Frequency Agile Radio (FARAD)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sheffield
Department Name: Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Abstract
Wireless communications has become a pervasive technology that we use throughout our lives. Across society, there is a move away from using the internet on desktop computers and towards smartphones, tablets and laptops. Consequently, the amount of wireless data transmission to support our online activities is rapidly increasing. There is also significant growth in automatic data sharing and collection from many types of sensors, meters and embedded computers, sometimes referred to as machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. This continuing growth in mobile data is a significant problem for network operators. In order to meet this enormous traffic growth challenge, operators are considering a number of potential solutions with three leading concepts: 1. increasing the availability of radio spectrum; 2. deploying heterogeneous and small cell networks; and 3. separating control and traffic data for enhanced network management.
This project will address the expected capacity crunch by focusing on the RF bottleneck in future heterogeneous wireless networks through researching and developing miniature, integrated, reconfigurable and tuneable, multiband radios to enable 'spectrum agile' radio access and concurrent multiband operation. Research will address the radio system agility across the microwave spectrum bands from 450 to 6000 MHz. The project will embrace the co-design of antennas, amplifiers, filters and digitisers to achieve spectrum and energy efficient frequency agile radio systems. The project consists of five major research areas:
1. Tuneable Antennas and Filters - Research will focus on reconfigurable and tuneable antennas with integrated filters to achieve frequency selectivity and concurrent multiband operation.
2. Transmit Amplifiers - Research on transmit amplifiers for base stations and handsets will focus on methods to achieve re-tuneable, linear, wideband, power efficient and concurrent multiband operation.
3. Receiver Interference Mitigation - Simple and efficient solutions to reduce the effects of unwanted signal suppression caused by RF blockers in the multiband RF receiver chain will be sought.
4. Multiband A/D Conversion & PAPR Reduction - Research will focus on developing concurrent multiband ADC techniques at the receiver and the design of signal sets with significantly reduced peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR).
5. Testbed Demonstration: Themes 1-4 will lead to the evaluation and demonstration of solutions using a hardware-in-the-loop RF testbed.
By researching a frequency agile, concurrent multiband radio technology FARAD will significantly contribute to the growth of future radio access networks and the use of new spectrum bands in an efficient way. The techniques and algorithms developed in this project will enable far reaching capabilities in wireless networks for the next 20 to 30 years helping to solve the anticipated capacity crunch while establishing a new paradigm in radio transceiver design.
This project will address the expected capacity crunch by focusing on the RF bottleneck in future heterogeneous wireless networks through researching and developing miniature, integrated, reconfigurable and tuneable, multiband radios to enable 'spectrum agile' radio access and concurrent multiband operation. Research will address the radio system agility across the microwave spectrum bands from 450 to 6000 MHz. The project will embrace the co-design of antennas, amplifiers, filters and digitisers to achieve spectrum and energy efficient frequency agile radio systems. The project consists of five major research areas:
1. Tuneable Antennas and Filters - Research will focus on reconfigurable and tuneable antennas with integrated filters to achieve frequency selectivity and concurrent multiband operation.
2. Transmit Amplifiers - Research on transmit amplifiers for base stations and handsets will focus on methods to achieve re-tuneable, linear, wideband, power efficient and concurrent multiband operation.
3. Receiver Interference Mitigation - Simple and efficient solutions to reduce the effects of unwanted signal suppression caused by RF blockers in the multiband RF receiver chain will be sought.
4. Multiband A/D Conversion & PAPR Reduction - Research will focus on developing concurrent multiband ADC techniques at the receiver and the design of signal sets with significantly reduced peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR).
5. Testbed Demonstration: Themes 1-4 will lead to the evaluation and demonstration of solutions using a hardware-in-the-loop RF testbed.
By researching a frequency agile, concurrent multiband radio technology FARAD will significantly contribute to the growth of future radio access networks and the use of new spectrum bands in an efficient way. The techniques and algorithms developed in this project will enable far reaching capabilities in wireless networks for the next 20 to 30 years helping to solve the anticipated capacity crunch while establishing a new paradigm in radio transceiver design.
Planned Impact
The project plans to have wider impact through a number of pathways. These include impact on the wider community, the industrial supporters of the project, the wider UK communications industry and the researchers funded by the project.
Ultimately, the main beneficiaries of the research will be all wireless technology users. The frequency agile, multiband radio transceivers developed in FARAD will be deployed in smartphone, tablets, laptops, M2M devices and base stations operating on a global level. The potential for impact is immediate as new transceivers could advantageously employ the technology. However, even greater societal impact is envisaged as the broader capabilities of access networks for 5G and beyond become enabled by frequency agile multiband radio technology. The technology to be developed in FARAD is expected to penetrate the mass market within a 5 to 10 year time frame.
The research will also benefit UK and EU policy/regulation makers. OFCOM would benefit from an early indication of the capabilities of such hardware and its potential impact on future wireless ICT infrastructure. The efficient use of radio spectrum has significant impact on both the quality of service for users and the economic opportunity for industry and government.
The research will impact directly on the industrial supporters of the project by setting up and maintaining a regular dialogue on project progress and results. Six monthly progress meetings will be arranged and an advisory board of industrialists will be established to observe progress and contribute to the steering of the research programme. The project will involve two targeted technical workshops to discuss specific research themes and to promote interaction between the project researchers and the industrial supporters. Our industrial supporters consist of major equipment manufacturers and mobile network operators and are therefore ideally placed to bring this technology into the mass market.
Existing UK companies and new spin-out companies specialising in the design and manufacture of microwave radio units would benefit from the growth of this new market. Also, frequency agile, multiband radio technology will be of significant interest to manufacturers of military systems, such as BAE Systems and Selex ES.
The four funded postdoctoral researchers on the project will gain valuable technical and professional experience from working in this important area of technology. They will be trained to build their knowledge and experience, in particular in hardware design, implementation and testing. They will be encouraged to participate in University training on research funding, entrepreneurship and other skills aimed at developing their careers. They will also assist with supervising the four PhD students who will participate in the project.
In order to reach out to the wider non-scientific community, the postdoctoral researchers will be encouraged to become STEM ambassadors in order to encourage school children to become involved in science and engineering as a career path. Researchers from the project will also participate in Science fairs by organising events about the project.
Finally, the project will provide the investigators an opportunity to build on the reputation of the work through the recruitment and training of doctoral and masters level students. Knowledge gained from the project is likely to feed into future PhD projects and taught Masters programmes thereby enhancing the teaching and learning capabilities of both Universities in this important field.
Ultimately, the main beneficiaries of the research will be all wireless technology users. The frequency agile, multiband radio transceivers developed in FARAD will be deployed in smartphone, tablets, laptops, M2M devices and base stations operating on a global level. The potential for impact is immediate as new transceivers could advantageously employ the technology. However, even greater societal impact is envisaged as the broader capabilities of access networks for 5G and beyond become enabled by frequency agile multiband radio technology. The technology to be developed in FARAD is expected to penetrate the mass market within a 5 to 10 year time frame.
The research will also benefit UK and EU policy/regulation makers. OFCOM would benefit from an early indication of the capabilities of such hardware and its potential impact on future wireless ICT infrastructure. The efficient use of radio spectrum has significant impact on both the quality of service for users and the economic opportunity for industry and government.
The research will impact directly on the industrial supporters of the project by setting up and maintaining a regular dialogue on project progress and results. Six monthly progress meetings will be arranged and an advisory board of industrialists will be established to observe progress and contribute to the steering of the research programme. The project will involve two targeted technical workshops to discuss specific research themes and to promote interaction between the project researchers and the industrial supporters. Our industrial supporters consist of major equipment manufacturers and mobile network operators and are therefore ideally placed to bring this technology into the mass market.
