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The CSA Catapult is a not-for-profit research and technology organisation, funded by Innovate UK. Our state-of-the-art facilities are home to a world-leading team of experts with significant know-how, experience and track records in developing and commercialising compound semiconductor technologies and applications. Within the RF team we can offer - Highly efficient RF GaN PA design - Discrete/MMIC, L – Ka band, mW to kW power range, Doherty & LMBA architectures Load pull characterisation, EM simulation & thermal modelling. Advanced packaging for thermal efficiency, miniaturisation & low loss interconnects.

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Integrator with experience in: - smart city environmental telemetry on our open source B5G testbed for various cities - smart mobility V2X use cases (railway, trucks, maritime, unmanned vehicles, etc.) as Romanian Railway, DB Schenker, etc. are our customers - smart industry use cases with Continental, NXP, Siemens, etc. - smart agriculture use cases with Bayer Crop Science, farming associations, etc. - deployment of 5G/6G solutions for the use cases (including AI, blockchain, quantum if needed) - business models and exploitation of project results in South-East Europe / Balkan / Benelux Region

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Signal Processing and Machine Learning (SPML) Research Lab @Istinye University offers expertise in the design of next generation wireless communication systems on: • Physical layer design • Joint communication and sensing • Millimeter-wave/terahertz-band transceiver design • Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces • Radar systems and direction-of-arrival estimation • Localization and remote sensing • Machine learning/artificial intelligence for the physical layer Relevant Publications: • A. M. Elbir, K. V. Mishra, S. Chatzinotas, M. Bennis, "Terahertz-Band Integrated Sensing and Communications: Challenges and Opportunities", IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, 2024 • A. M. Elbir, K. V. Mishra, M. R. B. Shankar and S. Chatzinotas,[...]

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Focus Areas: Integrated communications and sensing, mmWave/sub-THz systems, MIMO, V2V communication, low-power analogue receivers, AI/ML for engineering applications. Relevant Projects: Technology development of TETRA-2 telecommunication sub systems (OFDM Tx, Rx synchronisation, frequency estimation, AGC, header coding/decoding, delta-sigma ADC, DAC, CIC filter) ETSI Standardisation activities as Technical Committee member for Reconfigurable Radio Systems for SDR/CR. Other details Jaswinder Lota SMIEEE, MIET, CEng leads the Smart City Research group at the University of East London, London E16 2RD, UK. Visiting Academic with the Sensors, Systems and Circuits Research Group at University College London, London, UK. Relevant Publications. • Lota, J., and Demosthenous,[...]

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Agents for automatic configuration synthesis in view of - Ensuring proactive real-time resource management - Ensuring multi-objective resource allocation - Ensure error-free configuration and orchestration Enabled through structured reasoning, exact optimization guided by supervised learning, multi-agent reinforcement learning, AI planning agents. Selected relevant publications: 1) An Overview and Solution for Democratizing AI Workflows at the Network Edge, A. Čop, B. Bertalanič, C. Fortuna, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2025 2) Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning-based In-place Scaling Engine, J. Prodanov, B. Bertalanic, …., J. Hribar, To appear 3) Analysis of AI Planning Techniques for Resource Orchestration, S. Gojayev, A. Anaqreh, C,[...]

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Extensive research expertise with development of intelligent orchestration and workflows for AI/ML, including open source software and experimentation in trials. NAOMI — the only available alternative to the O-RAN AI/ML workflow. Designed from the ground up for modularity and distributed training, NAOMI empowers AI/ML model execution across heterogeneous edge devices — not as a workaround, but by design. If you're building next-gen intelligent RAN systems, NAOMI is the framework to watch: https://github.com/sensorlab/naomi eCAL - a new metric for computing the energy consumption throughout the architectural components and lifecycle of an AI-powered wireless systems by analyzing the complexity of data collection[...]

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The Borderstep Institute has a long record in research on data centres, cloud and telco sustainability assessment and regarding business models for innovations. We participated in multiple public funding from EU and national authorities. Also we are providing direct consultation towards the EU, for example for Energy Efficiency Directive especially on the new regualtion and data collection on data centres.

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First released in 2008 as the result of an R&D project, OpenNebula has become the only European open source cloud orchestration and management technology. As a Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM) and IaaS platform, it combines support for virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters with federation, multi-tenancy, and the automatic provisioning of cloud and edge infrastructure resources for building private, public, and hybrid clouds. Many of the features offered by OpenNebula are the result of the support received from the European Commission through the participation in multiple research, development and innovation actions, as well as of close collaboration with a wide community[...]

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- Joint Communication and Sensing (JCAS): - mmWave and sub-THz Wireless Systems: - Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS): - Software-Defined Radio (SDR) Prototyping: - Localization and Radio-based Sensing: - AI/ML for PHY and MAC Layer Optimization: - Open-Source Platforms and Community Engagement:

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As a system integrator, Italtel offers the following expertise: CYBER & OT SECURITY We integrate Cybersecurity and Quantum Security technologies into solutions addressing critical digital infrastructures. Our expertise extends to Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC), Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), and Key Management Systems (KMS), ensuring robust security frameworks for the digital era. NETWORKS EVOLUTION & 5G SOLUTIONS We design and integrate innovative networking technologies, focusing on 5G Private Networks and OSS/BSS. Our solutions cover multi-technology wired and wireless networks, ensuring interoperability between Voice and Video domains with centralized routing, policy management, and service control for IMS or heterogeneous networks. AI, ANALYTICS[...]