Projects

The members of TNS Lab have participated in the following projects:

Design and Implementation of a network platform for remote monitoring and management of PANTHORA REMOTE MONITORING SYSTEM. Funded by TELCOSERV S.A. Feb 17 – Jun 17

Acronym: EuConNeCts2 Title: European Conferences on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) Funded by: EC, under the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme Duration: 30 months | Mar-2015 to Aug-2017

Title: Wireless access infrastructures expansions through Opportunistic Networks of Moving Access Points Funded by: U.S. Office of Naval Research Duration: 12 months | from Mar-2015 to Mar-2016

Acronym: SLALOM Title: Service Level Agreement – Legal and Open Model Funded by: EC, under the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme Duration: 18 months | Jan-2015 to Jun-2016

Acronym: XIFI/iWave Title: Internet of Things, Wireless Access and Virtualization Technologies for an Advanced Future Internet Experimentation Node (as part of the XIFI Open Call) Funded by: EC (partially), under the Future Internet Public Private Partnership (FI-PPP) initiative Website: https://www.fi-xifi.eu/ Duration: 12 months | from Apr-2014 to Sep-2015

Title: System for Measurement and Presentation of Quality Indicators for Communication Networks Funded by: Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT) Website: http://www.eett.gr/ Duration: 11 months | Nov-2014 to Sep-2015

Acronym: e-Science Funded by: GRNET Website: https://www.grnet.gr/el/rfp-cloud-escience Duration: 12 months | Oct-2014 to Oct-2015

Title: GreenTouch Demonstration Funded by: GreenTouch Initiative Website: http://www.greentouch.org Duration: 12 months | from May-2014 to Jun-2015

Title: Sustainable Shared Wireless Infrastructure Design and Simulation Funded by: GreenTouch Initiative Website: http://www.greentouch.org Duration: 12 months | from Mar-2014 to Feb-2015

Acronym: ARTEMIS Title: A Cognitive Ecosystem for Smart Energy Management of Wireless Technologies and Mobile Applications Funded by: Partially by General Secretariat of Research and Technology (GSRT) in Greece Duration: 30 months | from Apr-2013 to Sep-2015

Acronym: AutoFLOW Title: Autonomic OpenFlow Funded by: EC (partially), under the FP7/ICT Duration: 18 months | from Oct-2013 to Mar-2015

Acronym: AutoSDN Title: Autonomic Software Defined Networks Funded by: Orange/FT Duration: 12 months | from Apr-2013 to Mar-2014

Acronym: MCAPs Title: Strategies for Creating Networks of Moving Cognitive Access Points Funded by: U.S. Office of Naval Research Duration: 12 months | from May-2012 to Apr-2013

Resource management techniques for capacity increase and quality of service provisioning in Mobile Communication Networks. Participation in the main research team of the project. Archimedes Program, TEI of Thessaly. Funded by Ministry of Education. Jan 12 – Nov 15

ENDECON: Energy Efficient Design of Communication Networks, Thales Program, Project Coordinator Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras. Funded by Ministry of Education. Mar 2012 – Sept 2015

Acronym: iCore Title: Internet Connected Objects for Reconfigurable Ecosystems Funded by: EC (partially), under the FP7/ICT for Research and Development Website: www.iot-icore.eu Duration: 36 months | from Oct-2011 to Sep-2014

Title: Ontology and taxonomies for resilience Funded by: ENISA Duration: 6 months | from Jan-2011 to Jun-2011

Acronym: UniverSelf Title: Universal Self-Management Funded by: EC (partially), under the FP7/ICT for Research and Development Website: www.univerself-project.eu Duration: 39 months | from Sep-2010 to Nov-2013

Acronym: ACROPOLIS Title: Advanced coexistence technologies for Radio Optimization in Licensed and Unlicensed Spectrum – Network of Excellence (NoE) Funded by: EC (partially), under the FP7/ICT for Research and Development Website: http://www.ict-acropolis.eu/ Duration: 39 months | from Oct-2010 to Dec-2013

Bilateral collaboration: UPRC/ Intel Mobile Communications Funded by: Intel Mobile Communications (IMC) Duration: 21 months | from Oct-2010 to Jun-2012

Acronym: OneFIT Title: Opportunistic networks and Cognitive Management Systems for Efficient Application Provision in the Future InterneT Funded by: EC (partially), under the FP7/ICT for Research and Development Website: www.ict-onefit.eu Duration: 30 months | from Jul-2010 to Dec-2012

Acronym: COST Action IC0902 Title: Cognitive Radio and Networking for Cooperative Coexistence of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks Funded by: EC (partially) Website: http://newyork.ing.uniroma1.it/IC0902/ Duration: 48 months | from Dec-2009 to Dec-2013

Acronym: E3 Title: End-to-End Efficiency Funded by: EC (partially), under the FP7/ICT for Research and Development Duration: 24 months | from Jan-2008 to Dec-2009

