NTRA s Proposed Areas of Research

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1 R & D Department NTRA s Proposed Areas of Research CFP5 (May 2015)

2 The NTRA supports research in the telecommunications field in addition to other relevant fields. If you are not sure whether the NTRA fund covers the topic of your proposal, contact the R&D department and attach the title and the abstract of the project, even before writing the proposal. The proposed areas of research below can be tackled from technical and/or economical perspectives (the last Area below explicitly describes some economic issues). The NTRA has already funded many projects (check the NTRA website). Please check the active projects before submitting your idea in order to either extend existing projects (by complementing or addressing other aspects) or provide new ones. The areas listed here will receive higher priorities; however, applicants are free to propose other areas of their own interest. The examples listed below each area are just illustrative and are not inclusive. Thrust 1 (T1): NTRA Interests The NTRA encourages applicants to submit proposals in the following areas: Cyber-security and E-crime: The number and sophistication of cyber-attacks are increasing, in the meantime our dependence on the Internet and other networks for critical services and information keeps rising. According to the ITU, there are at least 70 million different pieces of malware worldwide, and smartphones have become a vehicle for their dissemination. Analysts report that at least 70% of s are spam. As a result, research efforts have been developed to mitigate the effects of these cyber-attacks. Research topics in this area include: - Malware classification and detection algorithms - Intrusion detection techniques - Biometric interaction with cyber-domains - Autonomous security - Authorization infrastructure 1 B4 Smart Village, K28 Alex Desert Road, Giza Ph: , Fax:

3 Spectrum management: - Efficient spectrum sharing, utilization and auctioning - How much spectrum is needed based on users' demand and activities? Techniques to measure and increase customers experience of QoS Thrust 2 (T2): Community and National Needs The Telecommunications sector can enhance the quality and the productivity of other sectors. The ideas should be inspired from the community or other sectors needs and a major part of the proposed solution should make use of ICT solutions to achieve this goal. Thrust 3 (T3) Technology Trends A1: 5G networks: The current thinking is that 5G should be more a revolution than an evolution. It should target high performance exemplified by orders of magnitude improvement in data rates and more stringent delay constraints as well as connecting billions of devices. Areas of research include: - New Physical Layer Interfaces - Massive MIMO - Full Duplex - Self-organizing Networks - Network Heterogeneity A2: Internet of things (IoT) Things (all non-humans) will be connected via the Internet and exchanging massive amount of data for information, control, optimization, etc. This area includes many items to be investigated: - How can the widely used technologies (WiFi,3G,LTE, LTE-A ) accommodate the new wave of IoT devices? - RFIDs design and applications - Data analytics 2 B4 Smart Village, K28 Alex Desert Road, Giza Ph: , Fax:

4 A3: Software Defined Networks (SDN) - Network devices supporting the SDN concept - Network Virtualization - Contributions to the new OpenFlow specifications - Scalability, security and slicing of OpenFlow networks A4. Smart Grids Smart grids mean efficient utilization of the power grid. This takes place at both distribution network and the customer side. Investigations in this area include both technical (security, demand side management, ) and economic (pricing, two-way transactions, ) aspects. A5: Other topics: - Cloud computing - Social networking - Multimedia communications (video over wireless networks) - Enhancement to cellular networks - Machine to Machine communications Thrust 4: Economic Aspects of telecommunications This area mainly targets researchers with background in Economics. Economists are encouraged to collaborate, where needed, with engineers to integrate different aspects in the study. A non-inclusive list of the proposed topics includes (can still propose other practical problems facing the telecommunications market): - Broadband studies: price/performance improvements in wired and wireless networks to make high-speed broadband more affordable, broadband adoption and usage, and enabling new services and applications (OTTs models). - Frequency spectrum valuation, auctioning and bidding schemes - Business models for video broadcasting over different platforms 3 B4 Smart Village, K28 Alex Desert Road, Giza Ph: , Fax:

5 - Telecommunications industry: analyzing the value chain and investigating the potential/feasibility of local manufacturing (equipment, devices,...). - Electronic payments, focusing primarily on non-banking payment systems and services as well as enabling communications technologies. - Pricing: pricing in smart grids, pricing in next generation networks, pricing for mobile cloud computing networks - Economic impact of over-the-top (OTT) services - Cost models for telecommunication services 4 B4 Smart Village, K28 Alex Desert Road, Giza Ph: , Fax: