The project comprises a rich set of innovations aimed at the creation of future cognitive communication systems.

Our work is based on a vision of the future where billions of smart and intelligent electronic devices become a part of the daily life of people around the globe. Most of the devices would be hidden and invisible to us. Almost everything will become intelligent: furniture, entertainment and consumer electronics, office and medical equipment, transport vehicles, toys, and even clothes we wear. All these devices in aggregate will ensure a more efficient, comfortable and safe life for people. For these devices to function effectively, they apparently must be able to interact with each other and co-operate to solve particular problems.

According to the above-mentioned vision, we see our mission in developing new principles and methods of intellectual interaction between electronic devices. both locally and in the global scope, and, as a consequence, creating a universal cognitive communication platform which, if embedded into different electronic devices, would allow them to discover each other throughout the Internet's cyberspace, to exchange detailed information about each other, and to dynamically cooperate in order to carry out particular tasks by joint efforts. Tasking, choosing cooperation partners, and coordinating task activities can be performed without a direct human intervention, i.e. automatically. We create a communication platform that is cognitive. It means that electronic devices become aware of the communication context, i.e. the current situation the users, devices and their partners are being in. It will also allow communicating devices to take into consideration all the previous communication experience, i.e. to learn by experience.

Finally, the next step and the ultimate goal of our project is the creation of a new, enhanced architecture for the Internet of the future. The architecture will be based on the principles of cognitive communications. This architecture implies that all the network nodes in the Internet would become cognitive, self-learning and self-organizing and be able to communicate and co-operate with other devices of the network in an intelligent manner to perform their common tasks.

At this stage there are three main research directions in the project:

• Ubiquitous Plug and Play – UbiPnP. Within the bounds of this research direction, a new technology for cognitive communication (both locally and in the global scope via the Internet) of electronic devices, as well as online services, is created. A new framework for cognitive communication of electronic devices in the global scope – the Universal Framework for Global Device Cooperation (UFGDC) – is created on the basis of the UbiPnP technology.
  
  We believe that UbiPnP has a great potential within the Cloud Computing paradigm. The UbiPnP could be the technological platform for so called Cloud Drivers suitable for virtually any kind of electronic device (e.g. Web Cams, TV Tuners, Set Top Boxes, Network Attached Storages and many others).
  
  Cloud Drivers behave in a way similar to traditional electronic device drivers with Plug and Play functionality installed on the desktop operating systems. But whereas the traditional drivers allow operating system to discover and control all local devices our Cloud Drivers could allow any kind of electronic device (as well as web service) to be discovered on the Internet. Devices attached to the cloud environment are accessed and controlled by a cloud operating system.
  
  Cloud Drivers could make it possible for users to access their electronic devices from their virtual Cloud computer no matter where they are located physically. All that is needed for the user is to power their electronic device and connect it to the Internet. Then the virtual Cloud computer can automatically detect this device, install the Cloud Driver for it and allow the user to access this device and control it. Moreover it is possible for different users to share their devices. This feature would enable collaborative work of several users within the Cloud environment. And finally, UbiPnP technology allows users to provide dynamic cooperation of several electronic devices and to control all device interactions from the single point within the cloud environment.
  


• Cognitive Internet Addressing and Routing – CIAR. This research direction is aimed at the development of a new Internet Architecture based on the cognitive communication models. In the accordance with this architecture there’re being developed new principles of intellectually addressing nodes, as well as building new cognitive routing schemes for data streams in the global net.


• Advanced Research in Cognitive Communications – ARCC. Research and development of new models of intellectual interaction of electronic devices is performed within the bounds of the present research direction. In particular, we research the possibility of a context-aware agent behavior and the use of self-learning systems in communication models.

Our work follows the latest trends in fields of computer science such as Pervasive Computing, Cognitive Networks, Context-Aware Systems, Multi-Agent Systems and Artificial Intelligence.