Tag Archives: communication networks

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Hybrid communication architectures are network infrastructures from Smartphones which combine opportunistic and broadband networking. This project aims at studying the fundamental trade-offs involved in designing a hybrid communication architecture. The goal is to bring modern communication services to populations in remote communities with sparse and patchy communication infrastructure. _____________________________________________________________________ SOLUTIONS Modernising communication infrastructures […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY In recent years, MANET (Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork) systems have proliferated rapidly and are now used in variety of applications from the military to the environment. However, in many fields of application, the lack of fixed infrastructure, constraints on power consumption, shared communication channels and a hos to of other issues make MANET systems […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The Signal Processing and Communications Group performs research and teaching activities at the Signal Theory and Communications Department (TSC) of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). Research activities and commercial applications are focused along four main lines: Personal and Mobile Communications Ground and On-Board Satellite Processing for Digital Communications Navigation Systems Hardware/Software Signal […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Nature is replete with highly intricate and dynamic systems and processes which have been refined over millions of years of evolutionary fin-tuning. Biomimicry is the technique of emulating natural processes and structures to find solutions to human problems. The GeNeura research group seeks to bring biomimicry to the domain of ICT, specifically the […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The CRAAX lab actively participate in research into the area of advanced network architectures, nationally and internationally, in close collaboration with industry partners. CRAAX’s aim is to conduct not only pure academic research which is often decoupled from industrial realities, but also to design and develop solutions with the potential of being adopted […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The CCSRST (Research Center for Networks and Telecommunication Software Systems) research team has worked for many years in the field of telecommunications applications. The centre has fostered links with other leading universities and research institutes to identify international synergies in our research. Current areas of research in CCSRSTare: Communication protocols – validation, performance […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The 4TELL Research Group is focused on designing innovative solutions to enhance the ubiquity, convergence, optimisation and security of the communication networks of the future. The group’s mission is to contribute to the development of a real IP multimedia world of services through researching the next generation of ubiquitous and converged network and […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The Tidal News project seeks to tackles challenges arising from the exponential expansion of the increasingly complex, extensive, and heterogeneous internet systems of which the Internet of Things consists. The project aims to improve the inter-connection architectures and technologies which connect Things. Specifically, the team will develop new, leading-edge middleware for distributed event-based […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY NFC City is an open innovation project which seeks to promote the development and use of services for information exchange, access, ticketing and payment through new applications of mobile and near field communication (NFC) technologies. The project will conduct studies of user, business, security and legal use cases – and develop solutions to […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The SEASTAR project seeks to address the increasing need for underwater communication systems with higher data rates over considerably longer distances. This project aims to gather experts from traditionally disjoint communities to investigate, define, and develop core technologies for underwater monitoring platforms and to build the first working demonstrator. The research is expected […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Energy-use in buildings can be minimised by using modern technology with situation-aware devices that are able to communicate. The SOWICI project aims to develop a novel, energy-efficient, in-building optical/wireless communication network. This network will feature intelligent routing and transmission functionalities for wireless services between sensors and actuators and fixed and mobile wireless broadband […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Telecommunication has become a complex amalgam of many interdependent service and network providers and an integral part of contemporary society. A problem thus arises for critical infrastructure providers in accurately assessing the effectiveness of their continuity programmes. In this context, the Raster project seeks to develop a methodology for the risk assessment of […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The SSRG focuses its research in the general area of system software, including operating system software, multi-threading, system software for shared memory and distributed memory multiprocessors, as well as efficient exploitation of high speed network technologies. _____________________________________________________________________ SOLUTIONS Producing techniques for fast thread scheduling on SMP workstations Designing lock-free synchronisation primitives for IPC […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The Lithuanian eHealth project aims to improve the delivery of healthcare to Lithuanian citizens through adopting leading-edge ICT solutions. The project will promote eHealth development thereby ensuring effectiveness, quality and accessibility of healthcare services for patients through the use of comprehensive, reliable, secure and timely patient-oriented health information exchange and modern information technology. […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The Wireless Network Laboratory conducts research in the rapidly