Publications

Here is a list of some of the articles and publications I have authored or co-authored on new technologies and the services and applications these technologies enable. These reports are very different in nature, being aimed at very different audiences. They include:

• in-depth research reports, aimed at the scientific research community
• reports on the commercial opportunities from emerging technologies, aimed at network operators, equipment vendors and the financial community
• easy-to-understand guides aimed at the many millions of broadband users worldwide.

For more information, please contact Mark Heath.

 

Reports and articles produced for the Increase Broadband Speed website

I regularly write articles and guides on my Increase Broadband Speed site about current broadband issues and new technologies. These are targeted specifically at the millions of broadband users worldwide – consumers and businesses.

Some of the most popular articles, which have been widely referenced and linked to, are:

• ‘Increase Broadband Speed Guide – the top 15 tips to speed up your broadband’. Read…
• ‘Review of 4G Mobile Broadband and Guide to Increasing 4G Speeds’. Read…
• ‘FTTP Questions and Answers (FAQs) For an Openreach Community Partnership’. Read…
• ‘Wi-Fi 6 Versus Wi-Fi 5 – real world performance and speeds’. Read…
• ‘Review of Ubiquiti’s UniFi Wi-Fi 6 Long Range Access Point’. Read…
• ‘The Guide to Setting the Best and Fastest DNS Servers for Xbox’. Read…
• ‘Superfast Broadband Fuels Streamed Video-on-Demand Services’
• ’15 Ways to Improve Video Conferencing including Zoom and Skype’. Read…
• ‘Chart of Fibre Broadband (FTTC) Speed Versus Distance From the Cabinet’
• ‘Ten Reasons You Need Superfast Broadband’
• ‘Ten Reasons You Need Ultrafast Broadband’
• ‘What is Fibre Broadband? FTTC and FTTP explained’
• ‘What’s Involved in a Fibre Broadband Installation?’
• ‘Best DNS Server Settings For the UK and USA’
• ‘What is G.Fast?’
• ‘The Benefits of Fitting a Faceplate Filter to Broadband Speeds’
• ‘Tweaking Target SNR Margin to Increase ADSL Broadband Speeds’
• ’10 Gigabit Ethernet Guide: is it time to upgrade to 10 GbE?’. Read…
• ‘TV and Video Will Triple Average Home Monthly Internet Usage to Beyond 1 TB By 2025’. Read…
• ‘Guide for Rural Communities: the business case for Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and how to get it now for your community’. Read…
• ‘Wi-Fi Optimisation Guide – how to improve your Wi-Fi connection and speeds’. Read…
• ‘The Weaknesses of Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) – VDSL2 speed versus distance from the cabinet’
• ‘How to Speed Up DNS Look-ups’. Read…
• ‘Chart of Standard Broadband (ADSL) Speed Versus Distance From the Exchange’. Read…
• ‘Fibre Broadband VDSL2 Vectoring Explained’
• ‘G.INP the New Fibre Broadband Enhancement Arrives’
• ‘What is ADSL Bonding?’. Read…
• ‘What is Load Balancing?’. Read…
• ‘Bufferbloat: what it is, why it is harming your broadband and how to easily fix it’. Read…
• ‘Online Speed Tests – the best and worst and how to use them properly’. Read…

 

I have also produced reports for other clients, such as confidential Expert Witness reports for legal firms. The following report was produced for Connecting Cambridgeshire:

• ‘Broadband Guide For SMEs and Consumers’, Connecting Cambridgeshire, Dec 2015.

 

Reports and publications from Unwired Insight

While I have produced many reports from Unwired Insight, the vast majority of these have been confidential reports for specific clients, including  major equipment vendors, mobile operators and legal firms. My reports have generally focused on the commercial impact of mobile and fixed telecommunications technologies.

• ‘Will 3G Networks Cope? 3G traffic and capacity forecasts 2009-14’, Unwired Insight, Sep 2009.

 

Publications from Analysys Research

 

Conference and journal publications

I have produced US and European conference publications and journal papers, including IEEE journal papers. These are mostly focused on the development of new mobile and cordless telecommunications technologies. The publications also cover early research on W-CDMA technology, which was later incorporated into 3G mobile networks.

The publications are listed below:

• ‘Opportunities For Wireless VoIP’, IIR Wireless VoIP Congress, Brussels, Belgium, Nov 2005.
• ‘The Battle For Voice Minutes on the Road to Fixed-Mobile Substitution’, IBC Conference on Maximising Voice Revenues, London (UK), Sep 2004.
• ‘Vodafone Live! Versus i-Mode: strategies in Japan and Worldwide’, IBC Conference on Mobile Services, London (UK), Sep 2004.
• ‘Where Next For Mobile Messaging?’, Startrax Conference 2002, Phoenix (USA), May 2003.
• ‘The Capacity of Spread-Spectrum CDMA For Cellular Radio’, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (USA), May 1994.
• ‘On the Capacity of Spread-Spectrum CDMA For Mobile Radio’, Proceedings of IEEE 42nd Vehicular Technology Conference, Denver (USA), May 1992.
• ‘The Performance of DECT in the Outdoor 1.8GHz Radio Channel’, Proceedings of IEEE Sixth International Conference on Mobile Radio and Personal Communications, Warwick (UK), Dec 1991.
• ‘Propagation Measurements at 1.76GHz for Digital European Cordless Telecommunications’, Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, San Diego (USA), Dec 1990.
• ‘Radio Channel Characterisation For the DECT System’, Proceedings of IEE Colloquium on CT2/CAI and DECT Cordless Telecommunications, London, Nov 1990.
• ‘Assessment of Linear Modulation Techniques and their Application to Personal Radio Communications Systems’, Proceedings of IEE Fifth International Conference on Mobile Radio and Personal Communications, Warwick (UK), Dec 1989.
• ‘A Class of Binary Linear Modulation Techniques For Personal Communications Systems’, Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, Dallas (USA), Nov 1989.
• ‘Partial Response Quadrature Differential Phase Shift Keying (PR-QDPSK): spectrally efficient linear modulation for personal communications’, IEE Electronics Letters, Volume 25, Issue 8, Apr 1989.
• ‘Variable Envelope Modulation Techniques For Personal Communications’, Proceedings of Second IEE National Conference on Telecommunications, York (UK), Apr 1989.
• ‘A New Class of Modulation Schemes With Variable Envelope’, Proceedings of 8th IEEE European Conference on Area Communications, Stockholm (Sweden), Jun 1988.

 

MBA dissertation

Sponsored by O2, my MBA dissertation focused on a commercial issue facing mobile operator O2 and its network investment strategy. I received the prize for top student at Henley Management College.

 

Ph.D thesis

Sponsored by BT Research Laboratories (Adastral Park), I developed novel digital modulation methods for application in future cellular and cordless telecoms systems. I presented this research at international IEEE and IET conferences in Europe and the USA, and Aalborg University in Denmark. I was supervised by Dr Luis Lopes and received the University prize for best Ph.D thesis. The thesis was entitled ‘Investigation of Digital Modulation Methods With a Non-Constant Envelope.’

 

For more information, please contact Mark Heath.