Building Links with India: Cognitive Wireless Systems for Universal Access
Lead Research Organisation:
Queen's University Belfast
Department Name: Sch of Electronics, Elec Eng & Comp Sci
Abstract
This research network would bring together key research groups that are in the vanguard of developing novel technologies and algorithms for spectrally efficient wireless networks in the UK and India. The researchers in the proposed groups in the UK and India have long-standing international reputation in the fields of digital signal processing and wireless communications. The proposed research is motivated by the fact that the Indian economy is growing at the second largest rate in the world due to expansion of commercial and services industries. One of the main facilitators of such commercial and services industry is the ubiquitous and seamless access to information and communications whenever and wherever needed. As two-thirds of India's one billion population live in rural areas where infra structure for landline connection is inadequate, the Ministry of Telecommunication in India has set targets to provide with wireless connections and mobile coverage for 85% of the country. At the same time, the demand for mobile Internet access with high quality of services to support multimedia and interactive services is still increasing in the UK. This has opened up new opportunities in the research and development of wireless and multimedia devices. One of the main impediments of supporting large populations over wireless networks and meeting high quality of services for multimedia and interactive applications is the scarcity of spectrum. This proposal aims to build networks and promote interactions between India and UK to develop radically new techniques and approaches for spectrally efficient wireless networks, i.e. cognitive wireless systems for universal access, one of the underlying factors for the growth of commercial and services industries. It requires intelligence at the transmitter and receiver to identify spectrum opportunities for transmission. This will bring together the expertise on mobile computing, signal processing algorithms development, efficient spectrum management and systems-on-chip technology from both the UK and India.
Organisations
- Queen's University Belfast (Lead Research Organisation)
- Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (Project Partner)
- Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur (Project Partner)
- National Institute of Technology Rourkela (Project Partner)
- Indian Institute of Technology Madras (Project Partner)
- Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (Project Partner)
- Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (Project Partner)
- Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (Project Partner)
- West Bengal Electronics Industry Development Corporation Limited (India) (Project Partner)
Publications
Du H
(2012)
Joint Transceiver Beamforming in MIMO Cognitive Radio Network Via Second-Order Cone Programming
in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Kortun A
(2011)
On the Performance of Eigenvalue-Based Cooperative Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio
in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
Masouros C
(2012)
Interference as a Source of Green Signal Power in Cognitive Relay Assisted Co-Existing MIMO Wireless Transmissions
in IEEE Transactions on Communications
Zhong C
(2011)
Distribution of the Demmel Condition Number of Wishart Matrices
in IEEE Transactions on Communications