Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Network of Excellence in Wireless COMmunications # (NEWCOM#)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Network of Excellence
Countries involved: Italy,Denmark,Türkiye,France,Spain,Greece,Portugal,Poland,Israel,Germany,United Kingdom,Belgium,Finland,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5550980.0
EU funding (EUR): 2845999.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

NEWCOM# is a Network of Excellence (NoE) proposal submitted in response to challenge FP7-ICT-2011-8 1.1, “Future Networks”. A group of 14 partners in 14 different countries (12 of which come from the former FP7 NoE NEWCOM++) decided to capitalize on the high degree of integration in research they already at-tained to build an NoE with the following objectives: i) to produce medium to long term results in the area of design and performance evaluation of wireless networks; ii) to strengthen the integration of partners’ re-search activities and agendas, both at the theoretical and experimental levels; iii) to foster Industry-academia cooperation, dissemination, and liaison by making academic research closer to industrial needs and interests; iv) to provide a unique training environment for a new generation of researchers in both theo-retical and experimental research; v) to contribute to the long-term sustainability of the NoE by creating a permanent environment for cooperative research. In a "Theoretical Research" track, the NEWCOM# researchers will pursue long-term, interdisciplinary re-search on the most advanced aspects of wireless communications like Finding the Ultimate Limits of Com-munication Networks, Opportunistic and Cooperative Communications, Energy- and Bandwidth-Efficient Communications and Networking. A second track will be devoted to the "EUropean lab of Wireless commu-nications for the future INternet", a federation of three sites in three European Countries that will host re-searchers working on a few general themes like Radio Interfaces, Internet of Things, and Flexible Communi-cation Terminals. The third track will have a number of initiatives to foster excellence like the creation of seasonal schools, a series of publication on journals and books, and an action directed towards strengthen-ing relations with European companies, which will participate to the NoE as "Affiliate Partners", through a number of in-company dissemination events.

Keywords: wireless communications and networking,the european laboratory of wireless communications,energy-efficient communication,radio interfaces,channel modeling,mobile clouds,cooperative communication
Federation for FIRE (FED4FIRE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,France,Australia,Spain,Greece,United Kingdom,Spain,Germany,United Kingdom,Spain,Spain,Hungary,Ireland,United Kingdom,Belgium,Belgium,Korea, Republic of,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 51.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10926325.0
EU funding (EUR): 7749997.0
Participants: 42
Project status: CLOSED

A federation of experimentation facilities will significantly accelerate Future Internet research. Fed4FIRE will deliver open and easily accessible facilities to the FIRE experimentation communities, which focus on fixed and wireless infrastructures, services and applications, and combinations thereof. The project will develop a demand-driven common federation framework, based on an open architecture and specification. It will be widely adopted by facilities and promoted internationally. This framework will provide simple, efficient, and cost effective experimental processes built around experimenters’ and facility owners’ requirements. Insight into technical and socio-economic metrics, and how the introduction of new technologies into Future Internet facilities influences them, will be provided by harmonized and comprehensive measurement techniques. Tools and services supporting dynamic federated identities, access control, and SLA management will increase the trustworthiness of the federation and its facilities. A FIRE portal will offer brokering, user access management and measurements. Professional technical staff will offer first-line and second-line support to make the federation simple to use. The project will use open calls to support innovative experiments from academia and industry and to adapt additional experimentation facilities for compliance with Fed4FIRE specifications. A federation authority will be established to approve facilities and to promote desirable operational policies that simplify federation. A Federation Standardization Task Force will prepare for sustainable standardization beyond the end of the project. The adoption of the Fed4FIRE common federation framework by the FIRE facilities, the widespread usage by both academic and industrial experimenters, and the strong links with other national and international initiatives such as the FI-PPP, will pave the way to sustainability towards Horizon 2020.

Keywords: fire,federation,experimentation,facilities,fixed and wireless infrastructures,services,applications,experiment lifecycle management,trustworthiness,measurements,sustainability,open
ENABLING CONTINUOUS QUALITY ASSURANCE AND OPTIMIZATION IN FUTURE ENTERPRISE CLOUD SERVICE BROKERS (BROKER@CLOUD)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,Germany,Greece,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4962598.0
EU funding (EUR): 3388000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

As enterprises increasingly adopt the model of cloud computing, the enterprise IT environment is progressively transformed into a matrix of interwoven infrastructure, platform and application services which are delivered from diverse service providers. To help enterprises deal with the overwhelming complexity of consuming large numbers of cloud services from diverse providers, future enterprise cloud service delivery platforms will need to implement a wide array of sophisticated brokerage-enabling capabilities, which will give rise to services that go far beyond anything currently offered by today’s cloud intermediaries. The challenge, to which the Broker@Cloud project commits, is to research and to develop solutions with respect to some of the most valuable and technically demanding types of brokerage capabilities foreseen for future enterprise cloud service brokers. In particular, we envisage the development of a brokerage framework which will allow cloud intermediaries to equip their platforms with advanced methods and mechanisms for continuous quality assurance and optimization of software-based enterprise cloud services. Those software-based services can range from simple programmatically accessible web APIs, to complex software applications delivered as cloud services, i.e. on-demand Software-as-a-Service offerings. The brokerage framework, for which most of the software components will be released as Open Source Software, will comprise the following core building blocks: (i) methods and tools for platform-neutral description of enterprise cloud services; (ii) methods and mechanisms for cloud service governance and quality control; (iii) methods and mechanisms for cloud service failure prevention and recovery; (iv) methods and mechanisms for continuous optimization of cloud services. The Broker@Cloud consortium, lead by SINTEF (Norway), consists of seven partners from four EU countries: CAS Software AG (Germany), Institute Of Communication And Computer Systems (Greece); SAP AG (Germany); South-East European Research Centre (Greece); SingularLogic SA (Greece) and The University of Sheffield (UK).

