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The Research Lab. on Networking supports research in network communications including protocols and architectures, modeling and analysis, optical networks, switching and routing, wireless and mobility, measurements, prototyping and simulations.

Networking Group focuses on the main challenges of advanced networking, with a special attention to the Next Generation Internet or Future Internet Network, i.e., the foreseen evolution of the present computer and communcation networks towards the support of the ever growing communication services and needs.

RESEARCH TOPICS

  • Protocol Design and Architectures
  • Network Design and Dimensioning
  • Traffic Modeling
  • Cross-layering
  • Performance Evaluation
  • Flow and Congestion Control
  • Switching and Switches Architectures
  • Timing and Synchronization
  • Network Measurement

APPLICATION AREAS

Optical Networks

  • Architectures, switching, transparent (all-optical)
  • Wide Area Networks and Backbone Design
  • Ultra-High Bandwidth Switching
  • Reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM)
  • Passive optical networks (PONs)

Wireless Networks

  • Scheduling, QoS and resource management
  • Wireless mesh networks: WiFi, WiMax
  • Cellular: transmission, protocols and network design
  • MAC protocols
  • Handover support
  • Ad-Hoc and mobile

Peer-to-peer

  • Overlay construction and management
  • Distributed signaling
  • Content and streaming distribution
  • Resource (bandwidth, storage, CPU) sharing
  • Overlay to network mapping and cooperation


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