Heterogeneous Networking Group (HNG) workgroup server.

HNG is a research group funded in 2003. Its broad interests are centered on the problems of network infrastructure and operation associated to a visionary idea of a fully mobile, fully connected society, where information will be on the tips of the hands of the users.

In such a society, networks will be mostly multi-X. Multiple technologies, multiple providers, multiple types of usage, multiple types of connections. The network will become increasingly a complex living entity, where companies, service providers, network operators and users will be engaged in an extremely dynamic interplay, with links, services and users moving, appearing and disappearing as time goes by.

This Future Network will have to search new solutions to traditional problems, such as those of Quality of Service (QoS), Mobility, Multihoming, Ad-Hoc and Intermittent connections, and Multicast traffic under the broad requirements of multiple technologies interoperation. HNG has kept activities along these lines, both as evolution of current networks and techniques, and as clean-slate approaches.

This group has strong participation in national and european projects. As a short overview, HNG is being active in IST FP7 projects 4WARD, C-Cast, Onelab2, SWIFT,  and was deaply involved in FP6 Integrated Projects Daidalos, Akogrimo, WIP, C-Mobile, as well in many other local and industrial projects. More information can be found here.

HNG is cooperating with industries in Portugal and Europe (e.g. Portugal Telecom, EFACEC, Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs, Deutsche Telekom, amongst others) and with universities and research institutes worldwide (e.g. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Carnegie Mellon University)

This site also intends to provide senior students with material and information that they can use in the production of their project reports, often developed inside this lab (see here).

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