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1、The NEWCOM Network of Excellence,Geir E. ien 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 NEWCOM management and organiza
2、tion NTNUs share in NEWCOM Examples of research topics Status,What does NEWCOM mean?,http:/www.ismb.it/newcom,What is a Network of Excellence?,One of the major mechanisms designed to advance European research within the EUs 6th framework program. Does not fund research per se, but rather integration
3、 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 educati
4、on and training initiatives joint identification of scientific ”knowledge gaps” development of common software and hardware tools joint dissemination activities ?,NEWCOM motivation and main goals,NEWCOM aims at creating a European network that links in a cooperative way a large number of leading res
5、earch 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 t
6、he field Empowerment of groups and individuals via dissemination activities Effective use of produced knowledge via exploitation-commercialisation-standardization strategies.,NEWCOM history,In April 2002 prof. Sergio Benedetto (Politecnico di Torino) consulted a number of colleagues, proposing prepa
7、ration of a proposal within the EUs 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 ien) was contacted by one of the participa
8、nts, 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.,NEWCOM history, contd,Successively, colleagues from all European countries read the EoI and expressed interest in part
9、icipating. 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
10、 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!).,NEWCOM hist
11、ory, contd,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
12、 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 a
13、ll 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.,The NEWCOM partners,NTNU,UiB,Nera,POLITO ISMB I3P,UoSo,UU KU Chalmers KTH LU Ericsson,NCUA CERTH Intracom,Technion Bilkent ISIK,U
14、PC CTTC UPF Telefonica,UoC UoP,ENST SUPELEC CNRS,ENST Bret. TurboCPT,ASTER,France Telecom Thales,Eurecom,TUW FTW,ETH,TUM RWTH Aachen,UEN,DLR,CNIT,BUTE,PUT,UGent UCL IMEC ESA,AAU,UoO,UoSu VUM UoY,UoE,BUE,UPV,TUL,TUI,UnivBris,Vodafone,NEWCOM scientific content 1: Departments,Dept. 1: Analysis and Desi
15、gn 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
16、. 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 R
17、esource Management, Mobility, and Security,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 Transcei
18、vers Project E: Cross Layer Optimisation,NEWCOM management and organization,NEWCOM management and organization, contd,Director: Prof. Sergio Benedetto, ISMB/PoliTo. Overall responsibility for the project, both scientific and administrative aspects. The Network Office: Led by the Operations Director
19、(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 b
20、ody; takes strategic decisions on activities to be undertaken, and on distribution of funds.,NEWCOM management and organization, contd,The Advisory Board: Independent body evaluating the JPA and annual activity reports; also Award Committee for the NEWCOM best paper award. World-wide known scientist
21、s 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
22、 of NEWCOM through frequent meetings.,The NEWCOM Executive Board,Sergio Benedetto, ISMB/PoliTo, Italy Ernst Bonek, Techn. Univ. Wien, Austria Pierre Duhamel, CNRS, France Joachim Hagenauer, Tech. Univ. Mnchen, Germany Lajos Hanzo, Univ. of Southampton, UK Marco Luise, Univ. of Pisa, Italy Heinrich M
23、eyr, 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 Tlcommunications, France Ingrid Reynaert, IMEC, Belgium Arne Svensson, Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden
24、 Luc Vandendorpe, Univ. Cath. Louvain, Belgium Roberto Verdone, Univ. of Bologna, Italy,NTNUs 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-mont
25、hs work. Our personnel is the BEATS team: 5 professors (Geir, Lars, Nils, Tor, Kjell Jrgen) 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. Scienti
26、fically 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, sprea
27、ding of excellence, etc.,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 I
28、nformation Theory,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,Status,NEWCOM website is active, cf. http:/www.ismb.it/newcom. Work initia
29、ted 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,Questions?,