The project leads to the world's earliest metric design, modelling and optimisation of concrete building materials in terms of their wireless performance. The innovative ideas and technologies of the project have been disseminated via 10 research papers. Such technologies will transform concrete design and relieve network capacity crunch problem. (1) The project results will help structure engineers design concrete with desirable wireless performance while guaranteeing mechanical performance. (2) The performance of indoor wireless network will be further improved by enhancing wireless performance of concrete to relieve the capacity crunch. (3) The project will promote inter-disciplinary research and create a wealth of research opportunities that involve a huge number of professionals in many specialties. (4) The project will train the next generation of researchers in Europe by providing high calibre students and researchers with excellent collaboration opportunities with the ER. (5) The project will create new jobs, for example, software developers for concrete wireless performance evaluation and optimisation modules, researchers focused on enhancing wireless performances of concrete, structure designers and consultants. (6) The public, businesses and organisations will benefit from high capacity wireless networks will LSAAs and hassle-free provisioning of such networks.
The AceLSAA project helped the ER reach professional maturity in the area of wireless-friendly building materials. A fresh new area in concrete wireless performance modelling, analysis and optimization has been well established, which will provide opportunities for the ER to do ground breaking work in the future. During the two years, the ER has built a good track record of publications on this interdisciplinary topic. By the end of this project, the ER has scratched the surface of a research goldmine-wireless friendly built environment. Based on this work, he has submitted two fellowship proposals in a higher level.
The planned onsite secondment to Ranplan, a wireless technology company focusing on tools in 3D building modelling, radio propagation modelling, wireless system simulation and network optimisation, was not executed due to the COVID-19. However, based on monthly meeting with Ranplan employees, the ER has been well trained to use its product, Ranplan Professional. Based comparison between simulation results of Ranplan Professional and practical measurement, how the built environment impact wireless propagation channels are well analysed, and the ray-launching based algorithms are well verified in the Ka-band.
During the project, a research network has been built between the ER and the collaborators of the supervisors. Based-on the collaboration, the ER established collaborations with Loughborough University and Queen Mary University, London, and University of Twente, based on which, the ER submitted a Future Leaders Fellowship proposal.
