Our lab member Alba Rozas has recently completed a PhD research visit at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC), part of the University of California at Berkeley, under the supervision of renowned Profesor Jan Rabaey. This group carries out world-leading research in the fields of radio communications and wireless electronics, with a particular recent interest in Body Area Networks and the Human Intranet.
The main research line of Alba’s PhD is focused on QoS-aware and energy efficient routing strategies for WSNs. This 5-month stay took place within the last stage of her PhD, and its main goal was the study and research of over-the-body communication aspects and the Human Intranet paradigm. These fields have unique characteristics that differentiate them from traditional WSNs, presenting new challenges and opportunities. Thus, in this research stay, Alba has focused on applying the core ideas of her PhD to the field of body area networks. As a result of the work carried out during the visit, she has ultimately developed an energy-efficient and QoS-aware strategy for on-body wireless communication, based on dynamic human activity detection.
In addition to this main research objective, the stay has also strengthened the already existing working relationship between BWRC and B105. Both labs are already collaborating in the development of health-related solutions and systems, initiated by Alvaro Araujo‘s two research visits at BWRC.