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International Cooperation
CRC became the Canadian National Contact Point for the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector in 2003-04. This role was transferred from the ICT branch of Industry Canada. Responsibilities included: gathering and disseminating information on international R&D opportunities; organizing R&D partnering events; and, in cooperation with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the European Commission and others, facilitating over 20 R&D collaborative projects between Canadian and international public and private sector partners. CRC also led the Canadian delegation attending the annual European Union's Information Society Technologies conference held in Milan, Italy.- CRC, NASA-Langley and Photronics Inc. fabricated specialty UV-induced fibre Bragg sensor gratings for use in systems that monitor atmospheric water vapour. The grating employed a special p-phase shift design that produced ultra narrow band "on-line" and "off-line" transmission bands which, under tension, could be tuned to the water absorption line of 946.0003 nm.
- CRC continues to represent Industry Canada at the APEC Telecommunications Working Group. Partnering with other Canadian stakeholders, CRC organized a successful IPv6 workshop for decision makers and regulators to discuss issues relating to the next-generation Internet. The workshop resulted in new sales and commercial opportunities with large Asian carriers for Hexago Inc., a small Sainte-Foy QC company that manufactures IPv6 equipment. CRC also secured APEC funding for a Smart Communities workshop, and the Algonquin College in cooperation with the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation won a contract to organize the workshop.
- Participating in the Technical Cooperation Program, CRC contributed a critical system component to help manage communications in a military coalition deployment. Under DRDC's Defence Communications R&D Program, CRC developed a Low Bandwidth Manager (LBM) prototype that provides more capacity to end-user traffic by controlling traffic management over bandwidth-impoverished links such as satellite. Working with Australian and U.S. partners, the LBM was integrated into a policy-enabled Coalition Network Management System. The project published a series of technical reports upon its completion in early 2004 and held a final demonstration and field trial involving CRC, the U.S. Air Force Research Labs (Rome, New York), Defence Science and the Technology Organisation Laboratory in Australia.
- CRC participated in the Second Alliance Icing Research Study at Montreal's Mirabel Airport in collaboration with the Meteorological Service of Canada, Transport Canada, National Research Council, DRDC and several Canadian and U.S. universities and institutes. CRC's objective was to improve propagation models at higher frequency bands by comparing information on atmospheric constituents with radiometer data.
- New collaborative agreements on radio propagation research were arranged with Eastern Asia University, Bangkok, Thailand, and the University of Cyprus, Nicosia. CRC renewed an existing agreement with Eindhoven University of Technology and Delft University in the Netherlands.
- Under Memoranda of Understanding with an intergovernmental framework for European cooperation in S&T research (EU COST), CRC contributed research results in Mobile Broadband Multimedia Networks (COST 273) and Propagation Impairment Mitigation for Millimetre Wave Systems (COST 280).
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