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Budapest University of Technology and
Economics DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND
MEDIA INFORMATICS BME - TMIT www.tmit.bme.hu Ove
rview, 2008
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BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS
(BME)

• Faculties
• Civil Engineering 1782
• Mechanical Engineering 1871
• Architecture 1873
• Chemical Engineering 1873
• Electrical Engineering and Informatics
  1949
• Transportation Engineering 1951
• Natural Sciences 1998
• Economic and Social Sciences 1998

24 000 students 19 BSc programmes, 29
MSc programmes, 15 Doctorate Schools
with 900 PhD students 1300 academic staff
incl. 700 PhD, DSc 8 Faculties, 77 Departments
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FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND INFORMATICS

5500 students 2 BSc programmes, 3 MSc
programmes 2 Doctorate schools with 240
PhD students 310 academic staff incl. 160
PhD, DSc 10 Departments
Departments Computer Science and Information
Theory Automation and Applied Informatics Control
Engineering and Information Technology
Measurement and Information Systems
Telecommunications and Media Informatics
(TMIT) Telecommunications Engineering Broadband
Infocom and Electromagnetic Theory Electronic
Technology Electronic Devices Electrical
Energetics
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History of the TMIT
1949 independent Faculty of Electrical
Engineering was established consisting
of, inter alia Department of
Wirebound Communications, headed by Professor
Dr. L. Kozma 1971 Merger of Departments of
Wirebound and Wireless Communications into
Institute of Communication Electronics, headed
by Professor Dr. S. Csibi 1991 The Institute
was split into two departments Dept. of
Telecommunications and Telematics was
established, headed by Professor Dr. G. Gordos
2003 Renaming DTT to Dept. of Telecommunications
and Media Informatics (TMIT)
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Profile of the TMIT

• Convergent telecommunication,information and
  media technologies,
• scientific approach practical applications
• Backbone
• Content transmission presentation information
  value chain,
• incl. the processing and transmission of
• audio, image, video, data, text and documents
  using IT
• technological aspects and related management
  issues.
• The education and research activity is focused
  on
• infocommunication systems
• (telecom computer networks, services and
  applications)
• media information systems
• (speech, data and multimedia systems based on IT)

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Staff of the TMIT
Head Prof. Dr. Gyula SALLAI from 2002 4
full professors (DSc) 12 associate professors
(PhD) 7 senior lecturers (PhD, univ.dr.) 4
assistant lecturers 2 senior research fellows
(DSc, PhD) 6 research fellows 12 assistant
research fellows Emeritus and honorary
professors (DSc) Hon. associate professors (PhD),
part-time lecturers Contracted researchers,
laboratory engineers Administrative and technical
staff Total staff, excluding PhD students is
over 90 persons
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Education

• 7 semester BSc and 4 semester MSc programmes on
  Electrical Engineering and Technical Informatics
  Majors. Responsibility for specializations
• Infocommunications Systems (Networks and
  Applications) EE BSc, MSc
• Infocommunications Networks and Services
  TI BSc, MSc
• Media Informatics TI
  BSc, MSc
• Subjects
• Courses in basic curriculum (1-6th semesters)
• Courses in specializations (6-9th semesters)
• Postgraduate courses for PhD students
• Elective special courses (6-9th semesters, PhD
  students)
• Measuring laboratories supporting the courses
• Thematic/project laboratories
• MSc theses (90100 students/year)
• PhD programs (3-year education, cca 45 PhD
  students)

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Basic and Special Courses

• 60 courses taught on Majors in
• Electrical Engineering and Technical Informatics,
  e.g.
• Infocommunications
• Telecommunication NetworksServices
• Databases BSc Basic courses
• Speech Information Systems
• Information Systems Management
• Engineering Management MSc Basic course
• High-speed Networks
• Infocommunication Protocols
• IP-based Telecommunications
• Multimedia Systems
• Information- and Network Security
• Electronic Services
• Cognitiv Informatics
• Infocommunications Management, etc.