PEDION 24: Design, implementation and management of a network measuring the non-ionizing radiation of mobile telephony antennas, University of the Aegean. Funded by COSMOTE SA. Dec 07 – Dec 14

INHOME STREP project “An Intelligent Interactive Services Environment for Assisted Living at Home”, (Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) for the Ageing Society) IST-2005-045061, University of the Aegean. Funded by EU. Jan 07 – Dec 08

Acronym: WIN-HPN Title: Wireless INtelligent – Hospital Premises Network Funded by: EC (partially), under the EUREKA/CELTIC initiative Duration: 24 Months | from Jan-2006 to Dec-2007

UNITE STREP project “Virtual Distributed Test-bed for Optimisation and Coexistence of Heterogeneous Systems”, IST-2005-FP6, Strategic Objective: Mobile and Wireless Systems and Platforms Beyond 3G, University of the Aegean. Funded by EU. Feb 06 – Jan 09

Analysis, Design and Development of a Telemedicine Network for distant areas in Aegean and Cyprus, INTERREG IIIA, Greece-Cyprus. Funded by Regional Development Fund of North Aegean. 2006 – 2008

(ii) ARIADNE. Dynamic spectrum management, planning and management of 4G wireless access networks and terminals. Funded by the Ministry of Development – General Secretariat of Research and Development. July 2005 – July 2009

Acronym: IMPULSE Title: Integrated Multimodal Platform for Ubiquitous Multimedia Service Execution Funded by: EC (partially), under the EUREKA/CELTIC initiative Duration: 28 Months | from Sep-2005 to Dec-2006

Pilot wireless network for Indoor and outdoor access at the campus of the University of the Aegean, Karlovassi, Samos. Jan 05 – Jun 09

Design and development of a network for broad coverage full duplex integrated services based on terrestrial digital broadcasting technologies (DVB-T/DVB-H). Pythagoras Program II, University of the Aegean, Funded by Ministry of Education. Jun 05 – 2007

Acronym: E2R Title: End-to-End Reconfigurability, phase I and phase II Funded by: EC (partially), under the FP6/IST for Research and Development Phase I duration: 24 Months | from Jan-2004 to Dec-2005 Phase II duration: 24 Months | from Jan-2006 to Dec-2007

Acronym: ACE Title: Antenna Centre of Excellence, phase I and phase II Funded by: EC (partially), under the FP6/IST for Research and Development Phase I duration: 24 Months | from Jan-2004 to Dec-2005 Phase II duration: 24 Months | from Jan-2006 to Dec-2007

High availability, reliability and management of wireless communications in special purpose ad-hoc networks, Pythagoras Program II, University of the Aegean, Funded by Ministry of Education. Jun 04 – Dec 07

DIOSKOUROI: Human Network of Training and Education in advance network and informatics services, Funded by General Secretariat Research and Technology. Nov 03 – Jan 06

IST CREDO (Composite Radio for Enhanced Service Delivery during the Olympics). High-speed, wireless-access, infrastructures (B3G). Design, development and validation (through experiments) of prototype B3G environment, consisting of GPRS, WLANs and DVB-T. Jan 2002 – Dec 2003

Technical Consultant of North Aegean Regional Health System, Funded by North Aegean Regional Health System.  Jun 03 – Feb 04, Mar 02 – Mar 03

IST MONASIDRE (Management Of Networks And Services In A Diversified Radio Environment). High-speed, wireless-access, infrastructures (B3G). Development of management system targeted to the optimisation of B3G infrastructures that comprise UMTS, WLAN and DVB networks. January 2001 – December 2002.

IST SHUFFLE (Agent-based Approach for Controlling Resources in UMTS). Management of high speed, wireless-access, networks (3G). Development of agent-based (FIPA OS compliant) software for the control and management of the air-interface of UMTS. January 2000 – June 2002.

IST MOEBIUS (Mobile Extranet-based Integrated User Services). Development of telecommunication applications and services, Internet technologies. Provision of wireless  access to Intranet-based, healthcare, business and residential applications, through GPRS and Internet segments. Development of software tools for QoS management in the two segments. January 2000 – June 2002.

T1RCI-593 MANTO

ESA SATWAYS

FP7 ICT FET ATRACO

EUROSTARS Z-PHONE

EUROSTARS NetHomEra – Enabling New Era Networked Home Services and CELTIC GENIO – Next Generation Home

ENIAC END – Models, Solutions, Methods and Tools for Energy-Aware Design Funding authority: EU ENIAC JU. Member of the Project Coordination Committee, scientific responsible for project partner.

AAL2 PeerAssist – P2P architecture for setting up virtual communities to assist independent living of the Elderly Funding authority: EU AAL JU. Member of the Project Coordination Committee, scientific responsible for project partner.

Hellenic Technology Cluster Initiative – Phase-1 Programme for Microelectronics Cluster Development Funding authority: Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology – Corallia. Scientific Responsible, principal author and coordinator of the Phase-1 miCluster proposal.

Corallia MICRO2-16/Ε-ΙΙ-Α MEMSENSE – Development and deployment of innovative sensors and actuators platform for home and industrial environments Funding authority: Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology – Corallia. Proposal co-author and member of the research team.

