Welcome to the Mobile Communications Research Group
Group Leader
E mail: r.tafazolli@surrey.ac.uk Mobile Communications Research is the strongest group within CCSR with some 90 members. It is the largest academic research group in the field of mobile communications within Europe and has a unique research approach on both satellite and terrestrial mobile communication systems. This approach follows the aim of unifying and integration between these two systems at both the Network and Terminal levels through optimization of air-interfaces as well as network techniques. The research activities within the group encompass all levels of communication systems, from antennas & propagation, air interfaces, PHY, MAC, networking layer up to the service support platforms and distributed applications and user interfaces. The group was selected by UK industry as a core member of the UK Virtual Centre of Excellence in Mobile and Personal Communications, which recently started its fourth core research programme. The group is also deeply involved in many 6th Framework IST projects. Some of our recent achievements:
- Breakthrough in blind search algorithms - genetic algorithm
- Fast, adaptive, low complexity near-far resistant multiuser detector for W-CDMA
- Network dimensioning technique for multimedia mobile systems (W-CDMA)
- Network dimensioning technique for GPRS
- Two new soft handover techniques for W-CDMA (2 patents)
- New CAC & scheduling for mixed service mobile networks (patent)
- New QoS routing for Ad-Hoc mobile networking (submitted to IETF)
- New context transfer algorithm (submitted to IETF + patent)
- New positioning technique for hybrid PAN & cellular (patent)
- New fast handover/routing technique for all-IP cellular network
- New reconfigurable mobile terminal architecture (patent)
- New dual-mode mobile antenna (2 patents)
- Self-planning algorithm for cellular networks (patent)
- New code synchronisation technique for W-CDMA
