Communications Theory
The research group develops principles for an all-wireless future.

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 .
Group members
Latest publications
Özgür Umut Akgül, Antonio Varvara, Antonio de la Oliva, Panagiotis Charatsaris, Maria Diamanti, Pere Garau Burguera, Mårten Ericson, Stefan Wänstedt, Marcin Ziółkowski, Halina Tarasiuk, Hamed Hellaoui, Symeon Papavassiliou, Vasileios Tsekenis, Sokratis Barmpounakis, Panagiotis Demestichas, Bahare M. Khorsandi, Hasanin Harkous
2025
Computer Networks
Mahdi Bayanifar, Alexei Ashikhmin, Dawei Jiao, Olav Tirkkonen
2025
Proceedings - 2025 International Conference on Quantum Communications, Networking, and Computing, QCNC 2025
Hai Q. Dinh, Bhanu Pratap Yadav, Bac T. Nguyen, Ashish Kumar Upadhyay
2025
Discrete Mathematics
Pere Garau Burguera, Bushra Shaikh, Hanan Al-Tous, Olav Tirkkonen
2025
Proceedings of the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers
Santeri Kokkonen, Xinze Li, Ashvin Srinivasan, Hanan Al-Tous, Olav Tirkkonen
2025
Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference
Radoslaw Kotaba, Roope Vehkalahti, Cedomir Stefanovic, Olav Tirkkonen, Petar Popovski
2025
IEEE Transactions on Communications
Xinze Li, Hanan Al-Tous, Olav Tirkkonen
2025
Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
Bushra Shaikh, Pere Garau Burguera, Hanan Al-Tous, Markku Juntti, Muhammad Bilal Khan, Olav Tirkkonen
2025
2024 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2024
Bushra Shaikh, Pere Garau Burguera, Hanan Al-Tous, Markku Juntti, Bilal Muhammad Khan, Olav Tirkkonen
2025
IEEE Access
Ashvin Srinivasan, Junshan Zhang, Olav Tirkkonen
2025
Proceedings of the IEEE 101st Vehicular Technology Conference
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