Research Activities

Network Systems Lab (NSLab) conducts research and education in the area of design, analysis and management of next generation networks and services. We investigate new architectures and protocols, and explore network systems in terms of performance, security, and energy efficiency. Moreover, we study economical and political aspects of networking, policy and regulation of communication markets, and the entrepreneurship involved in taking communication solutions to the market.

NSLab was formerly known as Telecommunication Systems Lab (TSLab) with long history since 1987. In 2012, we joined Communication Systems (CoS) department and took this opportunity to re-inaugurate our unit as Network Systems Lab (NSLab), which better represents our current research activities.

Our current research areas are:

• Internet Infrastructures
  • Dynamic and elastic virtualization
  • Software-defined cloud networking
  • Smart session management for multipath communication
  • Content-centric networking

• Infrastructures for Healthcare and Wellbeing
  • Residential platforms and sensor gateways
  • Infrastructures for home healthcare and medical devices
• Next Generation Peer-to-Peer Networks for Content Distribution
  • Content delivery for mobile devices
  • Seamless video streaming
• Security for Mobile Applications and Financial Services
  • Service-oriented infrastructures
  • Mobile transactions and applications
• Sustainable and Energy-Smart networking
  • Energy-aware networking
  • Network systems for challenged environments
• Network Performance Analysis
  • Incentive mechanisms for peer-assisted approaches to content delivery
  • Methodologies for performance analysis of 802.11 MAC protocols