Over the past two months, we were happy to welcome more DIA members: one full member, Sirius Technology SRL, and four associate members: Gerhard Fohler, Juan Fraire, Edison Pignaton de Freitas, and Nitinder Mohan.
Sirius Technology SRL is a legal entity established in Italy as an independent telecommunications and ICT European operator. The company contributes directly to the datacom value chain not only through its telecommunications infrastructure, but especially through the research and development activities behind its next-generation network architecture.
The combination of operational infrastructure and in-house R&D capabilities makes Sirius strongly aligned with DIA’s mission to advance secure, resilient, innovative and collaborative digital communication technologies in Europe. Sirius can contribute to the association not only as a network operator, but as an industrial research and experimentation partner able to validate new services, protocols and architectures in real-world network environments.
Gerhard Fohler is Professor for Real-Time Systems at RPTU Kaiserslautern Germany. His research areas include real-time networks, as well as safety critical processing and communications in the edge/cloud continuum, with application areas in avionics and railway. Research projects range from collaborative publicly funded, e.g., EU frameworks or JTU, to direct industrial work (e.g., via collaborations with Airbus and Hitachi Rail).
He has been involved in a number of EU projects, as coordinator and partner, and was core partner of the EU IST Networks-of-Excellence ARTIST. He was Chairman of the Technical Committee of ECRTS, the prime European conference on real-time systems, was member of the executive board of the real-time and embedded committees of the IEEE. Within DIA, he is interested to explore the path from dedicated to open networks while also bringing in his experience of working with a number of research organizations and networks, technical committees, and research roadmaps.
Juan Fraire is a researcher at INRIA (France) and a guest professor at Saarland University (Germany) and CONICET-UNC (Argentina). Core topics of his interest are near-Earth and deep-space networking and informatics, adding up to more than 100 published papers in international journals and leading conferences. Juan is the co-founder and chair of the Space-Terrestrial Internetworking Workshop (STINT) and participates in diverse joint projects with space agencies (e.g., NASA, ESA, CONAE) and companies in the space sector (e.g., D3TN, Skyloom). Within DIA, he will apply his research experience in satellite constellations, satellite IoT, and deep space networks to digital communication solutions.
Edison Pignaton de Freitas is Professor in Autonomous Systems at Halmstad University in Sweden, developing research in Real-Time Systems, Avionics Systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Flying Aerial Networks, and Satellite Networks. His research is aligned to the DIA goals and can provide relevant input to the different areas of DIA interests, as well as actively participate in collaborative research and elaboration of documents in cooperation with DIA’s members, as well as bring topics from DIA to his research team at the Halmstad University to develop and provide feedback to DIA.
Nitinder Mohan is Assistant Professor and Head of the SPEAR Lab (Networked Systems Group) at TU Delft in the Netherlands, leading research and education in edge computing, LEO satellite networking, distributed systems, and network protocols. His work is deeply embedded in the European data communications landscape. He leads the development of Oakestra, an award-winning open-source edge computing orchestration platform, which underpins multiple EU and nationally funded research projects spanning doctoral training networks, edge-native application frameworks, and digital twinning for ICT infrastructure.
Through his work on research, design and deployment of distributed orchestration systems that span cloud, edge, and far-edge environments, he can contribute practical insight into the systems and enabling technologies that DIA’s working groups address, such as aerospace and next-generation connectivity. His various activities within the European networking research agenda give him strong ties to both the academic and industrial European scene.
We fully welcome our new members and we are looking forward to their involvement and contributions to the DIA vision.
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