September 2020: The 5G-ROUTE project started
See https://www.5g-routes.eu/ for more details
June 2020 [Video presentation for Eu-CNC2020]
PhD student Collins Burton Mwakwata's contribution to Eu-CNC 2020: "Cooperative Interference Avoidance Scheduler for Radio Resource Management in NB-IoT Systems": Youtube video
April 2020 [Thomas Johann Seebeck]
Today (9 April 2020) we celebrate the 250th anniversary of Thomas Johann Seebeck after whom our department of electronics is named. Did you know that today's micro- and nanoelectronics solutions rely on Seebeck - our best known Estonian born precision scientist?
At the university campus the flowers were placed on the monument of the Thomas Johann Seebeck. Video about the famous physicist can be viewed here.
March 2020 [Beyond COEL]
Our Major European Project is Approved!
It is a great pleasure to share that TalTech along with 22 partners have won convincingly a major European project i.e., "5G-ROUTES" for H2020 ICT-53 call (IA), for cross-border trials (Via-Baltic North) for connected automated mobility (CAM) services.
This is an innovative project reaching out railways, shipping and road passengers with advanced technologies being exploited from both terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks.
Exciting times ahead with kick-off in a few months - Stay tuned!
February 2020 [Beyond COEL]
The weekly PhD seminar initiated under COEL continues. Updates are posted on our Facebook and LinkedIn profiles.
January 2020 [Open lecture]
Thank you Professor Roberto Saracco (Italy) for delivering an inspiring lecture on "Digital Transformation: its Leverage and Impact on Communications". Facebook link, LinkedIn Link. Copy of the slides.
December 2019 [BODYNETS 2020]
We are pleased to announce that BODYNETS 2020 the 15th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks: Smart IoT and big data for intelligent health management, will take place on 21-22 October 2020 in Tallinn, Estonia.
November 2019 [Official end of the project]
The COEL project officially ended on 30 November 2019. Updates regarding our activities will continue on the COEL Facebook page, LinkedIn page and this website.
November 2019 [Seminar]
Thomas Johann Seebeck Department of Electronics had the pleasure to host Dr. Imran Khan Niazi from the Center for Chiropractic Research, New Zealand.
As part of his research visit, Dr. Imran Khan Niazi gave the following seminar: "Seminar on Brain-Computer Interface Based on Movement-Related Cortical Potentials for Stroke Rehabilitation"
Date: November 13, 2019, 10 am-11:30pm
Location: U02-409, Ehitajate tee 5, Tallinn
Abstract and photos: click here for more details
Announcement: Click here for more details
November 2019 [Hackathon]
The hackathon on Cognitive Electronics has been successfully conducted. Click here for a summary and photos.
Announcement: We are pleased to announce our free hackathon on Cognitive Electronics for Smart Environments on 8-10 November 2019, Mektory, Tallinn. More details https://www.facebook.com/events/892606441110236/
October 2019 [LUCIA project meeting]
8-10 October 2019, Jurmala, Latvia: We participated in a partner meeting of the Interreg Baltic Sea Region LUCIA project. The goal of LUCIA is to accelerate the deployment of sustainable and smart urban lighting solutions in the Baltic Sea region.
Photos , Facebook post , LinkedIn post .
September-October 2019 [Conference]
In the context of the COEL ERA-Chair project, four researchers from the Thomas Johann Seebeck Department of Electronics participated in the 18th International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials 2019 (ICSCRM 2019), 29 September - 04 October 2019, Kyoto, Japan.
Click here for more details and photos . Facebook post , LinkedIn post .
September 2019 [Lecture]
Mr. Priit Roosipuu, a new colleague at the Thomas Johann Seebeck Department of Electronics, gave his introductory lecture on Friday, 09/09/2019.
The topic was Mobile Communication in Practice and Included Aspects of Mobile Network Planning, Measurement and Tuning Through Different Mobile Generations (2G, 3G, 4G) Simple And Practical As Well As Mobile Network Coverage And Quality Challenges. Facebook post , LinkedIn post .
September 2019 [NATO SPS Cluster Workshop on Advanced Technologies]
The COEL ERA-Chair Holder Prof. Muhammad Mahtab Alam, Prof. Rizwan Ahmad, and Prof. Maurizio Magarini presented the status of our CounterTerror (www.counterterror.eu) project during the NATO SPS Cluster Workshop on Advanced Technologies - 17-18 September 2019 - KU Leuven, Belgium. Photos , Facebook post , LinkedIn post .
