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The Communications Systems Center, formerly the Systems Engineering Group of the Georgia Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology (GCATT), is a center in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The CSC is housed in the GCATT building and is closely affiliated with GCATT.
Driven by legal, business, and technological factors, communications systems are changing rapidly. Deregulation has created opportunity for service providers to offer services that heretofore they have not been allowed to offer or where they have not offered service. Businesses have become more focused on their core competencies, while utilizing global teams to achieve their goals. Technology has advanced to the state where it is becoming possible to deliver voice, video, and data to create an integrated work and home communications environment. These changes have precipitated the need to examine communications networks from an end-to-end point of view, not constrained by traditional boundaries, such as the local area, wide area, telecommunications network, cable TV network, etc.
Within this setting, the Communications Systems Center conducts system-level research on topics related to high quality, economical communications systems to support mixed media applications. The Communications Systems Center's research focuses on end-to-end issues related to transporting voice, video, and data over the Internet Protocol (IP) at the network layer, and heterogeneous networks at the data link and physical layers. In the local area, these data link and physical layer technologies include copper wiring, fiber optic cable, wireless transmission, Ethernet, Token-Ring, ATM, etc. over bus, star, mesh, and tree topologies. In the wide area, the technologies include T-carrier, SONET, wave division multiplexing, ATM, etc. Research areas of particular interest in a heterogeneous network environment include QoS, connection admission, routing, control, and feature support. Other areas of research include reliability, fault tolerance, and manageability.
The Communications Systems Center strives to perform leading research on communications systems; produce graduates that have made significant advances in communications systems technology; and to help business, health, education, and government organizations benefit from our research and experience.
The CSC has received funding for several important projects and continues to attract significant funding in both fundamental telecommunications research and telecommunications design (information on projects).