The Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRI – Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la Innovació) organizes this year, from 14 to 29 of November, the 25th Science Week, during which many events will be held in Catalonia. During the Science Week there will be a whole lot of scientific dissemination activities throughout [...]

The newly elected Steering Board (SB) of Networld2020 European Technology Platform was announced in the General Assembly (GA) that was held on November 16, 2020. CTTC’s Director of R&D Programmes, Dr. Carles Antón-Haro, was elected as an SB member for the Research Domain. In the past, he was also a member of Networld2020′s Steering Board [...]

The research paper “On the Integration of AI/ML-based scaling operations in the 5Growth platform” has received the best Fast Track paper Award in the IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (IEEE NFV-SDN’20). This work has been authored by Mr. Jorge Baranda, Dr. Josep Mangues-Bafalluy, Dr. Engin Zeydan, Mr. Luca Vettori and [...]

On November 9th, Ricard Vilalta has presented at IEEE NFV-SDN virtual conference the following demo: Applying Security Service Level Agreements in V2X Network Slices. This demo includes contributions from Optical Networks and Systems Department and Machine-to-Machine Department. This demo presents the instantiation of a high level architecture proposed by INSPIRE-5Gplus to manage secured End-to-End (E2E) [...]

CTTC, as member of EPIC, celebrates the Day of Photonics on 22 October 2020, promoting and organizing a virtual event with the support of EPIC and the H2020 PASSION project: the “PASSION Photonics Virtual Coffee.” A virtual coffee among the project partners to celebrate our passion for photonics. On 21 October 1983, the General Conference [...]

SCAVENGE aimed to create a training network for early-stage researchers (ESRs) who contributed to the design and implementation of eco-friendly and sustainable next-generation 5G networks and became leaders in the related scientific, technological, and industrial initiatives. To realise its vision, the project took a complete approach, encompassing the characterisation of intermittent and/or erratic energy sources, [...]

The CTTC has been shortlisted for the Educational Project of the Year Award given by the Satcoms Innovation Group Awards. This shortlist has been curated thoughtfully, drawing attention to numerous companies, institutions and individuals who have made a real and tangible difference in the satcoms industry throughout 2020. Our category  “Educational Project of the Year” [...]

Dr. Ricard Vilalta, Senior Researcher at CTTC, presented a new demonstration of a novel prototype for a cloud-native SDN Controller at IEEE NetSoft (29 June-3 July 2020). Due to COVID19, the conference was virtual, but this did not affect a huge number of participants and it also provided a high level of scientific discussions. Current [...]