September 2019 [ICT Proposers' day 2019]
On 19-20 September 2019, we participated in the Digital Excellence Forum/ICT Proposers' Day 2019, Helsinki, Finland: networking with existing and new partners, inspiration for future projects, information about upcoming calls of the Horizon 2020 Work Programme in Information & Communication Technologies (ICT), Future and Emerging Technologies (FET), and last but not least, Societal Challenges. Photos, Facebook post, LinkedIn post.
September 2019 [Steering committee meeting]
The 3rd H2020 COEL ERA-Chair project steering committee meeting took place on 5-6 September 2019, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. The meeting included a visit of Oslo Cyclotron Laboratory. Photos, FB post, LinkedIn post.
August 2019 [PhD supervision training]
Fresh and more experienced PhD supervisors (Hassan Malik, Navuday Sharma, Olev Märtens, Yannick Le Moullec) attended Helmut Brentel's doctoral supervision training, arranged by Eduard Petlenkov/School of Information Technologies at TalTech.
Photos, Facebook post, LinkedIn post.
August 2019 [Visit to University of Glasgow]
The COEL ERA-Chair holder, Muhammad Mahtab Alam, is visiting University of Glasgow to discuss various cooperation activities: photos, FB post, LinkedIn post.
August 2019 [Invited talk]
On 21 August 2019, the COEL ERA-Chair holder Muhammad Mahtab Alam gave an invited talk as part of the 4th International Conference on UK - China Emerging Technologies (UCET), technically sponsored by IEEE Communications Society, 21-22 August 2019, at the University of Glasgow, UK. The conference is focused on communication and sensing.
His talk was titled Radio Resource Management in Narrowband Internet-of-Things: Perspectives From Standard to Real-Deployments.
Abstract: Narrowband Internet-of-Things (NB-IoT) is an enabling low-power wide area network (LPWAN) cellular IoT communication technology to support massive machine type communication in 5G. It has been standardized by 3GPP starting from release 13 on-wards to provide faster deployment and operation time to operators thanks to simple firmware upgrade on existing LTE infrastructure. It has better penetration and coverage compare to other LPWAN and legacy LTE, however one of the important questions is "how to support massive devices with only 180 kHz" of radio frequency band?. Our research is focused on addressing this issue from radio resource management point of view taking into account future HetNet deployment of 5G. In this talk, aspects of interference prediction, flexible duplexing as well coverage campaign results from test network will be presented.
Photos, Facebook post, LinkedIn post.
August 2019 [Symposium]
The call for paper for our symposium on Low Power Wide Area Networks Technologies for Internet of Things Symposium is online. It is organized as part of the the 16th International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC 2020). Deadline: 10 January 2020.
August-September 2019 [Visitor from University of Trento]
Welcome to Prof. Claudio Sacchi from University of Trento, Italy. Prof. Sacchi will visit us from 26 August to 6 September 2019. His visit is sponsored by a Scholarships for Researchers managed by the Estonian Education Agency/Archimedes. Besides research activities, Prof. Sacchi will give two talks:
29 August 2019, Tallinn, Estonia: Seminar on Softwarization and Virtualization for “Space 2.0” Vision Enabling by Prof. Claudio Sacchi (University of Trento, Italy). Click here for details.
27 August 2019, Tallinn, Estonia: Seminar on Millimeter Wave Transmission in Cell-less Networking: Opportunities and Challenges by Prof. Claudio Sacchi (University of Trento, Italy. Click here for details.
July 2019 [PRIME/SMACD 2019]
On 15-18 July 2019, Prof. Rang attended the 15th Edition of PRIME Conferences: PRIME/SMACD 2019 Conference, Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. It is a forum devoted to modeling, simulation and synthesis for Analog, Mixed-signal, RF (AMS/RF) and multi-domain (MEMs, nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, biological, etc.) integrated circuits and systems. Experiences with modeling, simulation and synthesis techniques in diverse application areas are also welcomed. Objective technologies include CMOS, beyond CMOS, and More-than- Moore such as MEMs, power devices, sensors, passives, etc. Facebook post, LinkedIn post.
July 2019 [HiPEAC ACACES 2019]
PhD student Sikandar Khan attending the Fifteenth International Summer School on Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for High-Performance and Embedded Systems 2019 (HiPEAC ACACES 2019), 14-20 July 2019, Fiuggi, Italy. Photos, Facebook post, LinkedIn post.
