Infrastructure

The lab has a critical research infrastructure which enables the activities of the lab members. The main equipment is listed below:

Parallel processing equipment

  • Twenty networked high performance PCs for parallel and distributed computing experiments.
  • A Computer cluster consisting of eight ΧΕΟΝ 3.00GHz processors forming a parallel processing environment of high performance, enforced with high performance GPUs.

Networking and communications equipment

  • Routers and Swtiches (wired, wireless)
  • Ten sensor-nodes Sunspot and two trackbots.
  • Optical Transmitters and Receivers operating up to 10 Gb/s
  • Test and measurement equipment for mmwave and optical communications operating up to 20 GHz.

Simulations and modelling

  • Thorough expertise in utilizing specialized software tools for RF planning.
  • In house developed software for the analysis of optical communications and networks (including component analysis)
  • Thorough expertise in utilizing specialized software tools for network design and analysis (GNS3, Mininet, openflow)