Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences Dusan Kocur E-mail: [email protected] Technical University Košice Letná 9, Košice, Slovak Republic Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia Outline • • • • • “Personal COST Curriculum Vitae”: The first contact, motivation and start of my active participation in COST actions A review of my personal active participations in COST actions Common COST events and activities Benefits, added value and impact of the active participation in COST actions. Examples. Conclusions: Summary of positive impacts COST actions for R&D and recommendations for COST actions considering R&D in Slovakia Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia “Personal COST Curriculum Vitae”: The First Contact and Start of Active Participation • “The first contact” + inspiration: ICT COST Action 249 Continuous Speech Recognition over the Telephone (1994-2000) • Presentation (February 29, 1996): Kocur, D.: Fast Tracking RLS Adaptive Algorithms of Nonlinear Volterra Digital Filters. COST 249 meeting in Košice, February 29-March 1, 1996. Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia “Personal COST Curriculum Vitae”: The First Contact and Start of Active Participation • “The first contact” + inspiration: ICT COST Action 249 Continuous Speech Recognition over the Telephone (1994-2000) • Presentation (February 29, 1996): Kocur, D.: Fast Tracking RLS • Adaptive Algorithms of Nonlinear Volterra Digital Filters. COST 249 meeting in Košice, February 29-March 1, 1996. Impact: Active participation in the COST Actions from 1999 Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia “Personal COST Curriculum Vitae”: The First Contact and Start of Active Participation COST Action 262: Spread Spectrum Systems and 1998-2002 Techniques in Wireless and Wired Communications D. Kocur • R&D of TUKE research: • Nonlinear Volterra receivers for direct sequences spread spectrum communication • Chaos as a spreading sequence for direct sequences spread spectrum communication • Steganography based on signal spread spectrum usage Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia “Personal COST Curriculum Vitae”: The First Contact and Start of Active Participation COST Action 289: Spectrum and Power Efficient Broadband Communications • R&D of TUKE research: 2003-2007 D. Kocur • Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) • Multiple Carrier CDMA (MC-CDMA) • Multiple user detectors (MUD) • Piece-wise linear multi-channel complex microstatistic filters • Nonlinear complex microstatistic MUD for MC-CDMA Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia “Personal COST Curriculum Vitae”: The First Contact and Start of Active Participation COST Action IC0803: RF/Microwave Communication 2008-2012 Subsystems for Emerging Wireless Technologies D. Kocur • R&D of TUKE research: • Nonlinear receivers for MIMO-OFDM communication systems • Nonlinear iterative receivers for SC-FDMA communication systems • Short-range tracking of moving targets by handheld UWB radars Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia “Personal COST Curriculum Vitae”: The First Contact and Start of Active Participation COST Action IC1303: Algorithms, Architectures and 2013-2017 Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments D. Kocur • R&D of TUKE research: • Real-time operating wireless UWB sensor network for human beings detection, localization and tracking • Assumed applications: Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia “Personal COST Curriculum Vitae”: The First Contact and Start of Active Participation COST Action TU1208: Civil Engineering Applications 2013-2017 of Ground Penetrating Radar D. Kocur • R&D of TUKE research: • Human being localization based on detection of their vital signs (respiratory motion, heart beating) • Assumed solutions: UWB sensor applications for emergency event solutions Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia “Personal COST Curriculum Vitae”: The First Contact and Start of Active Participation COST Action IC1301: Wireless Power Transmission for Sustainable Electronics • R&D of TUKE research: 2013-2017 P. Galajda • ASIC design for RF part of UWB sensor (LNA, I-Q kits, impedance spectroscopy, ASIC for wireless power transmission to be applied for UWB systems, etc.) Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia Common COST Events and Activities: A Review • General meetings (GM) of the COST actions • Workshops and technical presentations (e.g. within GM) • Excellent laboratory-seeing (e.g. within GM) • Joint publications (books, special issues of journals) • Short term scientific missions (STSM) • Educational activities (e.g. summer schools, training school) Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D Event: General meetings (GM) of the COST actions (two times per year) Comments: A lot of leading European scientists and researchers, Ph.D. candidates and early stage researchers (ERS) participate in GM Activity: Bilateral and multilateral meetings with GM participants during its formal and informal parts of GM Momentary impact: Creation of very important and useful personal contacts for a shorttime co-operation. Long-time impact: Partnerships for future joint projects; publications; student, researcher and teacher mobilities (e.g. Erasmus program, STSM, etc.), i.e. creation of bases for long-time international co-operation. Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D Event: General meetings (GM) of the COST actions (two times per year) Impact example 1: Joint project 1 (COST Action 262, COST Action 289): Wireless Sensor Network for Water Quality Monitoring Program: Hungary-Slovakia Cross-border Co-operation, Project state: in progress (2013-2015) Impact example 2: Joint project 2 (COST Action 262, COST Action 289): Europe-Wide Emergency Network (EENet) Program: Marie Sklodovska -Curie Action, Innovative Training Networks, H2020) Project state: submitted, in evaluation (submission: 2015) Impact example 3: Ph.D. candidates’ mobilities: TU Hamburg-Harburg (Hamburg, Germany), Universitat Ramon Llull (Barcelona, Spain), etc. Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D Event: Workshops and technical presentations (e.g. at GM) Comments: A lot of leading European scientists and researchers, Ph.D. candidates and early stage researchers (ERS) participate in GM Activity 1: Leading European scientists and researchers give usually presentations on the newest advances focused on topics concerning the COST action profile. There are many invited key-speeches given by the experts outside of COST action Momentary Impact: Knowledge concerning state-of the art and the newest trends in the selected fields of science and technologies. Long-time impact: Knowledge and technology transfer. Implementation of the newest knowledge within our own research, estimation of the research trends. Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D Event: Workshops and technical presentations (e.g. at GM) Impact example: COST Action 289: COST topic: OFDM modulations: basic principles, problems, challenges for R&D, pros and cons, applications, etc. Today: OFDM is fundamental and leading technology for wireless communications and broadcasting (4G LTE, DVB-T, WiFi, WiMAX, etc.) Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D Event: Workshops and technical presentations (e.g. at GM) Comments: A lot of leading European scientists and researchers, Ph.D. candidates and early stage researchers (ERS) participate in GM Activity 2: Presentations of Ph.D. candidates and ERS (including from our own institutions) Momentary Impact: Practical experiences with presentation of the research results at a serious international floor. Long-time impact: Stimulating discussion results in new ideas for the followed up research and development. Impact example: COST Action 289, COST Action IC0803: Nonlinear iterating receivers of SC-FDMA communication systems for nonlinear fading channels (a part of Ph.D. theses). Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D Event: Excellent laboratory-seeing (e.g. within GM) Comments: During GM, a hosting institution provides usually its laboratory-seeing. Activity: Excellent laboratory-seeing as a part of GM. Introduction of hosting institution in the field of research, development, technology transfer , structure and education as well. Momentary impact: Inspiring information of the best practice kind to be used in our own institution. Long-time impact: Improvement of our own institution based on knowledge transfer. Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D Event: Excellent laboratory-seeing (e.g. within GM) Impact example: All COST Actions: We have had possibilities to visit of many laboratories of European universities. We are trying to transfer the gathered knowledge into TUKE (e.g. building of Laboratory of Sensor and Wireless Communication Technologies, Center of Information and Communication Technologies for Knowledge Systems, etc.). Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D Activity: Joint publications Comments: COST actions are evaluated according to a number of joint publications. Activity 1: Special issues of journals focused on “COST topics” Activity 2: Joint papers in high-rated papers and conferences. Activity 3: Joint book. Momentary impact: Publications in high-rated prestigious publication media. Long-time impact: Citations. A future co-operation with the publication co-authors. Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D Activity: Joint publications Impact example 1: COST 289: Krajňák, J.- Deumal, M. - Pavelka, P.- Kocur, D.- Pijoan, J. L. - Galajda, P.: Multi-user detection of nonlinearly distorted MC-CDMA symbols by microstatistic filtering. Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 47, no. 1, 2008, p. 149-160. Impact example 2: COST IC0803: Kocur, D. - Fortes, J.: Short-Range Tracking of Moving Targets by Handheld UWB Radar System. In: Microwave and Milimeter Wave Circuits and Systems: Emerging Design, Technologies and Applications. - Chichester : JohnWiley & Sons, Ltd, 2013, pp. 209-225. Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D Activity: Short Term Scientific Missions Comments: COST actions support by funds mutual mobilities of COST action partners. Activity: Mobility at a partner COST institution. Joint research in the partner’s laboratory. Momentary impact: Knowledge, practical experiences and skills in selected field of research and development. Availability of the equipment and software not available at the own institution. The new research results. Long-time impact: Knowledge, experiences and technology transfer. Partnership for next joint research activities. Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D Activity: Short Term Scientific Missions Impact example: COST Action 289, STSM-2004: Beneficiary/Applicant: Jozef Krajňák, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia Host: Prof. Arne Svensson, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden Results: Experiences with IT++ software for wireless communication system simulations. Application of IT++ for the efficient (in terms of timeconsuming) simulations and evaluations of wireless communication system performance. Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D Activity: Advanced education support Comments: COST actions co-organize and/or supports (e.g. by funds) educational activities for Ph.D. candidates in the fields covered by the COST action. Activity: For example: summer schools, training schools, seminars, etc. Momentary impact: Knowledge, practical experiences and skills in selected field research and development. Long-time impact: Knowledge and technology transfer. Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D Activity: Advanced education support Impact example: COST TU1208: Training School on UWB Antennas, Technologies and Applications co-organised with European School of Antennas and European Association on Antennas and Propagation April 20-24, 2015, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia Conclusions: Summary of The Most Important Impacts of Participating in COST Actions • COST actions can open “doors” to the European research area. • COST actions can help to identify of future challenging research trends • COST action represents an unique environment for creation of • new personal contacts supporting of future mutual advantageous co-operation COST actions can support the transfer of knowledge, experiences, skills and technologies. Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia Conclusions: Recommendations for COST Actions Considering R&D in Slovak Republic • Slovak Republic should provide the support of COST program in EU. • Slovak Republic should support a participation of Slovak researchers and institutions in COST actions. • Slovak Republic should provide funds (as in the past) supporting a participation of Slovak researchers and institutions in COST actions. Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia Thank you very much for your attention Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia Contact: Prof. Dušan Kocur Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics Technical University of Košice Letná ul 9, 041 20 Košice Slovak Republic E-mail: [email protected] Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions: Personal Experiences COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
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