Университет Астон, PhD, Adaptive Communications Networks

The research ranges from investigations of novel architectures and protocols to applications of advanced coding techniques in the area of mobile 3rd generation networks; advanced algorithms for improving network efficiency; and the design and development of dynamic hardware to improve performance; techniques often involve the design of advanced digital systems for application-specific embedded systems; the group uses field-programmable gate array hardware to examine physical implementations of these principles; the group has active links with the Photonics Research Group; the Neural Computing Research Group; and the Biomedical Engineering Research Group involving a range of theoretical and experimental research and sensor network applications.

Upper 2nd class Honours degree or equivalent from an overseas university.

The group focuses on a range of networking architectures fromwireless LANs to mobile systems to ad-hoc wireless sensor networks; the future impact of pervasive computing is an area of very active research; our research focuses on methods for improving the efficiency and performance of such networks.