Welcome to The Centre for Networks, Communications and Systems
The Centre for Networks, Communications and Systems is world-leading for our research into networked systems. Our critical mass allows us to span all layers in the network stack, covering physical to application layer concerns. The centre currently consists of approximately 30 academic staff and multi PhD students and postdocs. Our work is consistently published in A* venues such as ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMETRICS, USENIX NSDI, ACM IMC, alongside major journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE JSAC, ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networks, IEEE Transactions of Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, etc.
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Recent Publications
- Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS): A Tutorial
IEEE Transactions on Communications, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) vol. PP (99), 1-1.
28-01-2026 - RIS-Assisted Integrated Sensing and Hybrid Symbiotic Radio Systems
IEEE Communications Letters, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) vol. PP (99), 1-1.
23-01-2026 - Enhanced Heuristic GWO for High-Accuracy Indoor VLP by Fusing RSS and AoA
IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) vol. PP (99), 1-1.
20-01-2026
Recent Grants
- Crime prediction using geolocated social network data
Ignacio De Castro Arribas and Waleed Iqbal
£19,035 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-12-2025 - 31-03-2026 - 6G-AI-FINESSE: Improving 6G Rural Security using AI-Driven Intelligence to Identify Friend or Foe for Physical Layer Security
Fatma Benkhelifa
£17,590 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-08-2025 - 31-03-2026 - Wireless Powered LoRa Through-Wall Indoor Nuclear (LoRa-TWIN) Monitoring in Decommissioning Environments
Fatma Benkhelifa and Arumugam Nallanathan
£115,643 Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
01-04-2025 - 30-09-2028