ENCQOR 5G Technology Development Program Challenge Statements

Technology Development Program Challenge Statements

The following challenge statements have been developed by the ENCQOR 5G Anchor Firms - Ciena, Ericsson and Thales - to partner with Ontario based researchers and SMEs on 5G technology development projects.

SME Stream

Challenge Statement Project Partner Launch Date Deadline




Late submissions will not be accepted. Please review ENCQOR 5G SME Technology Development Program guidelines and eligibility criteria before initiating an application

Academic Stream

Challenge Statement Project Partner Launch Date Deadline

Late submissions will not be accepted. Please review ENCQOR 5G Academic Technology Development Program guidelines and eligibility criteria before initiating an application

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View Previous Challenge Statements

Technology Development Program (SME Stream) Challenge Statements

Challenge Statement Project Partner Launch Date Deadline
mmW Vision-Assisted Beam Management
 Ericsson Canada April 8, 2020 Closed
5G Contributing to Greater Public Safety on the Roadways
 Ericsson Canada
 		February 26, 2020
 		Closed
5G Layer 3 Networking
 Ciena Canada
 		January 28, 2020
 		Closed
Digital Reality for Operations and Network Enablement - DRONE
 Ciena Canada
 January 29, 2020
 Closed
Android Application for 5G Radio Frequency Surveys
 Ericsson Canada
 January 29, 2020
 Closed
End-to-end 5G Zero Touch Network Automation and Service Management
 Ciena Canada
 January 22, 2020
 Closed
Security and Privacy of Energy Trading for Smart Grid
 Ciena Canada November 6, 2019
 Closed
STRAT - STructured Re-Arranged Topology for Enterprise Data Centres
 Ciena Canada November 6, 2019
 Closed
Custom ASIC for at-speed test of Optical signal path
 Ciena Canada October 10, 2019
 Closed
5G Localization Use Case in Mass Rail Transit
 Thales Canada October 21, 2019
 Closed
5G OSS for Mass Rail Transit System
 Thales Canada October 21, 2019
 Closed
Multi-Access Edge Optimization with BP AI Framework
 Ciena Canada October 16, 2019
 Closed
Beyond Visual Line of Sight Drones Enabled by Enhanced Mobile Broadband
 Ericsson Canada October 16, 2019
 Closed
Digital Reality for Operations and Network Enablement - DRONE
 Ciena Canada October 10, 2019
 Closed
Enhanced IP VPN Networking Adapted to 5G
 Ciena Canada August 27, 2019 Closed
Indoor 5G/NR mmW Antennas
 Ericsson Canada August 16, 2019 Closed
Android Application for 5G Survey
 Ericsson Canada July 3, 2019 Closed
Highly Secure Communication Based Train Control Communications using 5G Public Networks
 Thales Canada March 20, 2019 Closed
Utilizing 5GHz Unlicensed Spectrum
 Ericsson Canada Inc. March 13, 2019 Closed
Omni 5G Indoor 5G/NR mmW Antennas
 Ericsson Canada Inc. January 15, 2019 Closed
AI for Network Fault Localization and Prediction
 Ericsson Canada Inc. January 15, 2019 Closed
E2E Real Time Machine Learning Analytics & Network Intelligence
 Ericsson Canada Inc. January 15, 2019 Closed
OSS in a Box
 Ciena January 15, 2019 Closed
Self Optimizing Fabric Research and Co-Creation- SME
 Ciena September 25, 2018 Closed
Networked Video Analytics Project
 Ciena September 25, 2018 Closed

Technology Development Program (Academic Stream) Challenge Statements

Challenge Statement Project Partner Launch Date Deadline
The Smart Factory Ciena Canada January 20, 2020
 Closed
5G Localization Use Case in Mass Rail Transit
 Thales Canada
 October 21, 2019 Closed
5G and MIMO Radar Virtual Driving and Simulation for Mass Transit
 Thales Canada
 October 7, 2019 Closed
Feasibility of Si-based Quantum Information Processing
 Ciena Canada
 October 7, 2019 Closed
Virtual Indoor Locationing
 Ericsson Canada
 October 3, 2019 Closed
Augmented Reality for Manufacturing
 Ciena Canada August 27, 2019 Closed
Device Coexistence in the 6GHz Band
 Ericsson Canada August 16, 2019 Closed
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Driven Multi-Layer Self-Optimizing Network for 5G era systems
 Ciena Canada July 3, 2019 Closed
FPGA based virtual fabric for distributed FOG/Edge Computing
 Ciena Canada July 3, 2019 Closed
A Comprehensive Clock Synchronization Solution for 5G Networks using IEEE 1588v2 Protocol
 Ciena April 4, 2019 Closed
Cognitive Machine Type Communications
 Ericsson Canada Inc. February 26, 2019 Closed
Spectrum Sharing Massive MIMO
 Ericsson Canada Inc. February 26, 2019 Closed
Assisted Autonomus Vehicles
 Ericsson Canada Inc. February 26, 2019 Closed
Situation Aware Machine Type Communication
 Ericsson Canada Inc. January 3, 2019 Closed
Virtual Locationing
 Ericsson Canada Inc.
 January 3, 2019
 Closed
Interference Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
 Ericsson Canada Inc.
 January 3, 2019
 Closed
Distributed Mobility Management of Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications
 Ciena January 3, 2019
 Closed
Network Security Project
 Ciena December 13, 2018 Closed
Algorithms for Virtualized Network Embedding
 Ciena December 13, 2018
 Closed
Sensor-less Sensing of 5G Application Traffic
 Ericsson Canada Inc. December 13, 2018
 Closed
Self Optimizing Fabric Research and Co-Creation- Academic
 Ciena September 25, 2018 Closed
Spatial and Temporal Prediction of Wireless Communication Channels for 5G Communication Systems
 		Ericsson Canada Inc. September 25, 2018 Closed
Autonomous Multi-RAT Radio Resource Management for 5G
Ericsson Canada Inc. September 25, 2018 Closed