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© Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), University of Oulu

CWC Oulu in BriefProf. Jari Iinatti

Head of CWC – Networks and Systems

Prof. Markku Juntti

Head of CWC – Radio Technologies

University of Oulu, Centre for Wireless Communications

Haltian

Ginolis

Koukoi Games

Fingersoft

Harman

TactoTec

Polar

Bittium

Continental

Nordea

CGI

Tieto

Nordic Semiconductor

Mediatek

Sony/ Altair

Texas InstrumentsSpreadtrum

Vaimo

Yota Devices

Solita

Bitfactor

F-Secure

ARM

Tosibox

Verkotan

ROHM Semiconductor

NokiaSiili Solutions

IndoorAtlasKoodiviidakko

OP-Pohjola

Fujitsu

Exfo

Eyelife Keysight

University of Oulu, Centre for Wireless Communications


We have the know-how. We have the ecosystem.

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Key Figures of the University of Oulu

Faculties• Oulu Business School

• Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

• Humanities

• Education

• Science

• Medicine

• Technology

• Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ITEE):

– 12 Research Units

• Established in 1958

• Total funding 240 M€

• 8 faculties

• 14 000 students

• 2 900 employees

• ~220 professors

• ~1600 researchers/teaching

• ~ 25 study programmes

• 18 international M.Sc.

programs


CRITICAL MASS IN OUR RESEARCH FOCUS AREAS

International staff > 35%Multi-disciplinary expertise resulting new innovations

COMPETENCE CUMULATION

Experienced professorsEach professor has a seasoned team

HIGH-QUALITY EDUCATION

Competent workforce for companies,research institutions and public sector

Well-balanced between fundamental and applied researchLong R&D tradition with local and international companies

STRONG PORTFOLIO OF RESEARCH PROJECTS

Internationally reviewed and credited research unitsBalanced fundamental and applied research

OFFERING STABLE ENVIRONMENT

Seasoned in winning fundingExcellent local and intl. networks MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ICT RESEARCH

500EXPERTS

41PROFESSORS

30M€ANNUAL FUNDING

FACULTY OF

ITEE

12INTERNATIONALLY

ACCLAIMED UNITS

30 PHD

150 MSC

200PROJECTS

FACULTY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING (ITEE)

DEGREES ANNUALLY

98th

COMPUTERSCIENCE2017

201-250th

WORLDUNIVERSITYRANKINGS2017

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ITEE7

ITEE RESEARCH UNITS

CAS CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMSPROF. TIMO RAHKONEN

MIC MICROELECTRONICSPROF. HELI JANTUNEN

OPEMOPTO-ELECTRONICS AND

MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUESPROF. TAPIO FABRITIUS

CWC-RT CWC- RADIO TECHNOLOGIESPROF. MARKKU JUNTTI

CWC-NS CWC - NETWORKS AND SYSTEMSPROF. JARI IINATTI

CMVSCENTER FOR MACHINE VISION

AND SIGNAL ANALYSISPROF. OLLI SILVEN

BISG BIOMIMETICS AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMSPROF. JUHA RÖNING

M3SEMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING IN

SOFTWARE, SYSTEMS AND SERVICES PROF. MARKKU OIVO

UBICOMP UBIQUITOUS COMPUTINGPROF. TIMO OJALA

OASISOULU ADVANCED RESEARCH ON SERVICE

AND INFORMATION SYSTEMSPROF. HARRI OINAS-KUKKONEN

INTERACTHUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION AND

HUMAN-CENTERED DEVELOPMENTPROF. NETTA IIVARI

ACMAPPLIED AND COMPUTATIONAL

MATHEMATICSPROF. KEIJO RUOTSALAINEN

© Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), University of Oulu6/27/2019 ITEE

Electronics and Communications Engineering (70)

– Electronics Design

– Electronics, Materials and Components

– Photonics and Measuring Technology

– Communications Engineering

– RF Engineering

Computer Science and Engineering (70)

– Artificial Intelligence

– Applied Computing

– Computer Engineering

Information Processing Science (110)