Existing UK companies and new spin-out companies specialising in the design and manufacture of microwave radio units would benefit from the growth of this new market. Also, frequency agile, multiband radio technology will be of significant interest to manufacturers of military systems, such as BAE Systems and Selex ES.
The four funded postdoctoral researchers on the project will gain valuable technical and professional experience from working in this important area of technology. They will be trained to build their knowledge and experience, in particular in hardware design, implementation and testing. They will be encouraged to participate in University training on research funding, entrepreneurship and other skills aimed at developing their careers. They will also assist with supervising the four PhD students who will participate in the project.
In order to reach out to the wider non-scientific community, the postdoctoral researchers will be encouraged to become STEM ambassadors in order to encourage school children to become involved in science and engineering as a career path. Researchers from the project will also participate in Science fairs by organising events about the project.
Finally, the project will provide the investigators an opportunity to build on the reputation of the work through the recruitment and training of doctoral and masters level students. Knowledge gained from the project is likely to feed into future PhD projects and taught Masters programmes thereby enhancing the teaching and learning capabilities of both Universities in this important field.
Organisations
- University of Sheffield (Lead Research Organisation)
- University of Cambridge (Collaboration)
- U-Blox Melbourn Ltd (Collaboration)
- Toshiba Research Europe LTD (Collaboration)
- Cascoda (Collaboration)
- Keysight Technologies (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF YORK (Collaboration)
- BT Group (Collaboration)
- Thales Group (Collaboration)
- Royal Academy of Engineering (Collaboration)
- Harada industry co., ltd (Collaboration)
- NEC Corporation (Collaboration)
- Heriot-Watt University (Collaboration)
- University of Strathclyde (Collaboration)
- Adtran (Collaboration)
- University of Leeds (Collaboration)
- Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- KING'S COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
- Roke Manor Research Ltd. (Collaboration)
- Fujitsu (Collaboration)
- Orange Corporate Services Ltd (Collaboration)
- Queen Mary University of London (Collaboration)
- BAE Systems (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- University of Bristol (Collaboration)
- VCE Mobile & Personal Comm Ltd (Collaboration)
- RADIO DESIGN LIMITED (Collaboration)
- Queen's University Belfast (Collaboration)
- Real Wireless (Collaboration)
- Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCE) in mobile communications (Collaboration)
- Samsung (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Collaboration)
- nVIDIA (Collaboration)
- Chemring Technology Solutions (Project Partner)
- Harada Industries (Europe) Ltd (Project Partner)
- Cascoda Limited (Project Partner)
- NEC Telecom MODUS Ltd (Project Partner)
- u-blox UK Ltd (Project Partner)
- Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Limited (Project Partner)
- Orange Corporate services Limited (Project Partner)
- THALES UK LIMITED (Project Partner)
- VCE Mobile & Personal Comm Ltd (Project Partner)
Publications
You Y
(2018)
Systems Analysis of a Pattern Reconfigurable Antenna for Capacity Improvement of Cell Edge Users in Cellular Networks
in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Sherman D
(2024)
6G mobile technology
Rodriguez-Albarran S.P.
(2018)
Multiband tunable MIMO antenna
in IET Conference Publications
Rodriguez-Albarran S
(2018)
Multiband Tunable MIMO Antenna
Henthorn S.
(2018)
A low-complexity array of directly phase modulating antennas
in IET Conference Publications
| Description | Separably tunable multiband radio transceivers. First confirmation in radio hardware of successful sub-band sampling for current, multiband radio reception. |
| Exploitation Route | Potentially by radio design engineers such as Thales. Our initial findings have been extended from a concurrent tri-band radio receiver to a concurrent quad-band receiver. |
| Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) |
| URL | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8049387 |
| Description | We have published our findings in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Access, IEEE VTC conference, WiOpt, LAPC, EuCAP and WWRF. We have continued to present our research outcomes to our industrial paprtners. This work has been presented to the UK Spectrum Policy Forum (2021) and has been incorporated into the EU-5GIA roadmaps for 5G and 6G research (2021) relating to the complexity and energy consumption of multiband RF receivers. This work contributed to the founding of the UKRI National 6G Radio Systems Facility in 2023. This work contributed to the DSIT funded YO-RAN project, which is building prototype multiband Open-RAN radio units based on the concepts developed in FARAD. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2016 |
| Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Electronics |
| Impact Types | Economic |
| Description | 6G Mobile Technology |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/POST-PN-0734/POST-PN-0734.pdf |
| Description | The Evolution of 6G Networks - Impact on Public Services |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | 6G Sub-Terahertz Software Defined Radio Testbed |
| Amount | £2,379,292 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/X030016/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2023 |
| End | 07/2024 |
| Description | Direct Digitisation for Frequency Agile Millimetre Wave Massive MIMO |
| Amount | £617,540 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/S008101/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 07/2023 |
| Description | Federated Telecoms Hub 6G Research Partnership Funds - Native AI Air Interfaces for 6G (THz-AIr) |
| Amount | £250,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | Native AI Air Interfaces for 6G (THz-AIr) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2024 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Description | Native AI Air Interfaces for 6G (THzAIr) |
| Amount | £70,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/Y037197/1 |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2025 |
| End | 09/2026 |
| Description | Next Generation Information Networks |
| Amount | £6,000,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2022 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Description | RAEng Research Chair |
| Amount | £1,200,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | Grant Application RCSRF-2425-19-138 |
| Organisation | Royal Academy of Engineering |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2024 |
| End | 09/2029 |
| Description | Successive INterference cAncellaTion foR dynamic spectrum Access (SINATRA) |
| Amount | £170,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/Y037197/1 |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2025 |
| End | 09/2026 |
| Description | Towards an Intelligent Information Infrastructure |
| Amount | £853,379 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/L026147/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2015 |
| End | 12/2017 |
| Description | Yorkshire Open Radio Access Networks (YO-RAN) |
| Amount | £6,500,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | Yorkshire Open Radio Access Networks (YO-RAN) Project |
| Organisation | Department for Science, Innovation and Technology |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2023 |
| End | 12/2025 |
| Title | An Independently Tunable Tri-band Antenna Design for Concurrent Multi-band Single Chain Radio Receivers |
| Description | The data provided is published in the IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation (TAP) special issue on ?n "?nt?nn?? ?nd ?r???g?ti?n ????ct? ?f 5G ??mmunic?ti?n?", 2017. Bai, Q., Singh, R., Ford, K.L. et al. (2017) An Independently Tunable Tri-band Antenna Design for Concurrent Multi-band Single Chain Radio Receivers. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. ISSN 0018-926X. DOI:10.1109/TAP.2017.2748185 The data was created as part of the FARAD project, which is developing small, integrated radio units to flexibly access multiple radio bands simultaneously over a frequency range from 0.6-to-6 GHz. The project's industrial partners are NEC, Thales, Fujitsu, Orange, ROKE Manor, Harada, u-blox, Cascoda and the mVCE. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://sheffield.figshare.com/articles/An_Independently_Tunable_Tri-band_Antenna_Design_for_Concurr... |
| Title | An Independently Tunable Tri-band Antenna Design for Concurrent Multi-band Single Chain Radio Receivers |
| Description | The data provided is published in the IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation (TAP) special issue on ?n "?nt?nn?? ?nd ?r???g?ti?n ????ct? ?f 5G ??mmunic?ti?n?", 2017. Bai, Q., Singh, R., Ford, K.L. et al. (2017) An Independently Tunable Tri-band Antenna Design for Concurrent Multi-band Single Chain Radio Receivers. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. ISSN 0018-926X. DOI:10.1109/TAP.2017.2748185 The data was created as part of the FARAD project, which is developing small, integrated radio units to flexibly access multiple radio bands simultaneously over a frequency range from 0.6-to-6 GHz. The project's industrial partners are NEC, Thales, Fujitsu, Orange, ROKE Manor, Harada, u-blox, Cascoda and the mVCE. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://figshare.shef.ac.uk/articles/dataset/An_Independently_Tunable_Tri-band_Antenna_Design_for_Co... |
| Title | Data for: "A system-level performance evaluation of a reconfigurable filtenna in the presence of in- and out-of-band blockers" |
| Description | Direct RF sampling has been suggested as a solution for receivers that are flexible in frequency and across standards, while utilising only a single radio frequency front-end. However there are concerns about their robustness in the presence of out-of-band and in-band blockers. Tunable filtennas offer a solution to this, incorporating filtering into the antenna space while providing rejection of unwanted signals. This paper presents a filtenna containing reconfigurable frequency selective surfaces to provide tunable filtering between 1.44 and 1.95 GHz. The filtenna is characterised as an antenna and a filter, showing minimum 18 dB rejection across the principle beamwidths. It is then implemented in a direct RF sampling receiver and is shown to provide sufficient rejection of blockers to cause no degradation in the received error vector magnitude (EVM) and block error rate (BLER) of LTE signals when subject to 5G NR-compliant blocking signals. The in-band blocker performance is also characterised, showing at most 3 dB degradation in EVM and BLER. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The data has been used by practicioners in the related ecosystem |