expanding field of wireless networks. This vast area of research covers many sub-domains such as mobile and wireless communication networks, broadband satellite networks, sensor networks, and integrated communication systems. The lab runs many research projects and collaborative initiatives concurrently. _____________________________________________________________________ SOLUTIONS Making it technically […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Ubiquitous Networks is a research group of the CNR’s Institute for Informatics and Telematics. The group focuses its research on developing advanced solutions for networking and data management in ubiquitous networks. Specifically, the group’s research is focused on ubiquitous networks of heterogeneous components such as networks consisting of user devices alone and environmentally […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY CTVR is Ireland’s national telecommunications research centre. It is headquartered in Trinity College Dublin and works in partnership with six academic institutions in Ireland (NUIM, UL, UCC, Tyndall, DIT and DCU) and collaborates with over 60 companies. The centre engages in leading-edge research, postgraduate education, technology transfer, commercialisation and outreach and is involved […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The Network Monitor project aims to develop an application which will enable regular and professional users to evaluate the quality of mobile data bandwidth and voice calls via different benchmarking tests. Additionally, the developed application will allow users to collect low level network information including advanced signal strength values and send these data […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The Media Networks Laboratory is a part of the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR “Demokritos”. The lab conducts research at the leading edge of next-generation network media provision. The team is currently working in collaboration with other researchers on several projects: GERYON: providing a unified answer to the problems that system integrators […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY One of the biggest challenges facing the telecommunications industry is to satisfy user requirements and optimally utilise network infrastructure to achieve sustainable solutions for industry while also providing affordable products and services to end-users. The CONFES project aims to provide a solution to this challenge by developing an integrated wireless-wired transmission network infrastructure […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The goal of the OkoNet project is to find solutions to unpredictable problems and conflicts of interest between network and service providers. The project aims to find mechanisms which can resolve outstanding challenges iteratively through research conducted in two separate case studies. _____________________________________________________________________ SOLUTIONS Using primer orthogonal approaches such as “Economic Traffic Management” […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The goal of the Integrated Planning of Multi-layer Telecommunication Networks project is to develop mathematical models and algorithms for the joint planning of multiple sub-networks/layers with a special focus on robustness, survivability, and energy-efficiency, providing potential cost and energy reductions. The project’s aims are twofold: to develop realistic models and suitable algorithms which […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY This project focuses on the allocation of centralised and distributed resources in order to optimise the functioning of wireless communication systems. The research project is being developed by the Information Processing and Systems group. _____________________________________________________________________ SOLUTIONS Maximising the sum rate achievable with multiple transmitter and receiver antennas Achieving a higher level of multi-user […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The general goal of the RAP project is to design, analyse and optimise algorithms for communication networks. The RAP research team also aims at developing new tools to investigate and develop probabilistic models of complex communication networks. This involves furthering available knowledge on stochastic modelling and processes and the development and use of […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The ambition of MAESTRO is to provide the internet community with methods and tools for the performance evaluation, optimization and administration of networks. MAESTRO’s specific domain of research is in stochastic Discrete-Event Dynamical Systems (Deds ), with a particular emphasis on heterogeneous networks and their applications. The project’s contributions are both theoretical and […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY MADYNES is a research team affiliated with the University of Nancy federation and INRIA. The team is located in the joint INRIA Grand Est and LORIA premise. The project focuses on applied and experimental research dedicated to the management of the Future Internet. More specifically, the MADYNES team are interested in designing and […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Future Ubiquitous Networks (FUN) aims to develop self-organisation solutions for future wireless sensor, actuator and RFID networks. These solutions will allow those kinds of networks to self-deploy, to discover, to communicate, to know when to sleep, when to transmit, etc. FUN seeks to validate their solutions heuristically through a process of experimentation and […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The Future Internet of Things project aims to develop an experimental Future Internet research facility, and a federated and competitive infrastructure with international visibility. The facility will contain a set of complementary components which will enable experimentation on innovative services for academic and industrial users. The project will give French Internet stakeholders a […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The main objectives of the DIONYSOS (Dependability Interoperability and perfOrmance aNalYsiS Of networkS) project are the identification,conception and selection of the most appropriate network architectures of a communication service, as well as the development of computing and mathematical tools for the