Centres de Recerca de Catalunya (CERCA)
La Fundació i2CAT és un centre de recerca i innovació que promou activitats de R+D+i en arquitectures avançades d’Internet, aplicacions i serveis. I2CAT destaca pel seu nou marc d’innovació oberta, que promou la col·laboració entre empreses privades, l’administració pública, l’entorn acadèmic i els usuaris finals.
Internet està produint una superabundància de dades, informació i xarxes. Es necessari avançar en la recerca i la innovació d’una Internet basada en sistemes intel·ligents i tecnologies “smart”. La Internet del coneixement i la creativitat es el nou repte que cal afrontar. La visió d’i2CAT per als propers 10 anys és la d’un món connectat i intel·ligent, un col·laboratori basat en una nova generació de sistemes i tecnologies “smart”, una plataforma de co-creació entre màquines, persones i l’entorn per a un futur sostenible.
Les activitats d’i2CAT abarquen els àmbits de la Recerca, jugant un paper clau en el programa marc Europeu per la Recerca i Innovació; els Projectes Estratègics, liderant iniciatives locals que enforteixen les polítiques digitals de l’administració pública; i la Transferència Tecnològica, promocionant col.laboracions amb empreses per desenvolupar solucions innovadores orientades a diversos mercats.
Si sou autor/a d’algun document elaborat en l’àmbit de la i2cat i voleu publicar-lo a RECERCAT, contacteu amb recercat@i2cat.net.
The escalating volume of road users and the increase onsafety demands by the governmental institutions, such as theEU, highlights the need for more widespread and advancedtraffic monitoring systems. Despite the ...
The rapid deployment of passive optical access networks (PONs) increases the global energy consumption of networking infrastructure. This paper focuses on the minimization of energy consumption in Ethernet PONs (EPONs). ...
The future of the manufacturing industry highlydepends on digital systems that transform existing productionand monitoring systems into autonomous systems fulfilling strin-gent requirements in terms of availability, ...
5G networks will offer advanced functionalities and features such as high throughput, low latency, security and reliability by leveraging technologi-cal advances like network virtualization, edge computing and network ...
The Immersive Accessibility Project (ImAc) explores how accessibility services can be integrated with 360o video as well as new methods for enabling universal access to immersive content. ImAc is focused on inclusivity and ...
This work presents a case study for the network planning of a 5G backhaul in a dense urban area. The study is fed by estimated population density data and real geographical layout coming from a Spanish city (Cartagena, ...
Satellite communications is an essential building block of 5G technology to ensure delivery of 5G promises such as ubiquitous connectivity, enhance mobile broadband (eMBB) and massive machine type communication (mMTC). ...
Cinematic Virtual Reality (CVR) has been increasing in popularity in the last years. However, viewers can feel isolated when watching 360° movies with a Head-Mounted Display. Since watching movies is a social experience ...
Food and drink is the largest manufacturing sector worldwide and has significant environmental impact in terms of resource use, emissions, and waste. However, food and drink manufacturers are restricted in addressing these ...
Social Virtual Reality (VR) allows multiple distributed users getting together in shared virtual environments to socially interact and collaborate. This article explores the applicability and potential of Social VR in the ...
Accessibility is a key requirement for any multimedia tool and application. With the current trend towards immersive experiences, such as Virtual Reality (VR) and 360o video, it becomes key that these environments are ...
Fifth Generation (5G) networks will support countless new applications and new business models. One of the 5G paradigms is network slicing, which enables the integration of multiple logical networks each one tailored to ...
The advent of 5G promises to unleash highly pervasive network coverage and density, increased data rate and capacity, optimized instantiation of virtualized resources in a multi-tenant and multi-service network capable of ...
The lack of high-performance RINA implementations to date makes it hard to experiment with RINA as an underlay networking fabric solution for different types of networks, and to assess RINA's benefits in practice on scenarios ...
Modern cities are equipped with various information and communications technology (ICT) resources including Internet of Things (IoT) devices, computing platforms, and data storage media. Data are one of the most valuable ...
Vehicular communications will foster mobility services and enable mass adoption of future autonomous vehicles, interchanging huge amount of data acquired from vehicles' sensors. 3GPP Release 14 presents the first standard ...
The paper elaborates on the technological and architectural innovations researched and developed by 5G-PPP Phase 1 projects and covering innovation areas such as 5G system design and evaluation, novel air interfaces, network ...
ImmersiaTV is a H2020 European project that targets the creation of novel forms of TV content production, delivery and consumption to enable customizable and immersive multi-screen TV experiences. The goal is not only to ...
This paper contains the research proposal of Juan Antonio De Rus that was presented at the MMSys 2022 doctoral symposium. The use of virtual reality (VR) is growing every year. With the normalization of remote work it is ...
The decoupling of the network functions from the hardware they run on has become a common practice nowadays. Complex network services made up of multiple Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) can be instantiated over the ...
