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June, 2012 CRAAX will organize and host the 17th European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications (NOC-2012)

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CRAAX is the Catalan acronym of the Advanced Network Architectures Lab. The lab belongs to the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), and it is located in the UPC Campus in Vilanova i la Geltru. CRAAX is run by the Advanced Network Architectures (ANA) research group, which is composed of about ten researchers of the Department of Computer Architecture (DAC) of UPC. The research activities carried out by ANA are focused on three areas:

                • Networking, with special focus on the design of next generation network architectures and protocols, both in IP and optical networks
                • E-health
                • Design of real-time applications and services

R&D Policy

A central goal of CRAAX is not only to conduct academic research, but also to develop solutions with the potential of being adopted and deployed in real scenarios. The CRAAX team seeks innovative publications, patent filing, and the implementation of solutions through technology transfer.

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February 10, 2012: CRAAX shall be participating in the tutorial titled "Managing Converged IP and Optical Transport Networks: Current Trends and Future Challenges", to be given at IEEE NOMS 2012.
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December 1st, 2011: CRAAX has formally started working on FP7 project TEFIS.
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November, 2011: The ONE Project successfully passed 1st-year review in Brussels.
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August 5, 2011: CRAAX successfully demonstrated the Path-Sate Vector (PSV) protocol prototype at Cisco premises in Barcelona in compliance with the signed Sponsored Research Agreement (SRA) with Cisco Systems, USA.
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July, 2011: CRAAX in News: Towards a more Efficient and Secure Network.
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November 18, 2010: CRAAX in News: Traffic hijakcing from China, New alarm on the Internet.
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Recent Publications
  • O. González de Dios et al., "Coordinated Computation of Multi-layer Paths via Inter-layer PCE Communication: Standards, Interoperability and Deployment," to appear in Proc. of IEEE ICC 2012, Ottawa, Canada, June 2012. Available Soon.
  • R. Serral-Gracià et al., "Multi-Layer Quality Assessment Framework for P2PTV Applications," to appear in Proc. of IEEE ICC 2012, Ottawa, Canada, June 2012. Available Soon.
  • A. Martínez et al., "Toward a New Addressing Scheme for a Service-Centric Internet," to appear in Proc. of IEEE ICC 2012, Ottawa, Canada, June 2012. Available Soon.
  • E. Ahvar et al., "EQR: A New Energy-Aware Query-based Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks," to appear in Proc. of IFIP WWIC 2012, Santorini, Greece, June 2012. Available Soon.
  • M. Chamania et al., "Using BPEL Workflow Processing for Cross-Layer Orchestrations in IP-over-Optical Networks: A Proof of Concept," to appear in Proc. of IEEE/IFIP ManFI 2012, Hawaii, USA, April 2012. Available Soon.
  • Bart Puype et al., "Prediction-based routing as RWA in multilayer traffic engineering," to be published in Photonic Network Communications.    PDF
  • M. Yannuzzi et al., "Modeling Physical-Layer Impairments in Multi-domain Optical Networks," in Proc. of IFIP/IEEE ONDM 2011, Bologna, Italy, February 2011 PDF.
  • R. Serral et al., "An Efficient and Lightweight Method for Service Level Agreement Assessment," Computer Networks journal, Elsevier, vol. 54, no. 17, pp. 3144-3158, December 2010 PDF.
  • R. Serral et al., ''Quality of Experience aware multimedia provisioning with Cross-layer Autonomic Network Management,'' in Proc. of IEEE Globecom 2010, Miami, USA, December 2010 PDF.