Software radio
Software Radio, or Software Defined Radio (SDR), tries to enable digital implementation of main parts of radio terminals, in order to offer more flexibility and awareness. This allows terminals to use different radio protocols while keeping adaptive and auto-reconfigurable.
Sensors networks
To achieve efficient Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), a multi-disciplinary venture is required, combining computer networks, signal processing, software engineering, security and embedded systems. WSN cover a large span of applications involving different optimization process.
Mesh networks
Allowing spontaneous deployment of mesh networks is a hard topic, needing self-healing and adaptive behaviours of the whole communication protocol stack. Targeted issues are latency, bandwidth and more generally QoS.
Ambient intelligence
This concept results from four conerging technologies: Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Ubiquitous Communications, Intelligence User Interfaces, and Smart Architectures. The CITI adresses communication and software architecture for ambient intelligent environment and smart devices.