CTTC Engineering Area

CTTC Engineering Unit aims at serving the industry with the latest technological advances and innovations in the telecommunications field. We offer R&D solutions providing our partners with competitive innovation strategies based on our proprietary research.

• Contact us to learn more about tailored innovation ideas and research concepts
• Check some references on previous and ongoing work: Partners / Showcase
• Find out more about technology transfer consulting and our Technical Due Diligence services

We build the competitive performance advantage of our R&D idea generation process around a diversified pool of areas of technical expertise. Learn more about our Knowledge Groups:

• Digital Baseband Design
• Network Engineering
• RF/Microwave Engineering
• Security and Coding
• Systems Engineering
• Wireless and Signal Processing

We achieve our objective of fostering a culture of sustainable industrial innovation and technological excellence by close and constant collaboration with CTTC's Research Areas.

In the nature of our applied scientific research is the support of ideas by practical experience. We understand that this is the only way to take our innovative theoretical conceptions to the technology market plane. For this reason, we have always concentrated efforts on attracting the state-of-the-art in laboratory infrastructure and instrumentation equipment. Six specialized and sophisticated laboratory facilities provide the suitable, core SW and HW elements and the capacities to conduct our research activities:

• Access Technologies
• Communications Subsystems
• Engineering
• IP Technologies
• Optical Networking
• Radio Communications

Explore further up-to-date information about the details of our current R&D work:

• 3GPP LTE L1 Development
• Impulse Radio Ultra-WideBand (IR-UWB) transceiver
• Advanced MIMO techniques for the 802.16e-2005 physical layer
• MAC Rapid/Flexible Prototyping
• Filterbank Communications
• RF Transceiver design and T&M engineering of multi-antenna systems
• Frequency reconfigurable antennas
• Assessment of interference risk between terrestrial and satellite communication systems in rural areas
• Theoretical and Practical Implementations on Coded Communication Systems
• Network system security and information assurance
• Wireless network deployment and test
• Modelling of a MV (Medium Voltage) PLC (Power Line Communications) communications channel
• PHY Fast/Rapid Prototyping
• Wireless Networks Simulation
• Cooperative communications
• 3GPP Standardization Activities

The degree of specialization of some of our research lines requires the continous development and maintenance of customized testbeds and demonstrators. Learn more about our proprietary technology:

• GEDOMIS®
• ULAND®
• DEMOCLES®
• MINOTAUR®
• OpenMAC
• SDR@CTTC
• HPC@CTTC
• Coophy

The results from our R&D activities at different stages of our work are synthesized and transformed into usable, comprehensible messages shared to the wider audience in the telecommunication industry. We achieved this via the conventional dissemination channels used by the scientific research community, as well as other non-technical channels, and our own technical report series and program of talks:

• ETRS
• Scientific publications
• Media
• KGB Talks

Showroom

Visit our space at CTTC Demo-centre - follow the links below to find out about past and upcoming event and all the permanent demos:

• Events
• Demos