NATO Science for Peace research project
Purpose:
ORCA project investigates the measurement methods in order to highlight the white spaces in the TV and radar radio spectrum and if this spectrum is able to be used by secondary users.
Project Manager:
Ramjee Prasad (NPD), Lijana Gavrilovska (PPD)
Consortium:
The proposal brought together 4 partners: Denmark, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania, and Greece
Duration:
2013-2015
Project Funding Institution:
The NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme
Reconfigurable Interoperability of Wireless Communications Systems (RIWCoS) (no. SfP-982469);
Purpose:
RIWCoS was a project that aimed to integrate different wireless communications technologies into a common hybrid “easy to use” communication infrastructure.
Project Manager:
O. Fratu – PPD and A.C. Boucouvalas – NPD
Consortium:
The proposal brought together 4 partners: Romania, Greece, FYROM, and Denmark
Duration:
2007-2010
Project Funding Institution:
The NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme
FP7 International Projects:
eWall for Active Long Living (eWall) (no. 610658)
Purpose:
eWALL will be an affordable, easy-to-install prefabricated wall that can be mounted on an existing wall and includes, into the background, all the ICT technology needed to enable a number of services for the senior citizen to cover the major ontologies of Active and Healthy Ageing. The project will carry out high-risk and multi-disciplinary research and will have a large-scale demonstrator exercise for validating the concept with solid clinical evidence. The eWALL system will extend the state-of-the-art of Assistive Platforms and will significantly increase the independent living of seniors. The project will also perform socio-economic studies to deliver recommendations for the health sector that will result in mid- and long-term benefits for the sustainability of national health systems.
Project Manager:
Ramjee Prasad
Consortium:
The proposal brings together 13 partners from 11 countries: Denmark, Italy, Croatia, Netherlands, Austria, Greece, Romania, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Germany
Duration:
2013-2016
Project Funding Institution:
European Commission
Regional Economic Development by ICT / New Media Cluster (REDICT) (no. FP7 – CSA 206480)
Purpose:
Bringing benefits of research to SMEs
Project Manager:
Mr. Edwin OSKAM City of Amsterdam, Department of Economic Affairs
Consortium:
The proposal briought together 6 regions and clusters (18 partners): Amsterdam, Berlin, Bucharest, Copenhagen, Dublin and Paris.
Duration:
2008-2009
Project Funding Institution:
European Commission
National projects
Scalable Radio Transceiver for Instrumental Wireless Sensor Networks (SaRaT-IWSN), (no. 20/2012)
The SaRaT-IWSN project proposes a new generation radio transceiver to be used into at the IWSN communication node, based on an open source hardware and software platform, but particularized in order to ensure the requirements presented above. The hardware platform is an USRP-type one and the entire radio transceiver is designed starting from the GNU-Radio software platform, according to the Software Defined Radio methods. This method of developing the communication nodes will ensure their scalability as well an easier reconfigurability of the entire network. At the end of the project some recommendations will be considered in order to reduce the costs of the transceivers in order to facilitate their future production and their usage in practical applications.
Project Manager:
Prof. Dr. Ing. Simona HALUNGA
Consortium:
Duration:
2012 ÷ 2015
Project Funding Institution:
SaRaT-IWSN is a PCCA research project supported by UEFISCDI Romania
Investigation of the cosmic radiation in the Universe using advanced techniques (CORONA) (no. 194/2012)
Purpose:
The CORONA project develops techniques for the investigation of the high energy charged particles and neutrinos, to obtain priority in the European research, based on a common activity of different institutions forming ROASTROPART consortium.
Project Manager:
Dr. Ileana BRANCUS
Consortium:
University of Bucharest
Duration:
2012 ÷ 2015
Project Funding Institution:
CORONA is a PCCA research project supported by UEFISCDI Romania
Evolution, implementation and transition arrangements for DVB digital broadcasting in terms of efficient use of the frequency spectrum (Evoluția, modalitãțile de implementare și de tranziție pentru radiodifuziunea digitalã DVB în condițiile de utilizare eficientã a spectrului de frecvențe) (no. 106/08.08.2011)
Purpose:
The objective of the project is to realise studies and recommendations that can assist the decision made for the evolution, implementation and transition arrangements for DVB digital broadcasting in terms of efficient use of the frequency spectrum.
Project Manager:
Prof. Dr. Ing. Octavian Fratu
Consortium:
University “POLITEHNICA” of Bucharest
Duration:
2011 ÷ 2013
Project Funding Institution:
Research and Development Sectorial Plan of MCSI 2011-2014 – Communications, financed by the Romanian Ministry of Communications and Informational Society (MCSI)
Hybrid wireless access system with unique addressing (SAWHAU), (no. 12-126/01.10.2008)
Purpose:
Developing a data and voice communication solution for SMEs, based on the optimisation of access costs. For this reason, an experimental voice and data communication application was developed.
