CONNECT Centre

Since January 2017, CTVR has been folded into CONNECT, the world leading Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) research centre for Future Networks and Communications. Find out more about CONNECT at www.connectcentre.ie

Follow CONNECT on Twitter (@connect_ie), LinkedIn and Facebook.

The Director of CONNECT is Professor Linda Doyle. CONNECT researchers work at ten Higher Education Institutes around Ireland, viz. Trinity College Dublin (CONNECT Headquarters), Cork Institute of Technology, Dublin City University, Dublin Institute of Technology, Maynooth University, University College Cork, University College Dublin, University of Limerick, Telecommunications and Software Systems Group at Waterford Institute of Technology, and Tyndall National Institute.

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CTVR is now hiring a post-doctoral researcher

Dr. Marco Ruffini & Prof. David Payne have a position available for a post‐doctoral researcher in digital design and FPGA implementation of network protocols and algorithms. For more details see the job advertisement

Openhere 14.11-16.11 2014

Cryptocurrencies, digital sharing, 3D printed goods – just some of the disruptive online practices and technologies that are transforming and reshaping our economy. These innovative technologies have impacted the market, enabling new business models, evolving market conditions and transforming economic and social landscapes. However, the commodification and commercial adoption of these disruptive technologies has also raised concerns and questions in terms of access, control and sustainability. How can we develop these practices to not only support a digital commons, but also to support more equitable and sustainable worlds?

Openhere is a 3-day international festival and conference where online practices such as sharing, peer-production and open source meet real world material economies. The program brings together researchers, artists, engineers and activists to critically engage alternative economic models and digital currencies, open source hardware and ecology, and new forms of peer production and sharing happening at the intersection of digital and real world spaces. Sessions include talks, panel discussions, workshops and screenings. 

Participants include: Benjamin Tincq, Brett Scott, Cathal Garvey, Chelsea Rustrum, Denisa Kera, Duncan McCann, Eli Gothill, Gawin Dapper, Geraldine Juárez, Graham Barnes Kevin Flanagan, Lana Swartz, Linda Doyle, Lúí Smyth, Nigel Dodd, Nora O’ Murchú, Peter Hanappe, Rachel O’Dwyer, The Robin Hood Cooperative, Sean Cubitt, Vasilis Kostakis and more.

Topics include: Alternative Currencies | Open Sourcing Finance | Open Hardware | Distributed Manufacturing | Open Source Ecology | Peer Production | Sharing Economies

All sessions free but booking recommended. For more information, program details and to book a place www.openhere.data.ie

Openhere is a joint initiative of (CTVR) The Telecommunications Research Centre in collaboration with the Dublin Art and Technology Association (D.A.T.A) and is supported by the Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin. 

CTVR is now hiring

Dr. Marco Ruffini & Prof. David Payne have a position available for a post‐doctoral researcher in Passive optical network protocol simulation and implementation in FPGA platform. For more details see the job advertisement

2014 at CTVR

The team at CTVR have returned after a well deserved break following an
intense lead up to Christmas which saw us prepare and submit a
pre-proposal for the new SFI Research Centres Programme, and undergo an
SFI site visit and review.
Our SFI Research Centres proposal fits nicely within one of the themes
of the call – Future Networks and Communications. We are really excited
about this new opportunity, we’ve put together a great expanded
consortium and we expect to hear the result of the pre-proposal stage in
early February.
Our mid-stage SFI review was carried out by six international experts
and was held over two days in December. The whole team put in a great
effort and it was nice to once again see the scale of what we’re doing
here. We look forward to receiving the feedback some time this month.

Now that we’re back, the SFI Census, and Annual Report are in
preparation, while we’re not letting up on the preparations for the new bid.

Fun times!

CTVR is now hiring

Prof. Luiz DaSilva has a position available for a post‐doctoral researcher in small cells and future wireless networks. For more details see the job advertisement

CTVR communications showcase 2013.. a great success!

This years CTVR Technology Showcase was held in the Lighthouse cinema in Smithfield and a great morning was had by all. The CTVR team displayed their work in impressive fashion and wowed the attendants with their ideas for future networks. Here are some images captured on the day.

New Testbed under construction

The hard, dirty work of renovating space to house the CTVR testbed is finally underway. Since moving in to the listed Dunlop Oriel House, the wireless testbed along with the students and researchers that use it have been operating in a cramped, dark, hot corner of the building. The builders are here and the Soviet-era panelling that had divided the room into 4.5 offices, a corridor and a lab is being removed this week.

CTVR is motivated by the ethos ‘theorise, simulate and build’. The upgraded testbed will provide a state-of-the-art experimental setting in which to test theories and concepts and move CTVR’s results beyond simulation and evaluation. The facility will be available to CTVR partners and affiliates – both academic and industrial.

Collaboration with artist Louise Ward

2 MAy 2013: During Louise Ward’s 7-day residency “Insert Emoticon” at Market Studios in Dublin she created random interactions with the audience and performed actions integrating sculptural objects & sound with invited guests and the public. CTVR Director Linda Doyle, Senior Researcher Tim Forde and PhD student and artist Jessica Foley were invited in to a conversational wide-ranging discussion about cognitive radio. The discussion was broadcast live on radio al cabira (www.radioalcabira.com) and can be downloaded from here (http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/32253903).

The discussion was used as the basis for CTVR’s weekly writing workshop ‘Engineering Fictions’ hosted by Jessica as part of her research and artistic practice.

A bit about Louise:

As an artist, Louise’s sensibility is anchored in shifting perspectives of human behaviour, in the politics of the everyday and in hybrid spaces between internalized worlds of pleasure and externalised habits imposed by society. Her art work tips her/our daily struggles into absurdity, where certain socially conditioned behaviours are reflected upon in a series of repetitive performances.