Broadband Communications and Distributed Systems (BCDS)
The BCDS group (ref. GRCT40) is active in two main research lines: broadband networks management and control and distributed systems. The group has led several long-term governmental projects involving other universities and companies like Internet Service Providers and Public Health Institutions. These projects, along with the basic research performed on the group, bring about many publications and contributions on international journals, symposiums and conferences. BCDS os part of the DURSI consolidated research group AEDS (ref. SGR-00296).
The following are BCDS current research topics:
Broadband Network Control and Management
- Control and Management of Quality of Service (QoS) networks
- Multi-Agent Systems in Distributed Network Management
- Interdomain Management and Virtual Private Networks
- Optimization Techniques (Ant Colony Opt., Multi-objective Genetic Algorithms, Linear Programming, etc)
- Connection Admission Control Mechanisms for elastic (TCP) traffic.
- Dynamic Resource Allocation and Load Balancing.
- Charging for Multicast QoS Services
- Multi-level ([G]MPLS & optical) Routing and Protection mechanisms
Distributed Applications
- Distributed Processing and Parallelism (Grids)
- Distributed Artificial Intelligence: Multi-Agent Systems
- Open and Distance Learning
- Adaptive Models for Collaborative Distance Learning
- Dynamic Adaptive Hypermedia Systems