| URL | https://orda.shef.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Data_for_A_system-level_performance_evaluation_of_a_reconfi... |
| Title | Data for: "A system-level performance evaluation of a reconfigurable filtenna in the presence of in- and out-of-band blockers", IET Communications |
| Description | This dataset is for the paper "A system-level performance evaluation of a reconfigurable filtenna in the presence of in- and out-of-band blockers", accepted for publication in IET Communications journal. https://doi.org/10.1049/cmu2.12504 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://orda.shef.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Data_for_A_system-level_performance_evaluation_of_a_reconfi... |
| Title | Data for: "A system-level performance evaluation of a reconfigurable filtenna in the presence of in- and out-of-band blockers", IET Communications |
| Description | This dataset is for the paper "A system-level performance evaluation of a reconfigurable filtenna in the presence of in- and out-of-band blockers", currently under review for IET Communications journal. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://figshare.shef.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Data_for_A_system-level_performance_evaluation_of_a_rec... |
| Title | Dataset and code for "Concurrent Multiband Direct RF Sampling Receivers" |
| Description | This is the data for the journal article "Concurrent Multiband Direct RF Sampling Receivers", which has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. It includes raw data gathered during experiments, and also MATLAB code used to produce simulation results. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://figshare.shef.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Dataset_and_code_for_Concurrent_Multiband_Direct_RF_Sam... |
| Title | Dataset and code for "Concurrent Multiband Direct RF Sampling Receivers" |
| Description | This is the data for the journal article "Concurrent Multiband Direct RF Sampling Receivers", which has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. It includes raw data gathered during experiments, and also MATLAB code used to produce simulation results. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://figshare.shef.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Dataset_and_code_for_Concurrent_Multiband_Direct_RF_Sam... |
| Description | All Spectrum Connectivity (HASC) |
| Organisation | Keysight Technologies |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Sheffield has contributed research on energy-efficient and cost-efficient dual-band radios and AI/ML techniques for 6G air interfaces. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Keysight has contributed software, hardware and engineering expertise; NVIDIA has contributed software and engineering expertise; Samsung and Real Wireless have provided engineering expertise; The Universities of Bristol, Strathclyde, Cambridge, Oxford, KCL and QMUL have provided technical expertise. |
| Impact | Outputs are supporting commercialisation activities associated with OSDM and Sheffield's dual-band ORAN radio unit. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | All Spectrum Connectivity (HASC) |
| Organisation | King's College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Sheffield has contributed research on energy-efficient and cost-efficient dual-band radios and AI/ML techniques for 6G air interfaces. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Keysight has contributed software, hardware and engineering expertise; NVIDIA has contributed software and engineering expertise; Samsung and Real Wireless have provided engineering expertise; The Universities of Bristol, Strathclyde, Cambridge, Oxford, KCL and QMUL have provided technical expertise. |
| Impact | Outputs are supporting commercialisation activities associated with OSDM and Sheffield's dual-band ORAN radio unit. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | All Spectrum Connectivity (HASC) |
| Organisation | NVIDIA |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Sheffield has contributed research on energy-efficient and cost-efficient dual-band radios and AI/ML techniques for 6G air interfaces. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Keysight has contributed software, hardware and engineering expertise; NVIDIA has contributed software and engineering expertise; Samsung and Real Wireless have provided engineering expertise; The Universities of Bristol, Strathclyde, Cambridge, Oxford, KCL and QMUL have provided technical expertise. |
| Impact | Outputs are supporting commercialisation activities associated with OSDM and Sheffield's dual-band ORAN radio unit. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | All Spectrum Connectivity (HASC) |
| Organisation | Queen Mary University of London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Sheffield has contributed research on energy-efficient and cost-efficient dual-band radios and AI/ML techniques for 6G air interfaces. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Keysight has contributed software, hardware and engineering expertise; NVIDIA has contributed software and engineering expertise; Samsung and Real Wireless have provided engineering expertise; The Universities of Bristol, Strathclyde, Cambridge, Oxford, KCL and QMUL have provided technical expertise. |
| Impact | Outputs are supporting commercialisation activities associated with OSDM and Sheffield's dual-band ORAN radio unit. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | All Spectrum Connectivity (HASC) |
| Organisation | Real Wireless |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Sheffield has contributed research on energy-efficient and cost-efficient dual-band radios and AI/ML techniques for 6G air interfaces. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Keysight has contributed software, hardware and engineering expertise; NVIDIA has contributed software and engineering expertise; Samsung and Real Wireless have provided engineering expertise; The Universities of Bristol, Strathclyde, Cambridge, Oxford, KCL and QMUL have provided technical expertise. |
| Impact | Outputs are supporting commercialisation activities associated with OSDM and Sheffield's dual-band ORAN radio unit. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | All Spectrum Connectivity (HASC) |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Sheffield has contributed research on energy-efficient and cost-efficient dual-band radios and AI/ML techniques for 6G air interfaces. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Keysight has contributed software, hardware and engineering expertise; NVIDIA has contributed software and engineering expertise; Samsung and Real Wireless have provided engineering expertise; The Universities of Bristol, Strathclyde, Cambridge, Oxford, KCL and QMUL have provided technical expertise. |
| Impact | Outputs are supporting commercialisation activities associated with OSDM and Sheffield's dual-band ORAN radio unit. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | All Spectrum Connectivity (HASC) |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Sheffield has contributed research on energy-efficient and cost-efficient dual-band radios and AI/ML techniques for 6G air interfaces. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Keysight has contributed software, hardware and engineering expertise; NVIDIA has contributed software and engineering expertise; Samsung and Real Wireless have provided engineering expertise; The Universities of Bristol, Strathclyde, Cambridge, Oxford, KCL and QMUL have provided technical expertise. |
| Impact | Outputs are supporting commercialisation activities associated with OSDM and Sheffield's dual-band ORAN radio unit. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | All Spectrum Connectivity (HASC) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Sheffield has contributed research on energy-efficient and cost-efficient dual-band radios and AI/ML techniques for 6G air interfaces. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Keysight has contributed software, hardware and engineering expertise; NVIDIA has contributed software and engineering expertise; Samsung and Real Wireless have provided engineering expertise; The Universities of Bristol, Strathclyde, Cambridge, Oxford, KCL and QMUL have provided technical expertise. |
| Impact | Outputs are supporting commercialisation activities associated with OSDM and Sheffield's dual-band ORAN radio unit. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | All Spectrum Connectivity (HASC) |
| Organisation | University of Strathclyde |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Sheffield has contributed research on energy-efficient and cost-efficient dual-band radios and AI/ML techniques for 6G air interfaces. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Keysight has contributed software, hardware and engineering expertise; NVIDIA has contributed software and engineering expertise; Samsung and Real Wireless have provided engineering expertise; The Universities of Bristol, Strathclyde, Cambridge, Oxford, KCL and QMUL have provided technical expertise. |
| Impact | Outputs are supporting commercialisation activities associated with OSDM and Sheffield's dual-band ORAN radio unit. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | All Spectrum Connectivity (HASC) |
| Organisation | VCE Mobile & Personal Comm Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Sheffield has contributed research on energy-efficient and cost-efficient dual-band radios and AI/ML techniques for 6G air interfaces. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Keysight has contributed software, hardware and engineering expertise; NVIDIA has contributed software and engineering expertise; Samsung and Real Wireless have provided engineering expertise; The Universities of Bristol, Strathclyde, Cambridge, Oxford, KCL and QMUL have provided technical expertise. |
