Network support

A new wireless communications laboratory at the University of Leeds will support teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses in broadband wireless networks, RFID and sensor networks.

The lab, located in the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Leeds, will be equipped with technology from Agilent Technologies.

Agilent, a leader in measurement, design, installation and deployment of communications networks, tests more than half of the world’s 1.3 billion mobile phones.

The new laboratory can accommodate up to 64 students at a time. Agilent equipment in the lab includes six digital modulation workstations for generation and analysis of IQ modulated signals up to 3GHz, six radio frequency network analysers and vector signal generation and analysis instruments used to validate conformance to a wide range of modern digital communications standards.

‘The faculty of engineering here at Leeds has a long history of collaboration with Agilent, spanning more than 25 years,’ said Roger Pollard, dean of engineering at Leeds. ‘We are extremely grateful to Agilent for its continued support and in particular, for the generous sponsorship of this exceptionally well-equipped laboratory.’