Communications and Networking
Our activity spans various facets of wireless and internet communication technologies. We work on the foundations: information theory, multiuser communications and stochastic networks as well as on architectures, protocols and cross layer techniques. Wireless technologies within scope include high speed mobile communications (3G, 4G, LTE) as well as local and wide area wireless internet (wimax, wifi). MIMO, cross-layer combining physical layer elements (modulation, coding power control) with adaptive access methods and routing, network coding and cooperative communications are specific thrusts of our research. Wireless adhoc networks and sensor networks is another challenging application domain of our research efforts above. In the internet domain our current focus is on service oriented engineering and various content distribution technologies, including peer-to-peer like architectures.
Our activity outlined above is complemented and supported by extensive experimentation in our growing wireless testbed facility we recently established in our premises. The NITOS platform which stands for Network Implementation Testbed using Open Source code is a wireless testbed that consists of nodes based on open source software. The platform is open to any researchers who would like to test their protocols in a real-time wireless network. They are given the opportunity to implement their protocols and study their behavior in a custom tailor-made environment.
Scientific Personnel
University of Thessaly, Computer & Communications Engineering Dpt
L. Tassiulas
Tel.: +30 24210 74980
Current Research & Development Projects
- VIS-SENSE — VIS-SENSE (2010: FP7 ICT - STREP)
- ACCESSIBLE — Accessibility Assessment Simulation Environment for New Applications Design and Development (2008: ICT - STREP)
- AEGIS — Open Accessibility Everywhere: Groundwork, Infrastructure, Standards (2008: ICT - IP)
- OASIS — Oper architecture for Accessible Services Integration and Standardisation (2008: ICT - IP)
Finished Projects
- CRUISE — CReating Ubiquitous Intelligent Sensing Environments (Network of Excellence on the Application and Communication aspects of Wireless Sensor Networking) (2007: IST)
- NET-REFOUND — NetWorking Research Foundations and Trends (2007: IST)
- VICTORY — Audio-visual content search and retrieval in a distributed P2P repository (2007: IST)
- CATER — Computerized Automotive Technology Reconfiguration System for Mass Customization (2006: IST)
- WIP — An All-Wireless Mobile Network Architecture (2006: IST-STREP)
- GoodRoute — Dangerous Goods Transportation Routing and Monitoring (2006: IST-STREP)
- — Energy Savings in Wireless Sensor Networks (2006: PENED II)
- SMART 3D — Advanced product promotion using virtual communities and smart cards (2004: EPAn)
- ASK-ΙΤ — Ambient Intelligence System of Agents for Knowledge-based and Integrated Services for Mobility Impaired Users (2004: IST - IP)
- EGEE — Enabling Grids for E-science in Europe (2004: IST)
- EuroNGI — Design and Engineering of the Next Generation Internet Towards Convergent Multi-Service Networks (2004: IST-NoE)
- NEWCOM — Network of Excellence in Wireless Communications (2004: IST-NoE)
- — Video Streaming (2002: Greece-Germany bilateral scientific cooperation)
- LAURA — Adaptive Zones for interregional Electronic Commerce based on the concepts of Request-Based Virtual Organizations and sector-specific Service Level Agreement (2002: IST)
- P2PEOPLE — P2P "Common interests" Search Engine and Collaboration Platform (2002: IST)
- LIP-TELEPHONE — A Bandwidth-Scalable Video Phone for the Lip-Reading Deaf (1999: EPET II)
Informatics & Telematic Institute
P.O.Box 60361, 6th km Xarilaou - Thermi, 57001, Thessaloniki, Greecetel. +30 2311 257701-3 / fax. +30 2310 474128
email: info@iti.gr