DURHAM UNIVERSITY: Postdoctoral Analysis Affiliate in Radio Propagation Research

The Function

The Centre for Communication Methods has world class radio propagation measurements capabilities with state-of-the-art radio channel sounders with a number of RF heads masking a number of frequency bands from 0.6 GHz to 330 GHz for cell radio measurements, a big anechoic chamber, and a excessive finish disdrometer climate station with a number of mm wave RF heads to check the influence of precipitation on mounted hyperlinks within the constructed atmosphere. Its research is supported by electronics and mechanical workshops.

Functions are invited for a Postdoctoral Analysis Affiliate in Experimental Radio Propagation Research for each indoor and outside cell environments for potential spectrum sharing and modelling of the influence of precipitation on mm wave mounted radio hyperlinks from the high-end climate station put in at Durham College and measurement information.

The profitable candidate will probably be working within the Communications and THz node within the division of Engineering led by Professor Salous who’s the lead tutorial at Durham College for the not too long ago awarded DSIT Sandbox on spectrum sharing and the EPSRC challenge Transmission Channels Measurements and Communication System Design for Future mmWave Communications (mmWave TRACCS), which is a collaborative challenge with Queen Mary College of London (QMUL) and College School London (UCL). The initiatives deliver the complementary experience of main trade and UK research teams, to research, design and experimentally display techniques working in typical deployment situations, in an integrative and holistic trend. For such work, there are key challenges referring to the radio channel and system design.

Problem 1: to design wi-fi communication techniques, it’s paramount to have a verifiable mannequin of the bodily propagation channel by gathering measurement information from a specialist and bespoke designed gear termed “channel sounder”, which sends alerts over the air and the receiver measures these alerts after propagation. Such a mannequin will depend on a number of bodily elements, however primarily the transmission sign parameters e.g. the frequency of transmission, the bandwidth of the sign, and the propagation channel bodily parameters, such because the channel dimension and atmosphere and whether or not it’s indoors or outside, environmental elements, presence of obstacles, water moisture, air pollution and different elements. Professor Salous and her group at Durham has been building channel sounders for over thirty years and the fashions she has developed are thought of amongst the perfect on the earth, utilized by regulators, trade and the United Nations by the Worldwide Telecommunications Union, (ITU). On this challenge Professor Salous and the profitable candidate will conduct measurements and develop distinctive fashions for future era wi-fi techniques utilizing the brand new channel sounding.

Problem 2: Totally different technique for spectrum sharing have to be recognized for potential deployment in networks and in community planning instruments and modelling of the influence of climate situations on radio hyperlinks.

This submit is mounted time period till thirty first April 2026. It’s anticipated that the profitable applicant, ideally, will probably be in submit by the first of July 2024 on the newest.