Research/Funding

Research Interest  : Design aspects of (wired and wireless/mobile) networking technologies ranging from link to application layers.

Focus of Current and Very Recent Research

• Wireless, mobile, ad hoc and sensor networks[More...]
• Call Admission Algorithms for GPS Schedulers [More...]
• Congestion Control for Continuous Media Streams - Source Rate Adaptation [More...]
• Content Distribution Networks and Web Caching [More...]
• Cache Replacement Algorithms for Large Data Objects (Video) [More...]
• Design of Packet Video Receivers for Best Effort Networks - Playout Policies [More...]

Earlier Research

• Quality of Service Support in IP Networks.
• Video Transport over Broadband and Narrowband IP Networks.
• Multiplexing Schemes for Application-Level Quality of Service Delivery for Real -Time Applications.
• Deadline-Driven Scheduling for Real -Time and Prerecorded Video Transport.
• Traffic Regulation and Scheduling in Real Time Communications; Jitter Control; Fair Rate Allocation in Overload.
• Congestion Control for Broadband High-speed Networks; Pro-active Feedback-Based Scheme for Best Effort Traffic;
  Cooperative Traffic Management Schemes; Traffic Profile Shaping.
• Quality of Service (QoS) for Time-Constained Applications in Integrated Services Wireless Networks; fixed and
  variable frame TDMA

Funded Projects (major recent ones)

• "Resource Management and Traffic Control for Wide Area Networks under QoS Constraints". [More...]
• "A Video Gateway between the Next Generation Broadband Internet and the Current Narrow Band Internet for Live and On-Demand Access" (VIDEOGATEWAY)". [More...]
• "Broadway, the way to broadband access at 60GHz" (BROADWAY) [More...]
• "E-NET: Emerging Networking Technologies" (Network of Excellence)