Centre for Telecommunication Research is a research based institution at the Sri Lanka Technological Campus (SLTC) to carry out innovative, collaborative and industry-sponsored research works in wireless communications and networking. Research activities at the CTR, both fundamental and applied, mainly focus on technologies related to the physical, data-link and network layers of communication systems, and optical communication. This vision of CTR entails to perform globally competitively both in terms of research and engineering. Our model consists in starting new activities both in research and engineering from young graduates really committed with research and innovation.
CTR is one of the leading active research centres in Sri Lanka established in 2019. Under CTR, two major research group’s are running namely wireless communications research group and Fiber optics research group. With respect to technology, CTR offers competence as demonstrated by several international partnerships with Russia, US, Canada, Australia, France, Portugal, India, Pakistan and UK, among others.
The CTR group is working on multiple state of art research areas related to 5G and beyond wireless communication & Network. Currently, the research group is working on some of the major cutting-edge technologies such as wireless power transfer (WPT), machine learning-based wireless communication, underwater visible light communications (VLC), unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted communications, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technologies for 5G, physical layer network coding (PNC) in multiple access techniques, age of information (AoI) in the wireless network and reconfigurable intelligent surface for beyond 5G etc.
The fiber optic research group is working on the non-linear phase noise compensation techniques, developing dispersion measurement techniques and free space optics (FSO). Further, this research group conducted a feasibility study in fiber network infrastructure development to implement South East Asia–Middle East–Western Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) traffic routing via Sri Lanka.