European Union H2020 5G Public-Private Partnership 5G-Crosshaul Featuring Twenty-Company Consortium Delivers 5G Transport Network Solution Cementing European Leadership in Crucial 5G Area A consortium of twenty industry-leading companies today announced the successful completion of a nearly three-year European Union Horizon 2020 project aimed at developing a 5G integrated backhaul and fronthaul transport network. After nearly [...]

ABSTRACT: Photonics will be crucial for the next industrial revolution as it will be the core technology for faster and cheaper devices that will offer an improved performance. In the next years, new products related to healthcare, telecom and datacom, and environmental will impact our daily life allowing amazing functionalities and increasing our quality of [...]

ABSTRACT: This talk will summarize the main results achieved during the execution of the project: 3D printed multiplexers for wireless communications. Multiplexers are designed using only resonators and made using additive manufacturing techniques; the designs are successfully fabricated and characterized in the laboratory. The talk will recap the diverse designs, fabrication techniques used to create [...]

The technology industry association will participate in initiatives launched by the 5GBarcelona consortium in healthcare, tourism or sustainable mobility AMETIC, the association of digital technology companies in Spain, and 5GBarcelona, the alliance formed to create a neutral, open hub for testing and implementing 5G technology in Barcelona, have signed a partnership agreement to promote 5G [...]

ABSTRACT: Many baby animals play to understand the world. From this evidence, some psychologists and pedagogists have proposed “gamification” as a technique for better learning… With inconclusive results. Here, Prof. Figueiras proposes a different perspective: To learn from (consciously) playing different kinds of (singular and collective, mainly) games, and even to learn from players. Playing [...]

ABSTRACT: Imbalanced classification problems are those in which populations and (mis)classification costs are very different. They are pervasive and important in many real-world application fields, from Health to Security, including Economy, Industry, Business, and Social Media, to cite just a few. Unfortunately, the powerful discriminative machines seriously fail when applied to these problems –just as [...]

On-Line Registration is now available. Register Now!!! The CTTC organizes the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, on April 15th-18th, 2018. This edition will take place in Barcelona. IEEE WCNC is the only IEEE conference focused exclusively on wireless research, technology, and applications. It brings together thought leaders from industry, academia, government agencies and other [...]

Focused on accelerating the commercialization of transport SDN, leading global network operators and vendors will test new, more dynamic use cases Fremont, Calif. —April 11, 2018 – Committed to accelerating the commercialization of transport SDN worldwide, the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) today announced plans for its 2018 Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Transport Application Programming Interface (T-API) [...]