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August 24, 2022, Swedish time: 8.15 - 10.00, Finnish time: 9.15 - 11.00
Online: Zoom & Physical event: Luleå University of Technology, Campus Luleå, Sweden, A-building, room A2527
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Researchers from the university of Oulu have studied Internet connectivity problems and their impact to people’s daily life, work and business in the northern Finland and especially its remote areas. The research is a part of the Arctic 5G Test Network project.
Read the full report below (available in English and Finnish).
An interview with Emad Farouk Ibrahim, who is doing his licentiate thesis at Luleå University of Technology.
Tell us more about what you researched?
My licentiate thesis is about reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) which is a new technology that has gained a lot of attention during the last few years. A RIS is a thin planar array that consists of multiple reflecting elements, each of which is connected to a tunable chip and can induce a controllable reflection coefficient to the incident signal. The RIS is a nearly passive unit as it only leverages the reflection on its elements and it does not consume any power for transmission. The advantage of the RIS arises in creating energy-efficient smart radio environments wherein the wireless channel becomes an optimization variable. In this thesis, we study some of the potential applications and deployments for the RIS in wireless communications.
How did you come to choose this particular area?
It started by investigating a fundamental problem that usually occurs in MIMO communications when it is deployed in line-of-sight environments where spatial multiplexing becomes unattainable. There is a classical solution for this problem by deploying repeaters to enrich the wireless channel with multipath. However, this solution is not energy-efficient due to the power consumption of the repeaters. So, alternatively, we deploy distributed RISs to synthesize a sort of multi-path propagation. From this time, we see the advantages of the RIS as a new player to the whole communication process which may provide several solutions for the limitations that exist in the wireless channel and emerge new applications that have never existed with classical wireless communication systems.
What has been the biggest challenge and discovery?
We faced many challenges during this thesis. However, all of them were pleasant to us as overcoming them makes us one step closer to developing new solutions and applications. Moreover, I believe that our biggest discovery relies on the RIS ability to control the polarization state of the reflected waves. Since we develop a novel application depending on this RIS function. In this application, the RIS acts as an access point for information transfer where it alternates the polarization state of the reflected waves to encode the information data.
Welcome to Arctic Challenge Hackathon!
From Tuesday December 7th to Thursday December 9th hackers, and the tech community collaborate, and experiment in the area of Blockchain, 5G, Lora WAN, IoT Platform, Edge Computing, Information security and more.
This is a hybrid event, both physical (Skellefteå, Sweden) and virtual participants are welcome!
Read more and register: https://arcticchallenge.se/
The project visited municipalities in Finnish Lapland on an interview tour regarding connectivity problems.
University of Oulu Arctic 5G Test Network end user research team Harri Saarnisaari, Lotta Haukipuro and Pasi Karppinen visited four municipalities in Finnish Lapland; Enontekiö, Kittilä, Pelkosenniemi and Kemijärvi on November 2-5 on the interview tour. The aim of the tour was to gather in-depth insights on connectivity problems in these areas and how they affect people's daily lives, work and business. The researchers met and interviewed municipality representatives from different fields such as public safety, ICT-services and health care. The interviews offered remarkable new information concerning remote area connectivity problems and brought new ideas for further data collection and research.
2 Dec. 2021, 09:00 - 12:00, Online
This event is in Swedish.
See the event here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b8Z9UM1HOc&t=235s
Gender equality culture as a competitive advantage - find, attract and retain talent.
Welcome to be inspired by Lindbäcks Bygg, Northvolt, Tromb, Volvo cars, TietoEVRY and more and hear how they work to find, attract and retain talent and what concrete tools they use to create a gendered corporate culture. During this digital half-day, you will find out how technology can contribute to increasing diversity, how educational efforts can break gender patterns and how the AI company Substorm has succeeded in achieving an even gender distribution. Other regional companies will also share their experiences, thoughts and ways of working. Read more here
Here we provide a few examples how to solve your connectivity problem if you live/work in an area where wireless connectivity (like 4G) is bad.
We do not propose miracles, but bad connectivity can be improved unlike non-existing one.
The explanations are offered in FI, SE, EN and RU languages. Please, select your version.
Welcome to 5G SME workshop
March 3, 8-10, 2021, Online
Find out more about the Swedish 5G test environments in Luleå, Övertorneå, Skellefteå and Storuman and the opportunities that exist for companies to carry out pilot tests and what has been tried so far.
Registration is made via: https://simplesignup.se/event/177253
The zoom link to the meeting is sent to all registered the day before.
Arctic 5G technical webinar
A 5G technical webinar arranged by Arctic 5G Test Network.
