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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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