Celtic IMPULSE – Integrated multimodal platform for ubiquitous multimedia service execution Funding authority: Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology. Member of the Project Coordination Committee and scientific responsible for project partner.

ERMES – Design, Implementation and Validation of an Open Source IP-PBX/VoIP Gateway SoC Funding authority: Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology. Scientific Coordinator.

EU FP6 EPERSPACE – Towards the era of personal services at home and everywhere Funding authority: EU FP6 Framework Programme. Member of the research team for the preparation of the final trial.

MEDIAGATE – Research and development of compact media gateways Funding authority: Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology. Scientific Coordinator.

APOLLON – System for the provisioning of advanced telephony services. Funding authority: Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology. Scientific Coordinator.

SECURENET – Adaptive transmission of moving images to mobile devices for video surveillance Funding authority: Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology. Scientific Coordinator.

PHDALION – Multimedia search engine for highly unstructured distributed multimedia content Funding authority: Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology. Scientific Coordinator.

PINCLOUD – Providing Integrated eHealth Services for Personalized Medicine utilizing Cloud Infrastructure Funding authority: Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology. Member of UPRC (University of Piraeus Research Centre) research team.

EU ICT PSP Inspiring Science Education – Large Scale Experimentation Scenarios to Mainstream eLearning in Science, Mathematics and Technology in Primary and Secondary Schools Member of UPRC research team. UPRC Scientific Coordinator during 1/1/2015-30/9/2016.

EU ICT GO-LAB: Global Online Science Labs Inquiry Learning at School Member of CERTH (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas) research team. CERTH Scientific Coordinator during 1/1/2015-31/10/2016.

National Contribution Inspiring Science Education 2014-2016 Funding authority: Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology. Scientific Coordinator (1/7/2016-15/7/2017).

ESA SATFireman. A Satellite Wildfire Management Solution for Greece Accepted for funding by ESA (succeeded the outline and full proposal phases). Participants: inAccess Networks, HellasSat, Space Hellas, Aratos, British Columbia Forest Service, Hellenic Fire Service and Municipalities. Not implemented and stopped during contract phase because the Hellenic Fire Service unexpectedly did not sign the ESA contract. Role of the undersigned: Proposal author and Project Manager.

ΙΤΕΑ-2 WELLCOM: Deployment and Management of Services and Applications in a Distributed Home Environment Member of the Project Coordination Committee, scientific responsible for project partner. GSRT funding was not available for Greek partners.

EPSRIT EROPPA – Experiments on Remote Operations for Post Production Applications Pilot implementation of a metacomputing and distributed supercomputing environment in the post-production industry. Proposal author and Deputy Project Coordinator.

ESPRIT INNO – Technology Transfer on High Performance Computing and Networking Proposal author and Deputy Project Coordinator.

ESPRIT EFTOS – Embedded Fault Tolerant Supercomputing Member of the research team.

TETRAMED – Tender III/98/028 – Provision of TTN HPCN Services to South Mediterranean Countries Proposal author and Deputy Project Coordinator.

ACTS DOLMEN – Service machine development for an open long-term mobile and fixed network environment Member of the research team.

RACE II BOOST – Broadband Object Oriented Service Technologies Member of the research team.

MPC8260 Linux ATM (OPEN-SOURCE) The undersigned has developed the widely used worldwide open source Linux UTOPIA and serial ATM driver for Freescale’s PowerQUICC-II communication processor family (MPC8260 and derivatives). This work is important for the implementation of integrated broadband access devices, access multiplexers and multi-service access platforms. A preliminary version of the driver was disclosed to the Linux community under a SourceForge project, which has received over 16,000 web hits and more than 1500 code discreet downloads up to date. Based on this work which is supported by several publications, Sevis Systems Inc., a developer of mobile backhaul solutions for China Mobile and other worldwide mobile operators, requested a consulting contract to help develop their PowerQUICC-III ATM products.

HERMES (OPEN-SOURCE)  IP-PBX/VoIP Gateway Multi-Core SoC (LEON3).

STEM  (OPEN-SOURCE) Simple Task Execution Manager is an OSGi UPnP service that generates events and/or performs actions on UPnP devices and services, when a set of conditions on available UPnP services or devices is evaluated true. STEM was disclosed to the open community under a SourceForge project.

Youpi UPnP-OSGi bridge (OPEN-SOURCE) Youpi is a Java implementation of the UPnP protocol, which allows the remote discovery and control of devices available in an IP network. The UPnP technology is promoted by the UPnP forum which comprises significant electronics and ICT industry players. The UPnP protocol is included in a plethora of common devices such as Internet routers, network disks (NAS servers), Xbox and Playstation gaming consoles etc. Youpi was developed in the framework of the ICT-FET-ATRACO project. The undersigned supervised the implementation of the UPnP-OSGi bridge. Youpi was disclosed to the open community and more than 500 discrete users have downloaded the code up to date.