The N3Cat Initiative

The NaNoNetworking Center of Catalonia is being created as an initiative of Prof. Ian F. Akyildiz, who besides of professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, is an Honorary Professor within the Telecommunication School from Barcelona at UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya).

The project description website is still under construction, but a good introduction to the topic and current research lines conducted at the Broadband Wireless Networking Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology can be found here. The official website of the n3cat initiative can be found here.

NaNoNetworking day

July 22, 2009, Barcelona, UPC - Campus Nord (Aula Màster)

Nanotechnology is enabling the development of devices in a scale ranging from one to a few hundred nanometers able to perform specific tasks at the nano-level such as computing, data storing, sensing or actuation. Nano-devices are expected to expand their capabilities through coordination, information sharing and fusion. There is the need to define the way in which a single nano-device will communicate with other nano-devices in light of their physical and practical limitations. Classical communication paradigms are not suitable for communication at the nano-scale and they need to undergo a profound rethinking and redesign in order to meet the requirements of the new nanonetworks' applications. In addition, existing networking architectures have to be completely revised in light of this new communication paradigm. While the research community in the recent years has been mainly focused on nanotechnology and nano-devices, we are going one step ahead to address the nanonetwork communication problem, which involves concepts on channel modeling, information theory, protocols and network architecture.

The two-fold mission of this workshop is to point out open challenges involving communications at the nano-scale as well as to help creating community to address this multidisciplinary new paradigm.

The detailed program of the workshop can be found here .

Some pictures of the event can be found here .