RESEARCH, TRAINING, DEPLOYMENT THE ICTP EXPERIENCE

1. Research, Training, Deployment:
the ICTP experience
Marco Zennaro, PhD
Telecommunication/ICT4D Lab
The Abdus Salam International Centre
for Theoretical Physics

2. What is the ICTP
The Abdus Salam International
Centre for Theoretical Physics was
founded in 1964, by the late Nobel
Laureate Abdus Salam
ICTP is administered by UNESCO
and the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA)
The Centre is located in Trieste, Italy

3. What is the ICTP
ICTP is an institution that is run by
scientists for scientists to support the
best science possible, with special
attention to the needs of scientists
from Developing Countries
"Scientific thought is the common
heritage of mankind"

4. Visiting scientists
More than 120'000 visits from 184 countries, 20% of
visitors are women

5. Last 15 years
1993 to 1996 - Activities
cosponsored by ITU/BDT
1997 - ICTP-URSI-ITU/BDT
Workshop on the use of Radio for
digital communications in
Developing Countries
1998 - 1st School on the use of
Radio for digital communications
in Developing Countries (its 16th
yearly edition in 2013 with
financial support of ITU/BDT)
More than 50
activities,
+2000 people!

6. 1995 vs 2010
400$
3 Mbps
77$
150Mbps

7. Activities in Trieste

8. Activities in Malawi

9. Activity in Micronesia

10. EsLaRed
Started in 1998 at ICTP
One event per year in Latin
America, more than 15
countries hosted
This year in Nicaragua
More than 200 participants per
year

11. WNDW.net
A free book on “Wireless
Networking in the Developing
World”
Written by wireless geeks in
less than 3 months
More than 3M downloads!
Available also in Spanish,
French, Arabic, Portuguese,
Indonesian
http://www.wndw.net

12. ICTP model
Training
Research
Deployment

13. Malawi

14. TVWS propagation
• Lower free space loss
• Better diffraction efficiency
• Lower building attenuation

15. Propagation advantage

16. QuantifyingTVWS
• How many TVWS are
there?
• In cities? In rural areas?
• Do they change in time?
• ...in developing countries
• ...with low cost tools
• ...driven by academia

18. ASCII-32

19. ASCII-32

23. Nicaragua

24. Nicaragua

27. Malawi model
1. Measure TVWS
2. Regulate
3. Deploy
4. Analyze

28. Malawi

30. Deployment

37. TVWS training in 2014
March 3-14, 2014
Trieste, Italy
25 scholarships

38. Thank you!