Communications laboratory has several on going research projects.
Some of the following research subjects have resulted in reports and publications.

1. RADIO COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH (prof. Sven-Gustav Häggman)

• Mobile Services for High Speed Trains (CEC, ACTS) Michael Hall, Ralf Gruber, Juha Laurila, Jari Mattila, Sari Korpela, (terminated, part of ACTS program)
• Measurement and modelling of wide-band mobile radio channels (Finnish Academy) Michael Hall, Timo Korhonen, Ralf Gruber, Jan Hubach
• Radio interface simulation (Tekes) Jari Mattila, Sari Korpela, Mauri Honkanen
• Development of a wideband radio network simulator (Tekes) Antti Pietilä, Shaoji Ni
• Investigation of orthogonal multicarrier access systems (Tekes) Sari Korpela, Yuping Zhao
• Coded diversity on block faded channels (HUT scholarship) Esa Malkamäki
• System techniques for Next generation cellular systems: Radio interface simulation (Tekes) Mauri Honkanen, Min Pei, Nikolai Nefedov,
• Intelligent antennas in new radio systems
• Comparison of methods to implement radio interphases done by a simulation tool
• Developing of network planning methods

2. HUMAN FACTORS IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS (prof. Seppo J. Halme)

Merja Ranta-aho, Maria Köykkä, Raila Ollikainen

Human-computer interaction

• Mental models and learning in telecommunication
• Special needs and requirements in telecommunication design and services
• Usability
• User and task analysis
• Interface design
• Quality of service in telecommunication

Distance education

• New learning environments
• Studen guidance
• Evaluation of learning

AAC communication methods for autistic persons (Seppo J. Halme, Maria Köykkä)

3. NETWORKS (prof. Seppo J. Halme)

• Intelligent access networks (Lauri Halme, Pekka Siiranto, Kari Ranta, Edward Mutafungwa, Mika Nupponen)
• USETRAM (User Packet Data Traffic Modelling) (Tapani Nieminen, Markku Liinaharja), yhteistyö Telelaboratorion ja LTKK:n tietoliikennelaboratorion kanssa.

4. ATM AND MULTIMEDIA BROADBAND SERVICES (prof. Seppo J. Halme)

• Experimentation of Multimedia services: usability, performability and interoperability, "JUPITER" (Eurescom/ATC) Merja Ranta-aho, Ulla Jutila
• Mobile ATM simulation and testbed (Tekes) Tapani Nieminen, Shyam Chakraborty, Shkumbin Hamiti, Kari Ranta, Jussi Tuominen
• Study of Mobile Multimedia (Finnish Academy) Shyam Chakraborty
• Packet radio protocol study including capture phenomenon and multicopy (continued) Jahangir Sarker, Michael Hall

5. Optical Communications and networks

• System aspects of regional optical networks, SARON, Raymond Rugemalira, Jan Hubach, Edward Mutafungwa, Gibson Mwakipesile

 

6. Other research

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