Introduction

The Advanced Broadband Communications Center (CCABA) - CCABA is the acronym of "Centre de Comunicacions Avançades de Banda Ampla" - was set up in January 1994 with the aim of consolidating a multi-disciplinary research group. Currently this center integrates researchers from several Departments within the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), which have complementary interests on the communications research fields, namely the Integrated Broadband Communications research group, the Optical Communications research group, and the Radio and Mobile Communications research group. The research center is supported by the University and is being partially funded by the Spanish Education Ministry (CICYT) and by Research Commission of the Catalan Government (CIRIT-CUR) under several grants. The CCABA manages the UPC Spanish National Host platform.

The following paragraphs describe briefly the profile of the research groups within the CCABA.