Speakers:
Saeed Khorashadi Zadeh, PhD student, Luleå University of Technology
Mohammad Salehi, Postdoc, University of Oulu
Emad Ibrahim, PhD student, Luleå University of Technology
Ingemar Johansson, Master researcher, Ericsson Research Luleå
Watch films from the webinar here: https://www.ltu.se/centres/cdt/Arctic-5G-Technical-Webinar-1.203003?l=en
Bridging Global Broadband Divides: Concepts, Understanding and Network Solutions
The project has participated in being Topic Editor for a Research Topic in a special issue in the journal Frontiers in Communications and Networks.
The topic is about digital gaps, sparsely populated area connections and global broadband problems and solutions.
Read more at: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/16899/bridging-global-broadband-divides-concepts-understanding-and-network-solutions
A virtual tour in the 5G environment
On October 1, a webinar, a digital tour in the 5G test environment, was conducted at Luleå University of Technology.
During the event, the participants were shown around the environment and received information about exciting 5G applications. A number of pre-recorded films were shown with interviews with researchers, companies and students. The webinar was part of the EU's digital information campaign "My Europe", which is about disseminating information about EU-funded projects.
Read more at: https://www.ltu.se/centres/cdt/Ett-virtuellt-besok-i-5G-miljon-1.202312?l=en
Arctic connectivity session
The Arctic 5G TN project will organize a special session about Arctic connectivity in the UARCTIC congress October 6-8, in Reykjavik.
The UArctic Congress 2020 brings together institutional leaders, indigenous representatives, academics, scientists and students from around the Circumpolar North and beyond. It is a platform for all UArctic members to engage with each other and promote cooperation in circumpolar science and higher education. Together with partners, policy makers and other actors, the UArctic Congress strives to take the Arctic agenda forward by creating and strengthening collaborations that produce new findings and solutions for the future of the Arctic.
Read more at: https://congress.uarctic.org/
Project of the month
We are happy to announce that Arctic 5G Test Network is "project of the month" on the Swedish Interreg Nord website.
Read more at: https://www.interregnord.com/manadens-projekt-arctic-5g-test-network/
SME workshop
On the 22 January 2020, Arctic 5G Test Network held a SME workshop in Oulu, Finland.
The workshop was about 5G cross-boarder testing opportunities and was open for companies to attend. Swedish organizations had the possibility to participate via a live streaming distance link from Luleå to receive the latest information on collaboration and testing possibilities. During the meeting, the 5G research and development was discussed as well as cross-border 5G test opportunities for corporations.
Moreover, Mats Nordberg from Ericsson Research held a presentation about their resent 5G test in the Luleå 5G test environment. They have built a RC car to be able to evaluate real-time performance of a 5G network with demanding video. The relatively high speed of the RC car makes it possible to test the limits of different positioning techniques. This also provides the opportunity to display various 5G technologies such as QoS, slicing and beam forming. The RC car will be used to evaluate performance in 5G installations in mines.
There were 39 participants, in Oulu, Luleå and also watching an online stream.
You can find the presentations and the video stream from the workshop here:
https://www.oulu.fi/6gflagship/arctic5gtestnetwork
If you have any questions and/or if you are interested to get more information about testing opportunities, let’s be in touch by contacting us here.
Kick-off for Arctic 5G Test Network
On October 9, 2019, there was a kick-off meeting for the new project Arctic 5G Test Network.
The project aims to connect 5G test networks in Oulu, Finland and Luleå by connecting them and participating in an active collaboration and creating an Arctic node within 5G through collaboration between universities, large ICT companies and SMEs. This enables cross-border testing and increases the overall test function in 5G networks. In addition to scientific experiments, the industry is also planned to benefit from the improved testing environment.
Karl Andersson is assistant professor and the one from Luleå University of Technology who leads the project.
- I am glad that we can now practically get started on the joint work and connect the research team from Oulu with us in Luleå, says Karl.
-We have a good foundation to stand on both in Finland and Sweden and now we hope to show that 1 + 1 will be more than 2 in a cross-border project, Karl continues.
-The Kick-off meeting has shown that we have many common interests and that there is very good potential for us to be well ahead in, for example, sparse rural communication for 5G, concludes Karl.
Project meeting
On the 21-22 January 2020, Arctic 5G Test Network held a project meeting in Oulu, Finland.
The meeting evolved around work package discussions including use cases, automated driving and smart healthcare. It also included Horizon2020, smart specialization, testing ideas with industry and academia dialogues. There was also a steering board meeting taking place as well as future meeting preparations.
Moreover, the meeting continued with a visit to Oulu’s 5G test network site.
Questionnaire about connectivity
Please help us fill out a questionnaire about arctic connectivity!
One aim of this project is to collect examples and experience what poor connectivity means for daily life, school work, using e-services, using e-payments, business opportunities and where the problems occur.
The purpose is to collect the aforementioned experience and report the findings to policymakers and
stakeholders as well as publish them in scientific articles.
Therefore, we have made a questionnaire. The questions can be found in English, Finnish, Swedish and Russian.
More information and link to the questionnaire