– Information Systems

– Software Engineering

FIVE-YEAR PROGRAMS IN FINNISH

BACHELOR + MASTER DEGREE

TERALEON – GIANT ROBOT BUILT BY SUDENTS

ITEE EDUCATION

CWC-RTCWC- RADIO TECHNOLOGIES:

PROF. JUNTTI

CWC-NS

CASCIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS:

PROF. RAHKONEN

MICMICROELECTRONICS:

PROF. JANTUNEN

OPEMOPTO-ELECTRONICS AND MEASURE-

MENT TECHNIQUES: ROF. FABRITIUS

CWC - NETWORKS AND SYSTEMS:

PROF. IINATTI

CMVSCENTER FOR MACHINE VISION AND

SIGNAL ANALYSIS: PROF. SILVEN

BISGBIOMIMETICS AND INTELLIGENT

SYSTEMS: PROF. RÖNING

M3SEMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING IN SOFT-

WARE, SYSTEMS AND SERVICES: PROF. OIVO

UBICOMPUBIQUITOUS COMPUTING:

PROF. OJALA

OASISOULU ADVANCED RESEARCH ON SERVICE AND

INFORMATION SYSTEMS: PROF. OINAS-KUKKONEN

INTERACTHUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION AND HUMAN-

CENTERED DEVELOPMENT: PROF. IIVARI

ACMAPPLIED AND COMPUTATIONAL MAT-

HEMATICS: PROF. RUOTSALAINEN


ITEE EDUCATIONCSE – Computer Science and Engineering (45)

BME – Biomedical Engineering: Signal and Image Processing

(10, total 20)

WCE – Wireless Communications Engineering, includes 2 DD-

programmes (30+15)

GS3D – Software, Systems and Services in the Global

Environment (40)

EMSE – European Master in Software Engineering, Double

Degree (15)

MORE INFORMATION: http://www.oulu.fi/itee/msc; http://www.oulu.fi/fablab/

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ITEE

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INTERNATIONAL MASTER’S PROGRAMS

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Key Figures of Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC)

▪ Founded 1995 as a research programme to improve

collaboration between academia and industry.

▪ Basic operation model for the first 10-years: funding only

through competition.

▪ Was later merged to the Faculty of ITEE as two research units:

▪ CWC – Radio Technologies

▪ CWC – Networks and Systems.

▪ Research and teaching staff: ~ 180 (10 professors).

▪ Very international staff – more than half non-Finns.

▪ Total funding ~ 10 M€ / year (75% external funding).


Mission• Research driven

• Graduates for research or

business career

• New technology for real use

• Collaborate globally with

companies

Objectives• Forerunner

• Valued partner for research cooperation

• Research driven training and education

• Fast reacting

- To the needs expressed by partners

- Changes in the operation environment

• Interaction with the surrounding community

- Projects realised with external funding

- Through long-term national research partners

CWC Approach


▪ Wireless communications and

networking

▪ Transceiver and radio frequency (RF)

technologies

▪ Radio channels, antennas and

propagation

▪ Optimization, ML, AI and algorithms

▪ System design, integration, verification

and validation

▪ Wireless applications: industrial internet,

medical and health, smart energy grids,

security and defense

CWC Key Expertise Areas

5&6G@CWCFundamentals

Machine learning & AI

5G Test Network

RF and Antenna

Implemen-tation

TX-RX Algorithms

& Baseband

Spectrum Regulation

and Channel Models

Network Optimizati

on and Managa-

ment

Security

FutureRadio

Access

Business Models

IoT and VerticalApplica-

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+ Spin-offs:

• Sensinode

• KNL Networks

(Kyynel)

• Solmu

CWC’s Role in Technology Transfer

3G standardtechnologydeveloped in FRAMES project

Code Division Multiple Access Research

Tactical Data Link and SDR

solutions

IMT Advanced 4G LTE System

Proposals via WINNER Projects

Spread Spectrum Technology Research

199719901986 1999

Multicarrier and MIMO Technology Research

Ultra Wideband Technology Research

2007

5G System Research

Proposal for IEEE802.15.3a and related ASIC

2014

(B)5G System &Technology

5G NR and System Proposals via

METIS Project

6G FlagshipProgram

2017

First Cognitive network phone

call utilising LTE network

5G Test Network


CWC’s Research Groups

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CW

C-R

TC

WC

-NS

Radio Access Techniques

(RAT)

Matti Latva-aho, N.

