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Sangita Dhara in RTÉ Brainstorm

CONNECT Centre researcher Sangita Dhara discussing how vehicular content-centric networking is shaping the automotive industry. These days, we are used to staying connected. We expect information and entertainment to be readily available to us if we are at home or at the office or...

Posted 3 months ago

Vikash Kumar: Human of CONNECT

Meet Vikash Kumar, a CONNECT PhD researcher at Trinity College Dublin, exploring new frontiers in quantum communication. His journey from witnessing an experimental quantum teleportation setup to pursuing advanced research exemplifies a passion for experimental physics and the transformative potential of quantum technologies. How...

Posted 10 months ago

Paper Highlight: Revolutionizing 5G Wireless ...

Title: A 52-67GHz Ultra-Compact Bi-directional Gate-switching Cascode Amplifier with Tri-coil Broadband Matching in 40-nm CMOS Authors:  Haoyang Jia, Yanjie Wang, and Anding Zhu Conference: 2023 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) What is this paper all about? In the modern fifth-generation (5G) wireless communication...

Posted 10 months ago

Paper Highlight Unlocking AI’s Potentia...

Title: Robust Network Intrusion Detection Through Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Authors: Pieter Barnard, Nicola Marchetti, Luiz A. DaSilva What’s this paper all about? In the past few years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become the go-to approach for devising solutions that can optimally operate and...

Posted 10 months ago

Paper Highlight: Harnessing Game Theory for E...

CONNECT Researchers are creating new ways to make sustainable IoT systems. This paper explains how to use Bayesian Game theory for IoT networks. In standard game theory, players have complete knowledge about the game and each other’s strategies. However, in Bayesian game theory, players...

Posted 10 months ago

Dan Kilper Highlights Transatlantic 6G Partne...

Professor Dan Kilper, CONNECT Director and Professor of Future Networks and Communications  and Trinity Communications College Dublin, talks to Science|Business about the 6GG-XCEL (6G Trans-Continental Edge Learning) project. Co-funded by Horizon Europe and the US National Science Foundation, the project reflects a wider strategy...

Posted 12 months ago

Paper Highlight: Decoding the Paradox of Secu...

CONNECT Researcher Dr Hazel Murray at Munster Technological University Unveils the Complex Landscape of Security Advice What’s this paper about? You are probably constantly getting advice on how to keep your online accounts safe—everything from creating strong passwords to enabling two-factor authentication. But how...

Posted 12 months ago

Marco Contributes to Major Ofcom Report

Prof. Marco Ruffini, CONNECT Principal Investigator at Trinity College Dublin, contributes to a major Office of Communications (Ofcom) report on the “Evolution of Fixed Access Networks”. Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, commissioned the report with contributions from world leading experts to create a comprehensive analysis of...

Posted 1 year ago

Paper Highlight: Opening Networks, Made Cheap...

OpenRAN technology is looking to shake up the telecoms sector and CONNECT researchers are looking at exactly how this will happen in this paper highlight. Optical Front/Mid-haul with Open Access-Edge Server Deployment Framework for Sliced O-RAN Authors: Sourav Mondal & Marco Ruffini Journal: IEEE...

Posted 1 year ago

Paper Highlight: Sustainable Sensors for the ...

CONNECT researchers throughout the centre are working on designing and building sustainable sensors and IoT systems. Here is a paper that looks to AI to reduce the energy consumption of these sensors. Timely and sustainable: Utilising correlation in status updates of battery-powered and energy-harvesting...

Posted 2 years ago

SEAI Transport Award Shortlist

Bleeper, a micromobility service provider that specialises in shared public bikes, has been shortlisted for the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) Energy Awards in the Transport category. The project’s success has been the collaboration of local authorities, private businesses and researchers from Dun...

Posted 2 years ago

Study highlights smartphone privacy concerns

Prof. Douglas Leith, CONNECT Funded Investigator at Trinity College Dublin, has published a study on the data transmitted from iOS- and Android-based phones. The study is available here (pdf): https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf Key findings from the study: Apple iPhones and Google Android phones share data with...

Posted 4 years ago

Conor Sexton wins Intel bursary

Conor Sexton, CONNECT PhD researcher at Trinity College Dublin, has been awarded an Intel Postgrad Bursary. Conor is a PhD student working under the supervision of Prof. Luiz DaSilva and Prof. Nicola Marchetti. He researches resource allocation techniques for network slicing in adaptable 5G...

Posted 6 years ago

Letter from Providence

Dr Alan Davy, CONNECT researcher at TSSG in Waterford Institute of Technology, has sent us this Letter from Providence… Hi all, I’m here at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, attending a workshop discussing the future challenges and opportunities for THz communication. I’m being...

Posted 6 years ago

Stefan visits Maynooth Science Museum

Drones and phones

Maeve Connolly curates Being Infrastructural

Maeve Connolly, CONNECT researcher in the Orthogonal Methods Group in Trinity College Dublin, has curated ‘Being Infrastructural’, a series of video screenings at Mother’s TankStation in Dublin, which will run from 2 November to 16 December 2017. Full details are available here. Writing about...

