Funded projects

1. The group has attracted over 600KEuros research funding due to its involvement in the following research projects:

1. STREP-IST Call 4 proposal entitled: “TRIUMPH”
2. NoE – IST call 4 proposal entitled: “e-Photon/ONe”
3. SSA IST Call 3 proposal entitled: “BReATH - BRoadband e-Services and Access for The Home”. During the project a series of broadband access technologies and case surveys, network value analysis (techno-economic) studies will be conducted. Proposal Partners: University of Technology Eindhoven (Netherlands), Josef Stefan Institute (Slovenia), National Institute of Telecommunications (Poland), Institute of Radio engineering and Electronics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic), Association of Cable and Telecommunication Operators (Czech Republic), GTel (UK).
4. OPTRONET (OPtimized Transponders for Robust Optical NETworks). EU Eureka Cluster/CELTIC initiative.
5. PROMISE project under the EU Eureka Cluster/CELTIC initiative.
6. COST 291 project entitled “Towards digital optical networks”. The action was initiated by the “High-speed networks and optical communications” group of AIT. The project duration is 4 years (10/2004-10/2008).
7. COST 288 project “Ultrafast and Nanoscale Photonics”.
8. COST 293 Action entitled: “Graphs and algorithms in communication networks”.
9. Participation in the E-PIX Network of excellence (affiliate partner).
10. The group participated in several (about 30) research project proposals:

a. FP6 IST call 1: Led the preparation of 1 proposal (STREP CITRON). The proposal passed all threasholds but it did not received funding.
b. FP6 IST call 2: Led the preparation of 1 proposal (STREP METRON) and participated in 1 additional proposal (SSA e-connectivity).
c. FP6 IST call 3: Led the preparation of 1 proposal (SSA BReATH). The proposal passed all threasholds and was funded.
d. FP6 IST call 4: Led the preparation of 2 proposals (STREP TRIUMPH and STREP SUMO) and participated in 6 other proposals (NoE e-photon/ONe, STREP WiGEE, STREP CODES, STREP DOMINIC, STREP DANKE, I3 GENOME). The proposals TRIUMPH and e-Photon.ONE passed all threasholds and were funded. 4 more proposals passed all threasholds but it did not received funding.
e. FP6 IST call 5: Led the preparation of 1 proposal (STREP ATHLON) and participated in 4 other proposals (STREP MICROPHASE, STREP APHRODITE, IP LUCIFER, SSA GRAND). These proposals are currently under evaluation.
f. Participate and led the preparation of 5 FET FP6 proposals. 4 proposals are currently under evaluation.
g. Led the preparation of a proposal submitted to the “Greek National IST Observatory”. The proposal is currently under evaluation.
h. Led the preparation of a proposal submitted to the “Greek Information Society”. The proposal is currently under evaluation.
i. Led the preparation of a Marie Curie Mobility Action Proposal. Title: “Convergence of optical and IP packet switching: toward a new, unifying networking paradigm”.
j. Led the preparation of an EU-Asia IT&C Programme. Title: “The EU-Asia eForum fo knowledge transfer and content management”.
k. Led the preparation of 4 other proposals submitted to GSRT. 3 proposals are currently under evaluation. The proposal “Autonomous optical networks for global grid computing applications”, a bilateral Greek-UK collaboration, was funded by GSRT and the British Council.

Collaborations
1. CMU – AIT collaboration on the CMU “Optical Network Security” project that resulted in joined publications (see publications list).
2. Univ. of Essex – AIT collaboration resulted in joined publications (see publications list)
3. Research collaboration with Prof. P. Thiran (EPFL, Switzerland) on the topic of the Fault Location Algorithm.

Furthermore, the members of the group have participated in major European/Greek/Industrial projects including:

1. IST HARMONICS project (Hybrid Access Configurable Multi-wavelength Optical Networks for IP-based Communication Services).
2. Eurescom project P1116 SCORPION (Scalable Optical IP Transports Networks), focused on the signaling and routing of IP over optical networks.
3. Eurescom project P1012 FASHION (Flexible, Automatically Switched, Client Independent Optical Networks).
4. ACTS COBNET project (Corporate Optical Backbone Network). The results of this project lead to the EPFL presidential award.
5. European Research Project COST 240 “Modeling and Measuring Advanced Photonic Components for Telecommunications”. (1996-1999)
6. Race R2028 “Multi-wavelength Transport Network” (MWTN) consortium project, funded by the European Commission (EC).
7. European Research Project ACTS/MIDAS AC-053 “Μulti-gigabit Interconnection using Dispersion Compensation and Advanced Soliton Techniques”.
8. "Structure and Performance of a 34 Mbit/s Optical Link" that provided telephone services with simultaneous transmission of data channels.
9. LION (Layers Interworking Optical Networks) IST-1999-11387: Research on adapting and using existing network control protocols, for controlling ASON / ASTN networks. Study of Multi-layer Optical Network Resilience Schemes
10. ACTS project on the “Horizontal Action in Optical Networking” (HORIZON) funded by the European Commission
11. OPSnet (Optical Packet Switched network) project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in UK. Main research investigator for the constraction and demonstration of an asynchronous optical packet switch element able to operate at ulta-fast bit rates (>100Gb/s)
12. UPC (Ultrafast Photonics Collaboration) project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in UK. Development of an ultra-fast optical transport layer test bed based on the use of dynamically reconfigurable OXCs.
13. Race R2028 “Multi-wavelength Transport Network” (MWTN) consortium project, funded by the European Commission
14. Greek National research project in collaboration with the Greek Telecom Operator (ΟΤΕ): “ADSL technologies for providing fast Internet access”. (1998-2001)
15. European Research Project HCM (Ηuman Capital Mobility)/PICO-GIGA “Gigaherz and Picosecond Optical Systems in Semiconductor Laser Devices”.
16. European Research Project COST 267. (1999-2003)
17. Participation in several Corning Inc confidential projects related with optical communication systems and networks.
18. Participation in several Intracom Inc confidential projects related with optical networks.
19. Greek National project on the “Design and implementation of Coherent DPSK Optical Communication System”.
20. Design of diffractive optical elements for optical interconnections in computing and sensing systems.
21. Design and fabrication of a 2x1 Optical Switch/Amplifier for applications in advanced optical networks (project funded by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the Swiss PTT.
22. Realization of semiconductor lasers for short optical pulse generation (project funded by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology).
23. Composite Radio and Enhanced service Delivery for the Olympics (EU/IST/CREDO, 2001-) 4G wireless systems. Use of real network components and management info, intersystem handover.
24. Deployment and network level testing of a 9-node ring network in operation in the Athens metropolitan area featuring 16 λ’s and network protection using automatic, remotely configurable DWDM Optical Add-Drop Multiplexers.
25. Deployment and network level testing of a long- haul (+1500 Km) DWDM ring network designed for multi-lambda/multi-service operation up to 10Gb/s.

(last updated June 2006)