| Impact | Outputs are supporting commercialisation activities associated with OSDM and Sheffield's dual-band ORAN radio unit. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CommNet2 Partners |
| Organisation | NEC Corporation |
| Department | NEC Telecom MODUS Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Please see the following field for further details on the nature of this partnership. All of the partners in CommNet, including NEC Telecom Modus, benefit from having the opportunity to review and discuss major developments relating to the UK's research roadmap in ICT relevant to communications and networking. |
| Collaborator Contribution | NEC Telecom Modus LTD is one of several companies that contribute to the CommNet Advisory Board. As such, the CommNet management team benefit from the advice received from the Advisory Board and companies like NEC. which feedback and comment on best practice and event plans as well as alerting the Management Board to opportunities. In the case of NEC, these opportunities frequently relate to the develop of the 5G standard. |
| Impact | The key outputs or products of CommNet have been workshops, which address future research challenges on topics strategic to the development of the UK's research in ICT focused on communications and networking. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | DDmmMaMi Project Partners |
| Organisation | BAE Systems |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The development of direct RF sampling techniques for millimetre wave massive MIMO systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical advice on systems architecture, COTs device functionality and network deployment options. |
| Impact | The project is multi-disciplinary working across millimetre wave antennas and direct RF digitisation of millimetre wave signals. As such this represents two discipline in EM theory (antennas) and digital signal processing (fast digitisations). |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | DDmmMaMi Project Partners |
| Organisation | Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The development of direct RF sampling techniques for millimetre wave massive MIMO systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical advice on systems architecture, COTs device functionality and network deployment options. |
| Impact | The project is multi-disciplinary working across millimetre wave antennas and direct RF digitisation of millimetre wave signals. As such this represents two discipline in EM theory (antennas) and digital signal processing (fast digitisations). |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | DDmmMaMi Project Partners |
| Organisation | NEC Corporation |
| Department | NEC Telecom MODUS Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The development of direct RF sampling techniques for millimetre wave massive MIMO systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical advice on systems architecture, COTs device functionality and network deployment options. |
| Impact | The project is multi-disciplinary working across millimetre wave antennas and direct RF digitisation of millimetre wave signals. As such this represents two discipline in EM theory (antennas) and digital signal processing (fast digitisations). |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | DDmmMaMi Project Partners |
| Organisation | Real Wireless |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The development of direct RF sampling techniques for millimetre wave massive MIMO systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical advice on systems architecture, COTs device functionality and network deployment options. |
| Impact | The project is multi-disciplinary working across millimetre wave antennas and direct RF digitisation of millimetre wave signals. As such this represents two discipline in EM theory (antennas) and digital signal processing (fast digitisations). |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | DDmmMaMi Project Partners |
| Organisation | Roke Manor Research Ltd. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The development of direct RF sampling techniques for millimetre wave massive MIMO systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical advice on systems architecture, COTs device functionality and network deployment options. |
| Impact | The project is multi-disciplinary working across millimetre wave antennas and direct RF digitisation of millimetre wave signals. As such this represents two discipline in EM theory (antennas) and digital signal processing (fast digitisations). |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | DDmmMaMi Project Partners |
| Organisation | Samsung |
| Country | Korea, Republic of |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The development of direct RF sampling techniques for millimetre wave massive MIMO systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical advice on systems architecture, COTs device functionality and network deployment options. |
| Impact | The project is multi-disciplinary working across millimetre wave antennas and direct RF digitisation of millimetre wave signals. As such this represents two discipline in EM theory (antennas) and digital signal processing (fast digitisations). |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | DDmmMaMi Project Partners |
| Organisation | Toshiba Research Europe Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The development of direct RF sampling techniques for millimetre wave massive MIMO systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical advice on systems architecture, COTs device functionality and network deployment options. |
| Impact | The project is multi-disciplinary working across millimetre wave antennas and direct RF digitisation of millimetre wave signals. As such this represents two discipline in EM theory (antennas) and digital signal processing (fast digitisations). |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | DDmmMaMi Project Partners |
| Organisation | VCE Mobile & Personal Comm Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The development of direct RF sampling techniques for millimetre wave massive MIMO systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical advice on systems architecture, COTs device functionality and network deployment options. |
| Impact | The project is multi-disciplinary working across millimetre wave antennas and direct RF digitisation of millimetre wave signals. As such this represents two discipline in EM theory (antennas) and digital signal processing (fast digitisations). |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | FARAD Partners |
| Organisation | Cascoda |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Developed a concurrent, multiband, tunable single chain radio transceiver that operates from 750 MHz to 6000 MHz for applications in 5G and beyond wireless communication systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical advice, components, test and measurement equipment, participation in industry facing workshops, secretarial support, use of venues to host progress meetings. |
| Impact | Key outputs are paper publications as listed under "publications". The project involves three main disciplines within Electronic and Electrical Engineering: 1) baseband signal processing; 2) radio frequency circuit design; and 3) antennas. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | FARAD Partners |
| Organisation | Fujitsu |
| Department | Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Developed a concurrent, multiband, tunable single chain radio transceiver that operates from 750 MHz to 6000 MHz for applications in 5G and beyond wireless communication systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical advice, components, test and measurement equipment, participation in industry facing workshops, secretarial support, use of venues to host progress meetings. |
| Impact | Key outputs are paper publications as listed under "publications". The project involves three main disciplines within Electronic and Electrical Engineering: 1) baseband signal processing; 2) radio frequency circuit design; and 3) antennas. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | FARAD Partners |
| Organisation | Harada industry co., ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Developed a concurrent, multiband, tunable single chain radio transceiver that operates from 750 MHz to 6000 MHz for applications in 5G and beyond wireless communication systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical advice, components, test and measurement equipment, participation in industry facing workshops, secretarial support, use of venues to host progress meetings. |
| Impact | Key outputs are paper publications as listed under "publications". The project involves three main disciplines within Electronic and Electrical Engineering: 1) baseband signal processing; 2) radio frequency circuit design; and 3) antennas. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | FARAD Partners |
| Organisation | NEC Corporation |
| Department | NEC Telecom MODUS Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Developed a concurrent, multiband, tunable single chain radio transceiver that operates from 750 MHz to 6000 MHz for applications in 5G and beyond wireless communication systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical advice, components, test and measurement equipment, participation in industry facing workshops, secretarial support, use of venues to host progress meetings. |
| Impact | Key outputs are paper publications as listed under "publications". The project involves three main disciplines within Electronic and Electrical Engineering: 1) baseband signal processing; 2) radio frequency circuit design; and 3) antennas. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | FARAD Partners |
| Organisation | Orange Corporate Services Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Developed a concurrent, multiband, tunable single chain radio transceiver that operates from 750 MHz to 6000 MHz for applications in 5G and beyond wireless communication systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical advice, components, test and measurement equipment, participation in industry facing workshops, secretarial support, use of venues to host progress meetings. |
| Impact | Key outputs are paper publications as listed under "publications". The project involves three main disciplines within Electronic and Electrical Engineering: 1) baseband signal processing; 2) radio frequency circuit design; and 3) antennas. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | FARAD Partners |
