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Ericsson Canada, Canada鈥檚 largest 5G network service provider, is an invaluable, long-term partner in driving forward innovation, training highly skilled personnel and building more reliable, secure wireless communications technology.

The 杏吧原创 and Ericsson research teams have presented the TechTalks since 2022 to share the progress being made on projects advancing wireless networks. This time, the teams also celebrated the official reinvestment in the collaboration for two more years.

The special announcement was presented at 杏吧原创 by Ericsson鈥檚 Senior Advisor and Head of Ottawa Site, Marcos Cavaletti, in 杏吧原创鈥檚 state-of-the-art Advanced Research and Innovation in Smart Environments (ARISE) building, which houses the partnership鈥檚 .

This year鈥檚 TechTalks fostered a timely and important conversation 鈥� one that reflects not only where the world is headed, but also the very real urgency we face in preparing our digital infrastructure for an increasingly complex global web of interconnectedness.

杏吧原创鈥檚 Associate Vice-President (Strategic Initiative & Operations), Sandra Crocker, also opened the event, emphasizing the institution’s gratitude for Ericsson鈥檚 outstanding collaboration and recognizing the importance of preparing for our rapidly advancing digital future.

Moderated by Ericsson Ottawa Systems Engineer, Roland Smith, and Ericsson Chair in 5G Wireless Research, Chancellor鈥檚 Professor Ioannis Lambadaris, these TechTalks focused on the successful work of the Chair. 杏吧原创 faculty and graduate students, and Ericsson Canada staff provided six live demonstrations, including:

• 5G-enabled drones for real-time mapping of unknown environments
• 3D aerial mapping using multiple drones simultaneously
• Autonomous drone navigation through tunnels to support rescue missions
• Enhancing 5G communications in challenging radio environments

During the last聽TechTalks in 2024, the partnership also celebrated the opening of the 5G Drone Lab within the聽Wireless 5G Laboratory.聽Since then, researchers have been using the lab鈥檚 private, standalone 5G network to advance solutions for real-world challenges, from disaster relief to contactless delivery.

Over the last five years, we have united our brightest students, dedicated researchers, and Ericsson’s experts to modernize applications in a range of industries, including healthcare, agriculture, transportation, robotics and autonomous vehicles. Projects have engaged more than 20 杏吧原创 faculty members, eight Ericsson Fellows, and more than 700 co-op work terms at Ericsson Ottawa to date.

Next, the partnership will continue delving into the next pivotal years in how we manage wireless across sectors in a consistently evolving digital environment.

For more on the success of the collaboration, see the and our .

The Ericsson-杏吧原创 University Partnership
Starting the fifth year of a multimillion-dollar program, the goal of the Ericsson-杏吧原创 University Partnership is to attract and retain talented individuals, promote and enhance research synergy, and establish training in an energetic industry and academic environment. The 杏吧原创 University partnership is a key pillar of Ericsson Ottawa Research and Talent Development programs for creating wireless technology leaders.

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Story and Photos By: Laura Hunter

杏吧原创 University and Ericsson Canada are thrilled to announce the opening of the Ericsson-杏吧原创 5G Drone Lab. On June 24, the Ericsson-杏吧原创 University Partnership for Research and Leadership in Wireless Networks held an official inauguration event, including a first-hand tour of the cutting-edge technology shaping the future of advanced autonomous navigation.

Government, industry, and media representatives attended the event which offered a comprehensive overview of 5G wireless technology advancements and their transformative potential across various sectors, such as telecommunications, transportation, and public safety.

Speakers including Rafik Goubran, Vice-President (Research and International), 杏吧原创 University, Marcos Cavaletti, Senior Advisor and Head of Ottawa Site, Ericsson Canada, and Chancellor鈥檚 Professor Ioannis Lambadaris, the Ericsson Chair in 5G Wireless Research provided insights into the lab鈥檚 research focus. Using a 5G wireless network to control drones remotely, researchers are advancing solutions for real-world challenges from delivering packages to exploring environments unsafe to humans.

