PhD Students

Name: Kafil Uddin Ahmed
Title: Novel Metamaterial Devices for Wireless Applications
Supervisor: Dr Bal Virdee
Name: G Georgiou
Title (provisional): Self Learning of New Computer Network Threats
Supervisor: Dr Nick Ioannides
Name: M Iqbal
Title: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Convergence Analysis and Enhancement
Supervisor: Dr Nick Ioannides
Name: Mike Cullinan
Title: Equation Defined Device Modelling of Floating Gate MOSFETs
Supervisor: Dr Bal Virdee

Topics of Interest

The Centre is actively engaged in the various research areas and topics listed below. Although we welcome your own suggestions we will initially need to discuss with you their feasibility for PhD research. Once you have identified a suitable topic for research you will then need to indicate this in your application form.

Microwave Wireless Systems

Reconfigurable microwaves devices for next generation of communications systems
Techniques to suppress spurii in devices such as filters for electromagnetic compatible (EMC) systems
Photonic band-gap (PBG) miniature devices
Microstrip resonators for frequency selective applications using fractal
Metamaterial devices
Efficient high-power RF amplifiers
Ultra-broadband amplifiers
RF high power amplifier design technique for cellular base-stations
Ultra-low noise tuneable reference oscillators with low phase noise
Broad tuning low noise voltage controlled oscillators (VCO)
Efficient low-noise oscillators
Linear broadband highly efficient power amplifiers
Multimode filters
Ultra-broadband frequency discriminating devices

Optoelectronics

Novel Non-Scanning Solar Power Capture Techniques Using POF
Novel Structures and Applications of Polymer Optical Fibres

Digital Signal Processing

Modelling and Simulating Device and Circuit Noise in the Time Domain
Theoretical and Simulation Study of S-Domain to Z-Domain Transforms With Special Reference to Modelling and Design of Discrete-Time Signal Processing Systems
Z Domain Delay Subcircuits and Compact Verilog-A Macromodels for Mixed-Mode Sampled Data Circuit Simulation
Adaptive Subcircuits and Compact Verilog-A Macromodels as Integrated Design and Analysis Blocks in QUCS Circuit Simulation

Wireless Networks

Security Mechanism Reference and Model for Intrusion Detection Systems in Wireless LANs
Integrated Quality-of-Service Differentiation Over IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs
Resource Allocation in Hybrid Macro/Femto Networks
Outage Probability Analysis for Collocated Spectrum-Sharing Macrocell and Femtocells
System Software Support for Router Fault Tolerance