Muhamad Syamsu Iqbal
Email: Muhamad.Iqbal@brunel.ac.uk
Supervisor: Professor Hamed Al-Raweshidy
PhD Research: Wireless Sensor Networks
Nowadays, wireless communication is the one leading technology which provides a more flexible and mobile communication network and service. Reducing the wired medium restriction in wireless networks is beneficial compare to wired networks. Other benefits include easy deployment, flexible formation, and low operation and maintenance cost. The increasing demands on connectivity, the higher the growth of wireless communication. Wireless data networks have followed this trend by increasing data exchange services such as the internet, email, and multimedia data transfers. Capacity of communication networks to handle such services is identified by higher need of network throughput. Meanwhile, other application of wireless networks has relaxed throughput requirements. This application is so called wireless sensor network and often measured in low data throughput i.e. a few bits per day. Wireless sensor network applications include industrial control, smart metering, health monitoring, building automation, security and military purposes, intelligent agriculture, habitat monitoring, asset tracking, and supply chain management. These applications require low power consumption and low complexity wireless links so that offers a low cost devices. The IEEE 802.15.4 standard is the one that addresses these types of requirements.