| Organisation | Roke Manor Research Ltd. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Developed a concurrent, multiband, tunable single chain radio transceiver that operates from 750 MHz to 6000 MHz for applications in 5G and beyond wireless communication systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical advice, components, test and measurement equipment, participation in industry facing workshops, secretarial support, use of venues to host progress meetings. |
| Impact | Key outputs are paper publications as listed under "publications". The project involves three main disciplines within Electronic and Electrical Engineering: 1) baseband signal processing; 2) radio frequency circuit design; and 3) antennas. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | FARAD Partners |
| Organisation | Thales Group |
| Department | Thales Research & Technology (Uk) Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Developed a concurrent, multiband, tunable single chain radio transceiver that operates from 750 MHz to 6000 MHz for applications in 5G and beyond wireless communication systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical advice, components, test and measurement equipment, participation in industry facing workshops, secretarial support, use of venues to host progress meetings. |
| Impact | Key outputs are paper publications as listed under "publications". The project involves three main disciplines within Electronic and Electrical Engineering: 1) baseband signal processing; 2) radio frequency circuit design; and 3) antennas. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | FARAD Partners |
| Organisation | U-Blox Melbourn Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Developed a concurrent, multiband, tunable single chain radio transceiver that operates from 750 MHz to 6000 MHz for applications in 5G and beyond wireless communication systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical advice, components, test and measurement equipment, participation in industry facing workshops, secretarial support, use of venues to host progress meetings. |
| Impact | Key outputs are paper publications as listed under "publications". The project involves three main disciplines within Electronic and Electrical Engineering: 1) baseband signal processing; 2) radio frequency circuit design; and 3) antennas. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | FARAD Partners |
| Organisation | Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCE) in mobile communications |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Developed a concurrent, multiband, tunable single chain radio transceiver that operates from 750 MHz to 6000 MHz for applications in 5G and beyond wireless communication systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical advice, components, test and measurement equipment, participation in industry facing workshops, secretarial support, use of venues to host progress meetings. |
| Impact | Key outputs are paper publications as listed under "publications". The project involves three main disciplines within Electronic and Electrical Engineering: 1) baseband signal processing; 2) radio frequency circuit design; and 3) antennas. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Keysight/RAEng Research Chair |
| Organisation | Keysight Technologies |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Contributing new waveform technologies for 6G air interfaces. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Keysight has contributed experimental hardware, software, access to testbeds and engineering expertise. |
| Impact | Key outputs achieved to date are: 1. A UK patent on Orthogonal Sequence Division Multiplexing (OSDM) has been filed. 2. Three TDOCs have been submitted to 3GPP RAN WG1 on waveforms. 3. A commercialisation opportunity is being spun out based on OSDM. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Keysight/RAEng Research Chair |
| Organisation | Royal Academy of Engineering |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Contributing new waveform technologies for 6G air interfaces. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Keysight has contributed experimental hardware, software, access to testbeds and engineering expertise. |
| Impact | Key outputs achieved to date are: 1. A UK patent on Orthogonal Sequence Division Multiplexing (OSDM) has been filed. 2. Three TDOCs have been submitted to 3GPP RAN WG1 on waveforms. 3. A commercialisation opportunity is being spun out based on OSDM. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Next Generation Information Networks |
| Organisation | Heriot-Watt University |
| Department | School of Engineering & Physical Sciences |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration generated new outputs, including new waveforms for 3GPP 6G air interfaces and new algorithms for optimising the performance of direct detection in millimetre-wave receivers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributed new technologies and techniques for millimetre-wave communications systems. Sheffield focused on new waveforms and direct RF sampling techniques for 6G millimetre-wave technologies. |
| Impact | This collaboration contributed to the O'Farrell Keysight/RAEng Research Chair award in 6G Air Interfaces. The waveform research led to the development of Orthogonal Sequence Division Multiplexing, which is being patented and presented as a proposal to 3GPP 6G RAN Working Group 1. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Next Generation Information Networks |
| Organisation | Queen's University Belfast |
| Department | Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration generated new outputs, including new waveforms for 3GPP 6G air interfaces and new algorithms for optimising the performance of direct detection in millimetre-wave receivers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributed new technologies and techniques for millimetre-wave communications systems. Sheffield focused on new waveforms and direct RF sampling techniques for 6G millimetre-wave technologies. |
| Impact | This collaboration contributed to the O'Farrell Keysight/RAEng Research Chair award in 6G Air Interfaces. The waveform research led to the development of Orthogonal Sequence Division Multiplexing, which is being patented and presented as a proposal to 3GPP 6G RAN Working Group 1. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Next Generation Information Networks |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration generated new outputs, including new waveforms for 3GPP 6G air interfaces and new algorithms for optimising the performance of direct detection in millimetre-wave receivers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributed new technologies and techniques for millimetre-wave communications systems. Sheffield focused on new waveforms and direct RF sampling techniques for 6G millimetre-wave technologies. |
| Impact | This collaboration contributed to the O'Farrell Keysight/RAEng Research Chair award in 6G Air Interfaces. The waveform research led to the development of Orthogonal Sequence Division Multiplexing, which is being patented and presented as a proposal to 3GPP 6G RAN Working Group 1. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Next Generation Information Networks |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Department | Queen's School of Engineering |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration generated new outputs, including new waveforms for 3GPP 6G air interfaces and new algorithms for optimising the performance of direct detection in millimetre-wave receivers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributed new technologies and techniques for millimetre-wave communications systems. Sheffield focused on new waveforms and direct RF sampling techniques for 6G millimetre-wave technologies. |
| Impact | This collaboration contributed to the O'Farrell Keysight/RAEng Research Chair award in 6G Air Interfaces. The waveform research led to the development of Orthogonal Sequence Division Multiplexing, which is being patented and presented as a proposal to 3GPP 6G RAN Working Group 1. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Next Generation Information Networks |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Department | School of Engineering |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration generated new outputs, including new waveforms for 3GPP 6G air interfaces and new algorithms for optimising the performance of direct detection in millimetre-wave receivers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributed new technologies and techniques for millimetre-wave communications systems. Sheffield focused on new waveforms and direct RF sampling techniques for 6G millimetre-wave technologies. |
| Impact | This collaboration contributed to the O'Farrell Keysight/RAEng Research Chair award in 6G Air Interfaces. The waveform research led to the development of Orthogonal Sequence Division Multiplexing, which is being patented and presented as a proposal to 3GPP 6G RAN Working Group 1. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Next Generation Information Networks |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Department | School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration generated new outputs, including new waveforms for 3GPP 6G air interfaces and new algorithms for optimising the performance of direct detection in millimetre-wave receivers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributed new technologies and techniques for millimetre-wave communications systems. Sheffield focused on new waveforms and direct RF sampling techniques for 6G millimetre-wave technologies. |
| Impact | This collaboration contributed to the O'Farrell Keysight/RAEng Research Chair award in 6G Air Interfaces. The waveform research led to the development of Orthogonal Sequence Division Multiplexing, which is being patented and presented as a proposal to 3GPP 6G RAN Working Group 1. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Yorkshire Open Radio Access Network (YO-RAN) |
| Organisation | ADTRAN |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The University of Sheffield developed a concurrent, dual-band ORAN radio unit for neutral-host base stations using direct RF sampling techniques. The unit was developed to TRL4 and is currently under consideration for commercialisation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Both Slipstream Engineering Design and Radio Design contributed to the design of Sheffield's ORAN radio unit. |
