Communications (Doctoral Training Centre)

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• Programme overview
• Entry requirements
• Staff research interests

Programme overview

The interdisciplinary Centre for Doctoral Training in Communications, the only such UK centre, offers graduates of engineering, mathematics and science disciplines a vibrant and stimulating environment in which to undertake research. The Centre has been funded by EPSRC and industry to train UK postgraduate students to address the shortage of highly skilled and motivated communications engineers and to expose them to ground-breaking research.

The four-year postgraduate programme is designed to develop and broaden the understanding of Communications. The first year of the programme is taught (including group and individual research projects), followed by a three-year individual research project. The interdisciplinary nature of the programme will equip you with the necessary skills to work in a wide variety of roles to lead innovative research, future product development and exploitation.

The Centre brings together world-leading experts in their fields, many of whom also have extensive industrial links. This ensures that you will learn in an environment of cutting edge research, with the close involvement of industry.

Bristol benefits from a high concentration of communication-related industries in the region. Many of these organisations work closely with the Centre and will provide you with industrial training/support, allowing you to obtain skills which will maximise your employability.

PhD topics might include:

• Power- and spectrum-efficient wireless monitoring in hazardous environments;
• Efficient protocols for secure communications in highly dynamic mobile scenarios;
• End-user control and manipulation of the radio environment through novel interfaces;
• Stochastic modelling and optimisation of smart grid power networks;
• Highly agile RF transceivers for cognitive aware communication networks;
• Aligning human and computer communications by increasing the legibility of wireless infrastructures;
• Application of random matrix theory to the optimisation of multi-sensor wireless networks;
• High dynamic range video compression;
• Development and evaluation of new interaction techniques for mobile media;
• Cross layer optimisation for robust multimedia transport;
• Interference alignment to improve the performance of large wireless networks by the development of theoretical algorithms;
• Dynamic visualisation - the paper replacement.

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Entry requirements

An upper-second class honours degree in a relevant subject (or international equivalent).

For information on international equivalent qualifications, please see our International Office website.

Admissions statement

Read the programme admissions statement for important information on entry requirements, the application process and supporting documents required.

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Key research interests

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