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Collaborations
- CRC continues its collaboration with The Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Arctic Council and University of the Arctic in support of collaborative ICT initiatives amongst circumpolar countries. An Arctic Council ICT Network Workshop was attended in northern Finland in September.
- A memorandum of understanding between CRC and Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology has been extended for three more years.Future collaborations may include research in the areas of terrestrial wireless and optical technologies.
- A two-year collaborative research agreement was signed with the University of Ottawa to conduct joint research on advanced audio source coding for application in broadcasting over the Internet and other digital wireless transmission systems. Within the scope of that agreement, a M.Sc. student conducted NSERC-supported research work at CRC, Fourth Annual Conference on Communication Networks and Services Research in Moncton, NB.
- CRC signed a three-year agreement with the National Taiwan University to develop wireless sensors for biomedical and environmental applications, supported by the National Science Council of Taiwan and the Chip Implementation Center in Taiwan.
- Under a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) grant, CRC continues to work with Laval University to build hardware and software to test the use of antenna diversity on a digital television return channel.
- CRC is collaborating with Rohde & Schwarz and Samsung Electronics on a possible improvement to the North American Digital Television System, testing how compatible such a system would be with existing broadcast hardware.
- Teaming up with Industry Canada’s Spectrum, Information Technologies and Telecommunications gateway and Quebec regional staff, CRC is improving the direction-finding capability of Spectrum Explorer, a powerful software tool developed by CRC to monitor wireless communications spectrum.
- CRC worked with Telesat Canada, Lawson Health Research Institute, The Peel Corporation,
and VaaSah Incorporated to launch the Remote Assertive Community Homecare (REACH) program. The program demonstrated the viability of an e-health communications platform that, within six months, had provided 700 video visits between patients and care providers, reducing their overall travel time by more than 385 hours as well as reducing the number of days those patients spent in hospital by 112 days. - In a continued collaboration with Defence R&D Canada (DRDC) Ottawa, CRC worked in the areas of network security and radio surveillance; and with DRDC Valcartier in the area of information management over limited bandwidth and energy-constrained wireless links.
- CRC renewed its agreement to work with a major telecom company for two more years on projects that include Public Safety and Emergency Service Evolution, Wireless Network Security Dependability and Reconfigurability, and Converged Network Architecture for Canadian Telecom Operators.
- An agreement was struck between CRC and Quebec City to study and evaluate advanced broadband wireless communication systems for public safety services.
- CRC continues to work closely with India’s Centre for Development of Telematics in the development of a MILTON cognitive radio base station technology that will support the IEEE 802.16h standard. This standard will support multiple-network coexistence and will mitigate congestion in the licence-exempt (LE) bands. The collaborative development seeks to produce a base station technology that will support up to nine co-channel networks on the same LE channel, while delivering services such as VOIP and data.
- As a participant in several of the European Union’s 6th Framework projects, CRC collaborated on 4th Generation Wireless (4G) technology and Dependable Security by Enhanced Reconfigurability (DESEREC), a multidisciplinary, coordinated effort to increase the reliability of critical open and interconnected information systems.
- CRC has engaged in a wide range of private sector collaborations, including work with:
- Advantech AMT/Allgon of Sweden on a power amplifier linearization technique;
- Telesat on the next generation of beam forming networks, multi-media protocols, optical links and a satcom system for satellite communications;
- Nortel Networks on the licensing of codec software for the IEEE Standard 802.16;
- ISR Technologies, Spectrum Signal Processing, and Ultra Electronics on the licensing of CRC’s Software Defined Radio (SDR) tools to enhance product marketability;
- Telemus on the development of spectrum monitoring systems for an Asian navy;
- EMS on advanced signal processing for the detection of search-and-rescue satellite signals;
- mobile telephony providers on convergence of radio access systems with end-to-end quality of service, and
- evaluation and analysis of the deployment of Cisco’s Mesh Access Point in outdoor environments in southern Ontario.
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