Olav Tirkkonen

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Olav Tirkkonen is associate professor in communication theory at the Department of Communications and Networking in Aalto University, Finland, where he has held a faculty position since August 2006. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in theoretical physics from Helsinki University of Technology in 1990 and 1994, respectively. Between 1994 and 1999 he held post-doctoral positions at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen, Denmark. From 1999 to 2010 he was with Nokia Research Center (NRC), Helsinki, Finland, most recently acting as Research Fellow. In 2016-2017 he was Visiting Associate Professor at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. He has published some 200 papers, is the coinventor of some 80 families of patents and patent applications and is coauthor of the book "Multiantenna transceiver techniques for 3G and beyond".

The current research interests of the communication theory group, a research group led by Professor Tirkkonen, are in wireless networks, physical layer processing, coding theory and quantum information processing. The development of wireless 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).

Current topics include

5G wireless networks: spectrum and interference management, large scale MIMO, ultra-reliable low-latency communication
Network-level interference cancelation and coordination
Collaborative caching in wireless networks
Machine learning for wireless networks: Unsupervised learning of wireless channel geography
Coding on unitary group, Grassmann and covariance matrix manifolds
Quantum communication

Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Science (Technology), Engineering Physics

Master of Science (Technology), Engineering Physics

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Research Output

165 Conference contribution
73 Article
14 Patent
6 Software
12 More

Big Data Enabled Mobility Robustness optimization for Commercial LTE Networks

Joseph, J., Ahmed, F., Jokela, T., Tirkkonen, O., Poutanen, J. & Niemela, J., May 2020, 2020 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2020 - Proceedings. IEEE, 9120465. (IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

DDPG-based radio resource management for user interactive mobile edge networks

Chen, P. C., Chen, Y. C., Huang, W. H., Huang, C. W. & Tirkkonen, O., Mar 2020, 2nd 6G Wireless Summit 2020: Gain Edge for the 6G Era, 6G SUMMIT 2020. IEEE, 9083926

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

Latency-Aware Power Management in Software-Defined Radios

Malm, N., Ruttik, K. & Tirkkonen, O., 1 Jan 2020, In : Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering. 2020, 1854826.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

Open Access

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Maximum Sub-array Diversity for mmWave Network under RF Power Leakage and Transceiver Distortion Noises

Tlebaldiyeva, L., Maham, B. & Tirkkonen, O., May 2020, 2020 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2020 - Proceedings. IEEE, 9120487. (IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review