BROADBAND COMMUNICATION RESEARCH GROUP

ABOUT US

Welcome to the Broadband Communication and Network Automation Research Group (BCRG) official website. Our research focuses include:

  • DIGITAL TWIN SYSTEMS
  • AI-ENABLED AUTONOMOUS NETWORKS
  • REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION
  • NEXT GENERATION EDGE AND IOT SYSTEMS
  • 6G NETWORKS

BCRG has 9 active members, including 4 PhDs, 1 Postdoctoral Researcher, 2 BScs, and 2 research associates.

Supervisor

Berk Canberk, PhD

b[DOT]canberk[AT]napier[DOT]ac[DOT].uk

Professor

School of Computing, Engineering, and The Built Environment | Edinburgh Napier University

Academic Director

Research and Innovations | BTS Group

Research Theme Leader

The Centre for Mind, Creativity and Environment Research | Edinburgh Napier University

The Centre for Cybersecurity, IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems | Edinburgh Napier University

Berk Canberk (Senior Member, IEEE) is a Full Professor at Edinburgh Napier University, UK, leading research in AI-powered Digital Twins, IoT communication, and Smart Wireless Networks. He also serves as an External Board Member of BTS Group, Turkey’s largest network automation and cloud computing company. A leading expert in Digital Twin technology, Dr. Canberk specializes in real-time synchronization, AI-driven orchestration, and semantic communication for Digital Twins. At his Broadband Communication Research Group (www.bcrg.uk), he currently supervises 1 postdoc, 5 PhDs, 2 BSc and 2 research associates, with 7 PhD and 20 MSc graduates. He has produced 83 journal, 92 conference, 28 patent, and 18 submitted publications, including 31 journal, 30 conference, and 18 patent publications specifically on Digital Twins. Since 2020, he has secured over £1.5M in research funding as Principal Investigator (PI). He is the Lead Editor of IEEE ComSoc Best Readings in Digital Twins and an Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. Previously, he served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Elsevier Computer Networks, and IEEE Communications Letters (2014–2024) and has held key roles in IEEE conferences as a TPC Chair and Organizing Committee Member. Before joining Napier, he was a Professor at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), serving as an Associate Professor (2016–2021) and Full Professor (2021–2022) in the Department of Computer Engineering. He was also a Postdoctoral Researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (2011–2013). Dr. Canberk holds a PhD in Computer Science from ITU (2011), an MSc in Telecommunications Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology Sweden (2005), and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from ITU (2003).

  • RECOGNITION

    Our workshop titled ‘Data-Driven and AI-Enabled Digital Twin Networks and Applications’ is accepted to the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Taipei, Taiwan, 8–12 December 2025. link

  • RECOGNITION & GRANT

    Y. Yigit has been accepted to the second stage of the IEEE ComSoc Four Minute Thesis (4MT) Competition and awarded a travel grant for IEEE ICC 2025.

  • RECOGNITION

    K. Duran has received the Best Postgraduate Research Paper Award of 2024 from Edinburgh Napier University for her recent study ‘GenTwin: Generative AI-powered Digital Twinning for Adaptive Management in IoT Networks’ published in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, April 2025.

  • RECOGNITION

    B. Canberk will give a workshop opening keynote speech titled ‘Digital Twin as a Service Platform and Applications for Next Generation Edge Networks’ at the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Istanbul, Turkey, 1 September 2025.

  • RECOGNITION

    B. Canberk will give a conference opening keynote speech titled ‘Digital Twins at Scale: Challenges and Opportunities in a Hyper-Connected World‘, IEEE SmartNets, Istanbul, Turkey, 22 July 2025.

  • RECOGNITION

    B. Canberk will give a workshop opening keynote speech titled ‘Digital Twins and 6G: Building the Next Generation of Smart Systems’ at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications  (INFOCOM), London, UK, 19 May 2025.

  • RECOGNITION

    B. Canberk will give a seminar titled ‘AI-Driven Digital Twins: Redefining Industry 4.0 with Ultra-Low Latency Intelligence’ in Durham University, UK, 13 March 2025.

  • RECOGNITION

    B. Canberk will give a seminar on ‘Real-Time Digital Twin Networks: The Future of AI-Driven Automation‘ at the Centre for Future Transport and Cities, Coventry University, UK, 27 February 2025.

  • RECOGNITION

    B. Canberk gave an invited talk titled ‘AI-Powered Digital Twin Networks: Revolutionizing Industry 4.0 in the 6G Era’ in Resilient Worlds, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, 6 February 2025.

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