| Impact | 1. ORAN radio unit prototype to TRL4; 2. Publications (see publications); 3. Participation in tradeshows and conferences. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Yorkshire Open Radio Access Network (YO-RAN) |
| Organisation | BT Group |
| Department | BT Research |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The University of Sheffield developed a concurrent, dual-band ORAN radio unit for neutral-host base stations using direct RF sampling techniques. The unit was developed to TRL4 and is currently under consideration for commercialisation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Both Slipstream Engineering Design and Radio Design contributed to the design of Sheffield's ORAN radio unit. |
| Impact | 1. ORAN radio unit prototype to TRL4; 2. Publications (see publications); 3. Participation in tradeshows and conferences. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Yorkshire Open Radio Access Network (YO-RAN) |
| Organisation | Radio Design Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The University of Sheffield developed a concurrent, dual-band ORAN radio unit for neutral-host base stations using direct RF sampling techniques. The unit was developed to TRL4 and is currently under consideration for commercialisation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Both Slipstream Engineering Design and Radio Design contributed to the design of Sheffield's ORAN radio unit. |
| Impact | 1. ORAN radio unit prototype to TRL4; 2. Publications (see publications); 3. Participation in tradeshows and conferences. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Yorkshire Open Radio Access Network (YO-RAN) |
| Organisation | University of York |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The University of Sheffield developed a concurrent, dual-band ORAN radio unit for neutral-host base stations using direct RF sampling techniques. The unit was developed to TRL4 and is currently under consideration for commercialisation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Both Slipstream Engineering Design and Radio Design contributed to the design of Sheffield's ORAN radio unit. |
| Impact | 1. ORAN radio unit prototype to TRL4; 2. Publications (see publications); 3. Participation in tradeshows and conferences. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | "A decade of Green Radio and the path to Net-Zero in future wireless networks", WWRF 6G Huddle, Singapore, May 2023. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk on energy efficiency in 5G and 6G networks presented at the WWRF workshop on sustainable future wireless networks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://wp.wwrfhuddle.com/ |
| Description | "Energy Efficiency in 5G", Sustainability in the Digital Transformation, Aalborg University, Denmark, 17 November 2023. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on sustainability and NetZero in 5G networks and the roadmap for energy efficiency in 6G networks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.es.aau.dk/sustainability-in-the-digital-transformation-e81719 |
| Description | 2nd UK-South Korea Collaboration Workshop, Jeju Island, Korea, 17-19 October 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A follow-up workshop from the event held in the UK on 14th February 2018, was organised in Korea as part of the 9th International Conference on ICT Convergence, Jeju Island, Korea, 17-19 October 2018. The purpose of the follow-up meeting was to exchange examples of current research activities on 5G within the UK and Korea. The workshop was attended by academics from Universities in the UK and Korea with significant activities in 5G research. Routes to funding research were also discussed. The funding agency in Korea wishes to pursue an international collaboration and is looking for the UK to complement its interests. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=75020©ownerid=107060 |
| Description | 6G: Software Defined Radio and RF Sampling, DCMS Spectrum Policy Forum Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The workshop consisted of a collection of invited presentations on EPSRC funded research relating to 5G and 6G technology. A presentation was given based on the FARAD project entitled "RF Sampling in Multiband Receivers for 5G: Analysis and Performance". The information and workshop discussions fed into the SPF consultation document entitled "Report of the outcome of the SPF-DCMS supported UK Universities 6G research initiative - A compilation edited by the Chair of the SPF Cluster 2". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.techuk.org/what-we-deliver/events/6g-software-defined-radio-and-rf-sampling.html |
| Description | 6G: Technology Enablers for Spectrum & Energy Efficient Wireless Access |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The workshop consisted of a collection of invited presentations on EPSRC funded research relating to technology enablers for spectrum & energy-efficient wireless access. A presentation was given based on the FARAD and DDmmMaMi projects entitled "Multiband Direct RF Sampling for 5G and Beyond MIMO Receivers". The information and workshop discussions fed into the SPF consultation document entitled "Report of the outcome of the SPF-DCMS supported UK Universities 6G research initiative - A compilation edited by the Chair of the SPF Cluster 2". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.techuk.org/what-we-deliver/events/6g-technology-enablers-for-spectrum-energy-efficient-w... |
| Description | 8th International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN-2021) held on 26-27 August, 2021 through Virtual Mode at Amity University, Noida, India. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was an invited keynote address entitled "Direct RF Sampling in Multiband MIMO Receivers". The purpose of the talk was to convey research findings from the DDmmMaMi project on direct RF sampling for MIMO receivers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.amity.edu/spin2021/ |
| Description | COMMUNICATIONS & SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR 5G++, University of Durham, UK, 11 January 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A recent European Signal Processing Society (EURASIP) position paper identified a number of signal processing challenges for communications beyond 5G. These include: exploiting domain knowledge in estimating channel state information; expanding coverage through satellites; utilizing quantum assisted design in solving computationally intensive optimisation problems; developing network assisted self-driving objects; designing inferential networks; exploiting visible light communications; promoting networked signal processing; and developing open-source tools. This event provided a forum for the UK communications and signal processing community to receive presentations on these and other related topics; to network and build collaborative teams to address these challenges. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://commnet.ac.uk/csp-for-5g/ |
| Description | CommNet Launch Event - Network Infrastructure and Resilience, IET Savoy Place, London, UK, 8 March 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The launch event workshop focused on the broad topic of future "Network Infrastructure and Resilience". This topic was chosen to appeal to most ICT researchers while recognising that developments in internet and wireless technologies are presently challenged by security and resilience issues. During the workshop, attendees from academia and industry were allocated into groups of approximately 10, including a facilitator. Attendees identified, with their facilitator, the most important research challenges on this subject discussed potential solutions. Following a feedback and pitch by each facilitator, there was an opportunity over to collate outcomes into themes and to prioritise these. The community then discussed these priorities and our recommendations to EPSRC with our Expert Panel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.commnet.ac.uk |
| Description | CommNet2 PhD Winter School 2016, BT Research, Adastral Park, Ipswich, UK, 13th - 15th December 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The CommNet2 Winter School, hosted by BT at the Adastral Park facility in Ipswich, was a 3 day residential event to inspire young researchers and innovators in ICT by: 1) giving them the opportunity to grow their personal networks across the ICT, Engineering and Computer Science disciplines; 2) informing them of the latest research and industrial applications of Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) and Massive MIMO; and 3) training them to think creatively about their own research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.cn2winterschool.group.shef.ac.uk/ |
| Description | CommNet2 Spring PhD School, 5GIC, University of Surrey, UK, 26-28 March 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The 2nd CommNet2 PhD School bought together a diverse range of UK PhD students to focus on cutting edge developments in Wireless and IoT, and Cloud/Edge Security and to develop a network of young researchers. The School led to participation in the preparation of a Parliamentary brief for MPs on "Security of UK Telecommunications", Postnote Number 584 August 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://commnet.ac.uk/phd-spring-school/ |
| Description | Connected Infrastructure for the Future of Transportation Challenge Workshop, Transport Catapult, Milton Keynes, UK, 14th September 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 14.09.16, CommNet2, along with Transport Innovation Centre Sheffield (TICS) and the Transport Catapult hosted a workshop that brought together the academic and industrial communities engaged in Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) research and development. Delegates were invited to the Transport Catapult Innovation Centre in Milton Keynes for a packed scheduled that aimed to define and distill the major challenges facing CAV development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://futuretransport.group.shef.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Energy Efficiency in Communications Networks - Joint 17th Mathematics of Networks (MoNs) Meeting and CommNet Workshop, University of Sheffield, UK, 20 September 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This joint workshop was organised by CommNet and the Mathematics of Networks society (http://www.monmeetings.org/). The meeting gave researchers a forum to present new work which uses mathematics to investigate networks. The topic or focus of this meeting was energy efficiency in communications networks and followed on from the topics discussed in NGWIN 2018, which was held immediately before this meeting. The meeting encouraged interdisciplinary communication and talks been research practitioners in fields including computer networks, communications networks and signal processing for communications. The workshop led to being invited in the preparation of an EU-CELTIC proposal on the use of AI to manage future wireless networks efficiently. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://commnet.ac.uk/mon17-2018/ |
