[May 2016] Recruitment process closed. All researchers recruited successfully. 

[January 2016] Recruitment process for ESR6 restarted.

[December 2015] Recruitment process finished. All ESR positions have been filled by the most suitable candidates. 

[June 2015] WiVi-2020 launches open call for 6 PhD positions.

[May 2015] WiVi-2020 Grant Agreement signed.

[January 2016] Dr. Elias Tragos (FORTH): Heidelberg, Germany. Presentation of the WiVi- 2020 project at EML (European Media Laboratory) during a secondment. Discussion for potential collaboration with the company followed the presentation.

[January 2016] Nikolaos Pappas (LiU), “On the Performance of a Full Duplex Relay in a Multi-user Network with Random Access” Seventh Nordic Workshop on System and Network Optimization for Wireless (SNOW), Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy.

[March 2016] Vangelis Angelakis (LiU), WiVi-2020 presentation at Sensative AB (Lund) within the Vinnova OSA project.

[March 2016] Mohamed Elshatshat (FORTH): Presentation at FORTH for his background and his ideas for his PhD in the WiVi-2020 project.

[April 2016] Tewelde Degefa Assefa (FORTH): Presentation at FORTH for his background and his ideas for his PhD in the WiVi-2020 project.

[April 2016] Dr. Stefanos Papadakis (FORTH): Heraklion, Greece. Presentation of hte WiVi-2020 project at one course he delivers related with ”Network Technologies and Network Programming” at the University of Crete.

[May 2016] Dr. Elias Tragos (FORTH): Bucharest, Romanis. Presentation of the WiVi-2020 project to Siemens SRL during a meeting for the EU project RERUM. Dr. Tragos presented the potentially useful results of WiVi-2020 for Siemens products with respect to optimizing their sevice delivery networks.

[June 2016] Nikolaos Pappas (LiU), “Stability Regions: Cooperation, Energy Harvesting, and Cognitive Networks” Host: Xiaohu Ge , HUST, China.

[June 2016] Vangelis Angelakis (Liu), Secondment @IQU within H2020 Decade: LiU presentation at IQU - Discussed WiVi.

[September 2016] Nikolaos Pappas (LiU), ” Throughput with Delay Constraints of a Shared Access Network with Priorities”, Invited Talk at 2016 Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications (TIW16) What Lies Beyond 5G?, Livorno, Italy.

[September 2016] Nikolaos Pappas (LiU), Co-chair at IEEE PIMRC 2016 Workshop Inclusive Radio Communications for 5G and beyond, Valencia, Spain.

[September 2016] Antzela Kosta (LiU), Ericsson, Kista, research progress, presenting our model and explaining results.

[September 2016] Dr. Athanasios Lioumpas (Cyta) presented an overview of the WiVi-2020 project at the 55th FITCE Congress, which took place in Athens in September 2016. The focus of the congress was the interconnected smart society of the future. The congress attended several telecom operators from Greece and Europe, standardization bodies, like 3GPP, regulatory bodies and academic organizations, such as universities and research institutes.

[May 2016] Prof. Chrysostomos Nikias gave an invited talk at the University of Crete, organised by both FORTH and the Unversity of Crete and was co-sponsored by the WiVi-2020 project. Prof. Nikias is the President of the University of Southern California and holds the Robert C. Packard President's Chair and the Malcolm R. Currie Chair in Technology and the Humanities, and chairs the USC Health System Board. Prof. Nikias was announced as honorary PhD of the University of Crete and deliver a speech. Moreover, Prof. Nikias also had a meeting with the recruited researchers of FORTH giving them invaluable advices on pursuing excellent research and how they can quickly advance their careers.

[September 2016] Dr. Alessandro Bassi (Alessandro Bassi Consultings) was invited to give a talk at FORTH at an event co-organised with the MC-IAPP project SOrBet. Dr. Bassi is an expert in Internet of Things (IoT), being the technical coordinator of a lighthouse IoT project called IoT-A (Internet of Things Architecture) and is also an innovation manager and a business consultant. His speech was related with business opportunities regarding IoT and how innovative research can lead to new products and services. The FORTH fellows of WiVi-2020 attended the speech and gained new knowledge in the area of IoT, which is enabled by M2M communications and virtualization, which are two key working areas of WiVi-2020.

[May 2016] Vangelis Angelakis: KTS-seminar, Science and Technology Department, Linköping University.

[May 25th, 2016] Antzela Kosta, KTS-seminar, Science and Technology Department, Linköping University, ”Fair resource utilisation under age and value of information constraints in application defined networks.”

[May 25th, 2016] Nader Daneshfar, KTS-seminar, Science and Technology Department, Linköping University, "Reducing cost of indoor deployments with optimum dynamic network planning exploiting the benefits of M2M networks".

[From July 11th to July 15th, 2016] Tewelde Degefa Assefa, The 3rd Fed4FIRE summer school and GENI Research Experiment Summit (FGRE 2016) was held in Ghent, Belgium.