‌The Communication and Computing Systems Lab (CCSL) at KAUST is led by Professor Ahmed Eltawil. The research focus of the group lies in the area of efficient architectures for mobile computing and communications systems.  Our philosophy is to employ a multidisciplinary approach to the design and development of  mobile systems spanning algorithm, architecture and implementation. The goal is to simultaneously address two seemingly diverging trends. The first trend is concerned with efficient, high data rate broadband wireless systems driven by continuously expanding networking applications. The second trend, is related to lower bit rate, ultra low power applications, which are finding numerous applications in the context of the internet of things (IoT) such as remote wireless sensing, wearable electronics, sensors etc.  At CCSL, our program is architected to identify and research technologies that provide the foundation on which ground breaking innovations capable of serving this wide spectrum of challenges can be conceived, designed and tested.

Active Projects

System Architecture

–        Low power computing platforms.

•          Neuromorphic low power computing structures using novel ReRAM devices.

•          In-memory computing. 

•          Fault tolerant and error tolerant computing. 

–        Power management for wireless and multimedia applications.

•          Cross-layer power management approaches to manage design margins and process variation effects in highly scaled technologies.

•          Focus on low power error tolerant cache and memory system architectures.

–        Low power VLSI architectures for key building blocks such as:

•          Programmable FEC cores, Channel estimation etc.

–        Full duplex communications

•          Rx and Tx transmit and receive at the same time in the same band while actively managing interference via analog and digital cancellation techniques

–        Managing interference limited networks

•          Architectural and system level approaches for managing interference in cellular networks.

 Comm. Theory

•          Wireless sensor networks applications such as distributed estimation of unknown random vectors incorporating relays and fusion centers.

•          Optimal relaying techniques under both transmit and receive power constraints for MIMO systems.

•          Massive MIMO.  

Bio/Comm. topics

•       Low power body area networking

      Cross Cutting topics
 

•       Structural health monitoring for civil infrastructure 

•       Smart Device-Enabled First Reconnaissance after Earthquakes