Professor Tim O'Farrell
FREng, PhD, MSc, BSc
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Chair in Wireless Communication
Communications Research Group


+44 114 222 5193
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School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Profile
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I received my BSc degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Birmingham and my MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Manchester.
I am the Chair Professor in Wireless Communication at the University of ºù«Ӱҵ and I am a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng).
In the field of wireless communications, I have made significant contributions to waveform and energy-efficiency design for radio access networks (RANs) and I have translated significant research into industry through standards, products, and practices.My research is focused on wireless communications systems, specialising in radio systems engineering, physical layer signal processing, and energy-efficient (EE) wireless networking.
As Co-Founder and CTO of Supergold Communication Limited, I accomplished strategic breakthroughs in determining the IEEE802.11g Wi-Fi standard. Also, I have developed standardised practices for measuring EE in RANs and produced software-tools for modelling RAN performance.
I have led 27 major research projects with a total research spend of approximately £29M. I led the UK Research Strategy Community Organisation in Communications, Mobile Computing and Networking within the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council portfolio (CommNet II, EP/N007824/1) and currently, I am the director of the UKRI National 6G Radio Systems Facility (EP/X030016/1).
- Qualifications
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- PhD Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester
- MSc Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester
- BSc Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Birmingham
- Research interests
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- Multiple-access (OFDMA, CDMA & MC-CDMA)
- Forward error correction coding and iterative decoding
- Adaptive coding and modulation
- MIMO and Massive MIMO techniques
- Spreading sequence design
- Wireless visible light communication
- Energy and spectrum efficient wireless networking
- MAC and packet scheduling techniques
- Radio access network planning and optimisation (2G, 3G, 4G & 5G)
- Large scale dynamic system level simulation (WCDMA, HSPA, LTE, LTE-Advance, 5G)
- Video quality of service
- Publications
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Journal articles
Chapters
Conference proceedings papers
Datasets
Preprints
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- Director of CommNet
- External Examiner at KCL
- Research students
Student Degree Status Primary/Secondary Abukharis S H S PhD Graduated Primary Arbi A S PhD Graduated Primary Singh R PhD Graduated Primary Turyagyenda C PhD Graduated Primary Wang S PhD Graduated Primary