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EPSRC Reference:	GR/S03805/01
Title:	CHARACTERISATION OF ON-BODY COMMUNICATION CHANNELS
Principal Investigator:	Hall, Professor PS
Other Investigators:	Constantinou, Professor CC
Researcher Co-Investigators:	Professor C Baber
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Department:	Electronic, Electrical and Computer Eng
Organisation:	University of Birmingham
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	08 September 2003	Ends:	07 September 2006	Value (£):	191,479
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	RF & Microwave Technology
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Communications
Related Grants:	GR/S03812/01
Panel History:	Panel Date Panel Name Outcome 28 Aug 2002 Electronics, Comms and Functional Materials Deferred
Summary on Grant Application Form
This project addresses an area of enabling technology for wearable computing, which has recently been identified by EPSRC as a hot topic . Th( work will form a collaboration between the University of Birmingham (UoB) and Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL). The use of on-body communication channels is in itself a major novel contribution from this project, which has not been proposed or developed before. The primary activity at UoB will be to conduct a measurement campaign to experimentally characterise the on-body channel. QMUL will in parallel develop a simulation tool that will provide physical insight into the propagation mechanisms present and enable its prediction in far more complex environment. Because of the confinement of the propagation to the body and its close locality, a novel prediction method, that will offer highaccuracy, is proposed. Such prediction will be experimentally verified and enable the design of on-body systems operating over broad bands and/or mm wave lengths to be made avoiding very time consuming measurements. It will also be able to provide a basis for characterisingchanges in received signals from limb-based antennas with limb movement, thus opening up novel applications. Both institutions will initially contribute to preparation of the measurement system and finally collaborate in developing simple analytically or statistically based models that will then enable satisfactory air interface specifications to be developed.
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