All in Hungarian, some of them in English, too
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Educational Laboratories

• Laboratory practices for education
• Basic telecom measuring laboratories
• Basic computer laboratories (databases)
• Special telecomtelematics laboratories
• Infocom networks laboratories
• Infocom protocols lab
• Multimedia programming lab
• Electroacoustics lab
• Infocom management lab, etc.
• Laboratory equipment model networks consisting
  of
• ATM switches, various PABX switching exchanges
• media databases and managing platforms
• VoIP systems, IPv6 island
• QoS IntServ and DiffServ test networks
• optical access to TEN155, WLAN pilot networks
• broadband measuring test equipment
• several user interfaces (ITU-T V24/28, G703,
  ISDNS-bus)
• Telecommunication test laboratory, accredited for
  DSL and ISDN

Main aims measuring tools and procedures,
architecture and operation of networks
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Research Activity

• Participation in EU projects
• (PHARE, COPERNICUS, COST ACTS, IST in 5th 6th
  RTD FW,)
• National research projects (Ministry for
  Education National RD Programs, various funds,
  grants)
• International cooperation with universities
• (EUNICE North Carolina, Ruhr, Vienna, Tokyo ...
  Universities)
• Domestic cooperation of universities and
  industry partners
• (Inter-University Research Center for ICT,
  Mobile Innovation Centre)
• Contracts with foreign manufacturers, telecom
  operators (Ericsson, Telia, NTT, T-Systems,
  Oracle...)
• Contracts with domestic manufacturers, telecom
  and content service providers, government organs
  (Magyar Telekom, Pannon GSM, PanTel,
  Morphologic, AITIA, Hungarian Book Club,
  National Communications Authority, Ministry for
  ICT,)

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Research Areas (1)

• TELECOM / INFOCOM
• Infocom systems, procedures and management
• High-Speed Infocom Networks (HSNLab) Dr. R.
  Szabó, Dr. T. Henk
• ISDN, SDH, ATM, MPLS, DWDM, optical and grid
  networks
• IP QoS IP networks, 3G, ambient ad-hoc
  mobile networks
• network configuration, optimization and security
  
• communication protocol technology and testing
• teletraffic modelling, engineering, network
  performance, QoS
• infocom services, VoIP, IPTV, IMS, IP-based
  applications
• transmission measurements, test and processing
  systems, SS7 signalling network monitor,
  IP/ATM/GPRS network monitor
• Infocom Strategy and Regulation (RegLab) Prof.
  G. Sallai
• broadband strategies, deployment of
  convergence,
• technical and market
  regulation of electronic networks and services,
• numbering, portability, EU regulatory
  directives and procedures.

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Research Areas (2)

• MEDIA INFORMATICS
• Speech and multimedia information systems
• Speech Acoustics and Technology (SpeechLab, LSA)
  Dr. G. Németh, Dr. K. Vicsi, Prof. G. Gordos
• multilingual speech visualization system,
  speech-corrector,
• automatized creation of speech databases, speech
  processing, recognition, speaker identification,
  SMS and e-mail reader, dialog-based information
  systems, multimodal user solutions, customer
  services automation
• Multimedia and Content Management (MediaLab) Dr.
  G. Magyar information-retrieval, database
  handling, media-databases, archives, media
  security, content-mining, metadata systems,
  multimedia information systems and applications
• Computational Intelligence (FuzzyLab) Prof. L.
  Kóczy, Dr. P. Baranyi
• fuzzy systems algorithms, soft-computing
  controling, intelligent multimedia customer
  systems, cognitive informatics

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Projects under the EU 6th Framework Program at
BME-TMIT
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Achievements
Scientific publications papers, special issues,
books Scientific periodicals editorial board
memberships, e.g. Telecommunication Systems
(USA) Scientific degrees 6 DSc, 24 PhD in the
staff Scientific conferences program committee
members, organizer of Eurospeech99, WTC2006
etc. Scientific Associations members,
vice-presidents Scientific awards Széchenyi
State awards, 1998, 1999, 2000 European
Information Technology Prize, Brussels, 1996
etc. Patents, manufactured equipment Internat.
relations, research contracts, co-operation
ITU, ETSI, EUNICE, NTT, Ericsson, Telia, EC IST
projects
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Budapest University of Technology and
Economics Building of Informatica in
the Infopark