Postgraduate research opportunities Receiver designs for Terabit Optical Wireless Communication System (TOWS)
ApplyKey facts
- Opens: Thursday 1 June 2023
- Deadline: Monday 31 July 2023
- Number of places: 1
- Duration: 36 months
- Funding: Home fee, International fee, Stipend, Travel costs
Overview
This project aims to use new concepts in cellular optical communications to demonstrate indoor Terabit/s multiuser wireless systems that offer capacities at least two orders of magnitude higher than the current planned optical and radio wireless systems for 5G, with a roadmap to wireless systems that can offer up to four orders of magnitude higher capacity.Eligibility
To be considered for the project, candidates must possess an undergraduate MEng, first-class BSc/BEng Honours or postgraduate MSc degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or similar.
Project Details
This PhD project is structured to support the overall objectives of TOWS and builds on the team’s recent advancements on the receiver design for TOWS which won a Globecom paper award (E. Sarbazi, et al., “Design Tradeoffs of Non-Imaging Angle Diversity Receivers for 6G Optical Wireless Access Networks”). The objectives of the PhD programme are:
- Experimentally compare the various receiver designs considering different detector technologies such as PIN (p-intrinsic-n), APD (avalanche photodetectors), SPAD (single photon avalanche photodetector), and photovoltaic (PV) cells
- Develop practical high-bandwidth and high energy-efficiency circuit designs for an array-of-array receiver architecture
- Design a suitable transmitter and carry out system-level experimentation with the aim to assess: energy efficiency, data rate, latency and coverage of the system
Funding details
UK/international tuition fees + standard UKRI stipend + travel support + research training support.
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Supervisors
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Interested candidates should first contact Ms Hannah Bown h.brown@strath.ac.uk.
Number of places: 1
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