The University of Bristol, Smart Internet Lab

The University of Bristol’s Smart Internet Lab is an interdisciplinary activity that uniquely brings together more than 200 experts across the boundaries of communications and digital living research.

The Smart Internet Lab is an interdisciplinary activity that uniquely brings together more than 200 experts across the boundaries of communications and digital living research. Our research aims at addressing a key limitation with the current internet, its inability to scale enough to support the demand, and rapid changes in the way we consume internet services.

We provide a holistic approach to hardware and software co-design used to solve critical problems in the global Internet evolution. This is due to the fact that we are one of very few universities that have expertise, and combined thinking, across optics, networks and wireless technologies, enabling us to bring together end-to-end, wired-wireless network design and optimisation.  

As a hub for internet research, we challenge the complexity of tomorrow’s world by fusing research expertise and innovation in a range of areas such as smart cities, autonomous vehicles, Internet of Things (IoT) and eHealth.