| Description | Energy Metrics and Figures of Merit for Planning EE Communication Networks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This was a plenary speech given at the Third ETSI Workshop on ICT Energy Efficiency and Environmental Sustainability, 3-5 June 2015, Sophia-Antipolis, France. The talk continued to develop the theme of a joint energy and data volume metric for quantifying the energy efficiency of communication networks. The talk was directly relevant to ETSI's developing standard in energy efficiency measurements for wireless communication networks (ETSI ES 203228). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.etsi.org/news-events/events/867-third-etsi-workshop-on-ict-energy-efficiency-and-environm... |
| Description | Future Advances on 5G Air-Interfaces, 5GIC, University of Surrey, UK, 22 February 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | There is a general consensus that 5G wireless systems and beyond should support a diverse set of services and communications types, including extreme Mobile Broadband, ultra-reliable Machine-Type-Communications, as well as massive Machine Type-Communications. In addition, future air-interfaces should support a plethora of heterogeneous and diverse applications from "virtual reality offices" to "real-time remote computing" imposing a set of very challenging, and sometimes contradicting, requirements. Such requirements have been reported to include traffic volumes of up to 750Gbps per sq. km, experience end-user throughput values of several hundreds of Mbit/s, ultra-low latency down to 1 ms and reliability values of 99.999%. The event focused on advances on 5G Air-interface and how they can meet these demands. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://commnet.ac.uk/5g-air-interface-home/ |
| Description | Future Networks Research Centre Challenge Workshop, Adastral Park, Ipswich, UK, 7 March 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Global Communications Industry is facing a growing range of challenges and opportunities like never before due to increased dependence on digital services. There is an ever increasing drive to reduce costs while delivering ever greater network capacity and intelligence, as well as dealing with increasing cyber-security and natural threats to critical national digital infrastructure and customer data. Add to this the flexibility and complexity implicit in the next generation of networks (fixed-mobile convergence at the lower stack layers, new virtual operator models, network aware/impacting devices and services, Cloud & Fog-Edge (FODGE) Computing, 5G, IoT, M2M), and it is clear that this is a critical national infrastructure issue that needs addressing at the appropriate scale. To address these issues, and to maintain the competitiveness and excellence of UK research and its wider impact, the creation of a UK Future Networks Research Centre (FNRC) is proposed as an independent national research and innovation centre supporting the discovery and development of novel fixed and wireless networking technologies and services. This workshop explored how the research community might use and govern such a facility. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://commnet.ac.uk/future-networks-research-centre-challenge-workshop/ |
| Description | Future Networks Workshop, Middlesex University, UK, 16 January 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The success of the Internet has led to an explosion of new networks, from networks based around different physical technologies: 5G, Wi-Fi, and optical systems, to networks based around objects such as Internet of Things, Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, Intelligent Spaces and Smart Homes. How to manage such a diverse and heterogeneous networking environment is now an urgent issue that needs to be addressed. In addition, the number of applications that want to use these networks is rapidly expanding. Hence, in this new context, support for end-to-end security and dynamic Quality-of-Service management must also be provided. This workshop featured expert speakers on topics such as Software Defined Networking, Future Internet, 5G and Optical Networks as well as an afternoon discussion of these vital issues led by an expert panel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.futurenetworks.group.shef.ac.uk/ |
| Description | GreenNet Workshop 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Co-chair responsible for organising the GreenNet Workshop as part of the IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC), Rome, Italy. The workshop provided a technical forum to discuss the most recent advanced in sustainability and energy efficiency in communications networks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://icc2023.ieee-icc.org/workshop/ws-07-2nd-workshop-green-and-sustainable-networking-greennet-2... |
| Description | GreenNet Workshop 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Co-chair responsible for organising the GreenNet Workshop as part of the IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC), Rome, Italy. The workshop provided a technical forum to discuss the most recent advanced in sustainability and energy efficiency in communications networks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://icc2024.ieee-icc.org/workshop/ws-11-third-international-workshop-green-and-sustainable-netwo... |
| Description | INTERNATIONAL MOBILE AND EMBEDDED TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE (MECON - 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was an invited keynote talk entitled "The Effect of ADC Resolution on Concurrent, Multiband, Direct RF Sampling Receivers". The purpose of the talk was to convey research findings from the DDmmMaMi project on direct RF sampling receivers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.amity.edu/mecon2022/ |
| Description | International Symposium on Future ICT-2018, "5G Application Ecology and Technology Evolution," 27-28 November 2018, Beijing, China. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CommNet was invited to participate by the Chinese Future Forum in Wireless Communications in order to discuss collaboration between the two organisations on 5G related research. The meeting between CommNet and academics from the Future Forum was hosted as part of the International Symposium on Future ICT-2018, "5G Application Ecology and Technology Evolution," 27-28 November 2018, Beijing, China. The parties agreed to maintain contact and to arrange a future visit to China to discuss formal collaboration between the organisations and the development of an MOU to guide interaction relating to research on future communications and networking. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.future-forum.org/en/ |
| Description | Joint 5th International Workshop on Next Generation Green Wireless Networks (NextGWiN 2018) and 3rd CommNet PhD School, University of Sheffield, UK, 17-19 September 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Focusing on energy efficiency in 5G, Next-GWiN 2018 brought together distinguished speakers, from various academic and industrial institutions, and practising researchers. The workshop was targeted at novice and experienced researchers, PhD students, and R&D engineers from diverse fields with interests in energy efficient communications. Building on the experience of previous Next-GWiN conferences, the programme for Next-GWiN 2018 provided an in-depth and rich exchange of research findings and views in what is a rapidly evolving field of research. The workshop led to an invitation from Huawei to participate in the Future of Wireless Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2019. The two-day workshop was merged with the 3rd CommNet PhD School on Energy Efficient Communications. The event was hosted at the University of Sheffield. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.next-gwin.org/ |
| Description | Joint Workshop on Content Caching & Distributed Storage for Future Communication Networks, Imperial College, London, UK, 20 June 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Future communication networks and wireless networks, in particular, will need to support extreme communication requirements, from increasing data rates to reduced latency, for a growing number of connected users and devices. Owing to the popularity of smartphones and tablets, a significant portion of the exponentially growing mobile data traffic today is due to video content delivery, and more strikingly, most of this traffic stems from a relatively small number of highly popular viral content. To exploit this particular characteristic, caching popular video contents at the network edge has emerged as a promising technique that can reduce both the backhaul traffic for network operators and the latency for wireless users. This workshop brought together experts working on different aspects of this popular and exciting research area, spanning several layers of the communication network architecture and protocols, to inspire and initiate discussions on how content caching and distribution, and distributed storage can be best designed and exploited in future communication networks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://commnet.ac.uk/icore-cn2-joint-workshop/ |
| Description | N6GRSF Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The National 6G Radio Systems Facility both sponsored and exhibited at IEEE DySPAN 2025, King's College London, UK, 12-16 May 2025 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://dyspan2025.ieee-dyspan.org/ |
