Fixed and Mobile Communications Research has received significant recognition for its work at national and international levels. For example, Martin Tomlinson was recently invited to JPL NASA to give a lecture on Advances in Coding Theory. The emphasis is on publications of high quality in leading journals. Conference presentations have concentrated on international IEEE/IET events. We have contributed papers and presentations at various international conference presentations, including major IEEE events such as GlobeCom, ICC, ISIT and ITW. Recently, Mosa Ali Abu-Rgheff has authored a book entitled “Introduction to CDMA Wireless Communications”.

The head of this group, Martin Tomlinson is on the editorial board of the IET Communications journal. He is also in the technical programme committee of the upcoming 2008 IEEE Information Theory Workshop in Porto, Portugal. In addition, he was invited to Chair the Advances in DVB-S2 Symposium (Nov 2006) and FCT National Research Evaluation of Communications (Portugal 2005); invited Erskine Professor at the University of Canterbury New Zealand from March-June 2005 and visiting professor of the Washington State University. Mosa Ali Abu-Rgheff is a member of the UK University Wireless Forum; and he was a member of the technical programme committee of IEEE ICC and GlobeCom conferences.

We have also been involved in various advisory and review bodies. For example, Martin Tomlinson served as a key member of several advisory and review bodies including, technical evaluator of COST 255 Action (European Commission), the European Space Agency FOCUS and the DVB-RCS Satellite Communications Standards Committee. He is Technical Auditor to DG XIII and expert Satellite Communications Adviser to the GCHQ and he is also the architect of the Met Office worldwide satellite dissemination system.

All senior staffs of this group have acted as ‘external’ PhD examiners for UK and overseas universities, and several are external examiners for undergraduate and masters’ courses.

There is considerable interaction between staff and industry (and end-users). Martin Tomlinson is a non executive director of several companies (Aetheric Engineering, Satamatics, Vidanti and TRL). Within this group, ten patents have been filed in the last 3 years, and three patents have recently been granted by the UK Intellectual Property Office. Eight out of ten patents, which were filed in the UK, are on error correction coding and watermarking and the remaining two, which were filed in the US, are on wireless communications. We have close collaboration with chip companies in US (e.g. Comtech AHA and iCoding Inc.) and we provide them software tools and patented technology.