A Realistic Dream: Center for Teleinfrastructure CTIF

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A Realistic DreamCenter for Teleinfrastructure
(CTIF)

• Prof. Dr. Ramjee Prasad
• Center for Teleinfrastructure
• Aalborg University,
• Denmark
• prasad_at_kom.auc.dk

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Outline

• Introduction
• Research
• Financing
• International Collaboration
• CTIF Vision from Industries Perspectives
• CTIF Influence on Local and National Environment
• Conclusions

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Vision
Computer/Communication Technology
Wired / Wireless network

Convergence is the key challenge
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Organization
Industrial
Advisory
Steering Committee
Council
Daily Responsible Entities
Management Team
Director
Adm. Manager
Secretaries
Co-Director
Co-Director
Technical Research Council
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Steering Committee

• Chairman, dr. Børge Lindberg (AAU)
• Director Flemming Eriksen (Siemens Mobile Phones)
• CEO Jørgen Elbæk (RTX Telecom)
• Director Dan Sörensen (TDC)
• Director Jon Hoffmann (Sonofon)
• Prof. Torben Larsen (AAU)
• Prof. Christian S. Jensen (AAU)
• Prof. Jakob Stoustrup (AAU)
• Assoc. Prof. Bent Dalum (AAU)

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Industrial Advisory Council

• Senior Vice Pres., dr. Young K. Kim (Samsung,
  Korea)
• Senior Vice Pres., dr. Tero Ojanpera (Nokia,
  Finland)
• Senior Vice Pres., dr. Walter Weigel (Siemens,
  Germany)
• Director, dr. Magnus Madfors (Ericsson, Sweden)
• Director, dr. Denis Rouffet (Alcatel, France)
• Excecutive Director, dr. Shingo Ohmori (NICT,
  Japan)
• Principal Engineer, dr. Uttam Sengupta (Intel,
  USA)
• Prof. Kristian Stubkjær (DTU Denmark)
• Prof. Jørgen Bach Andersen (AAU, Denmark)

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Technical Research Council
Center for Teleinfrastructure (CTIF) Director
Ramjee Prasad Co-directors Ole Brun Madsen and
Peter Koch
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Research Team

• Approx. 180 researchers
• International research team 25 Countries
• Europe Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, The
  Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
  Italy, Spain, France, Portugal, Greece,
  Macedonia, Russia, Bulgaria and Romania.
• Asia Japan, India, Bangladesh, Taiwan, China,
  Korea and Turkey.
• Africa Ethiopia
• North America U.S.A.

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Research Projects and Cooperations
CNTK Center for Network and Service Convergence
JADE Joint Advanced Development Enabling 4G
Magnet My personal Adaptive Global NET
WANDA Wireless Access Network Devices and
Applications
EAGER - NetWic Euro-Asian Network for
Strengthening Graduate Education and Research
in Wireless Communication
New complementary research topic
SoS Security of Services
Other activities
CNP Center for Network Planning
AUSC Aalborg University Space Center
SCRL Siemens-CTIF research laboratory
CISS Center for Embedded Software Systems
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CTIF Research Hub
Convergence of wired and wireless
reconbfigurability
Ubiquity and capacity
services
Cooperative networks
Network challenges
Service/network management
Technological challenges
security
architectures
flexibility
CTIF
Resource management, QoS, wireless protocols,
spectrum
Service challenges
personalization
access technologies
Business models, standards Socio-economic impact
adaptivity
Security, privacy
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Financing
1/3 from Industries and Local Fonds
1/3 from Aalborg University
1/3 from Danish Government and European
Commission
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Cooperation - Industries

• Nokia
• Siemens
• Ericsson
• Samsung
• CISCO
• Sonofon
• Nettest
• IBM
• TCS
• Intel
• ALCATEL
• BELL LABS
• NTT DoCoMo

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Cooperation - Universities

• Delft University of Technology, Nederlands
• University of Surrey, UK
• University of Aachen, Germany
• University of Cantabria, Spain
• Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• National Technical University of Athens, Greece
• University of Oulu, Finland
• University of Tokyo, Japan
• Osaka University, Japan
• Yokohama national University, Japan
• Tohoku University, Japan
• Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
• University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Italy
• University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA
• Lund University, Sweden
• University of Surrey, UK
• Beijing University of PostsTelecommunication,
  China
• ..

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Cooperation Research laboratories

• CSEM, Switzerland
• NICT, Japan
• CWC, Singapore
• TNO (Telecom), Netherlands
• VTT, Finland
• LETI, FRANCE
• IMEC, Belgium
• ..