Posted 7 years ago

Launch of 2017 Ultimology

The Department of Ultimology has launched its 2017 Programme of Activities. Led by CONNECT’s Curator in Residence, Kate Strain, and CONNECT researcher, Kate Hallinan, the Department studies that which is dead or dying in a series or process. At the heart of this year’s...

Posted 8 years ago

CONNECT papers accepted for OFC 2017

Congratulations to 12 CONNECT researchers and their collaborators at other research institutes who have had five papers accepted for OFC 2017 in Los Angeles in March 2017. The annual Optical Fibre Communication Conference and Exhibition is the largest global gathering of optical communications and...

Posted 8 years ago

THINKTECH Winners Announcement

The winners of THINKTECH were announced by Minister Simon Coveney, TD, on Wednesday, 7 December 2016, at the Google Foundry in Dublin. They are Dublin-based Foodcloud Hubs, which redirects surplus food from producers to foodbanks and charities using a simple app. The Alone platform,...

Posted 8 years ago

Pervasive Nation wins major SFI funding award

The CONNECT Centre for Future Networks and Communications has been awarded €2.35 million as part of a €28 million investment in research equipment and facilities through Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). Professor Linda Doyle at Trinity College Dublin will lead “Pervasive Nation”, an Internet of...

Posted 9 years ago

New industry partners for CONNECT!

Industry partnership continues to be a strong focus for CONNECT. In recent months we have completed contract negotiations with Arris, IBM, Non Linear Systems and Synopsys. The combined total of the four new research packages will be worth in excess of €800,000. David Malone...

Posted 8 years ago

Linda Doyle talks IoT on TechCentral

Listen to our Director, Professor Linda Doyle, talk about Connect’s Internet-of-Things research work… Interview starts at 7′ 30”. http://www.techcentral.ie/getting-connected/  

Posted 8 years ago

Optical Network Design and Modeling conferenc...

The optical networks research group at Connect had 4 papers accepted at the 20th IEEE Optical Network Design and Modeling conference (ONDM) at Cartagena in Spain recently. One paper co-authored by Frank Slyne under the supervision of Prof. Marco Ruffini at Trinity College Dublin...

Posted 8 years ago

Introducing Pervasive Nation

Pervasive Nation is the Connect Centre’s national-scale Internet-of-Things research infrastructure based on a Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networking technology. It is funded by Science Foundation Ireland having won a Research Infrastructures Award in January 2016. The objective of Pervasive Nation is to build...

Posted 8 years ago

Optical ‘Oscar’ for CONNECT

CONNECT researchers – Frank Slyne, Séamus McGettrick, Christian Blümm, Marco Ruffini and David Payne – have had a “post-deadline” paper accepted at the Optical Fibre Conference (OFC) at Anaheim in California. The paper is entitled: “Demonstration of SDN enabled dynamically reconfigurable high capacity optical...

Posted 8 years ago

Best wishes to @SInnovationIRL on the successful launch with An Taoiseach….

9 years ago

Digital Agriculture workshop, Brussels

A workshop on Digital Agriculture, co-hosted by CONNECT and the Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG) at Waterford Institute of Technology was held in Brussels on Thursday, 14 January. The gathering was addressed by Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Phil Hogan, and...

Posted 9 years ago

Steven Davy, Funded Investigator at TSSG, outlines CONNECT research plans…

9 years ago

Frank Smyth, our Exec Director, talks about Enterprise Ireland’s Innovation Showcase 2015…

9 years ago

Two major funding awards for CONNECT

The CONNECT Centre for Future Networks and Communications has been awarded €2.35 million as part of a €28 million investment in research equipment and facilities through Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). Professor Linda Doyle at Trinity College Dublin will lead “Pervasive Nation”, an Internet of...

Posted 9 years ago

Our own Dr Nicola Marchetti describes life as an Ussher…

9 years ago

Great to meet @SiliconRepublic today @InnovateIE Plenty of…

9 years ago

Great #STEM public engagement: #pechakucha & #IrelandsEd..

9 years ago

Best wishes Dr Marco Ruffini on launch of €1m O’SHARE project

9 years ago

Dr Marco Ruffini launches €1m O’SHARE pro...

A €1 million telecoms research project, O’SHARE, has been launched at the CONNECT Centre in Trinity College Dublin. Led by Dr Marco Ruffini, Assistant Professor in Optical Network Architectures at the School of Computer Science and Statistics, the four-year project will explore ways of...

Posted 9 years ago

Emmett Carolan Scoops Best Paper Award

Emmett Carolan, a CONNECT PhD student at Maynooth University has won First Prize for Best Research Paper at the 7th International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management, organised by the European Alliance for Innovation, in Santander, Spain. Emmett beat off strong competition from 40...

Posted 9 years ago

Challenging Authority #IoT

DySpan win for CONNECT team

CONNECT researchers have won the 5G Spectrum Sharing Challenge at IEEE’s ‘DySpan 2015’ Conference in Stockholm, Sweden. The team’s contribution was entitled, “Coexistence through Adaptive Sensing and Markov Chains”. The team, captained by Dr Justin Tallon, a postdoctoral researcher with Professor Linda Doyle at...

Posted 9 years ago
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