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Overview
The work of the Wireless Communications Research Group is divided into three overlapping themes: antennas, channels and networks. Our experise spans the physical layer, link layer and networks layers. More recently we have been investigating cross-layer solutions for challenging applications that demand efficiency, performance and reliability.
Applications range from RFID to wireless body area networks to wireless networked control to telemedicine, spanning UHF to mm-wave frequencies.
The Wireless Communications Research Group is itself part of Digital Communications
within the Institute of Electronics, Communications & Information Technology (ECIT),
in the School of EEECS.
Hence the group is well placed with access to an extensive range of simulation tools, test and measurement equipment and facilities.
Leadership
The Wireless Communications Research Group is headed by Professor William Scanlon who is also responsible for the 'antennas' theme within the group. The 'channels' theme is headed up by Dr Simon Cotton and the 'Networks' theme by Dr Emi Garcia.
The head of the group, Professor Scanlon is an acknowledged international expert in wearable antennas and short range radio communications. Scanlon is currently Professor of Wireless Communications and Director of Research for Digital Communications
at Queen's University, Belfast where he has been employed since since 2002. He also holds a part-time Chair in Short Range Radio at the University of Twente, The Netherlands.
Professor Scanlon also has significant industrial experience and his early academic career was spent at the University of Ulster.
His research has attracted significant support from a wide range of sources including the EPSRC, government departments and international companies. He was a founding Director of WirelessLAB, an all-Ireland collaborative and innovation network and he is a founding Director and currently the Chief Scientist of ACT Wireless Ltd. Professor Scanlon has an h-index of 17 and his citations can be viewed here.