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Details for Professor Andrew Nix
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Andrew Nix |
| Job title | Professor of Wireless Communication Systems |
| Department | Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | BEng, PhD(Bristol) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | wireless LANs and WiFi radiowave propagation mobile phones, coverage and capacity GSM, 3G, WiMAX, LTE and Bluetooth MIMO (STC and Spatial Multiplexing) OFDMA and SCFDMA Ad-hoc networks personal and body area networks |
| Areas of expertise | Expertise broadly in the areas of Radiowave propagation and digital communication system design and optimisation. Indoor and outdoor propagation modelling (mainly deterministic ray tracing tools) and optimised deployment strategies for GSM, UMTS and hotspots. Communication system design including fundamental modulation (especially QAM) and coding (including turbo codes) theory. Channel estimation and tracking. Multipath receiver technology including antenna diversity, adaptive equalisation, OFDMA and frequency domain equalisation (SC-FDMA). MIMO technology including Space Time Coding and Spatial Multiplexing. Personal area network radio designs including Bluetooth extensions and Ultra Wide Band communication. Expertise applied to areas such as cellular telephony, emerging hotspots, wireless computer communications and digital telemetry. |