European Research Projects

6NET





6NET was a three-and-a-half year European project to demonstrate that continued growth of the Internet can be met using new IPv6 technology. The project built a native IPv6-based pilot network connecting sixteen countries in order to gain experience of IPv6 deployment and migration from existing IPv4-based networks. This was used to extensively test a variety of new IPv6 services and applications, as well as interoperability with legacy applications.

ENTHRONE2




The ENTHRONE project proposes an integrated management solution that covers the entire audio-visual service distribution chain, including protected content handling, distribution across networks and reception at user terminals. The aim is not to unify or impose a strategy on each individual entity of the chain, but to harmonise their functionality, in order to support an end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) architecture over heterogeneous networks, applied to a variety of audio-visual services that are delivered to various user terminals.

EC-GIN





EC-GIN is a joint European/Chinese reserch project looking at the networking aspects of Grid computing. The two core aspects of the project are the analysis of existing Grid applications to determine how they use the network and the design and development of a toolkit (GINTONIC) to support Grid application developers through the use of special APIs. The project aims to incorporate all forms of grid application from 'traditional' grid applications, such as the LHC Computing Grid and GridFTP, to atypical examples such as P2P/CDN based streaming networks.



Other Projects

EPSRC Platform Grant

The EPSRC Platform Grant is a highly prestigious project aimed at supporting top-flight departments in carrying out high-quality speculative research. Within this context, a number of short-term projects are conducted by post-doctoral researchers on emerging areas in cutting-edge science. My research in this context focussed on exploring the cross-layer handoff mechanisms in Mobile IP. Specifically, the work defined a hybrid general-pupose network handoff selection approach for mobile devices.


JANET QoS Project

The JANET QoS Development Project was carried out by JANET and a number of UK universities, along with their regional MAN operators, to explore the potential to deploy and operate production level QoS-enabled services over the JANET network. Over the course of the 4-year project a series of end to end testing was done using DiffServ to offer 'Premium IP' and LBE services.