14 - FTW/TUW

The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.) is the joint research center of leading players in telecom business and science in Austria. Established in 1998 within the Austrian government’s Kplus Competence Centers Program, ftw. conducts co-operative research in the following core research areas: Signal & Information Processing, Packet Networking, Services & Distributed Systems, Digital Content & User Interaction, Security & Privacy. ftw. has strong experience in managing multi-lateral collaboration and a significant track record of participation in European co-operation projects. This includes FP5 projects (Moby Dick, M3I, FLOWS, HIMM, and INCA), FP6 projects (TARGET, E-Next, NEWCOM, MAGNET-Beyond, MASCOT, and CRUISE), CELTIC/Eureka project BANITS2, and COST actions (273, 278, and 279).

FTW. collaborates closely with the Institute of Communications and Radio-Frequency Engineering (INHFT) of Vienna University of Technology (VUT), and experts from VUT will be involved in ftw. projects producing results for NEWCOM++.

FTW’s main research efforts within NEWCOM++ will be dedicated to iterative receivers, MIMO channel modelling, relaying and cooperation, network coding and joint source and channel coding. Both ftw. and VUT were also involved actively in the previous NEWCOM network, both in research and in administration. They jointly organized one of the main conferences resulting from NEWCOM, and ftw. also contributed to the establishment of NEWCOM’s web-based integration tools, an activity which is to be pursued within NEWCOM++.