Current projects
Find out more about some of our current projects at the Centre for Mobile Communications Research by clicking the items below.
Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks
Supervisor(s): Dr Rob Edwards
The aim of this research is to reduce congestion by improving large scale traffic flow on busy highways. A proportion of road users will be advised by an in-car device of the optimal speed for them which in turn will optimise the speed of all the cars in their immediate area.
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3-D Patch Antennas
Supervisor(s): Dr Will Whittow
This research has the potential to transform modern communications. Communication devices that are integrated into clothing will be light, immediately accessible, easy to use, robust and impossible to leave behind.
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Biomimetics
Supervisor(s): Dr James Flint
Sometimes nature has already answered the Question. Adapting the solutions nature has found to current engineering problems might allow us to produce better designs more quickly.
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Electromagnetic Biometrics with a Smartphone (ENSURE Scholarship)
Supervisor(s): Dr Robert Edwards
Davide Pinato completes ENSURE scholarship with CMCR. The ENSURE initiative was pioneered by Loughborough University and has been running successfully since 2002. Awards have previously been offered to engineering undergraduates from any UK university in the penultimate year of their degree programme. However, the Innovative Manufacturing and Construction Research Centre (IMCRC) can now fund students from any country, in research areas within its remit (see eligibility for further details).
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Hands, Heads and Phone Radiation
Supervisor(s): Dr Chinthana Panagamuwa
The research proposed here aims to investigate in detail the effect of real hands on SAR inside a head phantom, and through detailed analysis establish if current SAR measurement standards are still conservative.
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High Performance Flexible, Fabric Electronics (MegaHertz Communications)
Supervisor(s): Dr Rob Seager
Fabric Antennas worn close to the body can be appealing to the wearer.
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On-Body Fractal Antennas
Supervisor(s): Dr Rob Edwards
Fractals shapes are mathematical objects that exhibit self-similarity at all levels of scale. A magnified portion looks similar to an unmagnified portion. Magnifying fractal shapes continuously reveals finer and finer details which look like the previously scaled version of the object.