About Us
The High Performance Networks Group (HPNG) at the University of Essex specializes in the application of advanced technologies to future communication network infrastructures together with the study of control, node architectures, and technologies best suited for future requirements. The group consists of the following labs and experimental facilities:
- Photonic Networks Lab
- Networked Media Lab
- Future Internet Experimental Facility
HPNG is committed to a high standard by extensively publishing in selected highly-ranked journals and conferences and contributing to standardisation activities. The Group has a very strong collaborative profile and interacts with researchers and users in the UK, EU, US, Japan and China; many of these links were established due to the support offered by EPSRC platform grants.
Recent News & Events:
- News :: HPNG presents worlds first gridless networking field trial in ECOC postdeadline paper - (07/10/2011)
- News :: HPNG receives the Fabio Neri award for the best paper in the 'Backbone and Core Networks' category at ECOC 2011 - (28/09/2011)
- News :: New Project PATRON added. - (04/07/2011)
- News :: Successful experimental integration and demonstration for OFELIA project :: Projects - (25/05/2011)
Recent Publications:
- Journal - Peer Reviewed :: Integrated OpenFlow–GMPLS control plane: an overlay model for software defined packet over optical networks - (01/01/2012)
- Journal - Invited :: “A Network Virtualization Framework for IP Infrastructure Provisioning,” - (29/11/2011)
- Conference - Peer Reviewed :: Single SOA-MZI-based 40 Gb/s NRZ to RZ and OOK to BPSK Format and Wavelength Converters for Gridless Networking - (01/10/2011)
- Conference - Peer Reviewed :: Integrated OpenFlow–GMPLS Control Plane: An Overlay Model for Software Defined Packet over Optical Networks - (18/09/2011)