July 2019 [TalTech satellite]
Congratulations to Rauno Gordon, Head of TalTech Space Centre, and to the whole team for the launch of TalTech’s new generation student satellite Koit (Dawn). Part of the work has been carried out by researchers and students from T. J. Seebeck Department of Electronics / COEL ERA-Chair project (Eiko Priidel, Ants Koel, Stephen Kabali, Nika Mukbaniani, etc.)
June 2019 [SelectBIO 2019]
Professor Toomas Rang participated in SelectBIO: Lab-on-Chip and Microfluidics EUROPE 2019, Organ-on-a-Chip and Tissue-on-a-Chip EUROPE 2019, Point-of-Care, Biosensors and Mobile Diagnostics EUROPE 2019 on 18-19 June 2019 Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He presented the work "Biomimetic Action Potential Simulations with a Microfluidic Device" by Rauno Jõemaa, Tamás Pardy, and Toomas Rang. Photos, Facebook post, LinkedIn post.
June 2019 [Erasmus+ visit]
Postdoc researcher Hassan Malik on an Erasmus+ visit at Instituto de telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal. Photos, Facebook post, LinkedIn post.
June 2019 [Invited Talk]
Post-doc researcher Hassan Malik gave a talk titled: “Narrowband Internet of Things for Massive Machine Type Communication in 5G-IoT” during EFOP international workshop Advanced ICT Tools and Methods for Cyber-Physical Systems and Biomedical Applications, 12-14 June 2019, Esztergom, Hungary, Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics, Pázmány Péter Catholic University. Photos, Facebook post, LinkedIn post.
June 2019 [MSc graduates]
Congratulations to all our new Masters of Communicative Electronics!
Click here for the Facebook post!
April/May 2019 [RACT-5G-IoT and ANT2019]
On 29 April to 02 May 2019, Navuday Sharma and Yannick Le Moullec co-chaired the RACT-5G-IoT 2019 workshop (organized as part of the COEL project) during the ANT 2019 conference in Leuven, Belgium. Photos
April 2019 [NATO SPS project meeting]
NATO-SPS G5482 "COUNTERTERROR: Public Safety Communication in the Context of Terrorist Attacks" We recently held our first face-to-face meeting in Tallinn.
More information, slideshow, and photos are available in this link.
April 2019 [Guest PhD student]
Welcome to Adrien Russo, guest PhD student from Université Côte d'Azur. Adrien will spend three months at T.J. Seebeck Department of Electronics to work on distribution of artificial neural networks in wireless sensors with applications to energy-efficient smart cities.
In this context, his PhD supervisors Francois Verdier and Benoit Miramond also visited our department to discuss the scientific and technical challenges of the research project. Link to photos.
April 2019 [Phd lecture]
Defence of the PhD Thesis "Algorithms for Learning and Adaptation Over Networks – Distributed Leader Selection" by Sander Ulp, 12/04/2019, 14:00, U02-208, Ehitajate tee 5, Tallinn. https://digikogu.taltech.ee/et/Item/ad95a285-ff48-4be1-8ec8-3feb31ac0557/
April 2019 [Public lecture on 5G]
Thomas Johann Seebeck Department of Electronics has a pleasure to host eminent guest from UK, Professor Muhammad Ali Imran. You are invited to his public lecture on the 12th of April (12:00-13:00) in the lecture room U02-409.
Photos, Facebook post, LinkedIn post.
Topic: 5G Cellular Systems for Energy Efficient Operation
Abstract:
The cellular network have long been configured and optimised reactively by identifying events and triggers and readjusting the operation of the cellular system. Our research is paving the way to make a step change by introducing proactive techniques to pre-emptively trigger actions that will save the energy while maintaining a high level of quality of experience for end users. With the advent of ultra-dense deployment of networks, we need to use such mechanisms to schedule multi-level sleep modes of cells, mobility management as well as joint RAN-backhaul optimisation from energy efficiency perspective. We will cover the fundamental framework for the evaluation of energy efficiency and the state of the art as well as futuristic approaches and ideas to achieve energy efficient network management.
