Program Name:

Ericsson Request for Project Proposal

Ericsson is soliciting projects from researchers across Canada for the purposes of strengthening Canada's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) ecosystem and to enhance its vision of a Networked Society. 

Type:

Request for Proposals (RFP)

Office of Research Deadline:

24 October, 2014

Program Deadlines:

Research focus areas:

Areas of focus include, but are not limited to the following subjects:

• Next generation IP network
• Next generation fixed and mobile broadband technologies (ie. 5G)
• Heterogeneous networks and small cells
• Telco cloud computing
• Smart Grid communications
• Machine-to-machine communications
• Internet of the future
• Business model research
• Social implications of a networked society
• Energy efficiency of infrastructure
• Virtualization
• Applications of networked society such as e-health, m-health, intelligent transportation systems, security or cyber-security
• Video solutions
• OSS and BSS solutions

Amount:

$30,000 to $60,000 CAD

Length of project:

Typically 1 year, and may extend to 2 years.

Industry partner:

Ericsson is open to partnering, under the terms specified in the General Terms- Industry-University Research Agreement (with NSERC participation) attached as "University (NSERC) template rfp 2014.doc"

Please note that, by the terms of their agreement, all IP will be owned by the sponsor and that the University many not be able to agree to all terms regarding confidential information.

Program submission instructions:

For details of the submission process, please see the attached "2014 Invite Letter.doc"

Office of Research application procedure:

1. Submit Cover Sheet
2. Copy of proposal to Office of Research contact listed below

Office of Research Contacts:

Val Dreisinger (vdreisinger@uwaterloo.ca  x32364)

• All Faculties except Engineering

Chantal Thiel (cthiel@uwaterloo.ca  x32023)

• Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Management Sciences

Meaghan Winfield (mwinfield@uwaterloo.ca)

• Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
• Systems Design Engineering
• Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Architecture

Program contact:

For further enquiries please contact:

Richard Pym

Strategic Sourcing Manager,

BNET SW, Systems & Consultancy Sourcing Americas

Richard.pym@ericsson.com