fulfillment of these tasks. These objectives lead to two types of complementary […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY COATI (Combinatorics, Optimization, and Algorithms for Telecommunications) is a joint project-team between Inria Sophia Antipolis – Méditerranée and the I3S laboratory, which itself belongs to CNRS and University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (UNS). The team is working on several concurrent projects which seek solutions to mathematical challenges arising from the development of the future […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The volume of wireless data transfer is expanding at an explosive rate. Current wireless networks are struggling to carry the data traffic generated by smart phones and other mobile devices.Cognitive radio is expected to provide a significant boost for wireless communications and to introduce new business opportunities. The aim of Tekes’ Trial Environment […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY This project aims to develop a greater quality of security and trust management for the Future Internet, safeguarding end-users from unwanted and potentially harmful internet traffic. The application of RE2EE’s technology would mean that routing in customer networks or traversal of the customer edge has no impact on routing in the core network […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The main objective of the MyOcean2 project will be to operate a rigorous, robust and sustainable Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting system capable of delivering ocean physical state and ecosystem information to intermediate and downstream users in the areas of marine safety, marine resources, marine and coastal environment and climate, seasonal and weather forecasting. […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The overall goal of the CITH project to contribute to a safe and secure life of chronic heart failure patients with Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator’s (ICDs) through improved IT-supported communication and collaboration between all involved parties. CITH will advance the conceptual and practical understanding of how to model, develop and implement socio-technical IT solutions for […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The Multimedia project is building an environment for user communications and multimedia content sharing on high throughput optical networks and the middleware layer. The project focus primarily on the research, development, and quality of rich multimedia services (audio, video, text, and presence) using standard signaling protocols (H.323, SIP), services (MCU), web conferences, streaming, […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY This activity aims at the development of tools suitable for large scale, systematic and continuous network infrastructure development and traffic monitoring. _____________________________________________________________________ SOLUTIONS Network infrastructure monitoring: Sustaining large scale and continuous long term analysis of network infrastructure states and trends of behaviour Providing both overall views on sets of items as well as […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The main goal of the Extension of the National R&D Information Infrastructure in Regions (eIGeR) project is the development of a national e-infrastructure for research and development within the Czech Republic which involves all integral components necessary for providing services with high added value. _____________________________________________________________________ SOLUTIONS Increasing the communication infrastructure capacity and extending […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The CESNET Large Infrastructure project builds on a previous CESNET research project named Optical National Research Network and Its New Applications. Its main goal is to develop the Czech national research and education network into a rich infrastructure encompassing all information an communication components required by the research community to participate in European […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The SWIFT project aims to maximize the integration of wind turbines in the distribution grid while minimizing the amount of lost wind energy at the lowest possible overall cost. Through the use of innovative forecasting, active network and demand side management methods, the project will increase the hosting capacity of the distribution grid, […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The QoCON project aims to provide solutions to Quality of Service challenges facing wireless data networks. The project seeks to tackle the overload of the wireless spectrum and the interference signals by introducing spectrum sensing , the most elementary function of cognitive radios, and cognitive networks. _____________________________________________________________________ SOLUTIONS Monitoring the wireless environment and […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The concept of “telecooperation” refers to the fusion of computer science, telecommunications and multimedia. The Department of Telecooperation at Johannes Kepler University focuses on the development and evaluation of applications and services that enable us to bridge the gap in time and space in our working and living environments. _____________________________________________________________________ SOLUTIONS The Department […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Future Communication is a research group of the Faculty of Computer Science at the university of Wien. It focuses its research on the design operation and engineering of future communication networks. _____________________________________________________________________ SOLUTIONS The group’s main research areas are: The architecture of the Future Internet, Network virtualisation, network federation and future network control […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY FIT-IT is an Austrian research programme that focuses on high-quality research in the area of information and communication technology. Currently, there are five programme lines: “embedded systems”, “semantic systems and services”, “systems-on-chip”, “trust in IT-systems” and “visual computing”. The programme receives over €15 million funding from the Austrian government every year. _____________________________________________________________________ SOLUTIONS […]