Focus Areas

Smart Grid

A unique applied research area that has considerable benefits for BC and beyond. We apply our expertise in this area through Modeling, Simulation and Validation of the constituent components of the Smart Grid. In this area, we develop protocols, models and Intelligent Agents to allow control, integration and optimization of various sources of distributed, alternative and renewable energies. (Read more...)

Mobile Wireless Application Development

This area covers diverse yet convergent technologies required to deliver high-quality, cost-effective and ubiquitous applications for a variety of mobile devices running on diverse wireless channels. We have expertise in the development of mobile device user interfaces and wireless applications.

Web Performance Analysis

Serviced by our $2.2M Internet Engineering Lab (IEL), this area offers much needed testing services for web application developers and network equipment and application vendors who need to expose their products to a variety of network anomalies, and validate and qualify the resilience, performance and scalability of their applications and devices against issues prevalent in the core and edges of the network. The IEL contains complex and sophisticated network components capable of being configured to resemble different topologies and architectures. The IEL is Canada's only public test and measurement facility open to both academia and industry. (Read more...)