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Department of Information and Communications Engineering

Communications Theory

The research group develops principles for an all-wireless future.
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The current research interests of the communication theory group are in:

  • coding theory
  • multiantenna techniques
  • quantum communication
  • cognitive, heterogeneous and self-organizing wireless networks.

The development of cellular systems keeps opening up new frontiers and enabling the use of methods of increasing sophistication to optimize system performance on all layers in Radio Access Networks (RANs).

Quantum communication is emerging as a paradigm for perfect physical layer security.

Current topics include:

  • 5G wireless networks
    • spectrum and interference management
    • machine learning for wireless network optimization
    • Network-level interference cancelation and coordination
    • Massive and mmWave MIMO
  • Coding on compact manifolds
  • Quantum key distribution

Contact

The research group is led by Professor .

Latest publications

Mårten Ericson, Ozgur Umut Akgul, Panagiotis Botsinis, Sameh Eldessoki, Nicolas Chuberre, Dorin Panaitopol, Joachim Sachs, Hasanin Harkous, Iman Hmedoush, Luis G.Uzeda Garcia, Pere Garau Burguera, Antonio de la Oliva, János Harmatos, Halina Tarasiuk, Marcin Ziółkowski, Karol Kuczyński, Alperen Gundogan, Milan Zivkovic, Diamanti Maria, Pilar Andres Maldonado, Stefan Wänstedt, Vignesh Raman, Bassem Arar, Riccardo Bassoli, Frank H.P. Fitzek, Vasileios Tsekenis, Sokratis Barmpounakis, Antonio Varvara 2026 6G to Build a Sustainable Future

Pere Garau Burguera, Hanan Al-Tous, Olav Tirkkonen 2026 Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference

Dawei Jiao, Mahdi Bayanifar, Alexei Ashikhmin, Olav Tirkkonen 2026 IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering

Shamsa Kanwal, Hanan Al-Tous, Mario Costa, Pekka A. Ranta, Olav Tirkkonen 2026 Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference

Xinze Li, Hanan Al-Tous, Olav Tirkkonen 2026 2025 IEEE 102nd Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC 2025-Fall - Proceedings

Xinze Li, Hanan Al-Tous, Salah Eddine Hajri, Olav Tirkkonen 2026 IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Hanjun Park, Pere Garau Burguera, Hanan Al-Tous, Olav Tirkkonen 2026 Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference

Norshahida Saba, Pere Garau Burguera, Jingyi Liao, Hanan Al-Tous, Olav Tirkkonen, Riku Jäntti 2026 Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference

Norshahida Saba, Hanan Al-Tous 2026 ICASSP 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

Zekeriya Uykan, Hanan Al-Tous, Olav Tirkkonen, Riku Jäntti 2026 IEEE Access
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