University College London
Telecommunications Research Group
The Telecommunications Research Group works in a number of areas across optical, wired and wireless access and communications. With well equipped experimental facilities to support theoretical investigations a wide range of activities can be supported including work in the areas of:
- Fibre supported radio systems. The current focus is on system architectures and media access considerations for delivering radio signals over optical fibres, including the use of PONs as a shared delivery infrastructure.
- Future air-interface modulation schemes. Research covers a number of higher order schemes that are currently being specified for future systems, these include OFDM, MC-CDMA, and UWB. Studies focus on system
- level performance and receiver design.
- Optical Access Networks. Studies have been undertaken in novel architectures to provide broadband fibre to the home to an integrated services access network.
- High Speed Circuits and MMICs. Designs for multi GBit/s and multi GHz passive and active circuits for optical communications, using various MESFET, HEMT and HBT processes.
- Mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, third generation (3G) mobile communication systems and beyond, dynamic radio resource management (RRM) for integrated services, cross-layer performance evaluation and optimisation, medium access control (MAC) protocols, and end-to-end delay performance guarantee algorithms for wireless mesh networks.
- Cross-layer optimization of wireless media systems, video streaming, and theoretical aspects of rate-distortion-complexity modeling for multimedia systems.
http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/research/comminfosys/trg/
The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies
Complex Built Environment Systems
The Complex Built Environment Systems Group at The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies has the following areas of research interests/expertise :
- Operational performance of dwellings and non-domestic buildings
- Energy, ventilation and occupant behaviour
- Innovative energy and environmental design concepts for
- buildings particularly low-energy naturally ventilated buildings
- Simulation analysis of building energy use and building regulations compliance checking
- Advanced daylighting assessment of innovative and light sensitive facilities
- Detailed computational fluid dynamic analysis of air flow within and around buildings
- Steady state and transient thermal analysis of RCDs
- Environmental design concepts for school buildings
- Adaptation of buildings to climate change
- Energy, lighting and air quality monitoring of buildings and urban spaces
- Building occupancy surveys (health and comfort) and post occupancy evaluation studies
- Energy policy
- Carbon reduction strategies for buildings
- Evaluation and assessment of policies, programmes and projects
- Facility management
- Training and education
