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UP-VLC: Ultra-parallel visible light communications

Running from October 2012 to September 2016, UP-VLC is an ambitious EPSRC-funded £4.6 million Programme Grant which will explore the transformative technology of communications in an imaginative and foresighted way.

Research Themes:

Communications
Sensors

Ultra-parallel visible light communications graphics

HARP: High capacity network Architecture with Remote radio heads & Parasitic antenna arrays

To bring distributed multi-antenna wireless access to reality by combining two powerful emerging technologies:

radio remote heads (RRHs), which allow for widely geographically distributed access via radio-over-fibre connections to a central base station; and
electronically steerable passive array radiators – ESPARs, which provide multi-antenna-like functionality with a single active RF chain only

Research Themes:

Communications

GREENNET An early stage training network in enabling technologies for GREEN radio

Greenet is an Initial Training Network (ITN) Marie Curie project that is focused on the analysis, design, and optimization of energy efficient wireless communication systems and networks.

Research Themes:

Communications

PhD Student Di Wu Wins Dstl Prize

Di Wu, a PhD student at the School of Engineering has just won the coveted Dstl prize on their recent challenge competition on spectral deconvolution.

Picture of Di Wu with his prize - A model of the experimental instrument

Talk by Yuchang Wang - Postgraduate Student in IDCOM

Date:

Friday, June 6, 2014 - 15:00 to 16:00

Location:

AGB Seminar Room,3rd floor

Event Contact Name:

Nicola Ferguson

Event Contact Email:

nicola.ferguson@ed.ac.uk

Professor Majid Safari

Full Job Title:

Professor and Deputy Head of Research Institute Imaging, Data and Communications (IDCoM)

Engineering Discipline:

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

Research Institute:

Imaging, Data and Communications

Email:

Majid.Safari@ed.ac.uk

Telephone:

+44(0)131 6513569

Dr. Majid Safari received PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Professor Tharmalingam Ratnarajah

Full Job Title:

Professor in Communications and Signal Processing

Engineering Discipline:

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

Research Institute:

Imaging, Data and Communications

Email:

T.Ratnarajah@ed.ac.uk

Telephone:

+44(0)131 6505578

T. Ratnarajah (S'94, A'96, M'05, SM'05) holds B. Eng. (Hons), M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees. He is an internationally renowned scholar with a strong commitment to excellence, creativity, and visionary thinking.

Professor Wasiu O Popoola

Full Job Title:

Deputy Director of Learning & Teaching - Widening Participation

Engineering Discipline:

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

Research Institute:

Imaging, Data and Communications

Email:

W.Popoola@ed.ac.uk

Telephone:

+44(0)131 6508232

Wasiu O. Popoola (Senior Member, IEEE) is a Professor of Communications Engineering and Deputy Director of Learning and Teaching (widening participation & outreach).

Professor John Thompson

Full Job Title:

Professor of Signal Processing and Communications. Head of Research Institute

Engineering Discipline:

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

Research Institute:

Imaging, Data and Communications

Email:

John.Thompson@ed.ac.uk

Telephone:

+44(0)131 6505585

Professor Tughrul Arslan

Full Job Title:

Chair of Integrated Electronic Systems

Engineering Discipline:

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

Research Institute:

Integrated Micro and Nano Systems

Email:

T.Arslan@ed.ac.uk

Telephone:

+44(0)131 6505592

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