Communications (EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training)

Programme overview
The UK's only interdisciplinary EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Communications offers graduates of electrical and electronic engineering, mathematics, computer science, physics or similar numerate disciplines a vibrant and stimulating environment in which to undertake research. The centre, funded by EPSRC and industry, addresses the shortage of highly skilled communications engineers by training postgraduates and exposing them to ground-breaking research.
The centre brings together world-leading experts from academia and industry. Bristol benefits from a high concentration of communication-related industries in the region. A number of these organisations work closely with the centre and provide industrial training and support, enabling you to obtain skills that will maximise your employability.
The programme will equip you with the necessary skills to work in a wide variety of roles to lead innovative research, future product development and exploitation.
Past PhD topics have included:
Adaptive broadcast transmission with end-user metrics;
Robust, intelligent video data links;
Massive MIMO for high capacity 5G networks;
Wireless SDN integration in heterogeneous networks and 5G;
Multiple antenna techniques and raptor codes for vehicular communications;
Integrated, user-centered health sensing;
Leveraging SDN to deliver scalable and energy efficient M2M networks;
Optimization of machine-to-machine communication in large scale networks;
Target designation and surveillance for live aerial imagery;
Stochastic geometry and wireless networks;
Next generation conformal antenna arrays for sensors and communications;
MU-MIMO techniques;
Passive intrusion detection methodology in IoT network systems;
Wireless connectivity in autonomous vehicles;
Biologically inspired vision systems;
SDN (Software Defined Network) Solutions for High-criticality Networks;
Efficient power amplifiers for IoT machine-to-machine devices.