This book presents samples of IT activities in the period 2002-2007, in plain language for a nonspecialist reader was adopted throughout. This is certainly an ambitious objective, not only because of the very nature of the activities, mostly research and development, but also because of its scope, that encompasses, and in some cases goes beyond, the already broad field of telecommunications.

Key performance indicators show the trend, existing laboratory facilities set the boundaries, and short descriptions of about 80 projects and research topics, chosen from a much larger set, provide compelling examples of IT activity in line with its mission “to create and disseminate scientific knowledge in the field of telecommunications“.

Instituto de Telecomunicações (it) has grown fast to become a quite large research institution in Portugal with more than 400 researchers distributed by 8 sites and branches across the country and activities spanning a very broad range of topics in telecommunications and supporting sciences and technologies.

A major challenge has been to use this diversity as an opportunity for it to become more than the sum of its parts, by enhancing internal cooperation between sites and groups and exploiting existing and potential synergies to the full. To pursue this goal, it issued in June 2008 an internal call for two-year interdisciplinary projects that had to involve at least two different research groups. The call closed on July 14, 2008 and received 36 proposals (4 were considered not eligible). The 32 eligible proposals were evaluated by international experts that rated them as Excellent, Very Good, Good, Fair or Poor. All Excellent and Very Good proposals (15) were funded for a total amount of 600 k€.

Activities in it internal projects involved 100 researchers from 22 groups and originated 16 prototypes, about 40 journal papers, and 45 PhD and MSc dissertations. In a few projects, the quality and innovation of the results fueled contacts with interested external national and international partners. We are convinced that, in addition to their own scientific and technological merits, these projects provided an important contribution to strengthen internal collaboration and to
achieve excellence in telecommunications, which is in the essence of it mission.

Instituto de Telecomunicações (it) has grown fast to become a quite large research institution in Portugal with more than 600 researchers distributed through 8 sites and branches across the country, with activities spanning a very broad range of topics in telecommunications and supporting sciences and technologies.

As it is growing, a major challenge has been to use this diversity as an opportunity for it to become more than the sum of its parts, by enhancing internal cooperation between sites and groups exploiting existing and potential synergies to the full. To pursue this goal and profiting from the experience gained in our second call for two year interdisciplinary projects that had to involve at least two different research groups, launched in 2008, it issued in January 2011 a third call for internal projects that closed on the 27th of February 2011 and received 40 proposals. All proposals were evaluated by international experts that rated them as Excellent, Very Good, Good Fair or Poor. All proposals rated as Excellent and Very Good, (21) were funded for a total amount of 721 k€.

Activities in it internal projects involved 100 researchers from 23 groups and originated 21 prototypes, about 74 journal papers, and 60 PhD and MSc dissertations. In a few projects, the quality and innovation of the results fueled contacts with interested external national and international partners. We are convinced that, in addition to their own scientific and technological merits, these projects provided an important contribution to strengthen internal collaboration and to achieve excellence in telecommunications, which is in the essence of it mission.

This book aims at describing IT activities, in the period 2008-2012, through a limited number of projects. A simple language, for the nonspecialist reader was adopted throughout. This is certainly an ambitious objective, not only because of the very nature of the activities described, mostly research and development, but also because of its scope that encompasses, and in some cases goes beyond, the already broad field of telecommunications.

A previous edition dealt with the period 2002-2007. Together they cover IT activity since it became an Associated Laboratory. Key performance indicators show the trends, existing laboratory facilities set the boundaries and short descriptions of about 70 projects and research topics, chosen from a much larger set, provide compelling samples of IT activity in line with its mission “to create and disseminate scientific knowledge in the field of telecommunications “.

This book aims at describing IT activities, in the period 2013-2015, through a limited number of projects. A simple language, for the nonspecialist reader was adopted throughout. This is certainly na ambitious objective, not only because of the very nature of the activities described, mostly research and development, but also because of its scope that encompasses, and in some cases goes beyond, the already broad field of telecommunications.

Previous editions dealt with the periods 2002-2007 and 2008-2012. Together they cover IT activity since it became an Associated Laboratory. Key performance indicators show the trends, existing laboratory facilities set the boundaries and short descriptions of about 70 projects and research topics, chosen from a much larger set, provide compelling samples of IT activity in line with its mission “to create and disseminate scientific knowledge in the field of telecommunications “.

Instituto de Telecomunicações (it) has grown fast to become a quite large research institution in Portugal with more than 600 researchers distributed through 7 sites and branches across the country, with activities spanning a very broad range of topics in telecommunications and supporting sciences and technologies.
As it is growing, a major challenge has been to use this diversity as an opportunity for it to become more than the sum of its parts, by enhancing internal cooperation between sites and groups exploiting existing and potential synergies to the full. To pursue this goal and profiting from the experience gained in our previous calls, launched in 2008 and 2010 for two-year interdisciplinary
projects that had to involve at least two different research groups, it issued in September 2013 a fourth call for internal projects that closed on the 3rd of November 2013 and received 83 proposals.
All proposals were evaluated by international experts that rated them as Excellent, Very Good, Good Fair or Poor. All proposals rated as Excellent and Very Good, (25) were funded for a total amount of 893 k€.
These projects, which are described ahead, fill an important gap in the existing FCT funding schemes that tend to favor small, monochromatic research teams. Activities in it’s internal projects involved 170 it researchers from 28 groups and originated 40 prototypes, about 109 journal papers, and 102 PhD and MSc dissertations.
In a few projects, the quality and innovation of the results fueled contacts and new projects with interested external national and international partners.