The multi-organisational team behind the £5.5 million FLOURISH connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) project is today [Monday 13 May] celebrating the completion of three years of collaborative research and development with the launch of its latest findings. These findings focus on data and connectivity and consider how data can be leveraged to optimise the functionality…
Researchers Venture to the Chernobyl Red Forest
A multidisciplinary group of researchers from the University of Bristol, as part of the National Centre for Nuclear Robotics, recently traveled to the Chernobyl exclusion zone, 33 years after the nuclear accident at the power plant in Ukraine. The team carried out a series of radiation mapping surveys using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) including the…
New Virtual Drive Test Method Improves Cellular And Internet Connection
When purchasing a new car, customers demand high-quality cellular and internet access. No matter how good the car, poor wireless communications are no longer accepted and the introduction of connected and driverless cars is increasing the need for strong wireless performance. New research by the University of Bristol, in collaboration with Jaguar Land Rover, has…
New Design Tool To Enable Global Roaming Smart Phones
Wireless communications is a technology that is used every day. Across society, there is a move away from using the internet on desktop computers and towards smartphones, tablets and laptops. Engineers at the University of Bristol have developed a novel radio frequency (RF) design tool that will speed up the design of tuneable wireless devices…
From Brussels to Brooklyn: Bristol’s 5G Wireless Research Showcased
Mark Beach, Professor of Radio Systems Engineering in theDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, will give an invited presentation on the Bristol Is Open Massive MIMO test bedto a European audience at the NetWorld2020 Annual Event and General Assembly 2016 in Brussels. This experimental hardware platform, which achieved a world’s first in terms of over-air spectrum efficiency, will…
Bristol and Lund Set New World Record in 5G Wireless Spectrum Efficiency
New research by engineers from the Universities of Bristol and Lund, working alongside National Instruments (NI), has demonstrated how a massive antenna system can offer a 12-fold increase in spectrum efficiency compared with current 4G cellular technology. Multiple antenna technology, referred to as MIMO, is already used in many Wi-Fi routers and 4G cellular phone systems.…
Delivering the Internet of the Future—At the Speed of Light and Open Sourced
New research has found, for the first time, a scientific solution that enables future internet infrastructure to become completely open and programmable while carrying internet traffic at the speed of light. The research by High Performance Networks (HPN) group in the University of Bristol’s Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering is published in the world’s…