Research

General Research Areas

• Network mechanisms: wireless networks and systems (such as mobility, access mechanisms, wireless protocols, ad-hoc and sensor networks), access networks and Internet technologies (such as scalability, multicasting and QoS).
• Middleware: component-based middleware, dynamic QoS mechanisms, reflective middleware and middleware for distributed, real-time, embedded systems as well as for peer-to-peer systems.
• Data management: mechanisms for data management in mobile sensor networks; techniques for data caching, storage and security in grid computing and peer-to-peer environments; searching, archiving, and analysis in the context of the next generation web infrastructure.
• Applications: web applications (such as web agents, caching, video and audio), multimedia (such as coding), quality assessment, network storage and new application frameworks.
• Performance analysis: network mechanisms (such as flow, congestion and admission control) QoS-aware pricing schemes, and system performance (including modeling and optimization).
• Security: applied cryptography, system security, network security (in routing, ad-hoc networks and group communications) as well as application security.