SICS Center for Networked Systems
The Institute Excellence Center conducts, integrates, and exploits research in the area of networked systems with a new, multidisciplinary approach. We combine methods and results from three research areas; networking, distributed systems, and intelligent systems.
The center supports an environment, a creative meeting place, where SICS and the participating industry and university partners collaborate closely and effectively. We define and carry out projects together. The center actively promotes personnel mobility between the center partners, and supports competence development of the center partners. The center builds on and further enhances SICS’ international research reputation and constitutes a platform which increases our ability to participate in international research programs.
The center is guided by the vision of The Reliable Internet, a secure and reliable infrastructure for industry and society.
Internet technology of today has fundamental deficiencies concerning security, reliability, predictability and manageability. These deficiencies become severe when we start to depend on the network for critical applications, both for business and for government services including emergency and rescue services.
We take a networked systems approach, comprising the complete system view from user expectations to the underlying network technology, in order to address the needs of critical applications. Examples of such networked systems are:
- mobile telecommunications systems
- industrial automation systems
- command and control systems for emergency services.
Challenges
Increased heterogeneity of devices and physical networks. Both wired and wireless networks vary greatly in bandwidth, latency, and connectivity. Networks connect sensors and embedded devices as well as both high and low-end machines.
Increased complexity in terms of size and interaction patterns challenges network management methods.
Mobility and dynamicity. Users and sites will no longer have fixed addresses. Mobile users and new application and usage patterns demand great dynamicity.
Threats. Networks are under increasing attack by criminal, malicious or just anti-social elements (i.e., spam).
Networked applications. Proliferation of grid and peer-to-peer applications and increasing use of the Internet for content distribution.
Research Areas
- Networking of information - taking an information-centric approach to desgning the network of the future.
- Networked embedded systems - creating the programming and communication platform needed to realize the Internet of Things.
- Self-management of networks and systems — developing automated methods for, e.g., resource management, and fault detection and analysis.
- Security for systems and platforms — making secure computing platforms efficient to initialize, customize and deploy.
SICS Center for Networked Systems is an Institute Excellence Centre, that started in 2007 with a 6 year funding from VINNOVA, The Knowledge Foundation and Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research.
Partners
Our industry partners are ABB, Ericsson, Saab Systems, TeliaSonera, T2 Data, Peerialism and Vendolocus Development. Our academic partners are KTH, Mälardalen University and Uppsala University.
Reports and brochures
Annual report. For full report; download.
Brochure from CNS Event January 2010; download
Folder with demos, CNS Event January 2010; download
