Spain  ESPAÑA 08/05/2025

IMDEA Networks leads the TUCAN6-CM project to promote more sustainable, intelligent, and resilient 6G networks

The project will implement advanced technological solutions to enhance quality of life, sustainability, and safety in smart cities, industrial environments, and emergency situations

IMDEA Networks is leading the TUCAN6-CM project, an initiative funded by the Regional Government of Madrid that aims to transform next-generation mobile networks through the efficient integration of communication, computing, and sensing technologies to meet the major connectivity challenges of the future. This holistic approach places the project at the forefront of 6G research in Europe.

 
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Spain  ESPAÑA 03/04/2025

ECOMOME: Advancing energy efficiency in mobile networks for a greener future

The project tackles energy efficiency challenges in mobile infrastructures, paving the way for lower emissions and reduced operational costs

IMDEA Networks has contributed to the ECOMOME project, a research initiative focused on optimizing energy consumption in mobile networks. The project, which concluded recently, was funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation and the European Union’s NextGenerationEU/PRTR program and awarded under CHIST-ERA 2021 call. It addressed energy efficiency challenges across all components of mobile networks, from user devices to radio access and core networks.

 
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Spain  MADRID 24/03/2025

IMDEA Networks revolutionizes 6G networks with DISCO6G project: real-time communication and sensing

Proposed uses cases in transport and biomedicine, sectors requiring reliable and low-latency systems

IMDEA Networks has begun its participation in DISCO6G, an innovative project that will transform next-generation mobile networks, in collaboration with UC3M, UAM, and UPM and funded by the Madrid Regional Government. Its focus on Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) enables network infrastructures not only to transmit information but also to function as distributed real-time sensors. “DISCO6G represents a paradigm shift, as it turns the network into a system capable of detecting its environment while communicating, something crucial for critical applications in transport and healthcare,” explains Jesús Omar Lacruz, senior researcher at IMDEA Networks and principal investigator of the project at the institute.

 
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Spain  ESPAÑA 11/03/2025

IMDEA Networks participates in a European project to create 6G networks that interact intelligently with reality

MultiX will develop advanced perception and communication technologies to enhance healthcare, industrial automation, and real-time environmental interaction

IMDEA Networks is part of MultiX, a European scientific project involving 17 research centers and technology companies from 7 countries coordinated by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), which aims to revolutionize future 6G communication networks by transforming their design and operation. By means of an innovative system that integrates multisensory perception, MultiX aims to make networks capable of intelligently observing the environment and interacting with it in real time. This innovation seeks to transform sectors as relevant as healthcare facilities or the autonomous vehicle industry.

 
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Spain  ESPAÑA 05/03/2025

Madrid leads the development of quantum-safe communications through the MadQuantum-CM project

IMDEA Networks, 5TONIC, Telefónica, and Universidad Carlos III of Madrid, participate in the MADQuantum-CM project, with the aim of expanding MadQCI, the largest quantum communications network in Europe

The Regional Government of Madrid is strengthening its commitment to quantum communications with an investment of 16 million euros in research projects on quantum communications and cybersecurity within the framework of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technologies declared by UNESCO. Among the initiatives the regional government is promoting stands out MadQuantum-CM, which aims to expand the largest quantum communications network in Europe, MadQCI, positioning itself as a strategic initiative for the development of secure quantum communications in Europe.

 
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Spain  ESPAÑA 07/02/2025

From SMS scams to echo chambers: COMET analyzes the impact of digital threats

IMDEA Networks successfully concludes the project, advancing the fight against fraud and disinformation in digital environments

IMDEA Networks has successfully completed its participation in the COMET project, an initiative funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the European Union through NextGenerationEU/PRTR funds. This project, led at our institute by researcher Guillermo Suárez-Tangil, has made significant advances in the study of malicious software, online fraud, and the spread of disinformation on social media.

