Summary of the research, facilities, expertise and opportunities at the Centre for Communications Systems Research. Presented at "Implementing Future Networks, Content and Services with Secure and Efficient Systems." At the University of Surrey 20th Sept 2010

1. Centre for Communication
Systems Research
Professor Rahim Tafazolli
Director, CCSR
September 2010

2. CCSR’s Strength
Well known Research Centre in Communications internationally,
particularly in Europe
Good networking with industry and academia
Good awareness of strategic and hot research areas
To some extent we are the drivers

3. CCSR’s People
Academics and Senior Research
Academics and Senior Research Support Team:
Support Team:
Fellows:
Fellows:
Safa Sway
Safa Sway
Prof. Rahim Tafazolli
Prof. Rahim Tafazolli
Prof. Barry Evans Liz James
Liz James
Prof. Barry Evans
Prof. Zhili Sun Alison Webb
Alison Webb
Prof. Zhili Sun
Prof. Klaus Moessner Chris Alais
Chris Alais
Prof. Klaus Moessner
Dr. Michael Howarth
Dr. Michael Howarth Chris Clark
Chris Clark
Dr. Ning Wang
Dr. Ning Wang Alex Jackman
Alex Jackman
Dr. Muhammad Ali Imran
Dr. Muhammad Ali Imran Terry Roberts
Terry Roberts
Dr. Tim Brown
Dr. Tim Brown
Dr. Mehrdad Dianati
Dr. Mehrdad Dianati
Dr. Haitham Cruickshank
Dr. Haitham Cruickshank
Dr. Yi Ma
Dr. Yi Ma Research Fellows and Students:
Research Fellows and Students:
Dr. Atta Quddus
Dr. Atta Quddus
Dr. Francois Carrez
Dr. Francois Carrez 34 Postdocs
34 Postdocs
Dr. Alex Gluhak
Dr. Alex Gluhak 73 FT PhDs
73 FT PhDs
Dr. Paul Thompson
Dr. Paul Thompson 77PT PhD/RA
PT PhD/RA

4. Centre for Communication Systems
Research - CCSR
Research Annual Turnover - £4m
Research Portfolio - £12m
MSc’s ≈ 80 students year
Mobile Communications,
Satellite Communications,
Mobile and Satellite Systems

5. Industry Collaborators

6. CCSR at the Centre of Worldwide
Research
Asia:
China (4G future programme with 4 Univ), Science Bridge in
Mobile Comms
Korea (ETRI and 2 Universities)
Japan (NICT– exchange programme)
USA:
Partnership with University of California San Diego / Irvine via
SET2 UK-USA (needs to be renewed)
programme in wireless
India
5 IIT’s – UK/India: Next Generation Networks

7. CCSR at the Centre of Worldwide
Research
Driving Europe’s communication programme
Technology platforms: e-mobility (chair), ISI, NEM/NESSI
Standards: IEEE P.1900.6 (chair and Founder), ETSI (co-Chair) Security
Systems
Board Member of UK Future Internet Strategy Group
EU
Cellular (Inc. Femto)
Research Coverage
Satellite
M2M (sensor, NFC) Research Councils
V2V
Future Internet (incl. IoT) Industry
Worldwide

8. New Systems
Smart
Cellular (Inc. Femto)
Health
Satellite
Environment information
M2M (sensor, NFC) ICT for
Energy & Grid
V2V
Transportation
Future Internet (incl. IoT)
Optimisation Practical Research & Testbeds

9. Communication and Information
Systems
Cellular (Inc. Femto)
W-CDMA/HSPA, LTE, LTE-A
Satellite
Fixed – BB access;
Video distribution – Ku band
Mobile – BB on the move
Broadcast – passenger vehicles
M2M (sensor, NFC)
ZigBee, LTE
V2V
802.11p, LTE
Future Internet (incl. IoT)

10. Research Approach and topics
Flexibility, Adaptability, Evolvability
Energy efficient system architectures, air-interface techniques and protocols
Advance antenna designs and radio propagation measurements-NFC
Sensor networking
Middleware architectures
Self-organising multi-cell/user networks
In-network positioning
Cognitive and cooperative communications
Spectrum sharing, coexistence and sensing
Resource and Mobility Management

11. CCSR’s Research Areas
Flexibility, Adaptability, Evolvability
Future mobile internet
Autonomous and flexible networking, virtualisation & management, Traffic
engineering & QoS, Client-Server Architectures and Cloud Computing
Network, user, information, device security
Networked multimedia applications and services
User context, profiling and modelling
Service platform architectures-web services
Large Scale Mobile Adhoc networking
Client-server architectures and cloud computing

