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February, 2010 - The Canada-California Strategic Innovation Partnership (CCSIP) program announced, earlier this month, its selection of 15 bilateral projects following a first call for proposals. The Joint Collaboration Research Consortium for a Green Cyber-Infrastructure stood among such selected 15. Led by McGill University, and the University of California (San Diego) this a bilateral initiative which will focus on research that improves energy efficiency and reduces the impact of carbon emissions on climate change through Green Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). This proposal addresses a critical priority area for both Canada and California: Reducing global climate change through ICT.
Researchers from over 15 Universities in Canada and in California will focus on Green ICT areas such as network architecture and management, devices and sensor networks, validation of new concepts such as cloud computing, green data centers, virtualization, smart grid, network and access equipment (wireless and optical), energy consumption and CO2 management solutions, sustainability and life cycle studies, business analysis leading to commercialization and new community services such as health care, home life, transport and education.
Environment and ICT are among École de technologie supérieure’s (ETS) seven major research areas. Synergy across two such important domains furthermore incites ETS to undertake a dominant role and provide the consortium with a specific expertise; complementary to an international research force. By its active involvement in the hereby proposed consortium, ETS seeks primarily to leverage its expertise in the fields of wireless communication, energy efficient signal processing and resource virtualization by addressing low |
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greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint applications. Professor François Gagnon and Professor Mohammed Cheriet will be the key players for ETS within the emerging consortium.
Prof. Gagnon is an expert in telecommunication systems. He was awarded, with Ultra Electronics TCS, the prestigious 2008 NSERC Synergy Award in the Small and Medium-Sized Companies category. Prof. Gagnon’s expertise will focus on two distinct themes. First, the intelligent mobile communications, where location based computation partionning can increase the overall green efficiency of cellular networks. The development of power efficient signal processing algorithm is the second theme and aims at reducing the “watt per user” consumption of cellular base stations. Prof. Cheriet is the founder and director of Synchromedia which targets multimedia communication in telepresence applications. Computational intelligence is one of the many areas of expertise of Prof. Cheriet that will benefits the GCI Consortium, providing network virtualization strategies minimizing GHG emissions. He is also the principal investigator in the major project: www.greenstarnetwork.com. Research targeting these three themes will be achieved with the collaboration of three companies: LIPSO (mobile communications), Octasic Semiconductors (power efficient processors) and Inocybe Technologies (virtualization).
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