Celtic-Plus Research Areas

All possible research areas are described in detail in the Celtic-Plus Purple Book

Get connected
"Get connected” addresses everything needed to establish, run and secure the communication, basically, the infrastructure and connectivity aspects. Key topics of Celtic-Plus projects will be related to network elements and infrastructures. This includes wireless, optics and energy efficiency, as well as network architecture and connectivity, like networking and autonomic networks.

While connected
While connected” tackles all aspects while a communication is running, including, all requirements for new end-to-end services and applications. Celtic-Plus projects will deal with future end-to-end services, like digital home, digital enterprise, digital city, digital school, digital transport, and e-health, as well as horizontal services, like security, public safety and identity. The latter is particularly relevant for protecting the privacy rights of European users.

Celtic-Plus and the Future Internet
Celtic-Plus projects will also focus on the architecture and challenges of the Future Internet. One major challenge is to further develop the network infrastructure, which makes mobile Internet with high Quality of Service happen in conjunction with a much higher flexibility, capacity and mobility, so that future applications do not suffer from the current limitations of the Internet.

One important aim is the establishment of a “Celtic-Plus Use-case Factory”. The “factory” shall be complementary to the Future Internet PPP Calls under the EU’s Framework Programme (FP7). As there will be more excellent Future Internet use case projects to be expected than can be funded under FP7 Celtic-Plus offers another opportunity to realise some additional of these. Another focus may also be on capacity building, test cases/ platforms or alternative foundation platform.

Celtic-Plus and Green Internet
Celtic-Plus intends to be a driving force in Europe and beyond for future “greener” telecommunications. Three major challenges are addressed:

• make environmental issues

• encourage better energy efficiency

• develop multidisciplinary solutions.

Telecoms and ICT should be used to manage and control the best use of energy in other business e.g.

• health,

• transport,

• energy,

• e-government,

• urbanization,

• cleantech, etc.

To respond to societal challenges, solutions are required at multidisciplinary level. Celtic-Plus intends to liaise with related initiatives in order to address global solutions. Other EUREKA clusters in energy, water technologies, manufacturing industry, but also the other ICT clusters, are the first candidates.