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Communication Systems
Profile
Number of Postgraduate Students Taught Courses Website
50 MSc/PgDip in Mobile and Broadband Communications
www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk
MSc/PgDip in Digital Signal Processing and Intelligent Systems
Head of Department MSc/PgDip in Social Network Technologies Location
Professor Garik Markarian MSc/PgDip in Multimedia Production and Distribution InfoLab21
Enquiries Research Degrees
Postgraduate Admissions Secretary MPhil/PhD
tel: +44 (0)1524 510390 MSc in Communications and Information Systems (by Research)
e-mail:
dcs-adm@lancaster.ac.uk
The Department of Communication Systems is nationally and
internationally recognised by its contributions to different fields of
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and is an
integral component of InfoLab21, Lancaster University’s world-class
research, development and business centre in ICT. InfoLab21
facilitates transfer of knowledge between academics and businesses
both through collaborative research and training. Part of InfoLab21
is the Knowledge Business Centre (KBC) which enables businesses
Dr Paul Coulton to co-locate alongside Lancaster-based technologists in order to
Senior Lecturer and Postgraduate develop new products and processes based on cutting edge
Director of Studies
research.
Dr Paul Coulton has over 15 years’ research and development
The Department comprises of 17 academic staff, 40 research staff
experience in mobile systems and applications. Paul has
and up to 50 MSc students. In addition to companies associated
published extensively in mobile, both in terms of academic
directly with InfoLab21 the Department maintains extensive
publications and a book on S60 programming. His research is
collaborative activities with Industry e.g. NOKIA, NEC, BAES,
internationally recognised in this area and he was selected as
Panasonic, Ford Motor Company, BBC, ATG, Qinetiq, Google, DSTL.
one of 50 most talented mobile developers worldwide from a
Members of staff are also directors of a number of high-tech
community of over 2 million to be a founding Nokia
companies e.g. Inotec, m ventions, HW Communications Ltd and
Champion in 2006, and was reselected in 2007 and 2008.
Rinicom Ltd. The Department receives funding from diverse sources
such as EPSRC, STFC, DTI, the European Union and industry.
Paul is the leader of Mobile Experiences Group as part of the
Forum Nokia Innovation Network which includes universities Research activities and staff expertise are highly interrelated and
from around the world. The main focus of his current research cover a wide area of topics including: source and channel coding,
surrounds innovative mobile software with a particular modulation, wireless communication systems, wireless ad hoc
emphasis on mobile entertainment, such as games. Many of networks and sensor networks, information security, speech and
the research projects encompass novel uses of the latest image processing, signal prediction, clustering and classification,
technologies such as RFID/NRC, VoIP, cameras, and 3-D information fusion, real-time model configurability, autonomous
accelerometers in mobile phones and his projects have won a systems, radio wave propagation, geomagnetic storms and space
number of awards for innovation. weather modelling, mobile games and social networks, and mobile
web 2.0 applications.
“There is a high demand for the specialist skills which we teach.
The mobile phone market has saturation point in many parts of
State of the art laboratories for our postgraduate students are
the world, in terms of potential new customers, so companies
provided which are normally accessible 24 hours a day. Dedicated
are thinking more in terms of generating revenues from
facilities include: the real-time hardware and software laboratory,
increased data usage by developing new applications and uses
the RF propagation laboratory, the Nokia sponsored multimedia
for their phones.”
laboratory (which includes a sound and video recording studio), the
power-line communications laboratory, and the intelligent robotic
“Students in the Department are involved in projects that
systems laboratory. Furthermore our close interaction with KBC
work across academic and industrial boundaries, giving them
related ICT companies and our strong links with industry mean that
skills that other institutions don’t offer. We focus on exploring
postgraduate students are often involved in industrial projects and
ICT subjects in a friendly and challenging atmosphere. “
thus acquire training and skills which are in high demand by
employers.
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