Joint Research Laboratory of LiP6 (Laboratoire d'informatique de Paris 6), the ENST (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications), Thales, and BluWan, dedicated to Next-Generation Internet Technologies

Presentation

EuronetLab is a joint research laboratory that brings together LiP6 (and, through it, the Université Pierre et Marie Curie and the CNRS), the ENST, Thales, and BluWan. We are involved in creating the Internet of the future. Bringing academic and industrial partners together, we address current research topics and we conceive and develop solutions adapted to real-world telecommunication systems. Alongside our research, we participate in standardization efforts, and we develop common experimental platforms. EuronetLab also serves as the nexus for a series of national and European-level partnerships.

EuronetLab partners

Thales (http://www.thalesgroup.com) is a global electronics company serv ing Aerospace, Defence, and Information Technology markets worldwide. BluWan (http://www.bluwan.com) — spin-of f from Thales — develops and markets broadband wireless access solutions for telecom service providers. LiP6 (http://www.lip6.fr) is a joint laboratory of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie and the CNRS (Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique). It is one of the largest computer science laboratories in France with more than 370 researchers. The ENST (http://www.enst.fr), through its computer science and networks lab, is a leading research and educational actor in France in information and communication technologies . The ENST is associated with the Universit\xe9 Pierre et Marie Curie through the EDITE doctorate school.

Activities

EuronetLab's research had first focused on Quality of Service routers, on routers for Mobile Networks leading to the creation of several research projects. More recently our collaboration has evolved towards the study of ambient networking for mesh, ad hoc or sensors networks and in multimedia for the next-generation Internet. Ambient networks will have the capacity to self-configure in order to create a dedicated network or to create a community that is dynamic both in time and space, while adapting to the physical environment and its performance limitations. Applications span the civil and defense fields.

Board of Directors

EuronetLab is composed of academic and industrial researchers and engineers respectively from LiP6 and the ENST an d from Thales and BluWan. This joint lab is overseen by a steering committee representing all four partners. It defines objectives and determines the m eans necessary to reach them. It also verifies that projects remain coherent with the overall goals of the laboratory.
EuronetLab was created on March 30th, 2000 and has been reconducted in january 2006. It is jointly led by Serge Fdida (LiP6), Andr\xe9 Cotton (Thales) , François Magne (BluWan), and Michel Riguidel (ENST). Serge Fdida chairs the steering committee EuronetLab is financed 50% by the industrial partners and 50% by academic and research institutions (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS, and ENST).

Photos of the launch of Euronetlab on the 30th of March 2000
The Steering Committee of Euronetlab