School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering

Welcome to CMCR

The main goal of the Centre for Mobile Communications Research (CMCR) is to increase engagement between industry and Loughborough University. Inward interest from industry allows our researchers to focus on work that is relevant to the future of Mobile communications.  By seeking patronage from the commercial sector we are able to maximise current and future opportunities for our post graduate engineers and support networking across the sector.

The Centre for Mobile Communications Research was established in 1998 and its labs and facilites are an important part of the School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering (EESE). The school is typically within the top ten in the UK tables of merit and has been shown to be both internationally and nationally leading in areas related to communications engineering.

The centre is staffed by a team of enthusiastic research active academics supported by research fellows and research assistants backed up by a healthy population of PhD and Masters students.  The centre supports Masters degrees in Digital Signal Processing, Mobile Communications, Networked Communications and Signal Processing for Communications Engineering.

As a result of our previous succes we currently have one of the best equipped set of test and measurment facilties in the UK and continue to maximise the use of our resources. CMCR has found this to be an effective way to strengthen pathways to impact for our work.

Dr Rob Edwards

Director (CMCR)

 

PhD Research Projects
"UWB Radio",
by Zubair Ansari.  Supervisor Dr Robert Edwards

"Antenna Radiation Pattern Analysis in Different Medias Using Method of Moments",
by Shahid Bashir.  Supervisors Dr Robert Edwards, Prof. Yiannis Vardaxoglou

"Silicon Fabry-Perot(etalon) Microcavity Sensor for E-Field Measurement",
by Arba'iah Inn.  Supervisor Rob Seager

"Flexible UWB Antenna",
by Lei Ma.  Supervisor Dr Robert Edwards

"Measurement Techniques for Wearable Antennas",
by Muhammad Irfan Khattak.  Supervisor Dr Robert Edwards

"Design and Characterisation of Small UWB Antennas for Terminal and Consumer Communications Equipment",
by Ioannis Makris.  Supervisors Prof. Yiannis Vardaxoglou, Dr. Dirk Manteuffel

"Flat Plate Metamaterials Based Antenna",
by Nerijus Riauka.  Supervisor Prof. Yiannis Vardaxoglou

"On-body MIMO antennas ",
by Oluwaseun Ojerinde. Supervisors Dr Chinthana Panagamuwa and Dr Robert Edwards

"Formalising Routing Protocols for MANET using Finite Automata"
by Qing Wang.  Supervisor Dr Robert Edwards

Past PhD Research Projects
"Low SAR Ferrite Handset Antenna",
by Maria Kitra.  Supervisors Prof. Yiannis Vardaxoglou,  Prof. Jim James

"Convolutional Code Analysis and Designing for Spectral Line Suppression on Impulse Radio Based Ultra Wideband Systems",
by Salvador Villarreal-Reyes.  Supervisor Dr Robert Edwards

Loughborough University's Wireless Communications Research Group
Queen's University of Belfast's Institute of Electronics Communications & Information Technology
Queen Mary, University of London's Antenna & Electromagnetics Laboratory
European Union's "Metamorphose - Network of Excellence"
The Ohio State University's Electroscience Laboratory
IMST GmbH
Antenova
Antrum Ltd 
OFCOM's Spectrum Efficiency Scheme with

• Vector Fields Limited,
• European Antennas Limited,
• Plextek Limited,
• Quotient Associates Limited

Loughborough University's School of Art and Design
Loughborough University's Sleep Research Centre
Motorola
Orange
Sarantel

Examples of recent publications.

 

Whittow, W.G., Panagamuwa, C.J., Edwards, R.M. and Vardaxoglou, J.C., The Energy Absorbed in the Human Head Due to Ring-Type Jewelry and Face-Illuminating Mobile Phones Using a Dipole and a Realistic Source, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 56(12), December 2008, pp 3812-3817, ISSN 0018-926X.

Panagamuwa, C.J., Chauraya, A. and Vardaxoglou, J.C., Frequency and Beam Reconfigurable Antenna Using Photoconducting Switches, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 54(2), February 2006, pp 449-454, ISSN 0018 926X.

Wang, S., Feresidis, A., Goussetis, G. and Vardaxoglou, J.C., High-Gain Subwavelength Resonant Cavity Antennas Based on Metamaterial Ground Planes, IEE Proceedings, Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, 153(1), February 2006, pp. 1-6, ISBN 1350 2417