Our People - V2X - Communications

• Cryptography and data security
• High speed communication networks

• Biologically inspired intelligent systems
• Human Computer Interaction (HCI)/Human Machine Interface (HMI) systems
• Hybrid systems
• Intelligent embedded systems
• Sensory systems design

Centre for Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (CPAMI)

• Advanced signal processing algorithms for wireless communication
• Cognitive and software defined radios (CR and SDR)
• Design of high power and spectrum efficient linear radio frequency amplifiers
• Hybrid Radio Frequency and Digital Signal Processing (RF/DSP) design of wireless communication transmitters
• Microwave and millimeter-wave circuits and systems design
• Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) transceiver schemes
• Nonlinear and linear radio frequency (RF) circuits and systems characterization and behavioural modeling
• Power amplifier and transmitter linearization techniques (Baseband and RF Digital Predistortion, Feed-forward)
• RF integrated circuits (CMOS)

Emerging Radio Systems Group (EmRG)

• Application of geographic information systems (GIS) to urban area analysis
• Design and operation of public transportation systems, highway systems, and facilities for non-motorized modes of transport
• Development and implementation of utility-based multi-modal travel forecasting models
• Transportation and land use impacts
• Urban transportation systems

Waterloo Public Transportation Initiative

• Embedded systems and software
• Generative programming and model-based software development
• Software design
• Software system families and product lines

Waterloo Intelligent Systems Engineering Lab (WISE Lab)

• Coding Theory
• Cross-layer optimization
• Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and space-time communications
• Multiuser detection
• Wireless communications

• Distributed Embedded Real-Time Systems
• Real-Time Safety Critical Software

Real-time Embedded Software Group

• Advanced Hardware Architectures
• Baseband communication circuits and algorithms
• Energy-efficient circuits and systems
• Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) signal processing

• Cryptographic primitives
• Multimedia communication security
• Network and ad hoc network security
• Sequence design for wireless Code Division Mutilpe Access (CDMA) communications

Communications Security Lab

• Broadband wired and wireless communication networks
• Coded video multicasting, Medium Access Control (MAC) layer scheduling and performance analysis
• Cross-layer design in Institute of Electrical and  Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.16 networks
• Integration of fiber and wireless communication systems (FiWi)
• Relay placement on cooperative communications and survivable routing for high availability design
• Secure and privacy-preserving vehicular communications
• Wireless network security

• Channel coding and transmission for fading environments
• Channel coding with an emphasis on Turbo-codes
• Coding and interference cancellation for Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) systems
• Constellation design and implementation for multi-level modulation over band-limited channels
• Cooperative networking
• Digital/Wireless Communications
• Information Theory with an emphasis on networks
• Multiple-access, multiple antenna systems
• Receiver structure for fading channels
• Soft decision/soft output decoding of binary codes
• Structure of lattices with applications in digital communications

Coding and Signal Transmission (CST) Laboratory

• Design of mixed analog/digital circuits for wireless communication
• Phase noise of oscillators, mixer noise and mixer distortion analysis

• Wireless/wireline interworking
• Mobility management
• Radio resource management
• Broadband communications
• Design, analysis and performance modeling

• Coding theory
• Cooperative and cognitive networks
• Information theory
• Statistical signal processing
• Wireless communications

• Energy-cost modelling of wireless applications
• Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Low power software and communication protocols
• Mobile and ad hoc networks
• Mobile communication and computing
• Optical networks
• Testing communication protocols

• Biomedical Applications of electromagnetics
• Electromagnetic compatibility and interference
• Electromagnetic propagation mechanisms
• Electronic packaging
• Material measurements
• Photonics
• Radiating systems, theoretical and computational electromagnetics

• Broadband networks: Internet protocol (IP), Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), and Multiprotocol label switching (MPLS)
• Cellular networks: cross-layer integration, resource management, mobility and power management, opportunistic scheduling
• Multimedia applications: Content delivery network (CDN), peer-to-peer, and location-based services
• Network security: Distributed denial of services (DDOS), traffic monitoring
• Traffic engineering: quality of service, game theory and pricing, dynamic provisioning, network design, routing, congestion control, scheduling
• Wireless networks: sensors and Wireless local area networks (WLANs)

• Complex propogation and scattering phenomena
• Computational electromagnetics and photonics
• Devices and novel electromagnetic materials
• Guided-wave and free space optical systems and components
• Intelligent Navigation Systems
• Microwave and millimeter wave planar circuits and antenna systems
• Microwave high temperature superconductor (HTSC) thin film technology
• Radio frequency (RF)/microwave packaging and Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)/Electromagnetic interface (EMI) analyses
• RF/microwave/millimeter wave/Terahertz (THz) systems
• Vehicle wireless communications and safety systems

Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems

• RF/microwave/millimeter wave/Terahertz (THz) circuits and antenna systems
• Radio frequency (RF)/microwave packaging and Electromagnetic compatibility 
• (EMC)/Electromagnetic interface (EMI) analyses
• Vehicle and UAV wireless communications, navigation systems, and telematics systems
• Bio-wearable electronics and systems
• Energy harvesting systems
• Complex propagation and scattering phenomena
• Devices and novel electromagnetic materials and wireless sensors

Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems (CIARS)

• Radio resource and mobility management
• Voice over mobile Internet protocol (IP)
• Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks
• Wireless network security
• Wireless/Internet interworking
• Wireless local area network (WLAN)/Worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX), Wireless application protocol (WAP), Ultra-wide band (UWB) wireless communications

Broadband Communications Research Group

• Authorization systems
• Information security
• Network security technologies, in particular wireless technology

• Automated mechatronics design
• Flexible link manipulators
• Haptics
• Nonlinear control
• Robot manipulators
• Telehaptics

• Aerial and Terrestrial Autonomous Vehicles, Rovers, Quadrotors and Blimps
• Autonomous Perception and Navigation in Unknown Environments
• Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Multi-Agent Control
• Distributed and Decentralized Optimization

Waterloo Autonomous Vehicle Laboratory (WAVE Lab)

• Radio Positioning
• Wireless communications
• Wireless Networking

Broadband Communications Research Group