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Panel 16 – systems science
teaching of these courses is considered as a positive point contributing to
the development of important competences. Of the courses in the academic
year 2007–2008, 21 were suitable for foreign students. We strongly
support the international character of the undergraduate program and,
although detailed figures were lacking, we believe that the department
is having some success with it as a fair amount of international PhD
students could be identified. There also seems to be an extensive program
of PhD courses, organized per research group.
5.4 Group Broadband communications
5.4.1 Research quality
Grade: Good
This is a rather small research group dealing with a number of topical
research projects on access networks, vehicular technology, server systems
and multicarrier modulation. The group played an important role in the
development of VDSL in collaboration with Ericsson and Telia. New
research on web-server systems with HP and IBM has been started.
The work of the group has been published in a fair amount of international
journals and in many proceedings of international conferences
without being exceptional. P.O. Börjesson co-authored several highly
cited publications in IEEE journals.
5.4.2 Collaboration
Grade: Good
The group has a good visibility and collaborates with important industrial
players. The group is also active in important national and European
research projects. It has also collaboration with industries and universities
in the USA. The starting collaboration with the Automatic Control
department within LTH is especially noteworthy.
5.4.3 Evaluation of future plans, potentials, and possibilities
Grade: Very good
Together with Ericsson and British Telecom this research area is on top
of the development of the 4th Generation broadband systems which will
play an important role in the telecommunication needs from 2020. The
new idea to collaborate with the Department of Automatic Control to
explore the area of model predictive control of communication systems
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