Wireless Communications MSc: Research areas

This course benefits from research-informed teaching and the experience of research-active academics. The two lead academics on the course – Dr Martini and Dr Politis – co-ordinate the Wireless Multimedia Networking Research Group. The group's main research areas are:

• wireless multimedia;
• cross-layer design;
• video transmission over WIMAX / next generation wireless systems;
• resource allocation for wireless multimedia transmission to multiple users;
• cognitive radio and spectrum management;
• error resilient video transmission;
• error concealment;
• scalable and 3D video transmission over wireless systems;
• video quality assessment;
• decision theory;
• frame synchronization;
• games theory and applications in communications;
• wireless security; and
• wireless telemedicine.

The group collaborates with several research groups and major industries internationally, and is involved in large European and international research projects in wireless and multimedia communications. Examples include the ICT-OPTIMIX and ICT-PEACE research projects.

The group currently includes five academics, two full-time researchers and eight research (PhD) students. Its members publish extensively in the leading international journals and organise major events in the area, such as the International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference (Mobimedia) hosted at Kingston University in 2009.

Dr Martini and Dr Politis are also both active members of the main international fora in the area (the Wireless World Research Forum, for example, and the eMobility European Technology Platform). Dr Politis is leading a working group (WG8) in the Wireless World Research Forum, which is sponsored by multinational companies such as Vodafone, Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens, to lead international research on various innovative research topics.

Other research

Other research activities are focused around three main research centres:

• Digital Imaging Research Centre – offering expertise in computer vision, medical imaging, visual surveillance, ambient intelligence, machine learning and computer graphics;
• Mobile Information and Network Technologies Research Centre – which conducts leading research in bio-information systems and the application of emerging mobile and network technologies for healthcare systems; and
• Centre for Applied Research in Information Systems – which provides a focus for applied research and consultancy projects in information systems, focusing on learning technology, transport, e-business, healthcare, information systems policies, and defence applications.

You may be able to publish any research you undertake on the Kingston University Research and Innovation Reports (KURIR) website. This site gives anyone associated with Kingston University the opportunity to publish articles, which will be permanently available to the academic community.