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strategic importance to the Singapore’s economy.
Situated in the latest state-of-the-art Research Techno Plaza,
NTRC owns a total lab space of 12,000 square feet and is fully
equipped to provide technical support and facilities to both
academic (undergraduate and postgraduate levels) and
industry-relevant research in the areas of data
communications, local and wide area networks, digital signal
processing, radio systems, optical transmission systems and
fibre-based computer networks. In addition, NTRC currently
enjoys a strong staff strength comprising 57 academic and
research staff, 35 full-time research students and 50
undergraduate students.
The core research activities carried out in NTRC can be
broadly classified under four research programmes:
(1) Power Line Communications
• Power line channel modeling
• MAC and network protocols for PLC Networks
• PLC systems with low EMI radiation
• Building control and monitoring systems
(2) Optical Communications
• Nonlinear fibre communications
• Generalised multiprotocol label switching
• Optical channel monitoring
• Fibre grating based devices and fabrication systems
(3) Network Control and Engineering
• Network modeling and performance analysis
• Traffic engineering (congestion/ admission control,
buffer management)
• Quality-of-Service (QoS) provisioning
• Reliable multicast protocol design
(4) Mobility Network Technology
• Radio resource management and packet access for
3G cellular
• WPAN technologies (Bluetooth and UWB)
• Mobile ad hoc network (MANET)
• Multihop cellular networks
Parallel & Distributed Computing Centre (PDCC)
Director: Professor Cai Wentong
Mission
The mission of the Parallel & Distributed Computing Centre
(PDCC) is to form a Centre of Excellence in the area of
parallel and distributed computing. It has organised several
leading international conferences in these areas. Particularly,
it is gained an international reputation for its research on
distributed simulation, and has received seven best paper
awards for this work at international conferences in recent
years. PDCC strives to seek new industrial projects where
parallel and distributed computing can provide a solution to
real problems; to conduct leading edge research and advance
knowledge; and to foster research collaborations both
nationally and internationally.
Research
PDCC has an international reputation for its research in
application areas such as parallel and distributed simulation
and collaborative environments, underlying technologies such
as multi-agent systems and peer-to-peer systems, and
resource infrastructure, including grid, cloud and high
performance computing.
Research Areas
Current research activities in PDCC can be broadly grouped
into the following areas:
• Large Scale Simulation : Agent-based Simulation,
Decision Support Systems, Virtual Environments
• Distributed Systems/Computing: Collaborative
Technologies, p2p Systems, Sensor Networks,
Theory and Algorithms
• High Performance Computing : Grid and Cloud
Computing, GPGPU, Performance Optimisation and
Tools
Photonics Research Centre (PhRC)
Director: Associate Professor Tjin Swee Chuan
Vision
To be an internationally well-regarded research centre of
excellence in photonics science and technology, and
emerging photonics applications.
Mission
• To establish excellence in advanced photonics
research, with impacts in fundamental enabling
photonics science and technology as well as in
various emerging applications
• To develop and transfer innovative photonics
technologies to the industry
Research Activities
PhRC is dedicated to research and teaching in the various
areas of photonics science and technology. PhRC has
published its research results extensively in top international
journals and has also significant participation in top
international photonics conferences with both invited talks and
contributed paper presentations as well as technical program
committee memberships.
PhRC conducts cutting-edge research in many areas of
modern photonics science and technology, which may be
broadly divided in the following 6 programs:
• Biophotonics
This program covers the areas of optical coherence
tomography (OCT) for disease diagnosis, photothermal
imaging for imaging sub-cellular organelles, photonic
devices for bio-chemical sensing, optical tweezers for
biomedical applications and advanced multimodal optical
techniques in bioimaging and microscopy, etc.
• Green Photonics
This program covers the research areas of novel photonics
devices for green environments and efficient energy
conversions such as novel LED devices for energy-efficient
solid state lighting (SSL), new nano-structures for
high-efficiency solar cells, low-power electronic displays
(e-paper, OLED, LCD etc.) and solar hydrogen for clean
energy generation, etc.
• Laser, Fiber and Ultrafast Photonics
This program covers the research areas of diode pumped
ultrashort pulse solid state lasers and Soliton fiber lasers,
diode pumped ceramic lasers, nonlinear laser wavelength
conversion and nonlinear dynamics of lasers, nonlinear
optics of artificial mesoscopic structures, photonic crystal
fibers for high-power lasers and high-power laser delivery,
microstructure fibers and fiber Bragg grating devices for bio-
and environmental sensors, etc.
• Microfluidic Photonics and Mircosystems
This program covers the research areas of
micro-optofluidics, micro-total analysis systems (uTAS),
Lab-on-a–chip,
optical
MEMS/NMES
biomedical
microsystems, biophotonic chip and related Microsystems
for biomedical and healthcare applications, etc.