Welcomes and farewells

The last few weeks have seen a quite a lot of staff movement within the HPI group. We said farewell to the six summer scholars, who handed in their final reports Friday, 29-Jan. Farewell also to Dr. Jian (Andrew) Zhang - who has taken up a tenure track position at the CSIRO lab in Marsfield Sydney.

We welcome two new staff to the machine learning track of HPI: Mr. William Han, research programmer and Dr. Hanna Suominen, post-doctoral researcher, both join the algorithm development team.

Sleeping detrimental to Body-Area-Networks

After several nights' work, we now have a detailed modelling of the impact of sleeping on the links of a body area network.

The initial results are in Further sleeping measurements for BAN

300+ hours of sleeping BAN channel measurements with characterisation of data in terms of outages with respect to receiver sensitivity. Showing that channel outages are greater than 10% with -100 dBm receiver sensitivity. A new appendix was added to document that responds to some concerns about the measurements that were raised at the November 2009 meeting. These measurements validate the measurements presented in November.