Research Areas

Internet of Things
a 3D Interactive Reality...

The interface of the future Internet will gradually change from what is now the personal computer or mobile phone, to the environment and the objects around us forming an Internet of Things (IoT). If all items, objects, from electrical appliances, housing items, handheld devices, food products, cars etc. were tagged and linked to the internet daily life will be transformed. Companies have already begun to unravel new products at a rapid pace which come under the umbrella of Internet of Things. Technologies like ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence and sensor networks are all supporting IoTs technological developments. The future of IoT however will need to consider not only technological advancement but also ethical and moral issues regarding privacy and personal control.

One can argue that it will be good for society if the architecture of the Internet of Things is equal for all and the public has the same tools as those controlling the technology. The associated issues are not only technological but also ethical, moral and thus require public awareness. Tagging of all objects around us may be plausible and greatly useful but at the same time worrying for many people. It may improve surveillance but at the same time worsen privacy. It may improve daily life due to the advanced technology and automation but this may result into too much dependency on the technology’s providers. Furthermore a large number of tradeoffs will result between technological advancements and the desired way of life of a country’s citizens. Governments and corresponding regulators may end up playing a large role in the decisions of how and what IoT technology can be deployed. The next generation embedded ICT systems will be interconnected and collaborate through the IoT paradigm, and provide citizens and businesses with a wide range of innovative applications and new services.

Energy Saving Solutions
power efficiency

The ICT sector recognises the importance of technology advancements in improving energy and power effiency performance something which is heavily supported on the EU and global scale. Examples include inbuilding support for improving electricity usage, managing water etc. and other natural resources.

Infostrada is active in looking at the latest technologies and cutting edge research developments which aim to support monitoring and controlling power dissipation and energy handling using metering at different points in your electrical grid.

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Future Services and Applications
web and mobile services

Today’s service providers are striving to differentiate themselves within this expanding competitive landscape of the information networking arena by searching for ways to brand and bundle new services, achieve operational cost reductions, and strategically position themselves in relation to competition.

Cognitive Network Management
for the future internet

This first project aims to design, develop and validate a cognitive network management scheme for supporting future internet network management. It will provide advanced selforganization and cognitive self-adaptation patterns based on network and network node behaviour hence supporting.

Security Provisioning
in heterogeneous networks

This project aims to propose a security framework for roaming which will take into consideration trade-offs between the level of security, service and handover performance. To begin with the project will investigate the state of the art and the latest proposed authentication methods and mechanisms.

Mobility Management
in next generation networks

This project aims to propose enhancements to 3GPP SAE to support All-IP based mobility management. SAE introduces the flat IP architecture, however GTP and Mobile based mobility management protocols relies on the hierarchical architecture (agent nodes). This would not take the full advantage to increase the scalability of the

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