Short Bio:
Muhammad Ali Imran (M'03, SM'12) Fellow IET, Senior Member IEEE, Senior Fellow HEA is a Professor of Wireless Communication Systems with research interests in self organised networks, wireless networked control systems and the wireless sensor systems. He heads the Communications, Sensing and Imaging CSI research group at University of Glasgow. He is an Affiliate Professor at the University of Oklahoma, USA and a visiting Professor at 5G Innovation Centre, University of Surrey, UK. He has over 20 years of combined academic and industry experience with several leading roles in multi-million pounds funded projects. He has filed 15 patents; has authored/co-authored over 400 journal and conference publications; was editor of 3 books and author of more than 20 book chapters; has successfully supervised over 40 postgraduate students at Doctoral level. He has been a consultant to international projects and local companies in the area of self-organised networks.
2019 [PUT project]
We are pleased to announce that we have been granted the personal research funding (PUT) team grant project PRG424 "Closed-loop communication system to support highly responsive neuromuscular assistive stimulation (1.01.2019−31.12.2023)" by the Estonian Research Council.
December 2018 [Erasmus+ visit to Politecnico di Milano, Italy]
The COEL ERA-Chair holder Prof. Muhammad Mahtab Alam visited Politecnico di Milano (Polimi) to meet the Italian partners (Staff intra-EU mobility (ERASMUS+ Staff Exchange Programme), "Teaching at MSc and PhD level"). During his visit, he gave lectures and discussed ongoing research efforts with Prof. Magarini and Prof. Reggiani. He also chaired in the committee for the defenses of PhD students in telecommunication engineering graduating that year. Photo.
Autumn 2018 [First results of the collaboration with Telia Estonia]
Example of results: on COEL webpage for cooperation with Telia
Autumn 2018 [Erasmus+ visit from Aalborg University, Denmark]
On 21-26 October 2018, Peter Koch from Aalborg University (Denmark) visited us in the framework of the Erasmus+ programme. Link.
Autumn 2018 [Erasmus+ visit to Lab-STICC/Université Bretagne Sud, France]
On 24-28 September 2018, Yannick Le Moullec visited Lab-STICC/Université Bretagne Sud in the framework of the Erasmus+ programme. News on Université Bretagne Sud website (in French): link.
Summer 2018 [NATO SPS project]
On 1st June 2018 we kickstarted the NATO Science for Peace (SPS) project titled "Public Safety Communication in the Context of Terrorist Attacks" (NATO-SPS G5482).
The consortium comprises Thomas Johann Seebeck Department of Electronics at Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia), Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria at Politecnico di Milano (Italy), School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at National University of Sciences and Technology (Pakistan). In addition, the company Rantelon (Estonia) is acting as an end-user in the project.
Project on ResearchGate: www.researchgate.net/project/Public-Safety-Communication-in-the-Context-of-Terrorist-Attacks-NATO-SPS-G5482
August 2018 [Summer School]
Professor Yannick Le Moullec and five students from Tallinn University of Technology are participating in the summer school organized by Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. The summer school is titled Belt and Road Student Summer Camp-Beijing. It runs from 29 July to 17 August 2018; the theme is Green and Autonomous Vehicles. Informal report: link.
July 2018 [Collaboration]
Professor Yannick Le Moullec visited NTUT, Taipei, Taiwan. Photo here.
June 2018 [Participation in ETSI SmartBAN standardisation]
On 5 June 2018, the COEL ERA-Chair holder, Muhammad Mahtab Alam, participated in the 16th Technical Committee Meeting of ETSI SmartBAN Standard in Geneva, Switzerland. This marks the beginning of our contributions to the on-going ETSI SmartBAN standardization effort; this will not only allow us to showcase the competences developped through the COEL project but will also give us the opportunity to network and collaborate with worldwide experts. Photos are available here.
May 2018 [RACT-5G-IoT Workshop]
9 May 2018: the COEL ERA-Chair holder Muhammad Mahtab Alam chaired the RACT-5G-IoT workshop (organized as part of the COEL project) during ANT 2018 conference, Porto, Portugal. Photos here.
April 2018 [Collaboration]
2 April to 7 July 2018: PhD student Yohann Rioual from Lab-STICC/Université de Bretagne Sud is visiting us. During his stay, Yohann will work on issues related to reinforcement learning for energy management in low power IoT, approximate computing, and near-sensing computing. See photo here.
March 2018 [IEEE Internation Environmental Engineering Conference 2018]
Hassan Malik participated in the IEEE International Environmental Engineering Conference 2018. More details can be found by clicking here.
February 2018 [IEEE IoT World Forum]
Muhidul Islam Khan participated in the IEEE IoT World Forum. More details can be found by clinking here.
