ACROPOLIS Advanced coexistence technologies for radio optimisation in licensed and unlicensed spectrum

Welcome to the website of the ICT-ACROPOLIS Network of Excellence (NoE)! The ACROPOLIS NoE was initiated on the 1 October 2010.

Wireless communications, perpetually a source of innovation, is entering new and uncharted territory. In order to maximise the potential of wireless communications systems and cater for the demands of the future, cognitive and cooperative communications paradigms are being considered that support advanced coexistence technologies for radio resource usage optimization. Such technologies need new thinking, and the development of architectures and facilitators which aim to realise the full set of benefits that these technologies might offer. Such benefits might include enhanced system capacity, improved spectrum usage efficiency and energy efficiency, enhanced wireless connectivity coverage, and the ability to support novel and interesting wireless communications applications and use cases, among many others.

To acheive the aforementioned ends, experts in such coexistence technologies must cooperate, share expertise, and harmonize their research, such that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Moreover, the next generation of European researchers must be produced, with the right skills‐sets to solve the challenges posed by such technologies. Prospective future researchers should therefore be educated on the fundamentals of these technologies.

The ACROPOLIS NoE is specifically designed to meet these challenges through a joint research agenda and the educating of graduate students in various summer and winter schools. ACROPOLIS also aims to arrange events that serve the general success and benefits of coexistence technologies including cogntive radio and spectrum sharing.