• Project Data

    European FP7 Project
    The CONVERGENCE project is funded by the European Union's 7th Framework Programme
    Collaborative Project
    Grant agreement n. FP7-257123



    Coordinator
    CNIT (Consorzio Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni)
    Contact:
    Prof. Nicola Blefari Melazzi
    blefari@uniroma2.it

    Community contribution to the project
    2,989,140 Euro

    Project start date
    June, 1, 2010

    Project end date
    May, 31, 2013

Step by Step

CONVERGENCE ROADMAP

1) July 2010 – basic management structures and technical infrastructure needed to run the project

2) October 2010 – set of user scenarios that can be generalized to a very large number of applications and target populations

3) November 2010 – set of functional requirements necessary and sufficient to implement these scenarios

4) November 2010 – preliminary system architecture capable of meet these requirements

5) November 2010 – initial specification of key technical components of the architecture – in particular VDI and protocols between different system components

6) December 2010 – analysis of user scenarios for possible business models and collection of CONVERGENCE technology enabled business scenarios

7) March 2011 – preliminary definition of VDI

8) May 2011 – requirements and initial protocol architecture to implement scenarios

9) July 2011 – review of use-cases and requirements for developing of CONVERGENCE network

10) July 2011 – system architecture

11) July 2011 – general vision, functional specifications for the tools and sample applications, and a plan for the trials

12) July 2011 – CONVERGENCE documents submitted to and accepted by MPEG

13) September 2011 – preliminary demo highlighting major system component operation

14) October 2011 – Trials Track 1 Phase 1 Started

15) December 2011 – Trials Track 1 Phase 1 Ended

16) December 2011 – network and middleware design

17) December 2011 – technical specification of tools and sample application

18) June 2012 – Trials Track 1 Phase 2 & Track2 Phase 1 Started

19) June 2012 – intermediate protocol architecture

20) July 2012 – Trials Track 1 Phase 2 & Track 2 Phase 1 Ended

21) July 2012 – Final definition of VDI

22) July 2012 – Final Protocol architecture

23) July 2012 – Network and Middleware implementation

24) September 2012 – Implementation, integration and testing completed

25) January 2013 – Trials Track 1 Phase 3 & Track 2 Phase 1 Started

26) March 2013 – Trials Track 1 Phase 3 & Track 2 Phase 1 Ended

27) May 2013 – Report on standardization

28) May 2013 – Report on trials and experimentations

29) May 2013 – Report on use cases and requirements in the light of development work

30) May 2013 – Report on exploitation strategy