The Communications Group possesses internationally leading expertise in: antennas systems (smart antennas, beamforming, tunable/cognitive systems, optical distribution links for base stations); radio network planning and optimization (indoor & outdoor radio propagation modelling, indoor network design and optimisation e.g. femtocells, the simulation, planning and optimisation of 3G/4G mobile cellular networks, radio resource management, packet scheduling); and physical layer techniques for wireless communication (OFDMA & CDMA, iterative FEC coding, spreading sequence design, adaptive and iterative signal processing, MIMO).

We are members of MVCE’s Green Radio programme, Antenna Interface Standards Group (AISG) and founding members of the Wireless Friendly Building Forum http://www.wfbf.org.uk