5G Advanced Communications University of Strathclyde

Overview

You’ll gain expert knowledge of the latest technologies that will drive the next mobile, wireless and communications revolution, and evolve our current 4G environment to 5G communications enabled systems. Applications will cover robotics & autonomous systems, UAVs, immersive systems and augmented realities, health monitoring, cyber-integrated systems, and smart grids. Data handling of the expected 50 billion IoT (internet of things) devices coming on-line to monitor traffic, weather, environment, smart agriculture, and even when your fridge runs out of milk, will also be explored.

5G will provide greater capacity, improved reliability, support at higher rates of mobility, and wider geographical coverage, at even higher data speeds and throughput and many new services and facilities. 

On the 5G Advanced Communications at The University of Strathclyde you will engage with experts and specialists whose integrated knowledge will enable you to gain the skills, knowledge and expertise to be part of the definition of the next generation of mobile and wireless communications. These will include:

• Mobile & Wireless Standards (such as LTE, 802.11x,)

• Software Defined Radio (SDR)

• Software Defined Networking (SDN) Systems

• Internet of Things (IoT) Wireless Communications

• Big Data & Information Management

• Security & Cybersecurity systems

• Spectrum Access, & Dynamic Spectrum

• 5G Hardware Systems Design – FPGA & Microcontrollers

• Advanced DSP/Comms Systems; eg Massive MIMO

• Augmented Reality & Advanced Multimedia Systems

Careers

As communications now impacts on virtually all areas of society, commerce and business, job opportunities are excellent, and you will be equipped for employment across a range of sectors including mobile/wireless, IT, defence, and big data.

Professional and technical occupations with international companies such as Samsung, Xilinx, British Telecom, MathsWorks, Nokia and Texas Instruments, as well as local companies such as Cirrus Logic, Leonardo, and Stream, are available.

Globalisation of the communications sector and the evolution of many countries to 5G means if graduates wish to work abroad, this course provides an ideal passport to anywhere in the world.

Job titles include:

• wireless communications engineer

• wireless mobility engineer

• graduate controls engineer