NODES - Research for Networking in Open Distributed Environments
The specialisation line on Distributed systems and data communication educates experts on global platforms, able to design and construct as well as be involved with major architectural renovation processes. The group is active on mobile and wireless systems, and global architecture and infrastructure for service oriented computing.
The activities of the group involve
- Future internet
- Collaborative Networking addressing
- Information networking in the Future Internet
- Quality and performance of P2P networks
- Spontaneous networking
- Pervasive and ubiquitous computing
- Wireless Internet with new and enhanced Internet Protocols and seamless connectivity
- Collaborative and Interoperable computing
- Inter-enterprise computing
- Service interoperabiity
- eContracting and nonfunctional property management
- Reputation-based trust management
- Privacy-preservation in inter-enterprise collaborations and the Future Internet
- Service-oriented software engineering
- Security
- Modeling
- Formal verification techniques
Research groups
At present, active research projects are run in three groups as described below. In addition to this, there are several individual projects and PhD research topics in good progress. For these, please refer the list of researchers.
Collaborative and Interoperable Computing
The CINCO group is developing infrastructure services for inter-enterprise collaboration support. The aim is to create support for concepts and processes needed by business management and service consumers. As the conceptual bridge can be overcome, the software-supported services can become more satisfactory. In addition, as the major architecturel revolution and renovation is passed, the cost of getting involved in a new business network or social ecosystem becomes radically lower.
Projects
- TBT - Trusted business transactions, 3 year program funded by Academy of Finland
- SOAMeS - Service oriented architecture for multichannel e-Services
- InterOp NoE
- Interoperability Research for Networked Enterprises Applications and
Software (Network of Excellence); continued as INTEROP VLAB
- TUBE - trust management
Researchers
- Lea Kutvonen, leader
- Sini Ruohomaa
- Pirjo Moen
- Lea Viljanen
- Janne Metso
- Toni Ruokolainen
- Alex Norta
CoNe, Collaborative Networking
Active projects at the moment include
Researchers- Jussi Kangasharju, leader
- Lauri Ahonen
- Ari Karjalainen
- Mika Karlstedt
- Johannes Korpela
- Lasse Nordgren
- Mikko Pervilä
- Jasvinder Singh
WInt, Wireless Internet
Our research on wireless and mobile communication started in September 1993 over fifteen years ago. Already in the near future, communication and computing devices will be in a state that technologically enables mass market scale ubiquitous services and applications. The WInt group explores the impact of the wireless and mobile networks to the behavior and performance of the Internet protocols and develops protocol enhancements and new protocols for seamless connectivity and communication in the future wireless and mobile Internet.
Projects
- IIP Mixture - Improving Internet Protocols for Heterogeneous Traffic
- IIP Cross - Improving Internet Protocols on Wireless Links using Cross-layer Design
- MERCoNe - Multiaccess Experimentations in Real Converging Networks
- Future Internet - Finnish ICT SHOK Research Programme: Future Internet
- WISEciti - Wireless Community Services for Mobile Citizens
Researchers
- Markku Kojo, leader
- Laila Daniel
- Aaron Yi Ding
- Lauri Hyttinen
- Seppo Hätönen
- Ilpo Järvinen
- Aki Nyrhinen
Personel and PhD students
Needs an update.
- Lea Kutvonen, professor
- Jussi Kangasharju, professor
- Davide Astuti
- Dado Colussi
- Laila Daniel
- Antti Hulkkonen
- Lauri Hyttinen
- Ilpo Järvinen
- Jaakko Kangasharju
- Mika Karlstedt
- Simone Leggio
- Heikki Lindholm
- Lauri Liuhto
- Janne Metso
- Ville
Mäntysaari
- Aki Nyrhinen
- Oriana Riva
- Sini Ruohomaa
- Toni Ruokolainen
- Tea Silander
- Sasu Tarkoma
- Lea Viljanen
- Taneli Vähäkangas
Nodes group history
The NODES (Networking in Open
Distributed Environments) group has
been formed at Department of Computer Science in University of Helsinki
to stimulate and coordinate research on distributed and
networked systems and applications. The current research focus lays on
the design and development of
infrastructure for mobile computing, on performance evaluation of
distributed and networked systems, and on open distributed software
architectures and services. We study how systems can be
divided into independently working
parallel parts, and how these parts communicate with each other.
The research projects co-ordinated by NODES can be further divided into four sub-groups: mobile computing and wireless data communication; open distributed systems; operating systems; and formal specification and verification. A new area, trust management, has started recently.
The First Ten Years of the NODES group is a book that covers the groups history under the name NODES until December 2004.
The group research pages up to Dec 2007 can be found at OLD NODES group pages.
Last updated on 2008-10-16 by Lea.Kutvonen@cs.Helsinki.FI