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University of British Columbia
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
2356 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Attn: Prof. Dave Michelson
Email: davem@ece.ubc.ca
Tel: 604 822-3544
Fax: 604 822-5949
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| Background
and Motivation |
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- Propagation impairments
constrain our ability to achieve the desired coverage, capacity, and
quality of service at a reasonable cost.
- Radiowave
propagation and
channel models translate our knowledge and
understanding of the wireless environment into a form useful in
system analysis, design, and deployment.
- As
wireless networks
become more complex, move to
higher frequencies, and/or are deployed in more challenging situations,
propagation and channel models which accurately describe the new
environments must be developed.
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| Our Mission |
- Contribute to the
theory and
practice of wireless communications system design with particular
emphasis on propagation and channel modelling and development of
low-profile antennas.
- Support
Canadian industry, government, and academia by addressing research
problems of direct and immediate interest to them, often under the
aegis of collaborative research agreements.
- Train,
through both research and course work, highly qualified personnel
(HQP) in wireless communications systems design who will meet the
staffing needs of Canadian industry, government, and academia.
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Serve
both the university and the community through participation in
committees, editorial boards, and related bodies.
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Our Research Interests
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- Measurement-based and
analytical modeling of the radiowave propagation environment for
satellite, wide area, wireless LAN, and personal area network
applications.
- Assessment of the
implications of the radiowave propagation environment for the design of
antennas and wireless communication systems.
- Development of
methods to assess and optimize the performance of wireless
communications networks.
- Development
of computer-aided instrumentation, and data mining and scientific
visualization techniques in support of the above.
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Research Support
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UBC
Faculty
of Applied Science Startup Grant - Propagation and Channel
Modeling
for Wireless Communications System Design
CFI New
Opportunities Fund - Integrated Radiocommunications Laboratory
(INTEGRAL) (with Profs. L. Lampe, G. Lemieux, S. Mirabbasi,and V.
Wong)
NSERC Discovery
Grant
- Measurement-based Modeling of Radiowave Propagation in Indoor and
Outdoor
Environments over the Frequency Range 1-6 GHz
NSERC Strategic
Project
Grant - Enabling Technologies for Ubiquitous Wireless Personal Area
Networking
(with Profs. V. Leung, R. Saleh, and R. Schober)
Western
Economic
Diversification Special Project Grant - Propagation and Channel
Modeling
for Wireless Communications System Design
Omnex
Controls Special Project
Grant - Issues in Wireless
Network
Performance
ORBCOMM (Dulles, VA) - Coverage of LEO Satellites in Urban and
Suburban Environments
Inevitable Technologies (Coquitlam, BC) - VHF Antenna Measurement
Facility
Nokia
Mobile Phones - Mobile Antenna
Diversity
Nokia Mobile Phones - Propagation and Channel Modelling for UWB
INCO
(Sudbury, ON) - Propagation and
Channel Modelling in
Underground Mines
Neil
Squire Foundation -
Wireless-based Assistive Technology
Novax
Industries - Propagation in
Microcell Environments
TELUS Mobility - Radiowave Propagation in Fixed Wireless
Environments
Wireless
2000 - UWB Antenna and Balun
Design
Bell
University Labs -
Characterization of the Variability and Robustness of Fixed Wireless
Channels
Tantalus
Systems - Characterization of the
Variability and Robustness of Unconventional Fixed Wireless
Channels
MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates - Characterization of the
Variability and Robustness of Ka-Band LEO Earth-Space Wireless
Channels
NSERC Collaborative Research Grant - Enabling Technologies for Ultrawideband Wireless
Communications
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Ten Top Reasons Why
We Publish Our Results
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10. It documents our objectives, procedures, data, and results for the
benefit of current and future researchers
9. It provides a complete story that can be subjected to peer
review.
8. It provides us with an opportunity to reflect upon our work
and consider its implications.
7. It allows us to persuade others to accept or reject our
conclusions
based upon the data that we present and the interpretation that we
offer.
6. It provides a focal point for our training of graduate
students.
5. It allows us to contribute to the accepted body of scientific
and technical knowledge within our profession.
4. It allows us to share our results with the taxpayers who fund
us.
3. First impressions count, and our publications usually precede
us.
2. It is a requirement for promotion and tenure.
1. Because, unlike many of our industry colleagues, we are
allowed to do so.
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Prof. Dave Michelson - Group Leader
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David G.
Michelson received the BASc, MASc, and PhD, all in Electrical
Engineering, from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC,
Canada.
From 1994-1996, Dr. Michelson was a postdoctoral research fellow in
the MacDonald Dettwiler/NSERC Radar Remote Sensing Group at UBC where
he studied electromagnetic scattering from terrain, applications of
polarimetric radar data, and the application of synthetic aperture
radar data to RF coverage prediction.
From 1996-2001, he served as a member of a joint AT&T Wireless
Services (Redmond, WA) and AT&T Labs – Research (Red Bank,
NJ) team concerned with development of propagation and channel models
for next generation and fixed wireless systems.
The results of this work formed the basis for the propagation and
channel models later adopted by the IEEE 802.16 Working Group on
Broadband Fixed Wireless Access Standards.
From 2001-2002, he helped to oversee deployment of one of the
world’s largest campus wireless LANs at the University of
British Columbia while also serving as an adjunct professor in the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 2003, he became
a full-time faculty member at UBC where he now leads the Radio Science
Lab. His current research interests include propagation and channel
modeling and low profile antenna design.
Professor Michelson is a senior member of IEEE and a member of the
Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society. He serves as Chair of
the IEEE VT-S Technical Committee on Propagation and Channel Modeling
and as an Associate Editor for propagation and channel modeling for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. In 2002, he
served as a guest editor for a pair of special issues of IEEE
Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
concerning propagation and channel modelling. He chairs the IEEE
Vancouver Section’s Joint Communications Chapter which
represents the IEEE Communications Society, Antennas and Propagation
Society, and Vehicular Technology Society. Under his leadership, the
Chapter received an Outstanding Achievement Award from ComSoc in 2002. |
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Collaborators
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Prof. Larry
Greenstein
(Rutgers Univ., WINLAB)
Dr.
Saeed Ghassemzadeh
(AT&T Labs - Research)
Dr. Vinko Erceg
(Broadcom)
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Graduate Students - Cohort 1
(graduating in 2005) |
Chris Hynes
Jessie Xia Liu
Steven Jueren Ma
Chengyu Wang |
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Graduate
Students - Cohort 2
(graduating in 2006)
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Shahzad Bashir
James Chuang
Ni Xin
Joy Zhang
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Visiting Scholars
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Pilar Horta
(Fall 2004)
Nima
Mahanfar (2004)
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Co-op Students
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Haynes
Cheng (Summer 2003)
Joanna Ma (Spring 2004)
Wilson Tam (Summer 2004)
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Research Assistants
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Howard Huang
Anthony Liou
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