PhD opportunities in optical networks

Dr Pandelis Kourtessis, Dr Mohammed Jamro, Dr Milos Milosavljevic.

Areas of study

• High speed communications for Passive Optical Networks
• Next Generation Passive Optical Networks (NGPONs)
• Next Generation Access Networks (NGANs)
• Long-Reach Passive Optical networks for Metropolitan network consolidation
• Optical Wireless networks convergence
• Optical network architectures and protocols design for wireless backhauling
• Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols and algorithms for NGPONs
• System Level design for centralised Optical Wireless networks
• MAC Protocol designs for optimisation of Optical and Wireless network convergence
• Optical Networks including millimetre wave Fibre Wireless (FiWi) and software defined system-on-chip embedded platforms employing fast FPGAs.