Projects / Programmes
Odprti sistemi in omrežja (Slovene)
January 1, 1999
- December 31, 2003
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 2.08.00 |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Telecommunications |
|
| Code |
Science |
Field |
| T180 |
Technological sciences |
Telecommunication engineering |
| T120 |
Technological sciences |
Systems engineering, computer technology |
Researchers (10)
Organisations (1)
| no. |
Code |
Research organisation |
City |
Registration number |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
| 1. |
0106 |
Jožef Stefan Institute |
Ljubljana |
5051606000 |
90,753 |
Abstract
As the integration of some elements of classical technologies in communications and computer science is in progress, modern communication services and networks are becoming one of the leading fields in a modern information technology. The programme is related to this field, since it is concentrated on research and development of open systems and networks (for example broadband communication networks, heterogenous networks, combining stationary and mobile systems, and active networks) as well as on research and development of the new security and multimedia services and applications in those systems and networks.
Key issues in development of networks services and communication systems are quality of service, naming and addressing, error control, congestion control, scalability, security and management. A promising way for easy and fast deployment of new network services are active networks. They enable end users and applications to adapt active network behaviour to their specific needs by allowing them to inject active code, which is interpreted by active network nodes. However, active code imposes considerable threats to network performance due to flaws in active code, malicious attacks by unauthorised users, and/or conflicted code execution. Thus, active networks require a security architecture, which unfortunately still does not exist, to eliminate these threats. Such architecture will be one of the main research areas of the programme. Security provision is actually the basic requirement of every network service or application. Most of existing security services, e.g. authentication, integrity or non-repudiation, are based on public-key cryptography which requires a complex public-key infrastructure (PKI). Research in this field will be carried on and Slovenian public-key infrastructure, which has been established in the projects from the 4. Framework programme of EU and is part of the EuroPKI, will be further operated. Security technology and knowledge developed within the programme are being transferred to several other Slovenian institutions.
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