Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, (German acronym: ETH ZURICH), was founded by the Swiss government in 1854 as a polytechnic and opened its doors in Zurich in 1855. Until 1969 it was the only national university in Switzerland. Today it is part of the ETH domain which is made up of the two universities in Zurich and Lausanne (the EPFL) and four national research institutes. The Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory of ETH ZURICH (German acronym: TIK) was founded in 1989 and is a part of the Information Technology and Electrical Engineering Department. It consists of three research groups, Communication Systems, Computer Engineering and Theory of Networks. TIK research projects touch upon one or more of the following areas: Systems Engineering and Management Aspects of High Performance Networks; Quality of Service and Charging Aspects of High Performance Networks and their applications; Future Network Architectures (Integrated and differentiated Internet services, charging and accounting technology, active networks), Network Security; Peer-to-peer, mobile and ad-hoc networks.

The Communication Systems Group at TIK comprises 19 researchers who are doing systems-oriented research in various areas in communications. Specific areas of work are future network architectures, middleware functions and protocols, advanced application prototyping, information and network security. The group is a partner in the Zurich Information Security Center (ZISC), which was formed recently, uniting the information security research at ETH. ZISC is partially funded by an Industry Research Consortium. We have on-going projects in the area of DDoS detection and the development of countermeasures. In this project, ETH ZURICH participates through its Communication System Research Group (CSG). CSG conducts cutting edge research in the areas of active networking technologies, mobile networks, ad hoc and wireless networks and network security.

The CSG is well connected with other research laboratories, but also with the leading industry (Siemens, IBM, Intel, national and international ISPs,).Through its large experience in participation in EU projects and its outstanding research records, the CSG is very well suited for the research and development tasks of this ambitious project as well as for the dissemination and exploitation tasks