The University of Piraeus was founded in 1938. The Department of Digital Systems (http://www.ds.unipi.gr/en ) is the main driver and contributor to making the UPRC one of the fastest growing institutions in Greece in the national and international research arenas. The Department of Digital Systems covers the areas of digital/network services, broadband (wireless and optical) networks, as well as the security of digital systems. The department’s research staff consists of 25 faculty members, 20 postdoctoral researchers and 75 PhD candidates, whose collective expertise covers many key areas in ICT systems and services. In this project, UPRC participates through the collaboration of the Security Systems Laboratory (SSL) and the Telecommunications Systems Laboratory (TSL) of the Department of Digital Systems.

The SSL was founded in 2008 as a research and graduate education unit within the Department of Digital Systems. The main objective of SSL is to conduct research, development and educational activities in various areas of systems security. Through such activities, the SSL aims at contributing to the collective excellence of the Department of Digital Systems and the University of Piraeus and paves the way for the realization of a secure and trustworthy digital society.

The TSL belongs to the Department of Digital Systems of UPRC. Its main objective is to conduct research, development and educational activities in various areas of Telecommunications Systems. It consists of three Professors with extensive knowledge in wireless communications field and a great amount of published research work in the field.