Blockchain

A diverse group of researchers at FIIT are working on a range of Blockchain academic and industry-driven research projects in a means to further the technical development and innovation of the endless applications of Blockchain.
Current research projects include: connection to IoT platforms and it's usability, distributed systems, data mining and machine learning, scalability and resiliency, smart contracts, blockchains interoperability, voting and election systems based on blockchain, asset sharing blockchain platforms, and applications of blockchain into normal life.

 

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	Ivan Kotuliak Professor e-mail: ivan.kotuliak[at]stuba.sk website			Michal Ries Assistant Professor e-mail: michal.ries[at]stuba.sk website
Research interest lies at network performance, including NGN architecture, wireless and mobile networking, Internet of Things and Future Internet, security. In his research, he focus on architecture approach and system performance using Markov Chains and Petri Nets.He has been author and co-author of more than sixty scientific papers and leads and participates on several international and national research projects.			Research interest lies at technology transfer and network performance, including Software Defined Networking SDN, wireless and mobile networking, Internet of Things. He has been author and co-author of more than 50 scientific papers.

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	Pavol Helebrandt Assistant Professor e-mail: pavol.helebrandt[at]stuba.sk website			Rastislav Bencel Assistant Professor e-mail: rastislav.bencel[at]stuba.sk website
Research interest lies at software defined networking, routing, design and management optimization in communication networks, network security, with primary focus on utilization of blockchain and secure management of networks.			Research interest lies at Software Defined Networking SDN, wireless communication in SDN, blockchain technology, Internet of Things and handover in IEEE 802.11 networks primarily handover optimization in SDN architecture.

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Selected recent publications

1. KOŠŤÁL, Kristián - HELEBRANDT, Pavol - BELLUŠ, Matej - RIES, Michal - KOTULIAK, Ivan.
   Management and Monitoring of IoT Devices Using Blockchain.
   Sensors,. 19, 2019, no. 4: 856.
2. HELEBRANDT, Pavol - BELLUŠ, Matej - RIES, Michal - KOTULIAK, Ivan - KHILENKO, Vladimir.
   Blockchain Adoption for monitoring and management of enterprise networks.
   Proceedings of 2018 IEEE 9th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON). Vancouver, BC 1-3 November 2018, pp. 1221-1225.
3. KOŠŤÁL, Kristián - KRUPA, Tomáš - GEMBEC, Martin - VEREŠ, Igor - RIES, Michal - KOTULIAK, Ivan.
   On Transition between PoW and PoS.
   2018 International Symposium ELMAR, Zadar, 2018, pp. 207-210.

 

Industry collaboration

• Common international research project proposals with several industry partners: Atos Spain SA, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A., Flexiant Limited, and EdTech Foundry
• Extensive collaboration in research and development projects with several Slovak software development companies: Gratex, Continental Automotive, mimacom, etc.

 

Academy collaboration

Common international research project proposals with several academic partners:

• SINTEF (Dr. Alessandro Rossini)
• Leipzig University (Prof. Ulrich Eisenecker)
• Lancaster University (Prof. Awais Rashid))
• Warsaw University of Technology (Prof. Michał Śmiałek)
• University of Cyprus (Prof. George Papadopoulos)
• etc.

 

Infrastructure

• 3D Software Development Lab, equipped with a powerful computer system and several spatial I/O devices (leap motion, 3D mouse SpaceNavigator and three interconnected 3D monitors