Telecom Lab

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Faculty
Prof. Lubomir Citkusev Todorov, Director, Prof. Tanya Zlateva, and Prof. Eric Braude

Purpose
The purpose of the Telecom Lab at MET CS Department is primarily to offer a hands-on experience to our students for training and research by providing a practical demonstration and exercise field for the theory covered in our Telecommunications courses.
The Lab enables our students to engage in number of telecom projects, such as:

        • Network Analysis
        • Network Design
        •Traffic Engineering
        • Network Security
        • LAN optimization
        • WAN design

In addition to these traditional projects students can involve in design and implementation of a secure distributed applications based on client/server programming in TCP/IP and security protocols environment such as secure chat-room and attack/defend applications.

The lab is also involved in research of BioMedical Applications of computer networks, such as Telemedicine and Wireless ad hoc sensor nets.

Design
The MET CS Telecom Lab is designed as an isolated network (isonet)] and consists of Window and Unix based workstations. A single router connected to a gateway via a proxy firewall server is used for connecting all network elements.

Equipment
The lab is equipped with a number of network elements and protocols, such as:

        • Virual Private Networks (VPNs)
        • Firewalls
        • SNMP
        • PGP/IPsec
        • LAN bridges
        • Layer 2 and Layer 3 switches.

The workstations in the lab have a range of network simulation software based on OPNET Modeler and MATLAB tools.

Traffic flow recorders based on Network Sniffer and NetFlow products can be used in monitoring various network performance.

The lab has a wireless sub-network based on IEEE 802.11 protocol suit, as well as a Gigabit Ethernet setup.

OPNET

An important part of the MET CS Telecom Lab is the OPNET simulation tool, made by the OPNET Technologies, world’s leader in network simulation software. Through the collaboration between the BU and OPNET Technologies, MET CS Telecom Lab has more than 30 OPNET licenses that are available to our students in Telecom classes. Our faculty and graduate students also use OPNET for their research. For more information about the OPNET please visit our OPNET at MET CS site .

Biometrics Authentication Technologies
When designing the Telecom lab special attention was paid to the selection of authentication equipment, which is shared with our Information Security Lab. The installed equipment consists of principal biometrics components able to input and process finger-scans, hand-scans, voice-scans and signature-scans. In the near future we also plan to equip the lab with facial scanning, iris-scanning and retina-scanning equipment consisting of Physical Access devices and Image Processing software.. For more information about the installed biometrics equipment please visit the MET CS Information Security Lab.