 
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Spain  ESPAÑA 31/01/2025

The future of mobile gaming: less latency, more fun thanks to edge computing

The study explores how edge computing can transform Gaming as a Service (GaaS) by significantly improving performance

A recent study titled “Gaming on the Edge: Performance Issues of Distributed Online Gaming”, published at the IFIP International Conference on Networking 2024, proposes an innovative model to enhance the experience of online gaming, particularly on mobile devices. Led by an international team of researchers—including Professors Marco Ajmone and Vincenzo Mancuso from IMDEA Networks—the study explores how edge computing can transform Gaming as a Service (GaaS) by significantly improving performance.

 
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Spain  ESPAÑA 04/12/2024

The DIME project concludes with key innovations set to transform Edge Artificial Intelligence

Led by IMDEA Networks, this project has laid the groundwork for faster, safer, and more sustainable edge AI applications with global impact in key sectors such as healthcare and smart cities

Edge artificial intelligence (AI) is enabling real-time data processing and decision-making directly on devices, reducing latency and bandwidth usage while enhancing privacy by minimizing data transmission to the cloud. However, its widespread adoption has faced significant technical obstacles. The DIME project, led by a research team at IMDEA Networks and coordinated by Joerg Widmer, Research Director, and Jaya Champati, Research Assistant Professor, concluded this year, achieving a critical breakthrough in overcoming these challenges. Its outcomes pave the way for faster, safer, and more sustainable edge artificial intelligence applications, with significant impact in key sectors such as healthcare, transportation, and smart cities.

 
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Spain  MADRID 19/11/2024

GenAI4ED: the project set to transform secondary education with Generative Artificial Intelligence

IMDEA Networks participates in this innovative project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe program

In October 2024, the GenAI4ED project officially began—a groundbreaking international initiative funded by Horizon Europe in which IMDEA Networks is actively involved. The project aims to explore how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools can revolutionize secondary education. Scheduled to run until September 2027, GenAI4ED focuses on developing a digital platform to assess and select GenAI-based educational software, promoting its effective integration into classrooms.

 
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Spain  MADRID 17/10/2024

The BANYAN project concludes with advances in traffic modeling and automated planning of Radio Access Networks

The project's results have not only stayed within the academic realm but have found commercial applications

The Innovative Training Networks (ITN) project “BANYAN: Big Data Analytics for Radio Access Networks,” funded by the European Union through the H2020-ICT-2019 program, has come to an end this year, leaving behind a series of milestones that mark innovations in the field of telecommunications. Led by Marco Fiore, Research Professor at IMDEA Networks, BANYAN has developed innovative tools for data-driven 5G Radio Access Networks (RAN), while also successfully training new PhD candidates specialized in this field.

 
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Spain  MADRID 18/07/2024

IMDEA Networks completes the TRUST aWARE project, elevating privacy protection in mobile applications

The project, in collaboration with various partners, has resulted in an innovative technique that is being patented

IMDEA Networks, in collaboration with various partners, has successfully completed the TRUST aWARE project, an innovative initiative that has addressed the growing challenges of privacy and security in consumer-oriented software. This project, which has counted with the outstanding contribution of the Internet Analytics Group (IAG) of the Institute, focused on the issues of access to and use of sensitive personal data by mobile applications, often without users being aware of how their data is used, shared, or protected.

 
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Spain  MADRID 10/07/2024

A study by UC3M and IMDEA Networks reveals the existence of a hidden "pink tax" in digital advertising

The research reveals a correlation between a country's economic development and the prevalence of the digital marketing pink rate. This suggests that economic progress does not necessarily equate to gender equality in the digital marketplace

Advertisers systematically pay more to show online ads to women than to men, especially in highly developed nations, according to research from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and IMDEA Networks. This gender-based price discrimination in digital marketing, known as the “pink tax,” contributes to increasing gender inequality, as women are charged more to access similar products and services.

 
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Spain  MADRID 31/05/2024

A study involving IMDEA Networks develops HyperGraphDis, a method for detecting disinformation on social media

The algorithm outperforms existing methods in both accuracy and computational efficiency

Disinformation is a growing phenomenon on digital platforms, significantly impacting social, political, and economic events. It has long posed a threat to freedom and democracy. However, it is now even more pressing due to the speed at which campaigns spread through digital media. Researchers from IMDEA Networks, Cyprus University of Technology, and LSTECH ESPAÑA SL have developed the revolutionary HyperGraphDis algorithm, which enables the detection of disinformation on social media, helping to combat the proliferation of fake news.