Keywords: cloud computing,cloud service brokerage,cloud broker,enterprise cloud service delivery,continuous quality assurance,continuous optimization
Disc-shaped point-of-care platform for infectious disease diagnosis (DISCOGNOSIS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Germany,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3812406.0
EU funding (EUR): 2922000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims to develop a fully integrated, automated and user-friendly platform for infectious disease diagnosis. Malaria can be treated in just 48 hours, but delayed or false diagnosis or missing a relevant alternative cause of fever may be lethal. Therefore, other diseases with similar clinical symptoms will be investigated too. DiscoGnosis will integrate micro, nano, and bio components into a multi-functional point-of-care platform, performing simultaneously protein and genetic analysis to timely and accurately identify major pathogenic causes of fever, enabling proper treatment. A foil-based centrifugal microfluidic lab-on-a-chip cartridge, core of the platform, will integrate monolithically all necessary unit operations for raw sample treatment (blood-to-result regime), from sample collection and injection, to plasma separation, DNA extraction and purification. Low-cost production, scalable from prototype to batch fabrication (with proper quality control, calibration and standards specifications) will render the platform affordable to end users, even in developing countries; high sensitivity detection and multiplexity will rely on magnetic microparticles and quantum dot technologies, supported by dedicated optics development; rapid analysis (~30 min) will be achieved via isothermal DNA amplification protocols. The entire system will be validated in a controlled field test with standardized samples and by end-users in high-risk developing countries through partners’ established contacts. Data management will be implemented to allow rational organization in the field and to reinforce the “shield” of Europe against such diseases, as more than 30,000 malaria cases are reported annually among returning European tourists. This generic point-of-care platform can be applied to many diseases (eg, cancer, cardiovascular, Alzheimer) by only changing its bio-components. The strong SME participation indicates the high commercialization potential of the project.

Keywords: centrifugal microfluidics,infectious diseases,lab-on-a-chip,magnetic micro-particles,malaria,point-of-care diagnostics,quality control,quantum dots,scalable production
Management of the Future Internet (FLAMINGO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Network of Excellence
Countries involved: Netherlands,France,Switzerland,Germany,Germany,Spain,United Kingdom,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 50.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4032624.0
EU funding (EUR): 3073000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The goals of FLAMINGO are (a) to strongly integrate the research of leading European research groups in the area of network and service management, (b) to strengthen the European and worldwide research in this area, and (c) to bridge the gap between scientific research and industrial application. To achieve these goals, FLAMINGO performs a broad range of activities, such as to develop open source software, establish joint labs, exchange researchers, jointly supervise Ph.D. students, develop educational and training material, interact with academia and industry, organize event, and strongly contribute to (IETF and IRTF) standardization. FLAMINGO develops a joint program of research activities to contribute to the development of network management and operation frameworks for the Future Internet (FI). Three major and federating challenges will be investigated: 1. Network and service monitoring, based on flow-based techniques, enabling scalable monitoring systems to share collected data and feed the knowledge plane and decision algorithms of the FI. 2. Automated configuration and repair, based on self-* features and frameworks, enabling billions of devices and managed objects to manage themselves in a fully distributed and autonomic way. 3. Economic, legal, and regulative constraints, which do border management systems and operational solutions of the FI. FLAMINGO provides a unique consortium of leading researchers, with complementary knowledge and strong ties to industry, and covering the entire spectrum of network management core functions and application domains, which are necessary to build, integrate, and disseminate the knowledge of the management plane for the FI. FLAMINGO will strongly impact the European development of network management technologies, the development of standards and open-source software in this area, the organization of interoperability and testing labs, and the training of current and the education of future researchers in this area.

