Future Communications: People, Power and Performanace

通信行业是英国经济的重要组成部分，该领域的收入总额约为1290亿英镑。通信被认为是电信、广播和ICT的关键推动因素，也有望成为能源、环境、健康和交通等领域的变革性技术。英国处于有利地位，可以充分利用通信带来的经济和社会效益，投资于CDT，拥抱学科的气息和范围，将有助于促进我们的经济复苏和增长，并提高我们的全球地位。国际竞争十分激烈，竞争国家在研究和人员培训方面进行了大量投资。英国的IT和电信公司报告说，在吸引具备适当技能的候选人方面存在困难。在这方面，国家微电子研究所和IET警告说，信息和通信技术部门正面临着日益严重的招聘危机，对这一问题在短期或中期内将得到改善的信心不足。各种组织（如DC-KTN和皇家工程学院）与行业的支持正在解决这个问题，但承认，它不能实现没有相关的高质量的本科和研究生学位，通过专业技能可以获得。为了解决这个短缺，一个新的中心博士培训（CDT）在“未来通信”的建议。布里斯托大学在这一领域享有世界领先的声誉，专注于其通信研究中心（CCR），但建立在数学，计算机科学，安全系统和工业界同事之间的密切合作基础上。我们的愿景是建立一个世界领先的研究合作伙伴关系，专注于需求，坚定地立足于商业环境，但自由进行学术领先的蓝天研究。布里斯托CDT将专注于人：不仅是研究提供者，也是技术消费者，更重要的是，作为英国技能短缺的解决方案。它将培养未来熟练的创业工程师，为通信界提供一个连贯的高级培训网络，并为关键的新兴研究挑战提供创新的解决方案。在接下来的八年里，CDT将以布里斯托在高效系统和使能技术方面的核心专业知识为基础，设计新颖的解决方案，提高性能，降低成本，减少对环境的影响。该计划的教学部分将建立在我们的通信系统与信号处理硕士课程的基础上，该课程在英国被公认为领先，并辅以统计，优化和人机交互方面的其他先进材料。这种方法将利用现有的承诺和教学专业知识。企业将成为该计划的核心部分，包括：项目管理，创业，公共传播，营销和研究方法。通过其研究计划和大约50名新的博士生，CDT将在通信理论，优化和可靠性方面开展基础工作。这将以我们的行业合作伙伴的商业需求为指导，并受到智能电网、交通、医疗保健、军事/国土安全、安全关键系统和多媒体交付等应用驱动因素的推动。虽然通信技术是推动者，但就其更广泛的应用而言，人是消费者、使用者和受益者。在这方面，我们将把我们的研究计划集中在人，权力和绩效的关键领域内的挑战和相互作用。

The Communications sector is a vital component within the UK economy, with revenues in this area totalling around 129B. Recognised as a key enabler of telecommunications, broadcasting and ICT, communications is also poised to be a transformational technology in areas such as energy, the environment, health and transport. The UK is well placed to reap the full economic and social benefits enabled by communications and investment in a CDT, embracing the breath and reach of the discipline, will help to facilitate our economic recovery and growth and enhance our global standing.There is a serious and growing concern over the future availability of suitably skilled staff to work in the communications sector in the UK. International competition is fierce, with large investments being made by competitor countries in research and in the training of personnel. IT and telecoms companies in the UK are reporting difficulties in attracting candidates with the right skills. In this context, the National Microelectronics Institute and the IET have warned that the ICT sector is facing a growing recruitment crisis with little confidence that the problem will improve in the short or medium term. Various organisations (eg DC-KTN and Royal Academy of Engineering) with support from industry are addressing this issue but acknowledge that it cannot be achieved without relevant high quality under- and postgraduate degrees through which specialist skills can be obtained.To address this shortage, a new Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in 'Future Communication' is proposed. The University of Bristol has a world leading reputation in this field, focused on its Centre for Communications Research (CCR), but built on close collaboration between colleagues from Mathematics, Computer Science, Safety Systems and industry. Our vision is to establish a world-leading research partnership which is focused on demand and firmly footed in a commercial context, but with freedom to conduct academically lead blue skies research.The Bristol CDT will be focused on people: not just as research providers, but also as technology consumers and, importantly, as solutions to the UK skills shortage. It will develop the skilled entrepreneurial engineers of the future, provide a coherent advanced training network for the communications community that will be recognised internationally and produce innovative solutions to key emerging research challenges. Over the next eight years, the CDT will build on Bristol's core expertise in Efficient Systems and Enabling Technologies to engineer novel solutions, offering enhanced performance, lower cost and reduced environmental impact. The taught component of the Programme will build on our MSc programme in Communication Systems & Signal Processing, acknowledged as leading in the UK, complemented by additional advanced material in statistics, optimisation and Human-Computer Interaction. This approach will leverage existing commitment and teaching expertise. Enterprise will form a core part of the programme, including: Project Management, Entrepreneurship, Public Communication, Marketing and Research Methods. Through its research programme and some 50 new PhD students, the CDT will undertake fundamental work in communication theory, optimisation and reliability. This will be guided by the commercial imperatives from our industry partners, and motivated by application drivers in Smart Grid, transport, healthcare, military/homeland security, safety critical systems and multimedia delivery. While communications technology is the enabler it is humans that are the consumers, users and beneficiaries in terms of its broader applications. In this respect we will focus our research programme on the challenges within and interactions between the key domains of People, Power and Performance.