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.
News
24-02-2025
Faculty of Science and Engineering
03-12-2024
Centre for Electronics
Recent Publications
- Cold Start Latency in Serverless Computing: A Systematic Review, Taxonomy, and Future Directions.
Golec M, Walia GK, Kumar M, Cuadrado F, Gill SS and Uhlig S
Acm Comput. Surv. vol. 57, 65:1-65:1.
01-03-2025 - Joint service caching, computation offloading and resource allocation for dual-layer aerial Internet of Things
Zhang Y, Na Z, Wen Z, Nallanathan A and Lu W
Computer Networks, Elsevier vol. 257
01-02-2025 - UAV-Aided Short-Packet Covert Data Collection
Yang F, Zhao N, Liu M, Deng N and Nallanathan A
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) vol. PP (99), 1-6.
16-12-2024
Recent Grants
- 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 - 6G-FINESSE: Is 6G a Friend or a Foe for Physical Layer Security in Quasi-Static Environments
Fatma Benkhelifa
£79,314
03-06-2024 - 31-07-2025 - KUber: Knowledge Delivery System for Machine Learning at Scale
Ahmed M. A. Sayed
£522,781 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-04-2024 - 31-03-2027