Project Manager:
Prof. Dr. Ing. Octavian Fratu
Consortium:
University “POLITEHNICA” of Bucharest
Duration:
2008-2011
Project Funding Institution:
Ministry of Education, Research and Youth, National Authority for Scientific Research, through The National Plan for Research, Development and Innovation 2007-2013, “Partnership in the main domains” Program, Contract Authority “The National Centre for Program Management”
Informatics system for real time analysis of risk factors for environment and public health, acronym (TERRA_RO)(no. 11-054 / 18.09.2007)
Purpose:
Realization of an „informatics systems for real time analysis of risk factors for environment and public health” that will satisfy the „Single Information Space For the Environment in Europe” principle (in which environmental institutions, service providers and citizens can collaborate or use available information without technical restraints).
Project Manager:
Marius ENACHE
Consortium:
Program GTZ Programme Office Romania
Outsource Management Group
Duration:
2007 – 2010
Project Funding Institution:
Ministry of Education, Research and Youth, National Authority for Scientific Research, through The National Plan for Research, Development and Innovation II, “Partnership in the main domains” Program, Contract Authority “The National Centre for Management Programs”.
Applications and new services for navigations and satellites localization based on WiMAX technology (LOCOMAX)(no.81-026/14.09.2007)
Purpose:
The project proposes to research and develop applications focused on improvement of portable satellite navigation systems, security, and information transmission from all sources together with geographic reference.
Project Manager:
Gl. prof. dr. ing. IUBU Gheorghe
Consortium:
Accesnet International
Duration:
2007 – 2010
Project Funding Institution:
Ministry of Education, Research and Youth, National Authority for Scientific Research, through The National Plan for Research, Development and Innovation II, “Partnership in the main domains” Program, Contract Authority “The National Centre for Management Programs”.
Detection systems for cosmic radiation using new technologies (DETCOS),
Purpose:
The purpose of the project was to develop two very high energy cosmic neutrino and muon detection systems.
Project Manager:
Dr. Iliana Brancus
Consortium:
Duration:
2008-2011
Project Funding Institution:
Ministry of Education, Research and Youth, National Authority for Scientific Research, through The National Plan for Research, Development and Innovation II, “Partnership in the main domains” Program, Contract Authority “The National Centre for Management Programs”.
Contributions to the development of the processing and coding algorithms for video signals in multiuser wireless systems by optimizing the quality of psycho perceptual parameters. (Contributii la dezvoltarea algoritmilor de prelucrare si codare a semnalelor video in sisteme wireless multiutilizator prin optimizarea parametrilor de calitate psihoperceptuala) (no. 653/2009)
Purpose:
The project contributes to the definition of suitable detection techniques for video signals taking into account the physical layer constraints typical in wireless transmission, in terms of parallel transmissions whose performance is improved by multiuser detection.
Project Manager:
Prof. Dr. Ing. Simona Halunga
Duration:
2009-2011
Project Funding Institution:
CNCSIS
WiMAX Extension to Isolated Research Data networks (WEIRD) (no. IST-034622-IP),
Purpose:
The WEIRD project aims to exploit and enhance the WiMAX technology in a convergence layer heterogeneous network architecture, in order to cope with future needs of research user communities and to build a test-beds allowing European research network GÈANT, GÈANT2 and relevant National Research Networks, to be reachable from isolated or remote areas.
Project Manager:
Enrico Angori, Datamat SpA
Consortium:
The proposal brought together 27 partners (industry, research, academia, telecom operators, SMEs)
Duration:
2006-2008
Project Funding Institution:
European Commission
FP6 International Projects:
Digital Switchover: Developing Infrastructures for Broadband Access (ATHENA) (no. IST-STREP 507312)
Purpose:
The key objective of this project was to explore and validate, in a city, the deployment / realisation of the digital switchover issue through the design, implementation and evaluation of an infrastructure, which uses a regenerative DVB-T stream for the interconnection of distribution nodes, enabling access to IP services, and digital TV programmes.
Project Manager:
Dr. Anastasios Kourtis, NCSR ‘DEMOKRITOS’
Consortium:
The proposal brought together 12 partners from 7 countries: Greece, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Romania, and United Kingdom
Duration:
2004-2006
Project Funding Institution:
European Commission
End-to-End QoS through Integrated Management of Content, Networks and Terminals (Enthrone II) (no. IP-038463)
Purpose:
The ENTHRONE project proposed an integrated management solution which covered the entire audio-visual service distribution chain, including protected content handling, distribution across networks and reception at user terminals. The aim of the project was to harmonise the functionality of each individual entity – instead of imposing a strategy on each of them – in order to support an end-to-end QoS architecture over heterogeneous networks, applied to a variety of audio-visual services, which were delivered to a diverse set of user terminals.
Project Manager:
Dr. Olimpiu Negru, Thales Broadcasting and Multimedia
Consortium:
The proposal brought together 27 partners (industry, research, academia, telecom operators, SMEs)
Duration:
2004-2006
Project Funding Institution:
European Commission
FP5 International Projects
End-to-End QoS through Integrated Management of Content, Networks and Terminals (Enthrone I) (no. IP-507637)
Purpose:
Development of an integrated multi-domain management system for multimedia communications with guaranteed QoS.
Project Manager:
Dr. Olimpiu Negru, Thales Broadcasting and Multimedia
Consortium:
The proposal brought together 25 partners (industry, research, academia, telecom operators, SMEs)
Duration:
2003-2006
Project Funding Institution:
European Commission