The CTR has two major research groups namely wireless communications research group and fiber optics research group. The centre is led by Associate Professor Dushantha Nalin Jayakody and in addition has three academic staff members currently.
The wireless communication research group cover a broad range of research initiatives related to telecommunications engineering, with our key research related to 5G wireless communication & networking such as simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT), machine learning based wireless communication, underwater visible light communications (VLC), unmanned aviation vehicle (UAV) assisted communications and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technologies for 5G, internet of things (IoT), etc.
The fiber optic research group is working on the non-linear phase noise compensation techniques, developing dispersion measurement techniques and free space optics (FSO). Further, this research group conducted a feasibility study in fiber network infrastructure development to implement SEA-ME-WE traffic routing via Sri Lanka.
Research areas
- 5G communication technologies (NOMA etc)
- Cooperative relay communications
- Optical communications
- Space time block coding and MIMO
- Age of Information in time critical wireless mission.
- RF energy harvesting in wireless networks
- LDPC/LDLC Codes
- Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted communication
- Machine learning based wireless communications
- Internet of things
- Visible Light Communication