wireless communications for the pacific islands...notable publications • f. gagnon, g. dahman and...
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Wireless Communications for the Pacific Islands
Prof. François Gagnon, PhD, Eng.École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec
Outline
• Communication in difficult situations• Who we are, our expertise• Our focus• Our partners• Papers
• Maritime communication• Two ray multipath• Ducting
• Our proposal• Scenario• Equipement on Amazon• Typical budget
Outline• Communication in difficult situations
• Who we are, our expertise• Our focus• Our partners• Papers
• Maritime communication• Two ray multipath• Ducting
• Our proposal• Scenario• Equipment on Amazon
The short story, summary• Specialized in difficult propagation: Long range rural, industrial
interference, military and maritime communications
• Major contributions: Software defined radio (1999), cognitive radios (2009), MIMO Hetnet radios (2014), multiple spin-offs
• Recent introduction of technology: Range extension for terrestrial link through MIMO, range and rate extension for Maritime communication, democratization of Internet for developing countries
• 100+ students from 15+ countries, 200+ publication, 1 book, 8 patents, many awards…
Who are we?• François Gagnon, principle investigator of 2 chairs:
• RJM chair on wireless technology for developing countries• NSERC-Ultra chair on high-performance wireless communications
• Collaborating Professors:• Ghyslain Gagnon, microelectronics, ÉTS• Georges Kaddoum, radio propagation, ÉTS• Claude Thibeault, microelectronics, ÉTS• Stephane Coulombe, video, ÉTS• Pascal Giard, error correction, ÉTS• David Plant, photonics, McGill• Pierre Duhamel, telecom, CNRS Supélec• Sergey Loyka, University of Ottawa
• Researchers: 9 researchers and postdoctoral fellows
Who are we?• Students:
• Post-Docs : 1 under RJM, 3 under Ultra chairs • PhDs: 6 under RJM, 6 under Ultra chairs and 2
for other projects• Masters: 3 under RJM, 4 under Ultra, and 1 for
others• Undergraduate interns
• Professionals: 7• ETS, École de Technologie Supérieure is the
2nd largest and fastest growing Engineering school or faculty in Canada: 10 000 students and 200 faculty in downtownMontreal
What’s our focus?• Advance emergency and strategic
communications in harsh environments
• Build communication solutions for industrial partners
• Promote projects that have high social and economic impact
• Train highly-qualified personnel for Canada and other nations
• Contribute to research in wireless communications
Current Projects• Extension of the KoomBook Project• Early detection schemes for low-latency communications• Network management software• VoIP and video quality of service• True random number generator• Internet-of-things IoT• Prevention and detection of security flaws in wireless
networks using machine learning• Machine Learning for Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets)• Maritime Wireless Communication: From Propagation to
Multi-User Network Topologies
Partners• Government
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)• Prompt Quebec• Quebec Maritime Network
• Universities• McGill University, Canada• UTPL, Ecuador• Centennial College, Canada• INRS, Canada• Université du Québec à Rimouski, Canada• University of Ottawa, Canada• Under discussion with Tufts, Boston
Partners• Current industrial partners
• Media5 Corporation, Canada• Ultra Electronics TCS, Canada• Axsera Inc., Canada• Hydro Quebec, Canada• Cybersecurity Umbrella, Canada
• Previous industrial partners• Octasic, Canadian Space agency, Bell,
Nortel, Cienna, ….
Notable Awards• ADRIQ Partnership Prize with Ultra Electronics-
TCS 2017• Industrial Collaboration Award for Outstanding
and Sustained Collaborations with Industry, SYTACom, 2009
• Synergy Award for Innovation recognizing university-industry collaboration (category Small and Medium-Sized Companies), NSERC, 2008
• Cercle d’excellence de l’Université du Québec, 2004
• Prix de l’excellence en recherche, École de Technologie Supérieure, 2003
• 16th Signal Battalion Coin of Excellence - US Army, 2001
Notable Publications• F. Gagnon, G. Dahman and G. Poitau, "Extending the ITU-R P.530 Deep-Fading Outage Probability Results to SIMO-MRC and
MIMO-MRC Line-Of-Sight Systems," in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2018.
• D. Couillard, G. Dahman, M.-E. Grand Maison, G. Poitau, and F. Gagnon, "Robust broadband maritime communications: Theoretical and experimental validation". Radio Science, vol. 53, no. 6. pp. 749-760, 2018.
• H. Kaushal and G. Kaddoum, "Underwater Optical Wireless Communication," in IEEE Access, vol. 4, pp. 1518-1547, 2016.
• G. Kaddoum, F. Richardson and F. Gagnon, "Design and Analysis of a Multi-Carrier Differential Chaos Shift Keying Communication System," in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 61, no. 8, pp. 3281-3291, August 2013.
• S. Loyka and F. Gagnon, "Performance analysis of the V-BLAST algorithm: an analytical approach," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 1326-1337, July 2004.
Complete list: http://espace2.etsmtl.ca/view/master_director/Gagnon=3AFran=E7ois=3A=3A.html
MARITIME COMMUNICATION: TWO-RAY MULTIPATH
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MARITIME COMMUNICATION:
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MARITIME COMMUNICATION:
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MARITIME COMMUNICATION:
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CONCLUSION
•We have developed a strong maritime propagation expertise that has a strong commercial success
•We are eager to share our expertise in solving difficult problems
•A realistic win-win partnership would be of interest