February 2018 [BEC 2018 Conference]
The webpage for the 16th Biennial Baltic Electronics Conference is now online: https://taltech.ee/en/conference/bec2018
May 27, 2018 - Deadline for submission of regular papers.
One of the topics is "Cognitive Systems and Communication", including wireless communication and systems (4G, 5G and beyond), RF and Optical aspects, Internet of things (LoRa, Sigfox, NB-IoT etc.), wearable sensor networks (on-body, off-body and body-to-body), Low-power platforms for communication, Cognitive networking.
Chair/Co-chair: Muhammad Mahtab Alam / Yannick Le Moullec
February 2018 [Winter School]
Thomas Johann Seebeck Department of Electronics, Department of Computer Systems and Department of Electrical Power Engineering and Mechatronics invite you to Tallinn Winter School "Smart Systems of Tomorrow"
November 2017 [Networking/Project Management]
The COEL ERA-Chair holder, Muhammad Mahtab Alam, and the COEL ERA-Chair Project Manager Alvar Kurrel participated in the first Widening Day, Brussels, Belgium, on Wednesday 08 November 2017. Photos are available here.
December 2017 [Collaboration]
December 2017 - COEL ERA-Chair Holder Associate Professor Muhammad Mahtab Alam went on a staff intra-EU mobility (ERASMUS+ Staff Exchange Programme), "Teaching at MSc and PhD level" - Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Photos here.
November 2017 [Invited Talk]
Muhammad Mahtab Alam, COEL ERA-Chair holder, gave a talk during the KIKK Festival 2017, and participated in the related TEKK Tour Digital Wallonia 2017, 2-7 November 2017, Namur, Belgium. Photos are available here.
October 2017 [Workshop approved]
We are pleased to announce that our workshop on "Recent Advances in Cellular Technologies and 5G for IoT Environments" has been approved.
The call for papers can be found by clicking here.
August 2017 [Project Management]
The second international steering committee meeting for the COEL ERA-Chair project will take place at Laboratoire d’Electronique, Antennes et Télécommunications (LEAT), University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, on 28-29 August 2017.
July 2017 [Invited Talk]
The COEL ERA-Chair holder, Muhammad Mahtab Alam, gave an invited talk titled "Wearable Wireless Networks – From Theory to Practice" at IEEE COMSOC Summer School, 11-14 July 2017, Lahore, Pakistan. Some photos can be found here.
July 2017 [ERA-Chair Team]
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Hassan Malik as as a postdoc researcher in the COEL team.
May 2017 [Project Management]
The first review meeting took place at Thomas Johann Seebeck Department of Electronics on 8 May 2017.
May 2017 [ERA-Chair Team]
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Muhidul Islam Khan as a postdoc researcher in the COEL team.
March 2017 [Grant]
Our application for exchange of scientists under the Estonian-Taiwanese agreements of scientific cooperation travel grant was approved in November 2016.
On 18-26 March 2017, Professor Yannick Le Moullec from TUT visited NTUT.
March 2017 [ERA-Chair Team]
2 postdoc fellows will soon join the COEL ERA-Chair team. For reference purposes, the advertisements are available here:
1- Resource-efficient and Reliable Communication in Cognitive Electronics - https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/funding/vacant-postdoc-position-under-coel-era-chair-resource-efficient-and-reliable
2- Connectivity-Aware Reliable Networking for Dense Indoor Heterogeneous Cognitive Networks - https://www.euraxess.de/jobs/funding/vacant-postdoc-position-under-coel-era-chair-connectivity-aware-reliable-networking
December 2016 [Grant]
Our application for Dora Plus 2.2 action has been approved. We expect a guest PhD student to visit us during Spring 2017.
October 2016 [Publication]
The COEL ERA-Chair holder, Muhammad Mahtab Alam, went to present the paper "A Novel Multi-hop Body-to-Body Routing Protocol for Disaster and Emergency Networks", WINCOM 2016, Fez, Morocco, October 26-29, 2016. The paper is co-authored with Dhafer Ben Arbia, Rabah Attia, and Elyes Ben Hamida.
October 2016 [Project Management]
The first international steering committee meeting for the COEL ERA-Chair project took its place in the Thomas Johann Seebeck Department of Electronics on 6-7 October 2016.