12. CCSR Research Facilities
IP-based wireless networking
Wireless sensor networking
Network Security
IMS service platform
Satellite Communications and broadcasting
MIMO channel sounder
RF Lab & Anechoic chamber
State of art computing and software packages

13. UniS Centre-wide Wireless Testbed
- Network Structure
Ad-hoc AP - Access Point
cloud
APC - Access Point
controllers
CISCO 10BaseT
4500/7xxx 100BaseFX
SWR Terminal
emulator data
video Server
Server & FX
media The SUN E10000 server will support :
CISCO Mobility Server (MSCP func. i.e. home &
archive Content 7507 visitor location servers)
Server object store for
mobility-server objects
node-server objects
switch-server objects
experim-
network management software
entation OC12 multimedia traffic monitoring station &
Local LAN/ router data collection point
INTERNET mobile client proxy implementation
Primary switch Streaming video server
(Fore ASX1000) multimedia conversions
CISCO 7507 wireless gateway server
H320 to H323 gateway
fixed terminals
access switch
for H323
CISCO
video-conf. &
Catalyst 5505 SWR BaseStation
E10000 clients.
Primary emulator
FastEthernet LANE server
100BaseT
100BaseFX

14. The IMS ++ testbed at Surrey
IMS++ in the WNT

15. Context gateway and context service enablers
Current test bed example – “mood”
demonstrator

16. Network Security Test Bed - Overview
Linux based emulator with many of the DVB-S and DVB-RCS satellite
network functions including security:
The testbed can be used for non-satellite networks as well
Interfaced to Ethernet network and dedicated server
A complete multicast security system has been demonstrated over
this testbed including:
Group Secure Association Key Management Protocol (GSAKMP)
Logical key hierarchy (LKH) for efficient key distribution in very large groups
Unidirectional Link Encapsulation (ULE) security has been realised as
define in the IETF RFC 5458.

17. Potential Uses
Trust management between security entities such as senders, receivers,
middle-boxes and security managers.
Internet and future Internet security protocols (including Delay Tolerant
Networks, DTN).
User identity hiding and anonymity.
Key management for unicast, multicast and broadcast using centralised
and distributed security systems.
Interworking between security, QoS and mobility.

18. CCSR Satellite Network
Test Bed

19. Satellite Network Test Bed
Supported by Rohde & Schwarz
Opened June 2008
Provides DVB-S and DVB-S2 analysis
capability
Hands-on practical training
2 TVRO antennas on the roof, one fixed,
one steerable.
Ku-band and L-band operation.
Hardware based physical layer
measurement capability.
Interfaced to Ethernet network
and dedicated server.

20. Satellite Network Test Bed
Provides DVB-S and DVB-S2 analysis capability
Hands-on practical training
Two antennas on the roof, One fixed, one steerable.
Ku-band and L-band operation.
Hardware based physical layer measurement capability.
Interfaced to Ethernet network and dedicated server.

21. Potential Uses
RF characterisation
Non-linear effects
Filtering effects
Modulation and coding
Noise and propagation effects (mobile)
End to End Performance
Protocol testing
QoS
Application testing over satellite

22. New Testbeds
SMART CCSR
Sensorised Campus (2.5-3k) sensors/actuators connected to SIP (IMS) Service
platform
Extension of SMART SANTANDER project
o 3D (360 Degree) CCSR, location based services, presence
detection/tracking, service mobility between different devices (service
adaptation, etc..)
REDUCE project
o Energy usage monitoring and control
Cognitive Radio Testbed
Part of QoSMoS, UK-India projects

23. Advanced Network
Service Domain
• Web 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0
• IMS platform
• SIP application server farms
• Multimedia based services
• Distributed content platforms
• Clustering services
Network Domain
• Fixed and mobile IPv4 and IPv6 Service Domain Edge Services
• Mobile access networks – LTE, WLAN • Setup interconnectivity across
• Fixed access networks – Optical educational and commercial network
• Cognitive radios • Protect the network
• Cognitive networks • Control content platforms
• Sensor networks • Clustering services
• EPC
Academic &
Academic &
Network Domain Future Networks Public Networks
Public Networks
Testbed
Remote
networks
Knowledge Domain
• User, device and network profiling
• Machine learning
• Al Algorithms Knowledge Domain
• Intelligence agents
• Cognitive engines
• SON algorithms
• Network virtualisation algorithms
• Traffic engineering algorithms