This project proposes to develop technologies and applications for next-generation information communication networks, with a purpose of carrying related research into international excellence in the next decade and readies our society for the information new era. This project consists of six sub-projects. Three of them are executed in the National Tsing Hua University and the other three are in the National Chiao Tung University.

The ever-growing demand for Internet bandwidth and recent advances in optical and wireless technologies bring about fundamental changes in the design and implementation of the next generation broadband Internet. Moreover, as broadband Internet is expected to support a multitude of data and real-time and high-mobility traffic, it needs diverse Quality-of-Service (QoS) guarantees and value-added services. This project aims at the exploration of advanced technologies and applications for high speed, high bandwidth, wireless, secured, and integrated networks. In the PPAEU-I project, we have gathered distinguished researchers from National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) and National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) and made significant achievements along the aforementioned directions. This PPAEU-II project will be built on top of the PPAEU-I achievements. The project consists of six sub-projects aiming at three major themes: electronic-switching and optical-switching backbone networks, wireless core and access networks, and network security/overlay networks. In theme one, Sub-project 1 will explore and build an electronic ultra-high speed switching system; while Sub-project 2 focuses on key optical networking technologies, the construction of an experimental 10G optical network (OPSINET-II), and essential QoS techniques. In theme two, Sub-projects 3 and 4 focus on the development of B3G mobile telecommunications, which will integrate three types of wireless access networks (infrastructure cellular networks, wireless LAN networks, and mobile ad hoc and sensor networks) through an all-IP core network using the Internet, UMTS, and GPRS as the backbone. In the final theme, Sub-project 5 investigates numerous network security techniques, including active information hiding, knowledge warehousing with parallel incremental mining, knowledge fusion/integration, fast bitwise indexing, and the construction of secured message delivery system for network applications. Sub-project 6 in turn aims at forward-looking platform design of middleware layers, application layers, and contents layers. With PPAEU-I experience and prosperous achievements, we expect to make more breakthroughs in the technologies and prototyping of next-generation networks and information systems.