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Overview
The work of the Radio Communications Research Group is focused around physical layer, link layer and, more recently, cross-layer solutions for challenging applications that demand efficiency, performance and reliability.
Current projects are clustered around antennas and radiowave propagation for personal and vehicular communications, wireless networking protocol design and modelling, and low-power, low-cost radios.
Applications range from RFID to wireless body area networks to wireless networked control to telemedicine, spanning UHF to mm-wave frequencies.
The Radio Communications Research Group is itself part of Digital Communications
within the Institute of Electronics, Communications & Information Technology (ECIT),
in the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.
Hence the group is well placed with access to an extensive range of state of the art RF and microwave test and measurement equipment and facilities.
Leadership
The Radio Communications Research Group is headed by Professor William Scanlon.
An acknowledged international expert in wearable antennas and short range radio communications,
Scanlon is currently Professor of Wireless Communications at Queen's University, Belfast where he has been employed since since 2002 and he also holds a part-time
Chair in Short Range Radio at the University of Twente, 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.