Pasiphae Lab

Pasiphae Lab is a research unit of the Informatics Engineering department at the Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU) in Crete. It was formally instituted in 2004 with a threefold mission: 🔹 Educational & Academic, in order to support the undergraduate and postgraduate students; 🔹 Scientific & Technological towards undertaking basic research and conducting development activities in selected domains of ICTs, with emphasis on cable, wireless and mobile networks, linear and interactive digital broadcasting; 🔹 Knowledge Diffusion & Exploitation for linking research with social, economic and industrial sectors through a number of dissemination activities; Towards accomplishing its mission, Pasiphae Lab team activities are supported by state-of-the-art tools and in-house equipment for research and development, as well as by up-to-date experimentation tools for performance evaluation measurements under both real/actual and controlled conditions environments. Among those is an outdoor mobile unit - unique in the entire Crete region - for conducting field measurements on non-ionising radiation and a professional broadcasting platform for satellite and terrestrial communications. Their efforts have established Pasiphae Lab among the top educational units of Greece and as a pioneering research team at European level in the domain of ICT with long record in national and EU-funded projects. Moreover, Pasiphae Lab runs and maintains the first digital interactive TV infrastructure in Greece. This infrastructure is complemented and supplemented by a prototype, fully operational, cloud-based platform capable to support - among the others - Software Defined Networking (SDN) and experimentation on Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV).