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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 5 days agoPaper 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 4 months agoPaper 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 7 months agoMubashir writes RTÉ Brainstorm article
Mubashir Rehmani at Munster Technological University published ‘Are cyber criminals using your computer?’ on RTÉ Brainstorm.
Posted 10 months agoSEAI 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 1 year agoEuropean Two-Phase Flow Group Meeting (ETPFGM...
The 54th European Two-Phase Flow Group Meeting (ETPFGM2024) September 8-11, 2024 Dublin, Ireland Home Venue Travel Information Important Dates Abstracts Registration The 54th European Two-Phase Flow Group Meeting will be hosted at Trinity College Dublin from September...
Posted 5 years agoStudy 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 2 years agoMar 25
Registration now open for the launch event of IEEE Future Networks UK and Ireland Local Group.
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 5 years agoThere is a vacancy for a Research Programme Officer positioned in CONNECT at Trinity College Dublin.
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 5 years agoMarco Ruffini, CONNECT Principal Investigator at Trinity College Dublin, gives some career advice...
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 6 years agoCONNECT hosts Transition Year Immersion Week as students learn more about coding and communications.
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 7 years agoMar 19
2nd IEEE WCNC Workshop on Green & Sustainable 5G Wireless Networks, San Francisco, California.
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 7 years agoTHINKTECH 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 7 years agoPervasive 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 8 years agoNew 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 7 years agoLinda 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 7 years agoOptical 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 7 years agoIntroducing 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 7 years agoOptical ‘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 7 years agoProf Linda Doyle, Director of @connect_ie, @scienceirel research centre, outlines big plans for #SmartDublin #IoT pic.twitter.com/AAvsYhTZyQ
— CONNECT Centre (@connect_ie) March 8, 2016
Excited to see our first wave of @connect_ie researchers getting @SmartFuturesIE training today @scienceirel #stem pic.twitter.com/3lRi0bq6jd
— CONNECT Centre (@connect_ie) March 3, 2016
Best wishes to @SInnovationIRL on the successful launch with An Taoiseach….
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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 8 years agoSteven Davy, Funded Investigator at TSSG, outlines CONNECT research plans…
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Frank Smyth, our Exec Director, talks about Enterprise Ireland’s Innovation Showcase 2015…
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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 8 years agoOur own Dr Nicola Marchetti describes life as an Ussher…
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Great to meet @SiliconRepublic today @InnovateIE Plenty of…
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Great #STEM public engagement: #pechakucha & #IrelandsEd..
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Low latency & low power consumption – the real benefits of #5G http://www.cnet.com/videos/on-the-eve-of-5g/ … #Tech
What theatre and science can learn from one another https://t.co/aVbq9IFnWw #LoveTheatreDay #Creativity
Best wishes Dr Marco Ruffini on launch of €1m O’SHARE project…
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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 8 years agoEmmett 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 8 years agoDySpan 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 8 years agoSensors in the soil @TyndallInstitut #SmartAg #IoT #InternetofThings https://t.co/Q5FeFRKFX3
