Research and Technology

Strong research groups exist in areas of Networking and Wireless and Mobile. While fundamental work in telecommunications and information technology is the main research goal of the Institute, there is a strong emphasis on applications that stimulate basic research such as transportation, health care and emergency crisis management, etc.

The Telecommunications and Information Technology Institute's research divisions and groups cross traditional disciplinary boundaries to investigate a broad range of advanced topics in communications and computers.

Goals

IT² researchers model, design and implement systems that include these goals:

• Pioneering new core technologies along with supportive algorithms, architectures, toolkits and prototypes
• Exploring ways to scale networks that are pervasive, unattended, and widely embedded throughout the physical environment
• Exploring research, development and commercialization in mobile and wireless communications, networks and software
• Creating new technologies and solutions utilizing networking, software and hardware solutions essential to the advancement and practical proliferation of new technologies
• Offering access to advanced multidisciplinary and collaborative research and real-world virtual applications support to the revolutionary next generation of telecommunications and information technologies

Research Areas

To ensure a steady flow of innovative ideas IT²'s researchers have lead research efforts and development projects targeted at solving complex problems conducive to early identification of high impact solutions in a wide range of areas:

• Telecommunications and Networks
• Security and Privacy
• Aspects of Non-traditional Data Management for Emerging Applications
• Sensor Networks and Internet of Things
• Wireless and Mobile Systems and Networks

To fulfill the Institute's vision of developing next-generation technologies, the efforts of the research groups are segmented into a few, somewhat complementary thrusts that naturally coincide with industrial needs. The fundamental science and technologies are distinctively unique; hence, different approaches are required within each group. The following is a subset of these projects:

• Network Centric Middleware
• Secure Ad-Hoc Networks
• Name-Based Networking
• Secure Collaboration in Wireless Networks
• Network Function VIrtualization and Software Defined Networking
• Next-Generation Optical Networks
• Power Control and Security Enhancement in Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks

Other current high impact research areas include:

• Network Security and Intrusion Detection Techniques
• Grid Computing
• Wearable Computing
• Mobile and Wireless Information Systems
• QoS Routing and Multimedia Communications
• Advanced Wireless Tele-collaboration
• Designing and Control of Smart Antennas
• Optical Network Performance