The European Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA) is an interdisciplinary team consisting of partners from industry, a research & technology organisation (RTO) and academia. Our mission is to:Develop a Blueprint for a pan-European entanglement-based Quantum Internet, by developing, integrating and demonstrating all the functional hardware and software subsystems

The L-DimM-NetCod project aims to delve into the emerging fields of massive MIMO and physical layer network coding (PLNC), making use of a common geometric perspective based on lattice theory. The objective is to design PLNC schemes that are robust for terminals and, more importantly, relays, with a large number of antennas and for cells with a large number of user terminals. These schemes are to be assessed with typical channel models for indoor and outdoor scenarios so that an operational meaning is given to the spectral efficiency of the schemes in comparison to traditional TDMA.

Long-Term Evolution (LTE), the dominant system for fourth generation (4G) networks, has introduced state-of-the-art fountain coding to support wireless content streaming and downloading. Even though fountain coding can be combined with collaborative network coding to reduce network overhead and improve bandwidth efficiency, there is great scope for tailoring transceiver designs to the requirements of content distribution and for developing radically new paradigms capable of supporting high quality media in next generation systems. The R2D2 project aims to:- Develop a mathematical framework to identify key relationships between various network parameters, contribute to the understanding of network dynamics and assist in the system-level optimisation of network-coded architectures. - Leverage the benefits of joint channel coding and network coding and propose joint transceiver designs for content delivery. - Delve into the emerging research field of network error correction and develop practical implementations of unified channel codes and network codes that can offer high reliability, low decoding complexity and increased security from malicious users.

Random network coding emerged through an award-winning paper by R. Koetter and F. Kschischang in 2008 and has since then opened a major research area in communication technology with widespread applications for communication networks like the internet, wireless communication systems, and cloud computing. It allows transmitting information through a network by disregarding any of its topological features. As in traditional algebraic coding theory, two main research directions in random network coding are:1- existence and construction of good and optimal network codes, 2- efficient encoding and decoding schemes for a given network code. Restriction to the so-called Grassmannian codes has proven to be advantageous and leads to the theory of designs over GF(q). Worldwide, there exists a larger number of workgroups focusing on this topic, which includes several groups located in Europe. This COST Action will set up a European research network and establish network coding as a European core area in communication technology. Its aim is to bring together experts from pure and applied mathematics, computer science, and electrical engineering, who are working in the areas of discrete mathematics, coding theory, information theory, and related fields.

Study and development of general planning tools for third generation UMTS/IMT 2000 systems.