In this section the research projects for Technical Innovation are listed. The current projects can be found below. The completed research and future research are listed in de subsections.

More detailed information about projects and publications can be found website.

MK Lakshmanan

Title: Wavelet Radio for Streetlight Concept

Description: Streetlight Furniture have been part of people’s lives for decades, if not centuries together - adoring the landscape and serving as silent and faithful servants. With technological advancements and with growing need to get people connected, the role of the streetlights is going to change like never before. With some innovation, the omniscience of the streetlights can be used to benefit people in many ways communication, security, health care, navigation, internet etc. However for this to happen, clear and concerted efforts must be put to address the technical aspects of the design, development and implementation. Wavelets are waveforms of limited duration. Conventional wireless systems use Fourier bases (cosine and sinusoids) and in comparison to these bases, wavelets provide promising potential advantages and applications in wireless communications. The main property of wavelets for these applications is their ability and flexibility to characterize signals with adaptive time-frequency resolution. The goal of this project is research and demonstration of wavelet-based radio to design and develop intelligent streetlight systems.

Javad Vazifehdan

Title: QoS Support in Personal Networks with Heterogeneous Communications Environment 

Description: The QoS support in PNs and in such a heterogeneous communications environment is demanding in order to PNs be adopted by the users. In this project we aim to design a QoS provisioning mechanism which considers all available ANs for providing the required level of the QoS.  The QoS support mechanism must also consider the dynamic nature of the communications environment that a mobile PN user may experience.  An available AN might become unavailable at any moment or new and better ANs might become accessible at any time. Furthermore, the dynamic and the self-organized structure of a PN in which nodes might join or leave the PN at any moment, imposes more challenges for QoS support in PNs.

The future research project proposals have been formulated because they are important for the Technical Innovation theme. These projects have not yet been assigned to specific researchers. If you are interested, please see these Research vacancies.