Projects

This project is a Trans-National Smart Manufacturing Education Hub focusing on advancing Industry 4.0 educational activities at all institutions involved in the programme. Smart-Edu4.0 is working on the design of industry-attuned and accredited new curricula and the adaptation of existing curricula for undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuous professional development (CPD) training programmes. The hub is also working on the development of bespoke CPD leadership programmes to support Industry 4.0 champions within companies. The programmes enable access to knowledge and skills from diverse fields in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science and Mathematics through partners collaboration, as needed to address the challenges of factories of the future. Specifically, the project i) develops a new international curriculum model in the area of mechatronics for manufacturing, ii) designs new training pathways for the current low skilled manufacturing workforce in order to compete in this rapidly advancing industry, iii) develops a lifelong training pathway for the existing workforce in the manufacturing industry that will enable them to maintain a competitive edge throughout their career. 

Funding Agency: ERASMUS+
Duration: 01/09/2020-31/08/2023

5G-HEART will focus on the evaluation and use of 5G enabling technologies in the vital vertical use-cases of healthcare, transport and aquaculture. In the health area, 5G-HEART will validate pillcams for automatic detection in screening of colon cancer and vital-sign patches with advanced geo-localization as well as 5G AR/VR paramedic services. In the transport area, 5G-HEART will validate autonomous/assisted/remote driving and vehicle data services. Regarding food, focus will be on 5G-based transformation of aquaculture sector. The infrastructure shared by the verticals, will host important innovations: slicing as a service; resource orchestration in access/core and cloud/edge segments with live user environments. Novel applications and devices (e.g. underwater drones, car components, healthcare devices) will be devised. 

Funding Agency: Information Society Technologies, EU, H2020
Duration: 01/06/2019-30/11/2022

The focus of REALISM is placed on the introduction of a novel distributed and scalable solution for efficient resource allocation in the emerging 5G and IoT competitive and distributed environments. We take a rather different approach from the overwhelming body of existing works in terms of the following two aspects: a) Instead of maximizing the Quality of Service (QoS) which is generally energy costly, we evangelize that better energy-efficiency is achieved by targeting satisfactory QoS levels only. This will be treated by a game theoretical solution concept referred to as satisfaction equilibrium; b) The theory used so far has not managed to properly address the fact that individuals in real life do not behave as neutral expected utility maximizers, but they tend to exhibit risk seeking or loss aversion behavior under uncertainty. To deal with this challenge, we will exploit Prospect Theory. We further complement the realism of our novel resource allocation paradigm in wireless networks, by integrating learning approaches in the considered games to reduce the impact of wireless environment dynamicity, as well as the lack of detailed knowledge or complete information about the actions of the rest of the users.

Funding Agency: Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.)
Duration: 01/12/2019-31/12/2022

COSMOS project aims to design and test an IoT-enabled application for smart touristic areas capitalizing on the NFV/SDN facilities and functionalities of 5GINFIRE. Visitors exploit the image processing capabilities of their portable devices (Raspberry PIs and 360-degree cameras) and servers at the edge of the network, to retrieve useful information for nearby Points of Interests (PoIs). To realize this, within the context of COSMOS, we will enable the dynamic offloading of processing workloads from mobile devices to edge clouds, and quantify the timescales at which such services (i.e., in the form of VNF chains) can be deployed and scaled. A user mobility prediction algorithm will estimate the incoming requests and facilitate the accurate design of VNF chains. Network service descriptors (NSD) will be generated and uploaded to Open Source MANO (OSM) via the 5GINFIRE portal for image/video processing offload to MEC servers. A workload profiling tool will provide state-space models that describe the dynamic operation of the VNFs and compute various operating points against the workload fluctuations. The resource description of these operation points will be included in the network service descriptors, enabling the dynamic deployment of the VNF chain and the scale -in/out in the 5GINFIRE infrastructure. 

Funding Agency: Information Society Technologies, EU, H2020
Duration: 01/03/2019-31/08/2019

GÉANT is Europe’s leading collaboration on network and related infrastructure and services for the benefit of research and education, contributing to Europe’s economic growth and competitiveness. The organisation develops, delivers and promotes advanced network and associated e-infrastructure services, and supports innovation and knowledge-sharing amongst its members, partners and the wider research and education networking community. It currently reaches over 50 million users at 10 000 institutions across Europe, and more than 100 countries worldwide. The EU-funded GN4-3 is the third specific grant agreement under a framework partnership agreement (FPA) between the GÉANT Consortium and the European Commission. It aims to help take European research to the next level, promoting scientific excellence, access and re-use of research data.

