I am / was involved in the following projects:
UniverSELF EU Framework Programme 7 (FP7)
2010-2013While there has been undeniable progress in the field of autonomics research over the past several years across the world and especially in Europe, widespread deployments of self-management techniques are still missing. At the same time the need for techniques enabling the transformation of operational models, the evolution of networks towards a flexible playground for operators, and more generally techniques participating to the increase of the return on investment, is becoming more and more evident. Further, most efforts and initiatives have been focussed on solving manageability bottlenecks in a given technological domain, while services extend anywhere, regardless of the technological boundaries (e.g., wireline/wireless). UniverSelf arises from this context and is thus driven by the need and objective to take self-management a leap further, and, in doing so, be both a federating and impactful project. EU Framework Programme 7 (FP7)
2010-2013
This project that has the potential to allow Space Agencies, Academic Institutes and Research Centers to share space-data generated by a single or multiple missions, in a natural, flexible, secure and automated manner. We develop a communication overlay modeled according to thematic context of missions, Ground Segment topological distribution, Agency policies and Application restrictions and requirements. We realize our model through the development of Space-Data Routers: a (Delay-Tolerant Networking) DTN-enabled device that:
(i) incorporates the Space Agency administrative instructions and policies for data dissemination and resource utilization, and
(ii) integrates the DTN protocol stack with application, network and link layer protocols.
We pay particular attention to ESA roadmap for Interplanetary Communications and implement a communication scheme that scales natively with future deployments in Space. In essence, we promote the ultimate objective of most missions, which is to return space data, which, in turn, will be disseminated and exploited for the benefit of human scientific knowledge. Space-Data Routers form an overlay suitable for exploiting space data efficiently, which is, by definition, a major objective of all space missions and probably the most significant failure today.
EU Framework Programme 7 (FP7)
2010-2013
SPICE relies on three major objectives: to broaden the group’s accomplished research innovation and engineering capacity both by mobilizing our resources to visit first-class cooperating European institutions and hiring top class researchers from abroad; to support a revolutionary scientific agenda, as far as Delay Tolerant Networking is concerned, that boosts European competitiveness and supports a wide spectrum of applications; and to institutionalize and establish a permanent quality framework for innovative research activities in the convergence region of Thrace. Apart from the required infrastructure update, SPICE aims at promoting research through the publication of special issues in high-quality journals, the organisation of regular lectures and presentations from distinguished scientists, as well as the hosting of a panel session and two workshops on promising networking technologies, like 4G communications.
EU Framework Programme 7 (FP7)
2008-2010
Autonomic Internet (AutoI) project suggests a transition from a service agnostic Internet to service-aware network, managing resources by applying autonomic principles. In order to achieve the objective of service-aware resources and to overcome the ossification of the current Internet AutoI will develop a self-managing virtual resource overlay that can span across heterogeneous networks that can support service mobility, security, quality of service and reliability. In this overlay network, multiple virtual networks co-exist on top of a shared substrate with uniform control. Extending Internet into Space European Space Agency
2007-2008
The Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) Architecture calls for new design principles that will govern data transmission and retransmission scheduling over challenged environments, such as space communications. In that context, novel routing, transport and application layer algorithms have to be established in order to achieve efficient and reliable communication between DTN-nodes. Extending Internet Into Space is a project funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) with a long-term objective to build a space-suitable set of of Internetworking protocols to allow efficient space communications and application diversity. COST290: Traffic and QoS Management in Wireless Multimedia Networks European Coordination in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST)
2004-2008
The main objective of the Action is to increase the knowledge on future advanced Multiservice Wireless Networks (MWNs) and specifically on traffic nature and behaviour and its impact on network architecture, performance and planning. Special attention must be given to Quality of Service and related aspects in both access networks and core networks in the presence of mixed multimedia traffic. To accomplish this, new analytical tools, software implementations and prototypes have to be developed and validated. Ambient Networks (AN) EU Framework Programme 6 (FP6)
2004-2007
In the Ambient Networks vision “any” user will be able to connect to “any” network. This will increase the dynamics between different kinds of networks and between user devices and networks. In addition, the business dynamics will increase with a multitude of service and network providers and with an increasing number of business relations between market actors. The Ambient Networks (AN) project aims to achieve this functionality for network cooperation in a technically simple manner, in order to promote its widespread adoption. |