Project description DEENESFRITPL New communication paradigm accounts for the semantics of information The data-intensive and timely communication needs of networked intelligent systems cannot be compared to traditional connectivity concepts of data being transferred between two or more digital devices. Today’s cyber-physical and autonomous intelligent networked systems can acquire, process and send extensive amounts of distributed real-time data. The ERC-funded SONATA project envisions a new communication paradigm that accounts for the significance and usefulness (semantics) of information being generated, processed and transmitted. The project’s key scientific challenge is to pursue the mathematical convergence between signal processing and goal-oriented information transmission by exploiting source/signal properties, process variability and semantic information attributes. This will result in a reduction of unnecessary data traffic and the associated required communication, processing and energy resources. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective Wireless connectivity is traditionally viewed as an opaque data pipe carrying content and messages, whose meaning, impact upon receipt, and usefulness for achieving a goal, have been deliberately set aside. This paradigm, although suitable for classical communication, is inefficient and inadequate to support the data-intensive and timely communication needs of networked intelligent systems. Generating, processing, and attempting to send an excessive amount of distributed real-time data, which ends up being stale, redundant, or useless to the end user/application, will cause unnecessary communication bottlenecks and safety issues.The SONATA project envisions a radically new communication paradigm that accounts for the semantic importance of information being generated, processed, and transmitted. In sharp contrast to joint source-channel coding, the communication process starts with data generation at will and active sampling of the source signal. Our key scientific challenge is to pursue the mathematical convergence between signal processing and goal-oriented information transmission by exploiting source/signal properties, process variability, and semantic information attributes. This is a structurally new joint approach, which holds promise to reveal deep connections between sampling theory, communication theory, and real-time systems, for a variety of envisioned wireless networked architectures. A direct gain is the unprecedented reduction in unnecessary data traffic and the associated required communication, processing, and energy resources. The success of the project relies on the establishment of concrete and insightful information semantics metrics and on the development of novel sampling, transmission, multi-criteria scheduling, and real-time source reconstruction techniques. SONATA will transform our fundamental understanding of when, what, and how to process and transmit data, as well as of the actual significance of the information bits communicated. Fields of science engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsignal processingengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technology Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme Topic(s) ERC-2020-COG - ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS Call for proposal ERC-2020-COG See other projects for this call Funding Scheme ERC-COG - Consolidator Grant Host institution EURECOM GIE Net EU contribution € 1 991 598,00 Address ROUTE DES CHAPPES 450 CAMPUS SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS 06410 Biot France See on map Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Alpes-Maritimes Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 1 991 598,00 Beneficiaries (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all EURECOM GIE France Net EU contribution € 1 991 598,00 Address ROUTE DES CHAPPES 450 CAMPUS SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS 06410 Biot See on map Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Alpes-Maritimes Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 1 991 598,00