India-UK advanced technology centre

Lead Research Organisation: University of Southampton
Department Name: Electronics and Computer Science

Abstract

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Publications

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Description Amongst numerous new discoveries published in about 300 IEEE journal and conference papers one of the most innovative solutions we conceived is related to the employment of multiple transmit and receive antennas in mobile phones and in the base-stations providing radio coverage for the handsets.
Exploitation Route The findings were disseminated in about a dozen keynote lectures and 300+ IEEE/IET research papers for further exploitation both by the academic and industrial community. Our industrial partners directly benefitted from these findings and so did our PhD, MSc and UG students.
Sectors Agriculture, Food and Drink,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Electronics,Transport

URL httP://www-mobile.ecs.soton.ac.uk
 
Description The findings are influencing the standardization of the fifth generation of mobile phone systems across the globe. These findings also inspired many Indian PhD students, several of whom visited Southampton University, accompanied by their Professors. The best links are with IITM in Chennai and IISc in Bombay. These finding also led to the signing of on MOU between Southampton and IITM. This collaboration evolved very successfully along many parallel avenues, including an extended collaboration with the Indian industrial partners. I will be travelling to Chennai and Bangalore for further discussions with Nokia, IBM and many SMEs. Furthermore, I will be giving a keynote lecture at http://www.wispnet2017.org/#keynote -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated in 2021 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This remarkable collaborative project is really having a long-term benefit for many of us in the UK and for our collaborators in India. Explicitly, even after the completion of the project I've coauthored 10 IEEE journal papers with Prof. Aditya Jagannatham of IIT Kanpur, and a similar number of IEEE journal papers with Prof. KVS Hari of the famous IISc in Bangalore as well as with Prof. Sheetal Kalyani of IIT Madras. Many of these contributions influenced the thinking of the 3GPP 5G standardization body in the following research areas: Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA), the Internet of Things (IoT), mm-wave communications relaying on sophisticated hybrid beam-forming schemes, Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT), energy harvesting, mobile edge-computing, spatial modulation, radically new polar codes for the 5G control channels, automatic repeat request schemes for enhancing the link reliability, physical-layer security enhancements, just to name a few. I have also given numerous keynote lectures based on the findings of this exquisite project. It also helped me in drafting my 2.5 Million Euro European Research Council Advanced Fellow Grant. Finally, it also led to a long-term win-win collaboration with BT for my team. As a result, BT have also employed one of my PhD students in ipswich.
First Year Of Impact 2016
Sector Agriculture, Food and Drink,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Electronics,Transport
Impact Types Cultural,Societal,Economic

 
Description EPSRC
Amount £250,000 (GBP)
Funding ID EP/J016640/1 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2012 
End 12/2014
 
Description Harnessing Quantum-Computing & Signal Processing in Wireless Communications 
Organisation Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Country India 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution We published several joint 4* papers, which contribute to the REF;
Collaborator Contribution Deriving closed-form equations for characterizing device-to-device communications and IoT
Impact mathematics, information theory, signal processing, computer science, telecommunications engineering
Start Year 2017