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RESEARCH AREAS
The Group has developed strong strategic alliances with O2,
Our research activities and staff expertise are highly interrelated and
QinetiQ, BBC, NEC, NOKIA, ULTRA Electronics, and APERTO
span a wide area of topics.
Networks, and are directors for HW Communications Ltd, INOTEK
Ltd, m-ventions Ltd, and Rinicom Ltd. Our research students benefit
MPhil/PhD activities and opportunities for new projects may be
from this collaboration by participating in the industry-driven
viewed within the context of the following three broad areas:
research projects which lead to new products and new services.
Informatics
Digital Signal Processing and Autonomous
Prof B Honary, Prof G Markarian, Dr P Benachour, Dr P Coulton,
Systems
Dr Z Ding, Dr R Edwards, Dr U Roedig, and Dr K Salamatian.
Prof C Xydeas, Dr H Ahmed, Dr P Angelov, and Dr M Mihaylova.
Informatics is internationally recognised for its leading-edge
An important characteristic of DSP research work in the Department
contributions to communications theory, wireless broadband is its generic nature and therefore its applicability to a wide
communications (WiMAX) and applications. Thus world-renowned spectrum of technology areas, including aerospace, telecommunica-
expertise is available in high-performance error control codes tions, surveillance and medical informatics.
including Turbo codes and LDPC codes, modulation, data protection
and security, and mobile communication technologies. World class Novel algorithms which often require hierarchical, real-time model
expertise is also available in developing enhanced quality of service configurability are being developed and incorporated into next
Communication Systems
(QoS) and cross-layer optimisation protocols for WiMAX, with generation of Intelligent Systems, such as autonomous vehicle
emphasis on provision of efficient applications (including mobile systems, automatic object recognition / tracking and surveillance
video transmission) over WiMAX networks. Researchers working in systems, road traffic control systems, automatic auditing systems
WiMAX have contributed to original IEEE802.16* standard and (based on behaviour understanding of subjects) and medical
continue their involvement with the standard by developing advanced decision aid systems. Work in these topics receives support from
solutions for the emerging IEEE*02.16m and IEEE*02.16j standards. industry, government and the EU; for example: Nokia (speech
quality enhancement of voice over IP), BAES (Collision Avoidance
Informatics also leads the International Mobile Experiences Group as (CA) and CA performance metrics, Intelligent information
echnology:
part of the Forum Nokia Innovation Network and is seen as world management in aircrafts, SAR (target detection) QinetiQ (Tracking
leaders in this area. The focus is on the design, implementation, and Cluster Project, DIF-DTC), 4S (Decision making aids for clinicians),
evaluation of novel and uniquely mobile user experiences and EPSRC (Object tracking over sensor networks), DTI (ASTRAEA
interfaces from a socio-technical perspective. Specific areas of program, CA and route planning), EU (UNIVERSAL).
interest include context aware games, mixed and augmented reality,
user-generated content, mobile web 2.0, collective intelligence, Advances made in speech coding, noise cancellation and fusion
perpetual beta, mash-ups, location-based applications, community technologies have resulted in systems and solutions adopted by
building, reflective applications (for example personal wellbeing, companies such as AMD, Anite, ULTRA, and BAES. Current research
environmental awareness, etc.). Expertise ranges across all the main activities include pioneering work into evolving fuzzy rule-based
Science and T
development environments such as Symbian, Brew, Maemo, modelling techniques and form the basis for designing next
Android, Apple J2ME, Brew, Python and Flashlite. generation, embedded systems with evolving intelligence.
Work is funded by industry/EPSRC/ESRC/DTI/EU for research in topics Topics for new projects include: low bit rate coding systems with
such as: data distribution via power lines, software reconfigurable applications to digital mobile radio and satellite communication
radio, wireless sensor networks, WiMAX, wireless technologies in systems, combined speech coding and signal enhancement of
aviation security, Ultra Wideband Radio Technology for adaptive decoded speech in mobile radio and packet-based voice
communications and location-based data transfer, Radio Frequency communications systems, acoustic noise reduction techniques in
Identification technology and devices. conjunction with speech coding and speech recognition systems,
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