 
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Spain  ESPAÑA 06/05/2024

DAEMON project paves the road to effective 6G networks

The European project ends with a gamut of innovations for the integration of AI in mobile network environments

DAEMON, a European project coordinated by IMDEA Networks Institute that started in January 2021, has just come to an end, achieving significant milestones in the advancement of mobile communication technology. The project has paved the road to effective 6G networks, with clear benefits to society at large in terms of faster and more ubiquitous mobile communication infrastructures that can support new services.

 
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Spain  ESPAÑA 27/03/2024

ORIGAMI: anticipating the future of more connected, efficient and sustainable telecommunication infrastructures

The project will contribute to the development of mobile networks with lower latency, higher throughput and higher reliability, which will significantly improve the daily activities of many public sectors and citizens

The ORIGAMI (Optimized Resource Integration and Global Architecture for Mobile Infrastructure for 6G) project is now underway. The project, funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe program, will spearhead architectural innovations for the next generation of 6G mobile networks, to enable innovative applications, new business models, and substantial reductions in energy consumption.

 
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Spain  ESPAÑA 29/02/2024

ENLIGHT'EM: weaving the future of wireless communications with sustainable innovation

The European project coordinated by IMDEA Networks has provided pioneering results to establish the foundation for the next generation of Internet of Things networks

ENLIGHT’EM, an Innovative Training Networks project funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action, has ended in December 2023 marking a major milestone: contributing to design a new generation of wireless systems based on visible light communication (VLC) and on the low power consumption of light-emitting diodes (commonly known as LEDs) for challenging Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios.

 
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Spain  MADRID 29/01/2024

UC3M and IMDEA Networks present the SLICES research infrastructure

Cutting-edge ICT experimentation in Spain

The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and IMDEA Networks are going to present the Spanish scientific community with a new instrument for carrying out complex experiments in the area of digital sciences. SLICES (www.slices-ri.ue), as it is called, is available to research staff and is part of a European infrastructure for experimenting in the information and communication technologies (ICT) of the future, which is based in Spain at UC3M.

 
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Spain  MADRID 26/10/2023

New research reveals alarming privacy and security threats in Smart Homes

A group of researchers from several international universities and research centres analyze the local network interactions of IoT devices and mobile apps, and demonstrate that a variety of security and privacy threats exist

An international team of researchers, led by IMDEA Networks and Northeastern University in collaboration with NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, IMDEA Software, University of Calgary, and the International Computer Science Institute, has unveiled groundbreaking findings on the security and privacy challenges posed by the ever-growing prevalence of opaque and technically complex Internet of Things (IoT) devices in smart homes.

 
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Spain  MADRID 04/10/2023

Cutting-edge European telecommunications research infrastructure unveiled with a node in Madrid

IMDEA Networks and UC3M are part of the Spanish node

IMDEA Networks and the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have presented SLICES-ES, a European infrastructure for experimenting with future information and communications technologies that will be based in Madrid, most likely at the Madrid university’s facilities. This scientific instrument, which will become operational during 2024 and with some initial services already underway since October 2023, will be made available to the research community to carry out complex experiments in the area of digital sciences.

 
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Spain  MADRID 28/09/2023

ChatGPT tackles controversial issues better than before: from bias to moderation

IMDEA Networks has led a study that concludes that although ChatGPT has more moderated than its predecessors, it still shows a certain libertarian bias in the socio-political sphere

New research conducted by IMDEA Networks Institute in collaboration with the University of Surrey, UPV, and King’s College London has shown that there is a general downward trend in the popular artificial intelligence (AI) platform ChatGPT to take direct stances on controversial topics. Whether providing agreement or disagreement, or an affirmative or negative response. Now, although the study results show a moderation on the part of ChatGPT when it comes to addressing controversial issues, they warn that in the socio-political arena, it maintains a certain libertarian bias. However, in economic matters, it doesn’t present a clear left or right-leaning bias.

 
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