Student research opportunities
Design for Wireless Human Body Area Communications
Project Code: CECS_957
This project is available at the following levels:
Summer Scholar
Please note that this project is only for undergraduate students.
Keywords:
Wireless communications, body area networks, design, radio channel modelling, measurement
Supervisor:
Dr David SmithOutline:
Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are the latest generation of personal area networks, using wireless communications. They typically consist of sensors placed around (or in) the human body. WBANs can be a vital monitor for, and assistance in, e.g., health-care - and hence understanding performance reliability and the WBAN channel is vital. In this project the student will design, and implement, on-human-body measurements, using small wearable radios to model the WBAN channel. Small wearable radios will be appropriately configured for many hours of continuous transmit/receive radio channel data measurement and capture, with multiple radios placed at different locations on human subjects. Models of the data captured will then be designed.
Goals of this project
1. Configure small wearable radios for many-hours of on-body WBAN radio communications measurements
2. Design, and fit, models that appropriately model the on-body radio communications channel following from captured measurement data.
Requirements/Prerequisites
Some background in wireless communications will be helpful, along with some computing skills.
Student Gain
The student will gain significant radio hardware, software design and wireless communications skills in a cutting-edge area of wireless communications research and development.