| Description | PGCon - Postgraduate Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The PGCon Postgraduate Conference was a CommNet2 training and networking event for postgraduate students working in EEE or CS. The event provided an opportunity for postgraduate students to practice and perfect their oral/presentation skills, network and communicate their work to fellow researchers within their discipline. The conference commenced with an evening meal on Tuesday 15th October. On Day 2 there was a series of workshops, presentations and competitions (with prizes). The programme involved the following activities: 1. Free training events, including a workshop on how to maximise the impact when presenting your research; 2. A career talk; 3. Technical talks by eminent academics on career development and future technology trends in 6G; 4. A safe and supportive environment to practice presenting research findings; 5. Feedback on your presentation/research; 6. Networking events/opportunities/conference dinner; 7. IEEE ComSoc Prizes for best presentations/posters; CommNet covered the full costs of the workshop including travel and accommodation of the PhD students participating from UK universities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://commnet.ac.uk/pgcon2019/ |
| Description | Panel Chair - Building a more sustainable future with 6G, 6G Global Summit, Bahrain, May 2023. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chaired a session on the energy efficiency of 6G networks and approaches to NetZero using 6G. Focus on radio technologies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://global6gsummit.com/ |
| Description | Panel Expert - Research & Innovation: Innovation For 6G, 6GSymposium, University of Surrey, Guildford, April 2023. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Expert panel on innovations in 6G technology with contributions on waveforms and energy efficiency. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.6gworld.com/6gsymposium-spring-2023/ |
| Description | Panel expert - Challenges and opportunities of high frequency mmWave and terahertz bands for 6G, 6G Global Summit, Bahrain, May 2023. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Panel expert contributing to discussions on millimetre-wave and sub-THz radio solutions for 6G radio access networks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://global6gsummit.com/ |
| Description | Positive Collaboration Research for Early Career Academics Networking Event, University of Edinburgh, UK, 5 April 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Early career academics (ECA), by definition, are more likely to have a smaller professional network and are therefore less likely to be involved in big collaborative research and multi-partner research projects. There are also very limited opportunities available to ECA to broaden their research network beyond the often topic-specific technical events like conferences. Moreover, addressing the contemporary information and communication research challenges of society requires a concerted effort across very many research themes and expertise. This networking event aimed to foster and promote collaborative and synergetic research amongst early/mid-career academics in Wireless and Optical/Photonic Networking (including Photonic devices) and involved an excellent line-up of experienced academics to impart their advice and to help build links between early and established career academics. This was also a dedicated workshop to establish a diverse professional network that will function post-event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://commnet.ac.uk/positive-collaborative-research-for-eca/ |
| Description | Software-isation Workshop: The Challenge of Software Quality for ICT Intense Industries. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | In an era when communications networks and IT networks are converging, the technology catalyst for the transformation is software. The software-isation of networks and the complexity of IT systems used in various industries emphasise the requirements on dependable, and reliable software. However, the pressures on costs of development and maintenance, and the time to market imperative are ever-present and increasing. The Software-isation workshop created an opportunity for software-oriented research leaders to promote their capabilities to Industry leaders, and Industry to articulate the challenges they encounter in increasingly complex software-driven environments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://commnet.ac.uk/software-isation/ |
| Description | Symposium on New Trends in Communication Engineering |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Symposium on New Trends in Communication Engineering had the theme of "Connected Living" providing a platform for academics and industry professionals to discuss the opportunities and challenges presented by the strategic technology developments in 5G (and 6G), Internet of Things and Industry 4.0. The focus of presentations was on the enabling communications technologies, including Machine Learning techniques and the use of AI as well as Massive MIMO antennas and wireless systems. The workshop provided an opportunity for cross-discipline discussions with colleagues interested in topics related to communication engineering. Established academics shared their understanding of emerging trends in this field whereas Early Career Researchers (ECRs) participated in discussions through various talks and poster sessions. The event was primarily sponsored by CommNet2. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://sntce2019.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/home |
| Description | THz Electronics Workshop, University of Glasgow, UK, 23-24 April 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Terahertz (THz) Electronics Workshop brought together practicing scientists and engineers from around Europe to share their latest research work on THz electronics technologies. The focus of the workshop was on resonant tunnelling diode (RTD) technologies but also covered a wide range of other solid-state THz electronics technologies. The workshop was organised by the YHz research group at the University of Glasgow, UK, and was sponsored by CommNet. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.commnet.ac.uk/event-alert-thz-electronics-workshop/ |
| Description | TI3 Project Workshop, Royal Society London, UK, 8 September 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This event brought together researchers in the field of "Towards an Intelligent Information Infrastructure" (TI3) and included presentations from six key TI3 projects. Project members presented key research findings, gave demonstrations of their work and exchanged knowledge with the wider research community. The following topics were covered during the day: Future Communications and Networks; Software Defined Networking; Fifth Generation Wireless Networks; Network Security and Threats Detection; Data Science and Analytics; and Extracting knowledge from large data sets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://commnet.ac.uk/t13-project-workshop/ |
| Description | The UK's 5G Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Plenary panel session: future looking - 6G This session considered key research areas for next-generation wireless, including network diversification and convergence, open architectures and standards, software-isation and sustainability, and a focus on delivering social value. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://uk5g.org/attend/uk5gs-5g-showcase-2022/ |
| Description | UK-SINO Beyond 5G and 6G Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was the first international workshop between CommNet and the China FuTURE Mobile Communication Forum (aka FuTURE FORUM) on 5G and 6G Communications. FuTURE FORUM generously hosted the workshop during the 53rd IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2019) held in Shanghai, China. The timing and location provided an ideal opportunity for academics from the UK and China to attend the workshop, network and share presentations on their recent research activities in 5G and beyond wireless communications. The programme of talks was organised by Professor Xiaohu You (General Chair of ICC2019) of Southeast University, China, and Professor Timothy O'Farrell of the University of Sheffield, UK, with FuTURE FORUM providing organisational support. Attended by about 30 participants from China and the UK, the workshop covered a variety of topics including new approaches to Shannon capacity for QPSK, Frequency Agile radios, energy efficiency in millimetre-wave massive MIMO, AI for managing resources at the wireless edge and AI for achieving energy efficiency in radio access networks. The workshop was completed with a networking meal sponsored by FuTURE FORUM. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://commnet.ac.uk/beyond5gg6-shanghai-may2019/ |
| Description | UK-South Korea Collaboration Workshop, 5GIC, University of Surrey, UK, 14 February 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The purposes of this workshop were to gather interests from UK universities for UK-Korea collaboration on 5G, and show the funding agencies from both countries the potential fruitful outcome for a UK-Korea joint call. The workshop led to an invitation to give an invited paper at the iCTC, 17-19 October 2018, Jeju Island, Korea. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://commnet.ac.uk/uk-sk-collaborationworkshop/ |
| Description | Workshop on Machine Learning for Cybersecurity, 11th March 2019, Loughborough University, UK. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The aim of the workshop was to bring together practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry to present and discuss current and future research directions on cybersecurity. The main focus of the workshop was on the use of machine learning for cybersecurity and also provided broad coverage of topics related to wireless networks, content caching, vehicular ad hoc networks, IoT and Big Data. The workshop was sponsored by CommNet and the Gulf Science, Innovation and Knowledge Economy Programme of the UK Government under the UK-Gulf Institutional Link Grant. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.lboro-ml-workshop.com/ |
| Description | YO-RAN Ehibit at Mobile World Congress |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Exhibited ORAN radio units developed on the YO-RAN project at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, March 2025. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | http://www.yo-ran.org |