2009 Theme

The theme for ODCSSS 2009 "Technologies for bridging the digital-physical divide: sensing the environment". Each ODCSSS student is engaged in a research project with a faculty member and mentor which provides them an opportunity to experience research. The selection of interns is highly competitive but we encourage anyone interested in research who is eligible to apply.

Full Wave Propagation Modelling for Urban Wireless Systems

Odysseus: 
2010
 
Background:
Radio planning is a key component of wireless system deployment. Typically radio engineers use simple empirical models such as COST231 or Okamura-Hata. The former method is applied to a 2d vertical propagation path from source to receiver and includes some level of information about multiple rooftop diffraction.
 
Aim:
This project will apply novel new methods for full wave propagation for urban wireless systems developed within DCU which offer greatly enhanced accuracy with reasonable computation times. The method will apply a method of moments integral equation solution to the 2d vertical propagation path which will rigorously  include all scattering effects including reflection, diffraction and multiple scattering making it the most accurate model of its type.
 
Outcome:
The student will be responsible for applying these new methods to real life data taken from Munich and benchmarking them against commercially available solutions.
 
This project is co-funded by the RINCE John Holland award.
 
Supervisors and Mentors: 
Dr. Conor Brennan
Host: 
DCU