Rajatheva, Hirley Alves

Communications Signal

Processing (CSP)

Markku Juntti,

Antti Tölli, Janne Lehtomäki

RF Engineering (RFE)

Aarno Pärssinen, Markus

Berg, Marko Leinonen

Wireless Systems (WS)

Ari Pouttu, Marcos

Katz, Jussi Haapola

Wireless Medical

Communications (WiMeC)

Jari Iinatti, Matti Hämäläinen

Networking (NET)

Mika Ylianttila, Tarik Taleb

Intelligent Connectivity & Networks

(ICON)

Mehdi Bennis

Critical Communications

Systems (CCS)

Harri Posti, Harri Saarnisaari


RAT Research Agenda• L1 – L3 for future mobile radio systems

• 5G flavored topics:

• Flexible dupplexing for mmWaves

• Polar vs. LDPC codes at mmWaves

• Hybrid beamforming for mmWaves

• Positioning in beamformed 5G radios

• V2X for highspeed mobile systems at mmWaves

• RAN architecure design and optimization at

mmWaves driven by micro-operator functions

• Secondary radio access utilizing radar bands

• Beamformed backhauling at 28GHz

• 6G reseach:

• URLLC optimization for different verticals: from theory to algorithms

• AI and ML for beam acquisition at mmWaves

• Sub-THz and THz communications


CSP Research Agenda

• Research approaches

− Fundamental methodology and theoretical foundations via information and comms. theory

− Optimization, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) for transceivers and systems

− Algorithm and architecture co-design and implementations

− Baseband (BB) and radio frequency (RF) processing interplay and joint design

• Current beyond 5G and 6G research topics

− Radio resource management and transceiver algorithms

− System performance and channel models via ray tracing

− Hybrid RF / baseband (BB) beamforming / precoding for mmWave and (sub-)THz systems

− ML and AI for transceiver and system optimization and algorithm design

− Detection, channel estimation and decoding for 6G and use of AI in transceivers

− Positioning and localization

− End-to-end optimization with joint source-channel coding or compressed sensing

− Age of information in networks


• Antennas and propagation

− Long-term experience from antenna implementations to propagation measurements

− MIMO over-the-air (OTA) test beds for mobile devices and mmW phased arrays

− Broadband antennas for infrastructure and wearable medical applications

− 5G/6G Channel Measurements

• RF Transceiver architectures and implementation

− From system concepts to RF architectures and IC solutions

− New, strong research strategy towards 6G

− RF Implementation Challenges for 5G and 6G

− RF lab up to 300GHz range under construction

RF Systems

TRx architectures &

implementation

Antennas &

propagation


‒ Addresses various application areas of wireless communication• Utilize and integrate the results from other research groups, which focus on fundamental research

• In particular, we seek new partners and industries

‒ The main theme is supporting the renewal of local ICT ecosystem• Contacting and networking with companies within and outside the telecommunications sector

• Preparing research projects, particularly with new industrial partners

• Maintaining links with the public sector, city of Oulu in particular

‒ Main projects• CORNET: Dynamic spectrum sharing for Public Safety

• 6Aika: Open innovation platforms

• P2P Smartest: Smart energy grids, BC-DC: Cloud Combuting as Enabler for SE

• 5GTN+ : 5G trials for Vertical Businesses on top of 5G test network

‒ Key topics in the future; in addition to the ICT ecosystem renewal• Business models for city networks

• City networks as platforms for Smart Cities / IoT

• City networks as integral parts of 5G networks

Wireless Systems


• Mission: The scope of the group is Critical Communication. It

researches wireless technologies for operating environments OE

B and OE C (critical and military communications).

