Networks and Communications

 Head: Philippe OWEZARSKI

Research teams:

SARA: Services and Architectures for Advanced Networks

Scientific scope

• Research objects​:
  • ​Networks, New generation communication networks and their applications. 
• Study's objectives: 
  • Mastery of design, planning, deployment management, and supervision. 
• Contribution:
  • Development of methods, models and tools, proposals for architectures, protocols and services.
  • Analysis, performance evaluation, control and prototyping software and communication platforms.
• Challenges:
  • Modelling and control of large scale dynamic systems.
  • Design of systems with hard requirements (functional and non-functional) and stringent constraints (energy, resources).
  • Service continuity and quality in mobile networks.
  • Dynamic and autonomic service and event-oriented, component-based software architecures.

Research areas and platforms

• Traffic Monitoring, Modeling and Analysis 
  • Predict, optimize, and monitor performances.
  • Stochastic modelling and distributed control.
  • Development of metrology tools.
• Network Planning and Optimization
  • Routing and deployment optimization.
  • Equipements sizing.
  • Looking for optimal topologies.
• Protocols for Adaptiveness and Guarantee
  • Protocols and basic mechanisms for adaptive QoS or guaranteed communication services.
  • Methods for discovery, composition and dynamic configuration. 
• Architectures for communication and services
  • Highly constrained and heterogeneous, dynamic and large-scale contexts.
  • Coherence among the applications requirements and the environments's constraints.
• Distributed Algorithms and Application
  • Determination of the global state, termination.
  • Peer to peer computing, massively distributed environments.
• Experimental Plateforms
  • Protocol architectures and mechanisms.
  • QoS, Security and Supervision. 
  • Sensor networks, Internet of Things, Machine-to-Machine communications
  • Large networks, dynamic networks.