Multicore fiber Applications and TeCHnologies (MATCH) is a doctoral training network funded by the European Commission, under the MSCA Doctoral Networks 2023 | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and proposed by a multidisciplinary and intersectoral consortium of international experts.       - MATCH directs PhD research toward multicore fibre (MCF) technology;       - MATCH aims at developing leading solution for scaling future optical fibre communication networks towards emerging information capacities, while offering the potential to lower costs, reduce power consumption and significantly boost network capacity by over tenfold;       - MATCH programme outlines a comprehensive set of research and training objectives tailored to 13 doctoral candidates (DCs);       - The cohort of DCs will be hosted by 14 partners (10 from academia and 4 from the industrial sector);       - The planned training activities of DCs include 32 secondments, 7 mini-symposiums, 3 transferable skills workshops, summer schools, and tutorials, among others.     In MATCH program, DCs will acquire expertise in diverse areas, encompassing: (i) Design and fabrication of MCFs with transmission capacities surpassing the state-of-the-art; (ii) Design and implementation of MCF components and subsystems, with a focus on optical amplifiers and switches, multiple frequency comb sources, and parallel-scalable signal processing architectures; (iii) Development and implementation of machine learning techniques for end-to-end performance optimization of MCF networks; (iv) Design and evaluation of coexistence of telecom and non-telecom signals in MCF networks. By engaging the expertise of MATCH academic and industrial partners, DCs will acquire distinct skills and knowledge to transform them to globally-minded scientists and engineers, who will help to shape Europe’s ICT future and societal wellbeing.   For more information see: https://match.iscte-iul.pt/

The ultimate goal of the project comprises the development, implementation and experimental validation of low-complexity data-center-network-compatible digital mitigation techniques for effective reduction of the outage constraints imposed by inter-core crosstalk (ICXT) in weakly-coupled MCF-based systems.

Main Objective: RETIOT aims to create a new competence area in Portugal on Reflectometry Technologies applied to the future Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems based on a multidisciplinary research including optics, radio and autonomous systems.

Further develop a network on Microwave photonics.

Neste projecto, desenvolvem-se e analisam-se modelos para a caracterização estatística dos efeitos da ICXT em MCFs, propõem-se técnicas para a mitigação daqueles efeitos em redes baseadas em MCF, e usam-se aqueles modelos e técnicas no desenvolvimento de algoritmos de encaminhamento e alocação de espectro e núcleo (RSCA) em redes ópticas elásticas (EONs). O projecto foca-se principalmente em estudos de simulação e teóricos sobre a caracterização estatística dos efeitos da ICXT em MCF e sobre técnicas de modulação para mitigação daqueles efeitos em redes baseadas em MCF. Estes estudos são complementados pela realização de demonstrações laboratoriais dos principais resultados de simulação e teóricos. O projecto tira proveito dos conhecimentos de trabalho experimental (em laboratório) e de projecto de sistemas baseados em tecnologia de MCFs do NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japão) combinado com a experiência do IT (Grupo de Comunicações Ópticas do pólo de Lisboa do Instituto de Telecomunicações) na modelação teórica e análise de sistemas e redes de telecomunicações por fibra óptica.

  O objectivo geral deste projecto consiste em demonstrar o novo paradigma associado ao aumento de flexibilidade e granularidade da alocação de capacidade de transmissão em redes ópticas metropolitanas. Particularmente, a utilização de sinais multi-banda (MB) com multiplexagem por divisão ortogonal na frequência (OFDM) de elevado ritmo binário nas redes metropolitanas associada à utilização da técnica de multiplexagem por divisão no comprimento de onda (WDM) é estudada e demonstrada como sendo uma excelente solução para providenciar simultaneamente elevado ritmo binário, elevada flexibilidade de alocação de capacidade, elevada eficiência espectral e a possibilidade de up-grade da rede metropolitana sem alteração significativa da sua arquitectura.

Main Objective:i) to propose a streamlined optical access and radio network architecture with extended range, simplified implementation and deployment;ii) to develop combined fibre and radio transmission centralised impairment compensation extending the FTTH range to > 100 km;iii) to enable single, end-to-end management architecture along the FTTH access network of the complete photonic and radio access paths; iv) to provide converger OFDM-baseband, medium-range WiMAX and short-range UWB and cellular LTE on a conventional wavelength division-duplexed (WDD) and a reflective-electroabsorption transceiver (R-EAT) based network architecture;v) to demonstrate the feasible network operation with signals (UWB) in the 60 GHz radio band;vi) to create an open house showroom in order to shown the approach benefits to the general public.

B-BONE main objective is to further enhance UMTS capacity, transmission rates, RAN and Core network functionalities, considering both FDD and TDD modes, so as to accommodate digital broadcasting/multicasting (multimedia) type services.