The IP Networking Lab (INL) of the Departement of Computing Science and Engineering at Université catholique de Louvain(UCL) in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium gathers about ten researchers, both PhD students and postdocs.
Today, IP networks are mainly used for data communications and Internet access. Within the next five years, it can be expected that IP networks will also be used to carry other more stringent applications such as telephony, IP TV, ... The INL is actively working on scalable tools, techniques and protocols to allow IP network operators to better support such demanding applications in an Internet that will grow by several orders of magnitude.
The INL has strong commitment to both applied and academic research. We collaborate with other research groups in Belgium and abroad, network manufacturers and network operators. We also contribute to standards within the IETF and IRTF.
News
Multipath TCP in the Linux kernel
Fri, 11/20/2009 - 11:10 by Olivier Bonaventure • Categories:
Based on results from the Trilogy project, the IETF has recently started the MPTCP working group that builds a major extension to TCP that will allow hosts and servers to use TCP connections that efficiently use several paths. This extension is expected to be very useful for a large number of hosts ranging from multihomed servers to mobile devices having a WiFi and a 3G interface.
Alcatel-Lucent Innovation award
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 00:10 by Olivier Bonaventure • Categories:
Grégory Detal has received the 2009 Alcatel-Lucent innovation award for his MSc thesis On monitoring large-scale Wireless Mesh Networks.
Trilogy Future Internet Summer School
Sat, 09/12/2009 - 22:51 by Olivier Bonaventure • Categories:
The video recordings of the Trilogy Future Internet Summer School are available from http://inl.info.ucl.ac.be/TFISS09 .
Alcatel-Lucent Innovation award
Thu, 11/20/2008 - 18:54 by Olivier Bonaventure • Categories:
Laurent Vanbever and Grégory Pardoen have received the Alcatel-Lucent innovation award for the MSc thesis entitled "Design et implémentation d'un logiciel de validation et de génération de configurations réseaux". A subset of this thesis has already been presented at INM2008.
Evolution of the Internet architecture : OpenLISP and shim6 host-based IPv6 multihoming implementations
Wed, 07/16/2008 - 00:57 by Olivier Bonaventure • Categories:
The IP Networking Lab actively contributes to the experimental evaluation of mechanisms and protocols for the future Internet architecture by releasing the first publicly available implementations of the Locator Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP) and the shim6 host-based IPv6 multihoming.
COST Action IC0703 : Data Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA)
Thu, 06/26/2008 - 00:44 by Olivier Bonaventure • Categories:
Since March 2008, Benoit Donnet participates in the COST Action IC0703 "Data Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA): theory, techniques, tools and applications for the future networks" together with key researchers who work on Internet measurements in Europe.
TRILOGY project initiates Internet overhaul
Thu, 04/10/2008 - 01:10 by Olivier Bonaventure • Categories:
Together with key European research labs that are active on IP networks, the IP networking lab participates in the three-year EU-funded Trilogy collaborative research project that is developing a radical new architecture for the Internet.