International Projects

In this page you can find the current projects in which the research group is participating and the past projects (IST, ACTS, RACE, COST, peer-to-peer) in which the research group has participated.

Current projects:

The overall objective of the WIDENS project is to design, prototype and validate a high data-rate, rapidly deployable and scalable wireless ad-hoc communication system for future public safety, emergency and disaster applications. The system concept is based on ad hoc network technologies. The project will offer a  solution to set up and deploy a communications network in case of lacking or destroyed infraestructure. This network will consist of a number of terminodes or mobile nodes that will incorporate routing functionalities. The project will develop the terminode with existing and emerging technologies at Layer 2, 3 and 5 including MAC aspects, routing ad hoc, security, QoS and applications.
To create and maintain the most prominent European centre of excellence in Next Generation Internet design and engineering, leading towards a leadership in this domain. The EuroNGI main research topics will be: mastering the technology diversity (vertical and horizontal integration) for the design of efficient and flexible NGI architectures, and providing required innovative traffic engineering architectures adapted to the new requirements and developing the corresponding appropiate quantitative methods.


Projects in which the group has participated:
The principal goal of the MOEBIUS project was to apply mobile information and communication technologies to medicine and healthcare with a view to increasing harmony and cohesion in this area across Europe, improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of medicine and, in addition, strengthening the competitiveness of the European information, communication, and healthcare industry by stimulating demand for new and in-novative services. The Mobile Extranet concept included relevant items such as the mobility aspect at access level (GPRS, GSM, etc.), the IP mobility aspects, the security aspects. A platform with all these technologies was developped for trials.
EXPERT enhanced the RACE II testbeds of EXPLOIT and TRIBUNE with new ATM access equipment, including an ATM Passive Optical Network and an integrated service CPN switch, making it even more representative of a future broadband network. The platform was used to determine critical factors in ensuring integral ATM network performance, i.e. the integration of different service types (real-time and non real-time) and their control to ensure the maintenance of end-to-end QoS. A major role of the platform was also the support of the ACTS Programme, through the participation in European and inter-continental trials and the hosting of other ACTS projects in order that they could fulfil their objectives.
NETPERF developped an already existing evaluation tool  integrating ATM modules.
The main objective of BAF was to contribute standards development for broadband access facilities for small business and residential subscribers at the conceptual, technical and application levels :
The objective of this project was raising the awareness of potential customers to the benefits obtainable from broadband communications.  That was being achieved through the provision of an ATM test-bed with a capability for interconnection with other broadband islands and on which traffic experiments were performed. The project made available a substantial ATM testbed, comprising nodes containing terminal equipment and switches which were representative of those to be found in both customer premises and public broadband networks. Experiments and trials were performed to test solutions to traffic control and policing in ATM switches.
The objective was the specification and design of a number of ATM Terminal Adapters, namely for N-ISDN, Audio/Video and Multimedia, that become the ATM demonstrator set-up in Basel. This demonstrator was used in other RACE projects (e.g. RACE 2061) and ACTS projects (ACTS 094).


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