Research profile

Traffic modeling and network performance

Traffic measurement, identification, characterization and control; user behaviour modeling; traffic engineering; call admission control; high-speed transport protocols.

theoretical: Queueing Theory; Network Calculus

Applications and services

Network node and infrastructure protection; user privacy; client-supported multimedia streaming;

theoretical: cryptography; data mining, time series analysis.

Fixed broadband and transport

Optical networks: optimization, planning and dimensioning; optical physical layer constrained routing; network control, routing, and traffic engineering in multi-layer, multi-domain networks; multicast. Network resilience, reliability; network protection; IP QoS? , resource reservation; QoS? architectures.

theoretical: buffer management with Large Deviation Theory.

Mobile and wireless

Spectrum and capacity: radio resource management, dynamic spectrum access, radio access network configuration; mobile authentication, authorization; infrastucture based mobile: mobility management, pricing, accounting; mobile IPv6; NGN mobile; radio communication: adaptive, encoded modulation techniques; ad-hoc and senror networking: secure information dissemination and multi-hop routing, scatternet formation, scheduling, energy efficient communication, in-network data aggregation.

End systems

Pervasive computing and ambient intelligence: vehicular networking, inter-car communication; peer-to-peer architectures; routing overlays; distributed hash-tables; incentives and user authentication; peer-to-peer content distribution systems.

Protocol testing

Incremental testing; automatic test case generation; performance testing methodologies; testing in TTCN3 environment.

Future Internet architectures

Future Internet routing: scalable multi-homing, social network based routing; routing in delay tolerant networks; autonomic networking: IPv6 routing autoconfiguration, fast-reroute, dynamic network composition, bio-inspired algorithms in self-managed and self-organizing networks; auto-configuration in NGN; economic modeling of distributed systems; incentives.

theoretical: quantum computing, complex networks.

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Economics and interop.

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