe: • Fumiyuki Adachi • David G. Forney, Jr. • Robert Gallager • James E. Massey • Andrew J. Viterbi • Vijay Bhargava • Robert Calderbank • Henry Bertoni • The Executive Board: Elected by the Scientific Committee, responsible for executing Scientific Committee decisions and for supervising the life of NEWCOM through frequent meetings.

  15. The NEWCOM Executive Board • Sergio Benedetto, ISMB/PoliTo, Italy • Ernst Bonek, Techn. Univ. Wien, Austria • Pierre Duhamel, CNRS, France • Joachim Hagenauer, Tech. Univ. München, Germany • Lajos Hanzo, Univ. of Southampton, UK • Marco Luise, Univ. of Pisa, Italy • Heinrich Meyr, RWTH Aachen, Germany • Sergio Palazzo, Univ. of Catania, Italy • Erdal Panayirci, ISIK Univ., Turkey • Andreas Polydoros, National Univ. of Athens, Greece • Phillip Regalia, Institut National des Télécommunications, France • Ingrid Reynaert, IMEC, Belgium • Arne Svensson, Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden • Luc Vandendorpe, Univ. Cath. Louvain, Belgium • Roberto Verdone, Univ. of Bologna, Italy

  16. NTNU´s share in NEWCOM • As a medium-sized partner out of a total of 60 partners, our share of the budget is approx. 1.5 %, or 120.000 € ≈ 1.0 MNOK, distributed over 30 months. • This corresponds to approx. 13 person-months’ work. • Our personnel is the BEATS team: 5 professors (Geir, Lars, Nils, Tor, Kjell Jørgen) and 7 PhD students (Bengt, Ola, Duc, Anna, Greg, Fredrik, Gang). • We will keep our involvement to a minimum number of workpackages (WPs), not to spread our few person-months over too many deliverables. • Scientifically we are involved in • Department 1, Analysis and Design of Algorithms for Signal Processing at Large in Wireless Systems • Department 5, Source Coding and Reliable Delivery of Multimedia Contents • In addition there are many ”compulsory” WPs on activities regarding integration, dissemination, spreading of excellence, etc.

  17. Research topics, Dept. 1 • Coding and Signal Design for Future Wireless Broadband Systems • Synchronisation, Channel Estimation, and Equalisation • Iterative Receivers • Multiuser Receivers • Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Systems • Mobility Management, Handoff Algorithms, and Network Information Theory

  18. Research topics, Dept. 5 • General Tools for Robust Source Coding • Joint Source and Channel Decoding • Joint Source and Channel Encoding • Methods Requiring Transmission of Quantities between Various Network Layers

  19. Status • NEWCOM website is active, cf. http://www.ismb.it/newcom. • Work initiated on establishing a shared NEWCOM software tool database. • Work initiated on establishing NEWCOM videoconferencing facilities. • Work initiated on identifying knowledge gaps in Dept. 1. • First internal Dept. 1 meeting at ENST in Paris on June 25th, immediately following ICC-2004. • (Probably similar things happening in other departments and projects!) • ”Eligible cost” insecurity…

  20. Questions?

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