Funding Agency: H2020-EU – EXCELLENT SCIENCE – Research Infrastructures
Duration: 01/01/2019-31/12/2022

ACROSS project aims at evaluating, demonstrating, and further evolving a novel resource control mechanism for Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) based on Markov Random Fields (MRF) concept and Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology, and inspired by the principles of autonomic cross-layered protocol stacks, while utilizing the capabilities of the ORCA federation. Among ACROSS’s primary goals is to enable application of the proposed MRF-based decision-making methodology in real scenarios, and exploit the benefits of diverse testing features provided by ORCA for facilitating the realization of flexible, optimized and efficient wireless networks of the Future Internet paradigms. ACROSS will utilize ORCA facilities for a multitude of purposes, including the study of the impact of primary network users on secondary SDR-based CRNs, the effect of physical layer parameters of SDR devices on the proposed cross-layer mechanism, and eventually increase the TRL of our framework bringing it closer to industrial adoption. 

Funding Agency: Information Society Technologies, EU, H2020
Duration: 01/06/2018-30/11/2018

MESON aims at: (i) the design and prototype implementation of a new network slicing architecture that will provide faster and safer access to network functions and content dispersed across multiple slices, and (ii) the development of techniques for the dynamic placement of slice components for faster reactions to sudden load variations. Given the incentives for collaboration among Virtual Network Operators (VNOs), MESON will develop mechanisms for inter-slice communication, based on peering agreements established between the VNOs (similar to the peering agreements of Internet Service Providers). Inter-slice communication will go beyond content access, enabling applications to utilize functions and services deployed across multiple slices in order to improve their performance and/or security.

Funding Agency: General Secretariat of Research and Technology (GSRT)
Duration: 01/10/2018-31/10/2021

IoT2Edge aims to promote scientific excellence in the areas of edge computing and semantic interoperability in IoT environments through novel experimentation based on the RAWFIE federated testbed infrastructure. IoT2Edge will develop the respective supportive software (SSW) in support of the experiments that will evaluate the proposed solutions. This SSW can also enhance the current RAWFIE architecture increasing its openness and improving its performance. The IoT2Edge semantic interoperability mechanisms will be based on open specifications and standards (of ETSI and W3C for example) and will be pluggable on top of the RAWFIE platform. The edge computing modules aim to enable dynamic offloading of resource intensive processes from both cloud and mobile edge to achieve resource usage optimisation. The proposed mechanisms will be evaluated via demanding experiments driven by an IoT-enabled emergency detection use case. 

Funding Agency: Information Society Technologies, EU, H2020
Duration: 01/03/2018-31/03/2019

Assuming the data graph obtained by analyzing data dependencies in Future Internet of Things (IoT), CREDIT will investigate the correlation between sensor networks and the emerging data graph for different topologies from the FIESTA-IoT platform, with the goal to respond to the rather critical and challenging question of whether such correlations, if existing, can be used in developing applications in the emerging cognitive IoT environment. CREDIT will exploit a recently developed framework for big network data analytics, namely Hyperbolic Data Analytics (HDA). The goal is to determine hidden correlations in the network-data graphs and identify the most important sensors-measurements in the employed testbeds. For demonstration purposes, a smart energy management application based on ambient sensory data provided by FIESTA-IoT will be considered. 

Funding Agency: Information Society Technologies, EU, H2020
Duration: 01/02/2017-31/08/2017

PRODUCER aims at delivering a set of innovative ICT tools that focus on supporting various stages of the documentary creation phases, ranging from the user engagement and audience building, to the final documentary delivery. Apart from the key objective of reducing the overall production cost and time, enabling small documentary production houses (SMEs) to increase their market share and competitiveness, our project would result in: a) providing greater creativity and productivity to documentary creation professionals, stimulated by new production sophisticated tools that enable searching, annotating, editing, personalizing professional and user generated content, b) enhancing viewers’ experience and satisfaction by generating multi-layered documentaries, and delivering to the viewer personalized services, and c) facilitating the promotion of the documentaries to investors. 

Funding Agency: Information Society Technologies, EU, H2020
Duration: 01/01/2017-30/06/2018