Communications & Mobile Computing

researchcommunications & mobile computing

Head of Research Centre Prof Mike Woodward

The communications and mobile computing research work within the school is handled through the following groupings:

• MOBILE COMPUTING, NETWORKS AND SECURITY
  Research in this group covers the exciting and rapidly developing areas of mobile and ubiquitous computing including smart phones, wearable devices and embedded systems. A rapidly growing activity is research into network and system security. There is a very strong track record in the modelling and simulation of networks, protocols and the management and optimisation of diverse traffic types such as voice, video and data over a heterogeneous mixture of wireless and fixed networks.
  
  
• PERFORM
  The long-standing Networks and Performance Engineering Group (PERFORM) Research Group, which focuses on the performance modelling and evaluation of convergent multi-service networks of diverse technology and the next generation Internet (NGI).
  
  
• TELECOMMUNICATIONS & ELECTRODYNAMICS
  This combines staff within the school who have expertise in telecommunications networks, mobile communications and telecommunications technology. It has strong links with colleagues in the School of Engineering, Design and Technology, with whom it shares a well-funded joint research centre, the Mobile and Satellite Communications Research Centre (www.mscrc.net).
  
  A new Telecommunications Research Centre is now operational on the top floor of the Horton Building (Horton D5). This is a joint initiative between the School of Informatics and the School of Engineering Design and Technology and is a £550K project supported by HEFCE SRIF funding.
  
  
• SPACE SCIENCE GROUP
  The Space Science Group has funding from sources including the European Union, EPSRC and STFC (formerly PPARC) and focuses on the investigation of electrodynamics and kinetics of solar flaring events with high-performance computer (HPC) clusters and presentation of the results with modern visualisation and mining tools.