Cass Business School
Cass Business School, City University (City) is one of Europe’s leading schools for business research, with a 5 rating in the UKs 2001 Research Assessment Exercise. The PhD programme is ranked 16 in the world by the Financial Times, with more than one hundred doctoral students.
The Faculty of Actuarial Science and Insurance is one of the largest academic actuarial departments in the world, with highly respected degree courses and research.
Cardiff University, School of Computer Science
The School of Computer Science has collaborative research arrangements with partners worldwide and this international strength is reflected in its performance in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.
Our research is currently organised under 5 main groups while a 6th – emerging – group conducts practice-based research in the area of Strategic Information Systems. Each of these groups contains a number of research sub-groups working in specific areas, such as Biodiversity, Geographic (Spatial) Information Systems, Communications Network Design, Reverse Engineering of Solid Shape, and a wide range of Grid Computing topics including Distributed Processing, Knowledge Management and Immersive Visualisation. We have a successful research school of approximately 60 PhD students associated with our research groups.
The Mobile Communications research group specialises in developing complex systems and algorithms for critical problems that arise in wireless networks, such as automatic cellular network design and spectrum management. Other aspects include developing new paradigms for pervasive services, in particular closely coupling wireless technology with personal activities by building on developments in ad-hoc, mesh and sensor networking.
British Telecom
British Telecom are industrial partners within this project, offering technical support and the use of facilities and equipment. One of the main interests of the BT mobility Lab is to evaluate the potential of Wireless Mesh Networks for large scale deployment in the metropolitan area.
