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March, 2010

NSERC / ULTRA CHAIR - Inauguration

December 7, 2009 - Members of COMunity were pleased to welcome partners at the inauguration of the new Chair. For the occasion, Dr. Suzanne Fortier, president of NSERC, personally congratulated Prof. François Gagnon and his team. She took the opportunity to highlight the collaboration between ÉTS and Ultra-Electronics, which is now a model for Canadian scientific community. MM. Iwan Jemczyk and Pierre Lavoie also took time to congratulate Prof. Gagnon. More than 50 people gathered to celebrate the inauguration of the "NSERC / Ultra Electronics TCS Industrial Research Chair in High Performance Wireless Emergency Tactical Communications". This one should contribute to a revolution in the future of telecommunications.

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http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Partners-Partenaires/Chairholders-TitulairesDeChaire/Chairholder-Titulaire_fra.asp?pid=659
Communiqué de l'ÉTS (French only)
Article de la Direction Informatique (French only)

FINANCING - Equipment granted by FCI

January, 2010 - The FCI Leaders Fund grant proposal presented for infrastructures in relation with a Canadian Chair has been approved. Those high tech equipments will support Professor Francois Gagnon NSERC / Ultra Electronics Chair activities research. Those equipments (Real Time Spectrum Analyzer, RF Signal Generator, Arbitrary Waveform Generator) will provide the TCL with spectrum sensing and jamming instruments for the creation of a repeatable methodology enabling testing and validation of cognitive radio software algorithms and cognitive devices.

AirE-WISED Project - Phase II achieve

February, 2010 - The second phase of the AirE-WiSED project conducted for SITA, the world leader in air transport communications, was completed in February. This project intends to validate that WiMAX wideband wireless technology is suitable to establish a data link between an airport and an aircrafts circulating on its grounds. The validation took the form of laboratory and exterior deployments of commercial equipment fielded in a typical and meaningful network setup. Exterior deployments took place in North Lancaster, ON and in the St-Hubert airport area.

COMunity jumps into GREEN Technologies

February, 2010 - The Canada-California Strategic Innovation Partnership (CCSIP) program announced, earlier this month, its selection of 15 bilateral projects following a first call for proposals. The Joint Collaboration Research Consortium for a Green Cyber-Infrastructure stood among such selected 15. Led by McGill University, and the University of California (San Diego) this a bilateral initiative which will focus on research that improves energy efficiency and reduces the impact of carbon emissions on climate change through Green Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). This proposal addresses a critical priority area for both Canada and California: Reducing global climate change through ICT.

Researchers from over 15 Universities in Canada and in California will focus on Green ICT areas such as network architecture and management, devices and sensor networks, validation of new concepts such as cloud computing, green data centers, virtualization, smart grid, network and access equipment (wireless and optical), energy consumption and CO2 management solutions, sustainability and life cycle studies, business analysis leading to commercialization and new community services such as health care, home life, transport and education.

Environment and ICT are among École de technologie supérieure’s (ETS) seven major research areas. Synergy across two such important domains furthermore incites ETS to undertake a dominant role and provide the consortium with a specific expertise; complementary to an international research force. By its active involvement in the hereby proposed consortium, ETS seeks primarily to leverage its expertise in the fields of wireless

communication, energy efficient signal processing and resource virtualization by addressing low greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint applications. Professor François Gagnon and Professor Mohammed Cheriet will be the key players for ETS within the emerging consortium.

Prof. Gagnon is an expert in telecommunication systems. He was awarded, with Ultra Electronics TCS, the prestigious 2008 NSERC Synergy Award in the Small and Medium-Sized Companies category. Prof. Gagnon’s expertise will focus on two distinct themes. First, the intelligent mobile communications, where location based computation partionning can increase the overall green efficiency of cellular networks. The development of power efficient signal processing algorithm is the second theme and aims at reducing the “watt per user” consumption of cellular base stations. Prof. Cheriet is the founder and director of Synchromedia which targets multimedia communication in telepresence applications. Computational intelligence is one of the many areas of expertise of Prof. Cheriet that will benefits the GCI Consortium, providing network virtualization strategies minimizing GHG emissions. He is also the principal investigator in the major project: www.greenstarnetwork.com. Research targeting these three themes will be achieved with the collaboration of three companies: LIPSO (mobile communications), Octasic Semiconductors (power efficient processors) and Inocybe Technologies (virtualization).

CCSIP R&D Business Plan
ISTP Press Release

TEST IN OUR LAB - Welcoming for our partners

Within the framework of the projects of Community, our partners are interested to profit from the expertise and the equipment which we have in order to carry out of tests. We thus had lately the visit of employees of Ultra Electronics and IREQ respectively for the projects PROMPT safety and CARMEN.