The IRIDA Laboratory for Communication Technologies is a recently established research centre at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Cyprus, conducting both basic and applied research in the broad area of wireless communication theory and its applications. The research undertaken at IRIDA, deals with various types of wireless communication networks such as machine-to-machine communications, cellular networks, relaying, cognitive radio, heterogeneous networks, wireless-powered communications, 5G and beyond 5G wireless communications. The Laboratory has close and frequent collaboration with world-leading academic and industrial institutions in the area of telecommunications, such as Epic Cyprus, the second biggest telecommunications provider in Cyprus. The IRIDA Laboratory has a vast experience in managing small and large-scale research proposals funded by the Research & Innovation Foundations of Cyprus and the European Commission. Currently, IRIDA is participating in eight research projects – five of which are coordinated by IRIDA – including the highly prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant. Moreover, the Laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art software-defined radio devices from National Instruments for the development and evaluation of advanced signal processing techniques and communication protocols but also with Powercast devices for the study of wireless-powered communication architectures.
