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Orchestration and Reconfiguration Control Architecture

Open Call 2
First ORCA Competitive Call for Extensions
Full Title of your proposal
Acronym of your proposal (optional)
Call1 - Identifier2 ORCA-OC2-EXTx
Date of preparation of your xx/yy/2018
proposal:
Version number (optional):
Your organisation name: name
Name of the coordinating person: First name Last name
Coordinator telephone number: number
Coordinator email: Email address
[This is the email address to which the
Acknowledgment of receipt will be sent]

Note: Grey highlighted areas need to be filled. Word template can be downloaded from
ORCA project website (see http://www.orca-project.eu/open-calls)

1 This call: ORCA-OC2


2EXT as ‘Extension’ followed by the number of the extension topic applying for: EXT1 - Partial reprogramming of FPGA on
SDR at runtime; EXT2 - Polar Codes for FPGA; EXT3 - Interfaces for 5G and LTE interworking; EXT4 - Dynamic runtime
composition of mmWave transceiver chains consisting of processing functions that are split between FPGA and CPU.
Section A Project Summary
(Maximum 300 words – summary of the proposed work)

Remark: The information in this section may be used in public documents and reports by the
ORCA consortium.

This section needs to be completed in the draft proposal and will be used for the feasibility
check (cf. Section D)

Section B Detailed description and expected


results
(minimum 4 pages, and maximum 8 pages)


This section describes the details on the planned Extension (what does the proposer hope to
obtain?, how?, why is it relevant?). This section should also include all information with
respect to the State-of-the-Art and the expected scientific or business impact.

This section needs to be completed in the draft proposal and will be used for the feasibility
check (cf. Section D)

B.1. Concept and objectives 


Describe the specific objectives of the proposed Extension, which should be clear,
measurable, realistic and achievable within the duration of the Extension (not through
subsequent development). Show how they relate to the topic(s) addressed by the
competitive call and how and why ORCA is needed for realizing them.

Describe and explain the overall concept that forms the basis for your Extension. Describe
the main ideas, models or assumptions involved.

B.2. Impact 


Describe the potential that the Extension will be used by future wireless experimenters from
the broader scientific community as well as developers from industry, in particular individuals
and SMEs, in subsequent (funded) ORCA open calls or by (non-funded) open access of
ORCA facilities and software platforms.
Show that the proposed Extension has sufficient sustainable benefits for the ORCA project,
meaning that there should be an added value for the ORCA project, after the proposer has
finished his Extension.

B.3. Description of State-of-the-Art


Describe in detail how the Extension will advance existing software, hardware and/or
experimental platforms, and to which extent the functionality added by the proposed
Extension is different from the functionality that is already available in existing work.

B.4. Methodology and associated work plan


Provide a work plan. Provide clear goals and verifiable results, and also a clear timing.
The work plan involves at least the following phases:
1. Design of Extension
2. Executing the Extension
3. Analysis & feedback
 Analysis of the results of the Extension
 Feedback on user experience
 Recommendations for improvements and/or future extensions of ORCA software
platforms and testbeds
4. Showcase: Set up of a showcase (demonstration) to be used for the evaluation of the
Extension at the review meeting with the EC, and for further promotion of ORCA
5. Dissemination: Regular dissemination actions (journal publications, conferences,
workshops, exhibitions, events, advertising of results at ORCA website, etc.)
6. Final report, code and documentation

NOTE: there is NO need to define work packages or deliverables. All results need to be
reported in the final report at the end of the Extension. Of course, a good communication
plan with the Patron is required to exchange progress within different phases.
Section C Requested ORCA software platforms,
radio hardware platforms and testbeds
(Target length 1 page)


Please check the ORCA software platforms, radio hardware platforms and testbeds that will
be required for your Extension.
Please visit the ORCA website to get details on the specific:
o http://www.orca-project.eu/testbeds

This section needs to be completed in the draft proposal and will be used for the feasibility
check (cf. Section D).

TESTBEDS Required (Yes/No)

w.iLab.t (Heterogeneous wireless testbed @ imec, Ghent,


Belgium)
IRIS (Software Defined Radio testbed @ TCD, Dublin, Ireland)
ORBIT (20 x 20 radio grid testbed @ Rutgers University, New
Jersey, US)
IMEC portable testbed
TUD macro scale testbed (Macro scale testbed @ TUD, Desden ,
Germany
KU Leuven testbed (KU Leuven @Leuven, Belgium)

SDR HARDWARE PLATFORMS Number of nodes required


Nutaq ZeptoSDR
Nutaq picoSDR
PicoZed Xilinx Zynq®-7000 SoC
USRP B200-mini
USRP E310
USRP N210
USRP X310
USRP 2920
USRP 2921
USRP RIO 2942R
USRP RIO 2943R
USRP RIO 2952R (+ GPS)
USRP RIO 2953R (+ GPS)
USRP RIO 2953R (+ EBD)
WARPv2
Xilinx ZC706 Evaluation Kit - Zynq® 7000
SoC + AD FMCOMM radio frontend
ZedBoard Xilinx Zynq®-7000 SoC
ZedBoard Xilinx Zynq®-7000 SoC + AD
FMCOMM radio frontend
BB – NI PXI 7975 Module
BB – NI PXI 7965 Module
FE – NI PXI 5644
FE – NI PXI 7976R

SOFTWARE TOOLS Required (Yes/No)

IRIS Software Radio


GNU Radio
NI LabVIEW
Xilinx Vivado Design Suite v2015.4 for RFNoC related
development
Xilinx Vivado Design Suite v2016.2 and Analog Device
AD9361 HDL Reference Design
Xilinx Software Development Kit (SDK)
NI LabVIEW Full Duplex
NI LabVIEW Massive MIMO
NI LabVIEW Communications System Design Suite based
GFDM flexible transmitter
LabVIEW Communications LTE Application Framework
LabVIEW Communications 802.11 Application Framework
NI L1-L2 API
ns-3 network simulator (LTE + WiFi module)
Time-Annotated Instruction Set Computer (TAISC)
Generic Internet-of-Things ARchitecture (GITAR)

Please provide a short motivation on why specific testbeds, hardware platforms and
software platforms will be required for the proposed Experiment. (maximum ½ page)
Section D Feasibility and Relevance check
(maximum 1 page)


This section contains the feedback from the ORCA partner acting as Patron on this
Extension. Each proposing party must contact the ORCA consortium regarding its
submission to identify a possible Patron. This Patron can be the ORCA partner responsible
for the testbed, hardware or software platform the proposer will use during its Extension. The
proposing party must submit its draft proposal to this Patron by Monday the 21st May 2018,
end of the day. The feedback by the Patron is copied into this section of the proposal.

Section E Background and qualifications


(maximum 2 pages)


This section describes the proposer and includes an overview of the activities, the
proposer’s qualifications, technical expertise and other information to allow the reviewers to
judge the proposer’s ability to carry out the Extension.

Section F Expected feedback to the ORCA


Consortium
(maximum 1 page)


This section contains valuable information for the ORCA consortium and should indicate the
expected feedback the ORCA consortium can expect from the use of its software tools,
hardware platforms and/or testbeds after carrying out the Extension. This information is
essential in view of the further improving the usability of the ORCA facility.

Section G Requested funding


(maximum 1 page)


This section provides an overview of the budgeted costs and the requested funding. A split
is made in personnel costs, other direct costs (travel, consumables, etc.) and indirect costs.
Besides the table below, extra information can be provided to support the requested funding
and which may help to judge the cost to the ORCA project.
Please show your figures in euros (not thousands of euros).

Total Cost (€)


PM
(1) Direct personnel
costs
(2) Other direct costs, of which:
Travel
Equipment
Other goods and services
(3) Indirect costs
(4) Total costs (Sum of 1, 2 and 3)

In row (1), insert your direct personnel costs for the work involved.
In row (2), insert any other costs, for example travel or equipment costs. Please allocate
sufficient budget for participation at the final review meeting, and visit(s) to ORCA partners,
in case this is required in view of advanced support by the Patron.
In row (3), calculate the indirect costs (for personnel and other direct costs)
In row (4), calculate the sum of your personnel, other direct costs and indirect costs.
The maximum funding which is allowed in this call is set at 75 000 € for Extension.
In view of the review of your proposal it is best to list the costs related to the proposed
Extension as would be done for any European Project.

Section H Use of proposal information


In this section the proposing party is asked to include some statements related to sharing
information of his proposal within the ORCA consortium. 

Proposals are treated in a confidential way, meaning that only successful proposals must be
disclosed to the ORCA consortium. Open calls previously organized by other projects were
very successful and have revealed that many submitted non-granted proposals also contain
very interesting and valuable information that could be used for setting up collaborations or
to extract ideas for further improving the federated test infrastructures. Therefore the ORCA
project would like to have the opportunity to collect more detailed information and further use
this information, also if the proposal is not selected for funding. In any case, the ORCA
consortium will treat all information of a proposal confidentially.
Two types of information usage are envisaged:
o Information which is part of the Sections A, C, D and F will be used within the ORCA project as
input for tasks related to testbed and software platform optimizations, sustainability studies,
etc. The same information can also be used in an anonymous way to create statistics and
reports about this first open call. All proposals submitted to this competitive open call are
obliged to allow this form of information access and usage. 

o Other information belonging to this proposal might also be accessed by the ORCA consortium,
if allowed by the corresponding proposer. Any use of such information will be discussed and
agreed upon with the proposers. Proposers have the freedom to select if they wish to support
this kind of information usage. 


I allow that the material provided in Sections A, C, D and F of this


proposal may be accessed by the ORCA consortium, also if the Yes
proposal is not selected for funding. In any case, the ORCA
consortium will treat all this information confidentially. It will be used
within the ORCA project as input for tasks related to testbed and
software platform optimizations, sustainability studies, etc. The same
information can also be used in an anonymous way to create
statistics and reports about this first open call.
Furthermore, I allow that the other parts of this proposal may be
accessed by the ORCA consortium, also if the proposal is not Yes No
selected for funding. In any case, the ORCA consortium will treat all
information of this proposal confidentially. Any use of this information
will be discussed and agreed upon with the proposers.

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