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What is CTVR?
CTVR is a national telecommunications research centre. We carry out industry-informed research in wireless and optical networking. We have particular expertise in the kinds of technologies that will make networks flexible and evolvable and able to withstand change. A full description of our research can be found here.
What does CTVR stand for?
Originally we were called the Centre for Telecommunications Value-chain Research but we have dropped that title as the emphasis on the value-chain has been reduced. We now go by the name CTVR / the telecommunications research centre.
Which academic institutions are involved in CTVR?
CTVR is headquarted in Trinity College Dublin (TCD). The National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM), Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), Dublin City University (DCU), Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork (UCC) and the University of Limerick (UL) are all involved. Each institution brings different expertise to the table. An overview of our research can be found here.
How many researchers are involved in total?
There are 16 academic faculty members involved from across the different institutions. There are between 22 and 32 postdoctoral researchers and between 38 and 50 postgraduate students involved at any one time. The number depends on the number of research projects running at anyone time.
Who are the CTVR Industry Partners?
CTVR has seven academic partners. They are Bell Labs Ireland/Alcatel Lucent, Xilinx Research Labs, eircom, NXP, M/A Com, Socowave and Intune Networks. These are what we term core CTVR partners. They are signed up to CTVR IP agreement and partcipate in the whole CTVR programme. More details of industry interaction can be found here.
Are there any other industry interactions?
A number of the academic members of CTVR also have bilateral relationships with different companies. We consider a company to be a bilateral partner if the company is involved in CTVR related research on a bilateral basis with one of the CTVR partners rather than signed up to the whole CTVR programme. In addition we host regular events for wider industry and meet a large number of companies every year. More details of industry interaction can be found here.
How is CTVR funded?
CTVR is mainly funded by Science Foundation of Ireland. It is one of ten flagship Centres for Science and Technology (CSET) in Ireland. The CSET grant forms the bulk of our funding. In order to get this grant industry must provide 25% matched funding. The core CSET grant is then leveraged to get extra funding. We typically get additional funding from Enterprise Ireland, IRCSET and FP7 programmes as well as directly from industry. CTVR is also currently involved in five different FP7 projects - CogEU, CREW, MODE-GAP, PHASORS and SUBTUNE. When we talk about CTVR we generally mean all of the research activities involving CTVR-related research and not just the research activities funded by SFI.
Where is CTVR?
The headquarters is in Dunlop Oriel House in Trinity College. The headquarters is occupied by the central sta and the researchers from Trinity. The other members of CTVR reside in their individual universities and institutions. It is a dsitributed centre. Directions to headquarters can be found here.