Keywords: future internet network management security management monitoring economic management
High capacity network Architecture with Remote radio heads & Parasitic antenna arrays (HARP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Greece,France,United Kingdom,Norway,Denmark,France,France,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4643292.0
EU funding (EUR): 3158000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

To meet the growing capacity demands in cellular networks by mobile application users, several advanced technologies of increased complexity have recently emerged for wireless access. These capitalize on the increased number of degrees of freedom made available by the combined use of multiple antennas in several neighboring cell sites. However, such cooperative / coordinated wireless access schemes remain largely unproven due to practical limitations. In HARP, we plan to bring distributed multi-antenna wireless access to reality by combining two powerful emerging technologies: 1) remote radio heads (RRHs), which allow for widely geographically distributed access via radio-over-fibre connections to a central base station; and 2) electronically steerable passive array radiators (ESPARs), which provide multi-antenna-like functionality with a single active RF chain only. The proposed combined network design concept is expected to yield the benefits of high capacity multi-antenna multi-cell cooperative wireless access while doing so in a realistic, low-cost and, equally importantly, environmentally-friendly manner. In order to put together this novel wireless network solution in a credible fashion, HARP will focus on 1) The physical layer transmission and channel estimation techniques required for efficient wireless access with ESPAR-equipped RRHs; 2) The obtaining, processing and sharing of channel state information required for cooperative communication and 3) The RRH aggregation network, required for efficient coordination between disparate access areas. A hardware end-to-end demonstration from the base station all the way to the ESPAR antenna transmitters to the user terminals, will serve as a proof-of-concept of the proposed architecture. With the above, HARP holds the potential of enabling in a disruptive manner distributed multi-antenna wireless access providing, in turn, unprecedentedly high capacity for emerging and next generation wireless networks.

Keywords: future mobile internet,multi-cell cooperative wireless access,radio remote heads,electronically steerable passive array radiators (espar antennas),multi-input/multi-output (mimo),massive mimo
Coordination Action to enable an effective European 450 mm Equipment & Materials Network (ENABLE450)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Israel,Netherlands,France,Germany,Belgium,France,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Ireland,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1242122.0
EU funding (EUR): 998550.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

5 major global semiconductor companies Intel, Samsung, TSMC, IBM and Global Foundries, have decided to work closely together to bring 450 mm semiconductor processing to a mature level, within a consortium called G450C. This operation, based in Albany N.Y., is currently ordering and installing the first wave of 450 mm systems. The major drivers of this effort are Intel and TSMC, which have provided roadmaps towards full 450 mm production. European semiconductor Equipment & Materials (E&M) companies have decided that to secure their global activities, being the major part of their business, they should take an active part in these developments. Therefore in 2009 a European E&M 450 mm initiative was established: EEMI450, to bring the European interested E&M companies and institutes together and to initiate activities in this innovative direction. This Coordination Action will support the activities of this initiative and further 450 mm activities in Europe, for instance the establishment of a 450 mm pilotline. Strong links to existing 450 mm funded projects: ENIAC EEMI450, Catrene SOI450 and NGC450 plus ENIAC EEM450PR are required. Inputs from the recent EU funded study SMART2010/0062, concerning 450 mm production in Europe, have to be taken into account. Much importance will also be attached to tighten the link to global activities and expertise, especially of course with G450C in Albany. Intensive contact with the driving semiconductor companies is key part of the project; one of them, Intel Ireland, is a consortium member. An Advisory Board seated with accepted experts in the field will supervise and guide the European applicability of the solutions. In addition related Standards will receive special attention. The dominating aspect of this Coordination Action is of course dissemination and instruments like studies, workshops, a dedicated website and seminars will be used to provide an effective network and basis for European 450 mm E&M developments.

Keywords: coordination action
Low latency and high throughput dynamic network infrastructures for high performance datacentre interconnects (LIGHTNESS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Italy,Spain,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3347488.0
EU funding (EUR): 2445000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of the LIGHTNESS project is the design, implementation and experimental evaluation of high performance data centre interconnects through the introduction of innovative photonic switching and transmission inside data centres. Harnessing the power of optics will enable data centres to effectively cope with the unprecedented demand growth to be faced in the near future, which will be driven by the increasing popularity of computing and storage server-side applications in the society. Indeed, the deployment of optical transmission systems leveraging Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) allows the transmission of more than a hundred of wavelength channels operating at 10, 40, 100 Gb/s and beyond. This effectively results in “unlimited” bandwidth capacities of multiple Terabit/s per fibre link, which can be efficiently utilized through next-generation all-optical switching paradigms like Optical Circuit Switching (OCS) or Optical Packet Switching (OPS). In this context, the LIGHTNESS project will join efforts towards the demonstration of a high-performance all-optical hybrid data plane for data centre networks, combining both OCS and OPS equipment to implement transport services tailored to the specific applications’ throughput and latency requirements. To this goal, an OPS node suitable for intra- data centre connectivity services will be developed and prototyped during the project, together with an enhanced Top of the Rack (TOR) switch seamlessly connecting servers in each rack to the hybrid OCS/OPS inter-cluster network. As an additional achievement of LIGHTNESS, the OCS/OPS inter-cluster network will be empowered with a control plane entity able to dynamically provision both OCS and OPS transport services in response of either the data centre management plane or the enhanced ToR switch. Such a control plane will also be developed and prototyped for integration in the final LIGHTNESS demo throughout the project. The LIGHTNESS project, joining partners with broad expertise in all data centre, optical data plane and optical control plane worlds, will bring innovation to the realization of data centre networking solutions meeting the real needs in such environments.

Keywords: data centre,control plane,ops,high throughput,low latency,dynamic networks