The focus of ANTARES’s research is on the Internet of the Future, both in terms of infrastructure and services.

Advanced Wireless Computer Systems

The user demand for multimedia application over the Internet has been rapidly growing in the past few years. Voice over IP (VoIP), IPTV and Video on Demand (VoD) applications are gaining an ever increasing popularity, favored by the massive deployment of wireless access technologies. Supporting these applications requires Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning and management both in the access and in the core segments of the network. Within the ANTARES consortium, the AWCS group possesses specific expertise on many aspects of the above challenge, such as:

• wireless technologies (802.11/WiFi, 802.16/WiMax, UMTS/HSPA, LTE) and mesh networks
• scheduling and resource allocation in wired and wireless networks
• traffic engineering
• advanced methods and techniques for network performance evaluation

Pervasive Networking

Ubiquitous access is one of the main characteristics of the Internet; the EU Commission defined it as a Key enabling technology of the information society. The proliferation of mobile devices with processing capacities is leading to a new era of ubiquitous communications where the user will simultaneously use different electronic platforms, enabling him to get all the information he needs, wherever he is. Mobile terminals are becoming gateways between sources of information (e.g. sensors) and global Internet mobile services (health, education, government, etc.).

The research activity is aimed at developing architectures, algorithms and protocols necessary to make the Internet an ubiquitous network, able to support users in the access to information (including multimedia information) or to communicate with other users, every time, everywhere and with any device.