Mission

To advance understanding, develop concepts and produce technologies for future wireless systems. These systems include, among others:

• Future broadband multimedia wireless systems
• Military and civilian high data rate mobile wireless systems
• Personal communications systems
• Secure voice systems
• Integrated electronics

Strengths

• World leading abilities in communications signal design to mitigate adverse propagation and interference effects
• Monolithic microwave and high speed digital integrated circuits
• Voice system technologies, radio security techniques, spectrum surveillance techniques
• Expertise in conceptualizing, developing and demonstrating complex communications systems
• Adaptive antenna techniques
• Distributed wireless testbed
• Collaboration with Canadian universities and international research organizations

Impact

• Contribution to military standards for the next generation of terrestrial wireless communications
• Transfer of leading edge technologies to Canadian industries
• Exploration of new frequency bands, efficient exploitation of current spectrum
• Development and demonstration of new system concepts, technologies and applications

Clients

• National Defence
• Industry Canada
• Wireless service providers
• Canadian manufacturers

Collaborators

• Communications Research Laboratory (CRL), Japan
• Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), India
• Canadian Institute for Telecommunications Research (CITR)
• Canadian Microelectronics Corporation (CMC)
• Communications & Information Technology Ontario (CITO)
• Universities