• Vision:

• Hybrid commercial-dedicated solutions based on LTE, 5G and

beyond 5G are widely used in OE B.

• State-of-the-art wireless research is applied for tactical

communications and electronic warfare systems in OE C.

• Main projects

• PVTO2017: Everyday technologies for critical communications

• MAENA: Waverforms for military communications

• Key topics in the future

• Hybrid networks for authorities' needs: security, availability,

reliability, cost efficiency.

• Communications waveforms and architectures for military

applications.

Critical Communications Systems


Wireless Networking

‒ Network architectures

‒ Multioperator Spectra Management, sharing / Spectra trading

‒ Software Defined Networking (SDN)• Decouple the control and data planes

• Enable external control through a logical centralized software entity called the network controller

• Network Functions runs as software application at the application plane

‒ Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)• Network functions are implemented independent of the physical resources and are deployed in virtualized

environments, such as mobile clouds

• Virtualize a set of network functions by deploying them as software packages in a cloud environment

• Services are available on a demand basis

‒ Mobile Edge Computing (MEC)• MEC is a key enabler for IoT and mission-critical vertical solutions.

• MEC is one of the key technologies for enabling the transformation to 5G architecture, helping to satisfy the

demanding requirements for the 5G era in terms of expected throughput, latency, scalability and automation


Wireless Medical Communications: WiMeC

Medical ICT related research at CWC

has so far the following outputs:

• Books and chapters: 3

• Journal articles: 36

• Conference papers: 115

• Patent applications: 5 (1 granted)

• M.Sc. theses: 7

• Dr. Thesis: 5WBAN is the key element

Topics (done, started, to do):• Dual use in homes and institutions

• Assumptions and channel models

for WBAN

• Performance evaluation of ultra

wideband receivers

• Low-power MAC protocols for low

data rate WBANs

• Dependable WSN networks

• Robustness, security and secrecy

• On-body and implanted antennas

• Body tissues and radio frequency

• Thermal effects and safety margin

• Environmental challenges in WBANs

• On-body, off-body and in-body communications

• Location tracking

• Contribution to ETSI TC SmartBAN PHY & MAC

Standards

• Nanoscale communications

• Mobile clouds for medical ICT

• Visible light communication for MICT

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• Full scale (micro, µ) operator ran by University of Oulu and VTT (Technical Research Center of Finland)

• Open innovation platform

• Scalable for various needs and experimentations

What are we?

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5G PoCradios

LTE small cells

IoTsensors 5G NR and

LTE Macros

Own SIM

How does it look?

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To other

5G Test

Networks,

to other

remote

locations

VPN

Radio access

WiFi/BLE

LoRa

LTE, NB-IoT/Cat M1

MEC

5G NR and PoC

700 MHz, B28

2.6 GHz, B7

2.1 GHz, B1

3.5 GHz, B42

EPC

Virtual EPC

3….5GHz

26…28GHz

868 MHz

2.4 and 5GHz

How does it look?Frequencies

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Consortium Confidential

From 5G TestNetwork to Wireless SuperCampusWSC+

WSC

Unlimited Wireless

ConnectivityAllways connected, new radios, 6G included

Co-Creation InfraTailored projects with 3rd parties

Productized ServicesFull set of services to utilize 5G & 6G

5GTNWireless ConnectivityNumerious frequency bands & all common wireless

access

- -Testing Devices & SolutionsDiverse sensor network and virtualized functions in controlled

test environment

Services

Care, eHealth, Conscious Factory, 5G Media, Self-drving car

Vertical use cases

5G Expert Support for problem solving & test session

Device loan, Network Monitoring, opportunity scanning

2030

G3

Co-Creation platform

LTE 5G+5G PoC 5G NR 5G+... 6G

2.1 GHz

2.3 GHz

2.6 GHz

3.5 GHz

3 ...5 GHz

26 … 28 GHz

700 MHz

NVR @ xx GHz ....THz

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