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Hermes Partnership

• CTIF is the Steering Chair of the Hermes
  Partnership program.
• Hermes Partnership
• network of leading independent telecom research
  centers in Europe
• a virtual center of competence with a strong
  focus on wireless communications, including
  personal area networks, high-speed local area
  networks, cellular systems and positioning and
  location
• It brings together more than 500 highly skilled
  researchers from various disciplines.

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Hermes Partners
CTIF,
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Industrial Advisors

• The Hermes Partnerships Industrial Advisory
  Board
• SIEMENS
• NOKIA
• AXIS Communications
• The main purpose of the Industrial Advisory Board
  is to contribute to the evolution of the
  educational curriculum, and the strategic
  directions of the research programmes within the
  scope of the HERMES Partnership.

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Wireless World Research Forum
Wireless World Research Forum
WWRF unites researches from academia and
commercial organizations. The objective of the
forum is to formulate visions on strategic future
research directions in the wireless field. It is
intended to constructively contribute to the work
done within the UMTS Forum, ETSI, 3GPP, IETF,
ITU, and other relevant bodies. CTIF is a full
member of WWRF.
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Wireless World Research Forum

• At the moment there are 153 members from the
• Manufacturer domain
• Network operator domain
• RD centers
• Academic domain
• One regulator
• The current structure of the WWRF comprises the
  following working groups
• WG1 Human Perspective
• WG2 Service Architecture
• WG3 Cooperative Ad hoc Networks
• WG4 New radio Interfaces, Relay-based Systems
  Smart Antennas
• WG5 Short-range radio Communication Systems
• WG6 Reconfigurability

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Triangular Cooperation Program (TCP)
Science parks
Universities / Research laboratories
Industries
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Triangular Cooperation Program (TCP)
3 Countries Denmark Japan Finland 7
Universities 1 Research Lab 5 Industries 3
Science Parks
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Current Strength

• World class research labs
• Communications
• Electronics
• Software
• Results in majority of the research work stay
  with the labs

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A New Transition

• Transition Approach
• Why Transition?
• Commercialising Info-communications and
  Bio-communications
• Transition approach to
• Engineer the research that stays with the labs
  into prototype
• Engineer the prototype into Commercial product
• Engineer Commercial product into production
• Market the Danish-Designed and Made product into
  Global Market
• Technology Transfer of Danish Technology
  worldwide
• Creating and Commercialising Patents

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Vision for Industrial and Economic Growth

• Industrial Growth
• Denmark A world class Technological Hub
• Technology transfer to local companies at an
  affordable licence fee
• Resulting in New economy companies based on core
  technology strength
• Licensing commercial patents
• Technology companies that exports Danish-products
  worldwide
• Economic Growth
• Knowledge Based Economic Growth (Human Capital)
• Increased economic growth due to increased
  exports
• Technology services, Technology licensing,
  Hi-tech
• product exports results in increased economy
  directly contributing into Denmarks GDP growth..

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Action Plan

• Short Term (1 3 years)
• New economy Start-up
• Innovation to commercialization
• Chain Reaction
• Access Technology ? Software ? Networks ?Total
  systems
• Medium Term (3 - 5 years)
• Commercial RD using the research labs as its
  backbone
• Commercial Patents
• Commercial product development
• Technology Transfer arm
• Design services
• Self sustainable in five years term

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Action Plan

• Long Term ( 5 to 15 years)
• Multiple of start-up companies each with the
  revenue of DKK 400 to 1600 million
• Holding Company that controls all the
  commercial spin-offs
• Results in World renowned company with revenue
  exceeding DKK 240 to 400 Billions
• New employment opportunities for skilled and
  unskilled personnel exceeding the order of 15000

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Proposed Technology Roadmap
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Formation of Danish Holding Company
Private Investors
Denmark Government
Danish Technology Holding Company
CTIF
Aalborg University
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Organisation of Holding company
Note Funding for Innovative manufacturing sector
is yet to be discussed in detail
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Proposed Funding and Estimated Revenue(Short to
Medium term 5 Year Plan)
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Danish Technology Holding Company
DIG
Danish Innovation and Globalisation
Dig Earth Mineral (Gold, Diamond, Platinum,
Petroleum) Dig Mind Innovation and
Industrialization
Vi er til for DIG
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DIG (Danish Innovation and Globalisation)
A Danish Global Industry
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Practical Visionary companies
Today
Tomorrow
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International Wireless Summit
WSPW Wireless Science Park Workshop GWSW Global
Wireless Start-up Promotion Workshop TRCW Triangul
ar Research Cooperation Workshop IE Industrial
Exhibition
WPMC International Symposium on Wireless
Personal Multimedia Communications SW
Strategy Workshop WSP Wireless Science Parks