1. Areas of Technical Expertise
· Service Demonstrator Planning, Implementation, Delivery and Evaluation
· Issues in Wide Area (Fixed and Mobile) Network Service Provision and Delivery
· Protocols for supporting Mobility over WANs (Mobile IP, WAP, SMS)
· The Use of WAP/SMS as a Transport Mechanism in WAN Service Delivery
· Mobile Communication Technologies (GSM, GPRS, UMTS, proprietary protocols)
· The Use of CATV/Wireless/Satellite Technologies in Service Delivery over WANs
· Distributed Information Management, Metadata, Knowledge Management
· Groupware, Collaborative/Group Working, Workflow and Process Automation
· Remote Sensing using Small Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) Satellites
· Integrated Optical Waveguides and Devices for Broadband Communication Systems
· EM Field Measurements using Optical and Semiconductor Sensor Systems
2. Project Lifecycle and Management Expertise
· Formulating the team strategy and identifying new directions
· Background research and development of new propositions
· Developing marketing strategy, planning campaigns and raising the team profile
· Bid preparation, submission and subsequent contract negotiations
· Pr oject management, staff supervision and technical contribution to projects
· Performance review and restructuring (team level, 45 members)
· Staff supervision and mentoring (for professional staff/research students)
· Developing best practice approach to management and delegation of duties
· Definition of staff profiles and recruitment incl. continuous professional development
· Presentation of deliverables to customers, participation in project audits
· Presentation of results at conferences, publication in journals, technical reports
3. Delivery of Major Programmes
· TELERISE 2000 (Sponsored by EU/ERDF, total value £3.85M)
Delivery of information/telematic services for SMEs in Yorkshire/Humberside
· Renaissance (Sponsored by EU/ACTS1, total value £3.6M)
A pan-EU service demonstrator for content delivery over multiprotocol networks
· GAIA (Sponsored by EU/ACTS2, total value £3.3M)
Generic architecture for content brokerage and retrieval (based on Z39.50 standard)
· REMiT/MoE (Sponsored by EU/ERDF, total value £2.15M)
Virtual environments and a wireless testbed for SMEs in media related sectors
· GESTALT (Sponsored by EU/ACTS2, total value: £2.0M)
Content management and distribution, over pan-EU multiservice networks
· REGIS (Sponsored by EPSRC/DTI Link HPIP and industry, total value £1.9M)
Delivery of information services (and WWW) over N-ISDN and CATV
networks to regional SMEs (based on X.400/X.500 protocols)
· ACTION (Sponsored by EU/Telematics, total value: £1.9M)
Network infrastructure for supporting informal carers using telematic services
· TELERISE 1 (Sponsored by EU/ERDF, total value £1.8M)
Sector-based technology transfer using IT, for SMEs in Yorkshire/Humberside
· E-WIN (Sponsored by EU/Info2000, total value: £1.2M)
SME Community portal: European Waste Management Information Network
· DCoE (Sponsored by EU/ERDF, total value: £1.1M)
Distributed Centre of Excellence in the Provision of On-line Training in the
Yorkshire/Humberside region
· IBREHT (Sponsored by EPSRC/DTI Link PCP and industry, total value £0.8M)
EM field measurements of radio emissions from handheld devices, inside
anatomically realistic (head/upper body) phantoms
· YUSAT (Sponsored by EU/Tempus, total value £0.5M)
Technology transfer between UK and Yugoslavia Low Earth Orbiting Satellites
· QoS and Mobile IP (Sponsored by Marconi Communications, total value £0.3M)
Quality of Service measurements in secure private all-IP networks supporting
multimedia traffic
QoS in CATV Networks (Sponsored by Nortel Networks, total value: £0.2M)
Performance evaluation of several CATV protocols for internet access as well
as isochronous services, including rapid service recovery
4. Consulting Activities prior to October 2000
· Sophora Ltd. - content development for interactive distance learning
· Mercury (Enterprises) Communications plc - use of telematics in education
· EPSRC/DTI Link HPIP - PVC: Personal Video-conferencing Codecs
· EPSRC ROPA - TCP performance over Mobile IPv6 and wireless links
EPSRC - national programme review in IT and Computer Science
· Dialogue Communications Ltd. - new services over GSM/SMS
· Dialogue Communications Ltd. - new interactive services over WAP/cHTML
· Department for Education and Employment (UK) - learning resource study
· Ministry of Defense (UK) - telemetry in the maritime environment
· European Commission - evaluation of proposals under FP5 Key Action 2
· European Space Agency - Altimetry for ERS-1 and Polar Platform projects
· Chilworth Technology Ltd. - applications of electrostatic field modelling
· APV Baker plc - Resistive heating study for food processing applications
· Redifon Ltd. - Computer modelling of low frequency loop antennas (tunnels)
· Cardinal Consultants - High Data Rate RF Links for telemetry applications
· SCANDIA HUS (UK) Ltd. - Telecommunications in the 'House of the Future'
· Intel Corp. (UK) - Use of videoconferencing in interactive education
· Brunel University Continuing Education Department - Groupware Strategy
· Brunel University - Feasibility Study for All-electronic Distance Learning
· Brunel University Research Awards - Parallel computation of EM fields
· British Telecommunications plc - Feasibility of Interactive Distance Learning
· Interactive Satellite Systems Consortium - LAN-LAN links over satellites
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