HASC Investigators
The core consortium consists of the University of Oxford, Queens University Belfast, the University of Bristol, the University of Cambridge, University College London, Imperial College London and the University of Southampton.
Our management board aims to report on the capabilities of different wired and wireless techniques, investigating efficient interfaces and physical architectures, and analysing new fibres and their capabilities.
Our partnership brings together researchers from the Universities of Belfast, Bristol, Cambridge, Oxford (lead partner), Southampton, Imperial College and UCL. The Hubs form part of the UK Future Wireless Infrastructure Strategy, and we work closely with two other Hubs: TITAN, focusing on networks of networks, and CHEDDAR, focusing on cloud and edge computing.
The Hub is supported by substantial investment from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), part of UK Research and Innovation, and the UK Department of Science, Innovation and Technology.
EPSRC and DSIT have funded three future Telecoms Hubs and provided additional resources to bring them together in a federated structure, which will help deliver the six core areas identified in the Wireless Infrastructure Strategy. This structure brings together three existent EPSRC funded future telecoms platforms with new connecting infrastructure (JOINER). The three Hubs are:
PlaTform DrIving The UltimAte CoNnectivity (TITAN)
Hub in All Spectrum Connectivity (HASC)
Communications Hub for Empowering Distributed clouD computing Applications and Research (CHEDDAR)
The Hubs are geared to address research challenges in three broad areas, namely, network-of-networks, wireless and wired spectrum and telco cloud & next generation computing for telecommunication. Additionally, as part of federated telecoms hub a Joint Open Infrastructure for Networks Research (JOINER) is also being developed to support collaborative experimentation and experimentation at scale across the Hubs’ research ecosystem and beyond.
