Telecommunications
In Telecommunications, research spans from the physical layer (for example, photonics subsystems and systems research for optical networks) to network management issues relating to next generation telecommunications infrastructure including wireless networks.
The Telecommunications Research Group has major strengths in telecommunications, networks and systems. It is involved in the design of large telecommunications and computer-communications networks, and in the development of photonic technologies underpinning modern telecommunications networks and systems.
Telecommunications network design involves investigating how to efficiently build a network, and how to operate this network. This requires knowledge of the expected system traffic load, and optimization of the network design is based on this traffic load, taking into account its unpredictable nature. The aim is to be able to provide the customer with a good service at an acceptable cost. The Telecommunications Research Group directs particular effort towards investigation of modern networks, such as cellular mobile phone networks and optical telecommunications networks, including global, national, metropolitan-area, and local-area networks.
The Telecommunications Research Group is also focused on the development of key system technologies that will shape the next generation optical and wireless networks. With a greater focus on the hardware and physical transmission layer aspects of the telecommunications infrastructures, group directs a major effort on the applications of photonic or lightwave technologies for telecommunications networks and systems. The group’s photonics activities cover a range of topics including, wavelength-division multiplexing, photonic access networks, photonic packet-switched networks, hybrid microwave/optical systems for broadband wireless networks and computer-aided design of photonic circuits and systems.
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