Research Grants

The following are current grants held by members of the Centre for Networks, Communications and Systems that are of particular relevance:

  • 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
  • TWIN6G (MSCA STAFF EXCHANGE)
    Arumugam Nallanathan and Yuanwei Liu
    £144,152 EPSRC - EU Scheme
    01-01-2025 - 31-12-2028
  • UKRI Federated National Compute Services NetworkPlus - Leadership
    Jonathan Hays, Konstantinos Zachariadis and Ahmed M. A. Sayed
    £1,147,400 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
    01-10-2024 - 30-09-2026
  • 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
  • Digital Transformation of Electromagnetic Material Design and Manufacturing for Future Wireless Connectivity (DREAM)
    Yang Hao, Kaspar Althoefer, Arumugam Nallanathan and Anthony Phillips
    £2,579,837 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 
    Grant Summary

    01-06-2023 - 31-05-2028
  • Distributed Acoustic Sensor system for Modelling Active Travel
    Mona Jaber
    £411,549 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 
    Grant Summary

    01-06-2023 - 01-10-2026
  • plaTform drIving The ultImAte coNnectivity (TITAN)
    Arumugam Nallanathan and Yuanwei Liu
    £66,890 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
    01-05-2023 - 30-04-2026
  • Scalable Hybrid Architecture for Wireless Collaborative Federated Learning (SHAFT)
    Arumugam Nallanathan and Andrea Cavallaro
    £445,428 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
    01-04-2023 - 04-09-2026
  • Smart Solutions Towards Cellular-connected Unmanned Aerial Vehicles System (Autonomy)
    Arumugam Nallanathan and Andrea Cavallaro
    £409,171 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
    01-04-2022 - 30-09-2026
  • NEAT: NEtwork dATaplane measurements as first class primitive
    Gianni Antichi
    £13,950 VMware, Inc.
    01-10-2021 - 30-09-2026
  • Automatic optimization of software network data planes
    Gianni Antichi
    £38,462 Facebook Research
    01-10-2020 - 30-09-2026