The SPARC lab goals to contribute to the state of the art through research, development, and innovation in the scope of information and communication technologies for Internet of Things (IoT) and Next Generation Networks and Applications, topics extremely relevant and updated in communications systems. The lab intends to perform innovative research aiming to explore an increasing available amount of data in a growing connected world. It focuses on developing scalable technologies, solutions, and approaches exploring data from their generation and colleting, including their storage, processing, and analysis. The connectedness also implies that all kinds of applications can run in a distributed manner over the internet. The design of distributed systems of this nature asks for a different way of thinking while designing. Proposal of solutions with impact for knowledge advance, both in industry and society targeting technology transfer and innovation. Not only commercial products will benefit from new innovations, but also industrial applications and systems.

Focus Areas

Internet of Things (IoT)

The IoT research theme focuses on advance telecommunication technologies, protocols, and architectures exploring data from their generation and colleting, including their storage, processing, and analysis. In this sense, the lab addresses IoT solutions design and modeling in health, energy management, industry, homes, urban and rural environments.

Next Generation Networks and Applications

Research on Next Generation Networks and Applications centers on new architectures, services, protocols, applications based emergent networks, and the future Internet. Aspects as techniques for control, optimization, management, and projects of next generation networks (with quality of service, mobility, and security), and their performance evaluation, are considered. Interesting topics in this research theme are: vehicular and personal networks, fog and cloud computing, ubiquitous and mobile computing.