Attendees of IEEE NetSoft 2026 visited the headquarters of BENOCS in Berlin for an exclusive industry-academia exchange, featuring a dedicated round table and a technical presentation on the research activities of the SMARTNESS Research Center.
The SMART NEtworks and ServiceS for 2030 (SMARTNESS) FAPESP Engineering Research Center (ERC) aims to advance cutting-edge research in computer networks and digital application services focused on strategic areas where scientific and technological impacts can be achieved by the year 2030, in collaboration with research communities of cloud and networking.
With the deployment of 5G and the 6G vision being developed, the main challenges for SMARTNESS are how to design and operate cloud computing infrastructures and networks with adequate capabilities to leverage the next generation of Internet services and applications. The scope of end-to-end services at the Internet scale is exceptionally broad and requires contributions across multiple disciplines along with large investments in capital and human resources.
SMARTNESS aims to explore well-planned opportunities through an appropriate methodology based on the confluence of Research Strands (RS) designed to successfully impact world-class research and innovation through Scientific and Technological Advancements (STA) to address challenging use cases in Internet scenarios for industry and society with a vision on the horizon for the year 2030.
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The activity was designed to introduce young participants to the world of scientific research through hands-on challenges. Rather than simply observing demonstrations, students took on the role of inventors and were invited to solve a fictional problem using real technologies developed and explored within SMARTNESS laboratories.
SMARTNESS expanded its international presence through two important scientific dissemination and academic collaboration activities carried out by researcher Tariqul Islam, a PhD student and member of the project.