This new programme is for students who want to pursue a career shaping and defining the new generation of converged networks, responding to the rapid developments in telecommunication systems, such as social networking; seamless mobility; mobile data and the proliferation of applications for mobile and handheld devices. It will educate the next generation of network engineers in the fundamental science, mathematics and key technologies that underpin global networking.

This programme will:

• Provide an in-depth understanding of the key issues in next generation, all-packet networking.
• Cover quality of service-enabled transport; support for generalized mobility; ubiquitous provision of services to users; core network consolidation.
• Provide advanced communications theory to underpin the science.
• Address probabilistic methods for network performance evaluation, and network security.
• Provide an in-depth treatment of mobile networks from WCDMA 3G to LTE and LTE-Advanced.
• Address the new areas of sensor networks and Internet of Things.
• Teach you Java programming.