Mark A Beach

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Research interests

Mark Beach received his PhD for research addressing the application of Smart Antennas to GPS from the University of Bristol in 1989, where he subsequently joined as a member of academic staff. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1996, Reader in 1998 and Professor in 2003. Since August 2006 he has been Head of the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at the University of Bristol.

The core focus of his research is the application of multi-element antenna systems (also known as Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) or Smart Antennas) to enhance the performance of wireless systems in terms of higher data rates, whilst conserving both bandwidth and power. Fundamental to the successful design and deployment of such systems is an in-depth understanding of the multi-dimensional wireless channel necessitating joint characterisation of both the antenna elements and the propagation medium.

He has established a world-leading multi-channel spatial-temporal measurement and analysis facility at Bristol, with an operational capability only matched by a few research centres across the global, with the outputs driving the channel models associated with the wireless standards for next generation WLANs, WiMax and 4G (3G LTE, ITU Advanced). His track record in this field and strong industrial collaborations also played a major role in attracting the University Innovation Centre in Communications, Computing and Content to Bristol (now known as 3CResearch Ltd.), where he led the collaborative development of a state-of-the-art MIMO enabled wireless test-bed. His proven research leadership with external academic partners (Universities of Edinburgh, Southampton, Surrey and Kings College) has secured significant research activities associated with the Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence in Personal and Mobile Communications (Mobile VCE), including the highly competitive award of EPSRC funding to address ‘Delivery Efficiency’ of future wireless systems.

External recognition of his contributions to the field is acknowledged by his appointment as the UK Representative on COST2100, 6 recent invited talks (including a travel grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science awarded by Hokkaido University, Japan), membership of 4 technical programme committees and Journal Editorship (IEEE Transactions on Wireless). He has also served on an EPSRC Advanced Fellowship Panel and regularly serves as a panellist for responsive mode grants. In addition to the 7 appointments as an external PhD examiner (UK), he has also served as the ‘Opponent’ on Scandinavian PhD committees. The standing of his research has also attracted several visiting academics from abroad to spend significant time in the UK working in our laboratories. Professor Beach has also acted as a consultant for academic appointments at other UK Universities as well as providing references for numerous academic staff promotions.

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Projects

4 Finished
6 Active

EPSRC EP/T005572/1 SWAN

Beach, M. A.

1/02/20 → 31/01/25

Project: Research

8031 - MANGI (Eng)

Beach, M. A.

1/06/18 → 31/03/23

Project: Research

SENSE: Scalable Full Duplex Dense Wireless Networks

Beach, M. A.

1/11/16 → 30/09/20

Project: Research

Research Output

347 Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)
119 Article (Academic Journal)
45 Commissioned report
37 Conference Abstract
67 More

An SDN Agent-enabled Radio Resource Management Framework for Wireless LAN

Li, L., Oikonomou, G. & Beach, M. A., 16 May 2020, (Submitted). 6 p.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference Paper

Efficiency-Based Approach to Quantifying “Tuneability"Performance in Frequency-Agile Narrowband Antennas

James, O., Hilton, G. & Beach, M., 8 Jan 2020, In : IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation Journal. 14, 1, p. 120-131 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal)

1 Downloads (Pure)

Radio Resource Allocation Between Massive MIMO and LTE Using SDN

Boukley Hasan, W., Li, L., Oikonomou, G. & Beach, M. A., May 2020, (Submitted) IEEE PIMRC.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)

Datasets

Data from the paper Electrical Balance Duplexer field trials in a high speed rail scenarios

Laughlin, L. (Creator), Zhang, C. (Creator), Morris, K. A. (Creator), Beach, M. A. (Creator) & Haine, J. (Creator), University of Bristol, 15 Aug 2017

DOI: 10.5523/bris.wna9731drfr72agb5nu3zx2fy, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/wna9731drfr72agb5nu3zx2fy

Dataset

Underlying data for paper: Dynamic Performance of Electrical Balance Duplexing in a Vehicular Scenario

Zhang, C. (Creator), Morris, K. A. (Creator), Beach, M. A. (Creator), Haine, J. (Creator) & Laughlin, L. (Creator), University of Bristol, 24 Aug 2016

DOI: 10.5523/bris.2st0sv04lg2p18tu94pybqftz, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/2st0sv04lg2p18tu94pybqftz

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Analytical Formulas for the Coverage of Tunable Matching Networks for Reconfigurable Applications

Beach, M. A. (Creator), Arabi, E. A. (Creator), Warr, P. A. (Creator), Gamlath, C. (Creator) & Morris, K. A. (Creator), University of Bristol, 28 Mar 2017

DOI: 10.5523/bris.333233dnikkmn2q2pz0zdk9aqd, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/333233dnikkmn2q2pz0zdk9aqd

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