Research Projects
IMDEA Networks Institute receives funding to develop its research activities from varied sources. There are two main categories of external funding:
Funding of individual researchers
Individual researchers receive funding in the form of grants, scholarships and fellowships from international, national or regional funds. At present several of our researchers are proud awardees of ERC Grants, MARIE CURIE Intra-European Fellowships (IEF) for Career Development, MARIE CURIE Amarout Europe Programme Fellowships, "Ramón y Cajal" grants, FPU scholarships and I3 subventions. (See details on our Awards/Funding Awards section).
Externally-funded research projects, attracting European Union, National or Regional funds
Externally-funded research projects enable us to collaborate with researchers from other organizations and backgrounds. Research funding is awarded following an open competitive selection process in which project proposals, and the private or public sector organizations presenting them, are subject to rigorous scrutiny. Such thoroughness helps to ensure that research undertaken with those funds is relevant, well-managed and with high probabilities of success in achieving its stated goals.
PIMCITY
Building the next generation personal data platforms Contact: Nikolaos Laoutaris (nikolaus.laoutaris@imdea.org) - Principal Investigator
Website: PIMCITY - H2020
Funded by: European Union H2020-ICT-2018-2020 (Information and Communication Technology) Grant
Duration:
Jan 2020 to Dec 2023
MINTS
Millimeter-wave Networking and Sensing for Beyond 5G Contact: Joerg Widmer (joerg.widmer@imdea.org) - Principal Investigator
Website: https://b5g-mints.eu/
Funded by: European Union H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019 (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks)
Duration:
Nov 2019 to Oct 2023
ENLIGHT’EM
European Training Network in Low-energy Visible Light IoT Systems IMDEA Networks is the project coordinator
Contact: Domenico Giustiniano (domenico.giustiniano@imdea.org) – Principal Investigator and Project Coordinator
Website: https://enlightem.eu/
Funded by: European Union H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018 (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks) Grant
Duration:
Jun 2019 to May 2023
EDGEDATA-CM
Una infraestructura para sistemas híbridos altamente descentralizados(An infrastructure for highly decentralized hybrid systems)
Contact: Antonio Fernández Anta (antonio.fernandez@imdea.org) - Principal Investigator
Funded by: Department of Education and Research of the Regional Government of Madrid, through the 2018 R&D technology program for research groups, co-financed by the Operational Programs of the European Social Fund (ESF) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Duration:
Jan 2019 to Dec 2022
TAPIR-CM
Técnicas Avanzadas para Potenciar la Inteligencia de las Redes 5G(Advanced techniques to enhance the intelligence of 5G networks)
IMDEA Networks Institute is the Project Coordinator
Contact: Domenico Giustiniano (domenico.giustiniano@imdea.org) - Principal Investigator and Project coordinator
Website: http://tapir-cm.networks.imdea.org/
Funded by: Department of Education and Research of the Regional Government of Madrid, through the 2018 R&D technology program for research groups, co-financed by the Operational Programs of the European Social Fund (ESF) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Duration:
Jan 2019 to Dec 2022
LOCUS
LOCalization and analytics on-demand embedded in the 5G ecosystem, for Ubiquitous vertical applicationS Contact: Domenico Giustiniano (domenico.giustiniano@imdea.org) – Principal Investigator
Funded by: European Union H2020-ICT-2018-2020 (Information and Communication Technology) Grant
Duration:
Nov 2019 to Apr 2022
5G-EVE
5G European Validation platform for Extensive trials IMDEA Networks Institute participates as a third party of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Contact: Arturo Azcorra (arturo.azcorra@imdea.org) & Ignacio Berberana (ignacio.berberana@imdea.org) - Principal Investigators
Website: https://5g-ppp.eu/5g-eve/
Funded by: European Union. H2020-ICT-2018-1
Duration:
Jul 2017 to Jun 2021
MYP-SOCRATES
Large Scale Collaborative Detection and Location of Threats in the Electromagnetic Space Contact: Domenico Giustiniano (domenico.giustiniano@imdea.org) – Principal Investigator
Website: http://socrates.networks.imdea.org
Funded by: NATO Emerging Security Challenges Division – Science for Peace and Security Programme (SPS). Grant G5461.
Duration:
Jun 2018 to Jun 2021
COLLABORATE
Developing a Strongly Consistent, Fault-Tolerant, Long-Lived Distributed Storage System with Failure Prediction Mechanism IMDEA Networks Institute is an External Collaborator
Contact: Antonio Fernández Anta (antonio.fernandez@imdea.org) - Principal Investigator
Funded by: Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation. RPF/POST-DOC/0916/0090 - COLLABORATE
Duration:
May 2019 to Apr 2021
Software and Virtualization Techniques for the Improvement of Performance and Scalability in the Integration of SDN and Network Services based on the Cloud in 5G Technologies
Contact: Jose Félix Kukielka (josefelix.kukielka@imdea.org)
Funded by: Grants aimed to the execution of Industrial PhDs within the Autonomous Region of Madrid (2017). Department of Education and Innovation. Regional Government of Madrid
Duration:
Feb 2018 to Feb 2021
PinPoint 5G+
Accurate, Pervasive and Low-Latency Positioning to Innovate 5G Networks and Beyond Contact: Domenico Giustiniano (domenico.giustiniano@imdea.org) & Joerg Widmer ( joerg.widmer@imdea.org) – Principal investigators
Funded by: Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities
Duration:
Jan 2019 to Jan 2021
Datacenter with High Efficiency - Optimizing Organization and Scheduling of Datacenter Resources
Contact: Antonio Fernández Anta (antonio.fernandez@imdea.org) - Principal Investigator
Funded by: The National Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
Duration:
Jan 2016 to Dec 2020
SYMBIOSIS
A Holistic Opto-Acoustic System for Monitoring Marine Biodiversities Contact: Paolo Casari (paolo.casari@imdea.org) – Principal Investigator
Website: symbiosis.networks.imdea.org
Funded by: European Union. H2020-BLUE GROWTH 2017
Duration:
Nov 2017 to Oct 2020
SMOOTH
GDPR Compliance Cloud Platform for Micro Enterprises Contact: Narseo Vallina Rodriguez (narseo.vallina@imdea.org) – Principal Investigator
Funded by: European Union. H2020 Cibersecurity PPP
Duration:
May 2018 to Oct 2020
NIST
A comprehensive Simulation Model for IEEE 802.11 for the ns-3 Network Simulator Contact: Hany Assasa (hany.assasa@imdea.org) and Joerg Widmer (joerg.widmer@imdea.org) - Principal Investigator
Funded by: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the U.S. Department of Commerce
Duration:
Sep 2019 to Aug 2020
DiSCoEdge
Distributed storage and computing on the edge (of the network) Contact: Vincenzo Mancuso (vincenzo.mancuso@imdea.org) & Antonio Fernández Anta (antonio.fernandez@imdea.org) – Principal Investigators
Funded by: Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades)
Duration:
Jan 2018 to Jun 2020