Project description
Bridging the communication-radar divide
The clash of communication and radar systems has created a tangled web of electromagnetic congestion, hampering the progress of smart cities, advanced mobility, and security measures. For far too long, these technologies have evolved in isolation, leading to an urgent need for integrated solutions. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the C-ISLANDS project will bridge the gap between communication and radar systems. With a focus on developing cutting-edge algorithms and network-level solutions, this initiative is set to revolutionise the way we use the electromagnetic spectrum, ensuring superior performance, energy efficiency, and a more interconnected, secure future. Specifically, the project will merge communication and sensing capabilities, achieving superior performance and energy efficiency.
Objective
For decades communication systems have been developed independently to radar systems, leading to a duplication of systems and devices that exploit the electromagnetic spectrum in common ways. Yet, the future wireless infrastructure will need to do more than just communications to support smart cities, intelligent mobility, infrastructure monitoring, security. It will need to perform multiple functions and will rely on high-reliability communication and sensing. The independent growth of radar and communication systems is no longer sustainable and will lead to a congestion of devises, emitters and sensors. There is a skills gap in the community to address this as communication engineers work isolated to radar engineers, and a new set of skills need to be developed.
ISLANDS is a doctoral network that focuses on the theoretical and algorithmic foundations of integrated sensing and communication for the automotive sector, with the objective of developing new physical-layer and network-level solutions, to explore the fundamental limits of such technology, and to provide experimental validation and testing for the developed techniques. Specifically, ISLANDS will: 1) develop new transceiver algorithms, capable of integrating and leveraging the communication and sensing functionalities, with the purpose of achieving superior performance and energy and hardware efficiency; 2) investigate the ultimate network performance limits that the integration of communication and sensing can achieve in environments with extreme mobility; and 3) provide experimental validations of the developed techniques with proof-of-concept testbeds and realistic system-level simulators.
ISLANDS will train the next generation of EU experts and leaders with specific interdisciplinary expertise, combining sensing and communications, with the aim of reinforcing European leadership in the automotive sector of the next decades.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologycivil engineeringurban engineeringsmart cities
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringautomotive engineering
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technologyradar
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
Keywords
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN - HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral NetworksCoordinator
43124 Parma
Italy
See on map
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
Participants (7)
15342 AGIA PARASKEVI
See on map
412 96 GOTEBORG
See on map
33100 Tampere
See on map
70839 Gerlingen-Schillerhoehe
See on map
81541 Munchen
See on map
53100 Siena
See on map
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
41133 GOTEBURG
See on map
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
Partners (12)
03043 Cassino
See on map
53100 Siena
See on map
1678 Nicosia
See on map
76131 Karlsruhe
See on map
92130 Issy Les Moulineaux
See on map
151 24 MAROUSSI
See on map
447 37 Vargarda
See on map
OX11 0QR Harwell Oxfordshire
See on map
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
7610001 Rehovot
See on map
518000 SHENZHEN
See on map
27695 7514 Raleigh
See on map
WC1E 6BT London
See on map