September 2016 [Grant]
Open Postdoc position in Electronics Field: Medium Access Control for Ultra-Reliable Low-latency communication for future 5G-IoT networks
Open Postdoc position in Electronics Field: Medium Access Control for Ultra-Reliable Low-latency communication for future 5G-IoT networks.
Ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) is one of the major service that will be supported by future 5G-IoT networks. Minimizing latency and increasing reliability opens new lucrative mission-critical IoT use-cases such as autonomous driving, drones, tele-surgery and industry automation. However, achieving URLLC introduces a plethora of challenges in terms of system design for 5G networks. The current cellular network has been designed for high spectral efficiency and rely on retransmission to achieve high reliability (typical BLER of 10-2). This is, however, not the case for URLLC due to the hard latency constraints (~1 ms) and reliability requirements (BLER of 10-9-10-5) [1].
Moreover, from the medium access control perspective, URLLC design becomes more challenging as it ought to satisfy two conflicting requirements: low latency and ultra-high reliability. On the one hand, minimizing latency mandates the use of short packets, which in turns causes a severe degradation in redundancy, parity bits. On the other hand, ensuring reliability requires more resources (e.g., parity, redundancy, and retransmissions) albeit increasing latency. Furthermore, URLLC calls for a system design in which all users (including cell edge users) connected to the radio access network must receive equal grade of service, for which the outage capacity is of interest, as opposed to the Ergodic capacity considered in 4G.
To address the challenges imposed by URLLC, some of the key enabling technologies and techniques currently under investigation are as follows:
- Short Frame structures for 5G (Orthogonal OFDM based): Reducing the TTI duration (e.g., from 1 ms in LTE to 0.125 ms as in 5G new radio) using fewer OFDM symbols per TTI and shortening OFDM symbol duration via wider subcarrier spacing is one of the potential solution to achieve URLLC [2].
- Edge caching and network slicing: Using the edge node for caching can significantly reduce latency. Network slicing is also set to play a pivotal role in allocating dedicated resources (i.e., caching/bandwidth/computing) for URLLC services [2].
- Grant-free access: In current cellular networks, user device requests scheduling from the base station and receives a grant that describes the resources on which the user device can transmit. However, this procedure takes time and an alternative could be so-called grant-free transmission has been in discussed at 3GPP meetings RAN#86 [3].
- Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA): NOMA using successive interference cancellation SIC or more advanced receiver schemes (e.g., message passing or Turbo reception) reduces latency by supporting more users than traditional orthogonal scheme. However, the impact on latency and reliability due to imperfect channel state information (CSI), user ordering, processing delay due to multiplexing and other dynamics are not well understood [2].
In this postdoc, the fundamental objective is to devise a novel medium access control protocol for enabling URLLC for 5G networks and beyond. In this regard, the first objective is to investigate and validate the above-mentioned techniques particularly short frame structure and grant-free access. Based on the investigation, the second target is to propose a novel radio resource management scheme (i.e., grant-free access based) to enable URLLC for specific use-case of mission critical applications. The third objective is to propose a medium access control based on the proposed resource management with caching/slicing concept for future IoT network and compare the performance of proposed orthogonal access scheme (OFDM based) with NOMA.
The candidate will be responsible for conducting research and possibly mentoring MSc and PhD students in research projects.
References
[1] H. Chen, R. Abbas, P. Cheng, M. Shirvanimoghaddam, W. Hardjawana, W. Bao, Y. Li, and B. Vucetic, “Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Cellular Networks : Use Cases , Challenges and Approaches,” Https://Arxiv.Org/Abs/1709.00560, 2017.
[2] M. Bennis, M. Debbah, and H. V. Poor, “Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Wireless Communication: Tail, Risk and Scale,” pp. 1–26, 2018.
[3] Nokia Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, “Transmission Options for the mMTC Grant-Free Uplink R1-1609783, 3GPP,” 2016.
Prerequisites
Strong background in wireless communications in particular 3G/4G/5G access techniques; Very good analytical and programing skills. Candidates having experience with algorithm development and implementation will be considered. However, candidates having specific experience related to the topic will have definite advantage.
Application submission details:
Candidates should send the following information, as “One” .pdf or .doc attachment:
- CV, including list of publications, summary of educational background and grades
- Copy of PhD certificate
- Summary of work experience
- Short research statement specific to the above description (maximum 1 page)
- Names and email addresses of at least three references
- A soft copy of one or two recent publications considered by the candidate as being representatives of his/her research work
Documents should be sent by e-mail to muhammad.alam@taltech.ee