General Info

Communication Networks Laboratory (CNL) was founded in 1994 as a research and graduate education unit within the Telecommunications and Signal Processing division of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Athens, focusing on R&D in the area of Communication Networks. During the past years, the CNL has demonstrated an active involvement in the areas of wireless/mobile networks and services, broadband communications, and networked multimedia communications. Through its participation in numerous EU and national projects, the staff of the Laboratory has acquired considerable experience in the area of wireless/mobile networks (especially in UMTS, Wireless LANs, Wireless Internet, Reconfigurable Networks and Services, Location Based Services) and networked multimedia traffic management and applications.

CNL cooperates with the Network Operations and Management Center of the University of Athens in the deployment and management of the high-speed network of the University of Athens and advanced services, serving an academic community of 80.000 students, faculty and staff.

R&D Areas

CNL is currently active in the following R&D areas:

	Mobile/Wireless Networks Design and specification of new architectures and protocols Wireless Local and Metropolitan Area Networks' technologies Ad-hoc and sensor networks' technologies Reconfigurable networks and services Opportunistic Spectrum Access Networks Pervasive Computing Physical Layer and Multiple Access aspects Cross-Layer Design Network Security
	Networked Multimedia Communications, Services and Applications Quality of Service (QoS) support Continuous media streaming and content distribution Design and development of multimedia applications Deployment of new services (tele-education, tele-medicine, broadcast services) Network and Service Management Location based services Semantic Web Technologies
	Performance Evaluation and Protocol Specification/Testing Stochastic modeling and queuing studies. Simulations Conformance testing Formal protocol specification and validation