Wireless Communications for the Pacific Islands Prof. François Gagnon, PhD, Eng. École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec

Wireless Communications for the Pacific Islands Prof. François Gagnon, PhD, Eng. École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec

Outline Communication in difficult situations Communication in difficult situations Who we are, our expertise Who Our we focus are, our expertise Our Our focus partners Our Papers partners Papers Maritime communication Maritime communication Two ray multipath Two Ducting ray multipath Ducting Our proposal Our Scenario proposal Outline Scenario Equipement on Amazon Equipment Typical budget 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 2 nd largest and fastest growing Engineering school or faculty in Canada: 10 000 students and 200 faculty in downtown Montreal

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

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We have developed a strong maritime propagation expertise that has a strong commercial success CONCLUSION We are eager to share our expertise in solving difficult problems A realistic win-win partnership would be of interest