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AT SURREY UNIVERSITY the Centre for Communication Systems Research, or CCSR, is the UK's largest and most well-known academic research centre in Mobile and Satellite Communications Systems.

The Centre was set up in 1996 as one of a number of autonomous research centres at the University of Surrey and now houses some 120 researchers including 65 PhD students. CCSR research concentrates on future communication systems including:
- Mobile and wireless communications
- Satellite communications
- Multimedia systems
- Networking (management, protocols and security)
- Media applications and services (including our new I-Lab with social scientists) Our research is sub-divided into three main research areas, as follows:
- Multimedia Systems, led by Professor Ahmet Kondoz.
- Networks, led by Professor George Pavlou.
- Mobile Communication Systems, led by Professor Rahim Tafazolli.

The Centre has £5m of ongoing funded research with strong sponsorship from:
- European Commission funding (twenty IST projects in the fifth framework programme)
- EPSRC funding in the United Kingdom (including one of eight new portfolio grants in
integrated elements)
- The Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence in the United Kingdom
- Industry (global alliances with Nokia and Ericsson)

Collaboration with industry is a strong theme running through the Centre's work and we have some forty partners in Europe. Industrial links are to CRL in Japan, ETRI in Korea, Winlab and Berkeley in the United States, Tsinghua in China plus numerous smaller research collaborations.

In addition to our research, the Centre is a major contributor to the School's one-year Masters courses in Satellite Communication Engineering, Mobile and Satellite Systems and Communications Networking.

We also contribute to one-week courses in the continuing education programme in the areas of Digital Telecommunication Networks, Third-Generation Mobile Communications and Satellite Communications. We also run the IEE vacation school on satellite communication systems.

CCSR has also filed fifteen patents in the last few years and is involved in an embryonic spin-off company, Mulsys Ltd.