The Centre for Adaptive Wireless Systems was founded in 2000 with the granting of TSR strand III funding to three staff members of the Electronic Engineering Department at CIT: Dr. Dirk Pesch, Mr. Fergus O'Reilly and Dr. John Barrett. The three founders had identified the opportunity to link their individual research skills in wireless networking, software and hardware to create a research capability of considerably greater impact than the sum of its parts. The CAWS covers three main research areas:

1. Adaptive Wireless Systems Group

Research in the area of wireless networks includes intelligent self-adapting radio resource and configuration management concepts for heterogeneous cellular networks and ad-hoc wireless networks. This includes intelligent admission control, dynamic routing and addressing as well as mobility and quality of service management.

2. Smart Systems Integration

Research into putting a "smart system" on or in an object so that it does something useful, is reliable and does not interfere with the object's ordinary function, for example:

• Putting the temperature and mechanical stress sensing system in wet concrete to monitor curing.
• Putting the impact force sensing system in the base of a shoe so that it can warn a person with arthritis or artificial joints of potential acute or accumulated joint damage.

3. Embedded Applications Cluster

Applied research focusing on embedded computing is central to sustaining our modern economy; without these embedded systems many appliances would not function. The Centre is working with industry to implement networkable electronics systems to be integrated into everyday objects. These include consumer electronics, household appliances, cars and medical systems.

Keywords:

Wireless Networking; Software; Hardware ; Adaptive Wireless Systems Group; Radio Resource; Smart System; Embedded Applications Cluster; Networkable Electronics Systems