Potential Projects
Potential PhD Projects
Potential 3rd/4th Year Projects
Projects will be available in a number of areas include:
- Modelling and Hardware project in optical access networks
- Modelling and Hardware/experiment in Radio Over Fibre
- Hardware design and coding for Wireless Sensor Networks
Please email me if you would like to discuss these further
Specific 3rd/4th Year Projects:
- Optical Performance monitoring demonstration. A recent PhD project has developed a novel soultion for performance
monitoring in multi-wavelength40Gbit/s optical networks. This
technique uses low speed electronic and digital signal processing
to allow multiple impairments to be monitored in real-time. This
technique has been shown to be feasible in a small laboratory
demonstration. The aim of this project is to design and build
the requist electronics to allow a large scale demonstration
to be provided. This will involve the design of the optical/electrical
stages, the digitisation stages and the associated control and
processing software.
- Development of a radio over fibre architecture. This
project involves the contruction and testing of a set of radio-over
fibre nodes to show the operation of a multi-channel radio access
network that is distributed over optical fibre.
- Next Generation Optical Access Networks. This
project will consider the modelling and test of novel architectures
for optical access networks.
- Sensor Networks for Civil Infrastructure Applications. Continuting
recent work, low-power and low cost sensor nodes are to be constructed
and test to enable monitoring of civil infrastructure. The work
will involve some hardware design as well as microprocessor coding.
Potential MSc Projects
Wireless Sensor Networks
Projects are available to desing, build and code devices for
wireless sensor networks. These projects offer a mix of hardware
and software design.
Effects of optical switch design for crosstalk reduction.
The level of optical leakage between channels in an optical switching
matrix is a very important parameter for future all optical networks.
This project aims to compare the relative merits of optical switching
architectures with regards to inband crosstalk. The project will
aim to simulate a network of optical Add Drop Multiplex and look
into issues of how noise and other network impairments scale as
the size of the network grow. Another option would be to look at
including the impairments seen within the ADMs and cross-connects
so that they may be included in route calculation algorithms such
as OSPF.
Characterisation of Radio over fibre Networks
The transmission of high frequency (mm-wave) radio signal over
fibre optics is becoming an exciting prospect for future wireless
networks. One technique of interest involves up-converting a number
of wavelength channels simultaneously using a single optical modulator.
This project will involve characterising an optical network both
analytically and experimentally. The system will transport a number
of optical channels to a remote antenna site.
Other Projects in the area are also available.
Multi-user optical access networks.
The ideal situation in an optical access network
is that the components in each home operator only at the bandwidth
offered
to each user
(not at the sum of all users) but still share a single optical
fibre. The aim of this project is consider the use of the
radio technique MIMO to allow the mixing and reconstruction
of multiple
users data in a single fibre. It will involve analytical
and simulation studies
Please email me if you wish to discuss any of these projects
This page last modified
4 October, 2010
by [John Mitchell]
|