Please note that this is not an official working plan as it has not be presented to or accepted by the department's board.
The Computer Communication Systems lab is concerned with computer based communication in the broadest possible sense. We are concerned with:
The CCSlab is heavily involved in undergraduate education especially in the Internetworking course (2G1305) and in the Mobile Computing and Communication module of the finger course (2G1302).
Prof. Maguire is involed as a mentor for EIT students and has been very active in advising and examining exjobbs.
The lab offers individualized reading courses. There may be a doctoral course in May 1999, but the details are not yet certain. Most of the graduate education activities (and the M.Sc. exjobbs) are carried out in research projects.
The lab also is involved in a number of interdisciplinary projects which involve research in multiple areas and provides material for education of the participants in such projects as necessary for the work of those involved. Prof. Maguire has been and expects to continue to be a frequent participant in graduate thesis proposal committees, grading committees, secondary advisor, ... and an occasional opponent.
The goal of all of these projects is to:
Three doctoral students will conduct their graduate studies as the focus of their work at Ellemtel.
Continued work with Dr. M. T. Smith on mobile base stations. In addition, there will be a follow on project to the Smart Badge.
One student from Mitre in the area of software radios and computer communications.
Cooperative projects are being discussed with several additional commercial firms in the area of computer communications.
Professor Maguire is also involved as an main or secondary advisor to students in PCC, especially in Track 2: Wireless Infrastructure (4GW) projects and Track 3: Services and User Behavior with specific responsibility for students working on WP1 Functionality and design of mobile terminal artefacts for details see the working pages.
An additional PCC track in internetworking will begins in 1999.
For a descrition of goals and activities for http://www.ele.kth.se/ESD/MEDIA/index.html.
The Media project will end in 1999. I do not expect to apply for any further EU project funding.
No such courses are anticipated. Although talks are expected to be given to industrial groups as in previous years.
Continue to explore flex-working and move towards fully distributed working.
Accept students with competence or potential competence (subject to funds and advising capacity) to complete a civ. ing., a licentiate, or doctoral degree; and help them to be the best that they can be irrespective or their sex, origins, etc.
The lab is involved in many projects which have international scope, we expect to continue such interactions when mutually beneficial.
Currently the laboratory has one professor (G.Q. Maguire Jr.) and no full-time doctoral students, a full-time licentiate student (Anna Rehn), part-time doctoral students (Roch Glitho, Joe Mitola III, Theo Kanter, and Claes Frisk) and part-time licentiate students (Y. Ismailov, Waseem Besada, Ingvar Fröroth, C. Wettergren, Bjarne Däcker, and Henrik Gustafsson). In addition, there will be a number of students doing their exjobbs in the CCSlab.
There are plans for additional staff in conjunction with TSlab.
Prof. Maguire hopes to spend approximate one month per year visiting in a industrial research laboratory.
As costs for wireless connectivity at high speed fall, the lab will explore moving to wireless LANs and increase its use of wireless communications. Major expenditures are for computers, networking, and user interface equipment. The lab will also explore using rapid prototyping equipment.
The EU projects are subject to regular external evaluations (which OnTheMove passed in spring 1996 and 1997 and the final review in 1998; Media was positively reviewed in December 1997 and December 1998).
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For information contact maguire@it.kth.se