IDLab's DISCOVER team

Industry-driven research supercharging Cloud, Edge and IoT

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Focus areas

Cloud, Edge, and IoT

  • Deployment of software and AI to the cloud and to devices.
  • Virtualization and sandboxing of software.
  • Software supply-chain trust and transparency.

Confidential Computing

  • Processing sensitive data with confidential algorithms.
  • Limit the impact of breaches by encrypting data in-use.
  • Process highly regulated data in clouds.

AR/VR

  • Low latency streaming for AR, VR and XR applications.
  • User Experience of Multi-user and Multimodal extended reality.
  • Volumetric Video Conferencing.

Serious Games

  • Applying game design principles to education and healthcare.
  • Building games to improve learning and health outcomes.
  • Personalized Serious Games and Gamification.

Data Collaborations

  • Highly scalable data processing pipelines.
  • Data sharing and collaboration in environments with complex ownership and permissions.
  • Technical enablers for SOLID and Data Spaces in production environments.

Network Intrusion Detection

  • End-to-end network intrusion detection.
  • Technical enablers for realtime analysis on network traffic.
  • Intrusion detection and prediction on real-world datasets.

Project Spotlight

Homelab

Homelab is a fully furnished and functional house with extensive test facilities. Custom-built for testing smart home applications in a real living lab.

  • VR/AR applications,
  • digital assistants,
  • and home robots.

Learn more or contact us to see how Homelab can help you test your products.

Obelisk

Battle-tested platform for scalable data-driven applications.

Connect data producers and consumers with powerful APIs for ingesting, querying and streaming large amounts of data. End-to-end granular authorization and authentication builtin.

RustiFlow

High-performance feature extraction for network traffic.

Uses Rust and eBPF to process high volumes of traffic with remarkable speed and throughput.

  • Very high throughput
  • Versatile Feature Sets
  • Pcap File Support

See the code.

Feather

Kubernetes for tiny edge devices.

A lightweight Kubernetes-compatible container orchestrator supporting containers and MicroVMs.

  • For low-resource devices
  • Supports MicroVMs
  • Edge-native networking

See the code.

Cyber-Physical WebAssembly

Lightweight containerization for IoT devices.

Standardized WASI interfaces to drive USB and I2C hardware from WebAssembly.

  • Containerized device drivers
  • On tiny microcontrollers
  • 2% latency & RAM overhead

See the code.

PACSOI

Enabling Solid for healthcare.

Healthcare ecosystems are siloed and data sharing is minimal. With Solid, we enable data sharing between healthcare applications to better support patients.

Partners:

  • FAQIR Institute & Foundation
  • AContrario, moveUP, Byteflies
  • IDLab - Ghent University - imec

Diktyo

Network-aware Kubernetes sheduling

This project enables Kubernetes to take application topology and network topology into account when sheduling applications. This reduces the network latency of microservice applications running in Kubernetes.

See the code.

Improved NIDS datasets

Network Intrusion Detection datasets

More than 30 state-of-the-art network intrusion detection datasets with high quality. These include NSL-KDD, UNSW-NB15, the CIC-IDS collection (including the Distrinet updates) and the NF-IDS collection.

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