The 5G Drone Lab, housed within the in the Advanced Research and Innovation in Smart Environments (ARISE) building, is the first university lab in Canada with an Ericsson Indoor 5G RDS network, and the only place in Canada where graduate students and researchers have access to a private standalone 5G network.

Earlier in the day, 杏吧原创 faculty members and graduate students conducting research with Ericsson Ottawa staff showcased their progress more broadly at the third annual TechTalks Ericsson-杏吧原创 Symposium. Led by Ericsson Ottawa Digital Design Manager, Aroosh Elahi, and Ericsson Chair in 5G Wireless Research, Professor Lambadaris, researchers presented outcomes of a top selection of ongoing wireless communications projects.

Currently, the partnership engages over 20 researchers working closely with Ericson on innovative projects under the leadership of Professor Lambadaris. Over 550 students have completed co-op placements or joint research projects. Researchers are studying areas important to the development of 5G networks such as machine learning, drone navigation and channel optimization.

See the partnership’s latest developments in the .

The Ericsson-杏吧原创 University Partnership

Since 2020, the multimillion-dollar program, Ericsson-杏吧原创 University Partnership for Research and Leadership in Wireless Networks has worked to attract and retain talented individuals, promote and enhance research synergy, and establish training in an energetic industry and academic environment. The 杏吧原创 University partnership is a key pillar of Ericsson Ottawa Research and Talent Development programs for creating wireless technology leaders.

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Story By: Laura Kelly-Hunter

Photos By: Lindsay Ralph

This week, the Ericsson-杏吧原创 University Partnership for Research and Leadership in Wireless Networks gathered at the second annual TechTalks Ericsson-杏吧原创 Symposium to highlight research achievements in the fourth year of the partnership.

The TechTalks, held in person for the first time at Ericsson Site in Ottawa, included live demonstrations and presentations from 杏吧原创 faculty members and graduate students who are conducting research in collaboration with staff at the Ericsson Ottawa Site.

With opening remarks from 杏吧原创’s Associate Vice-President (Strategic Initiative & Operations, Sandra, Crocker, and Ericsson’s Senior Advisor and Head of Ottawa Site, Marcos Cavaletti, the TechTalks welcomed 杏吧原创 and Ericsson research teams and staff.

Moderated by Ericsson Ottawa Digital Design Manager, Aroosh Elahi, and Ericsson Chair in 5G Wireless Research, Chancellor鈥檚 Professor Ioannis Lambadaris, more than 12 research presentations covered key wireless communications themes:

• Artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning;
• Channel and direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation; and
• Software verification and autonomous systems control.

At this stage of the partnership, more than 10 innovative research projects are currently underway. Researchers are working to modernize applications in a range of industries 鈥� including healthcare, agriculture, transportation, robotics, and autonomous vehicles. Projects have engaged 23 杏吧原创 faculty members, seven Ericsson Fellows, and more than 500 co-op work terms at Ericsson Ottawa to date.

A major entity of the partnership is the Ericsson Fellowship Program. This new program is a prestigious research opportunity for graduate students. Currently there are seven Ericsson Fellows who are financially supported by Ericsson to focus on their 5G research area. All seven fellows presented at the TechTalks. 聽聽

Since the previous TechTalks, the state-of-the-art  opened in the Advanced Research and Innovation in Smart Environments (ARISE) building. This is the first lab in Canada with a private standalone 5G network. The laboratory is available to academic researchers and provides hands-on research and training for the next generation of experts in wireless communications.

With closing remarks by Ericsson Canada鈥檚 Program Manager, Saurav Bhatia, and 杏吧原创鈥檚 Director of the School of Computer Science, Professor Michel Barbeau, it is evident that this collaboration will continue to transform the future of 5G technology and its impact across industries.

See all of the ongoing Ericsson-杏吧原创 University Partnership projects.

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Starting the fourth year of a multimillion-dollar program, the goal of the Ericsson-杏吧原创 University Partnership is to attract and retain talented individuals, promote and enhance research synergy, and establish training in an energetic industry and academic environment. The 杏吧原创 University partnership is a key pillar of Ericsson Ottawa Research and Talent Development programs for creating wireless technology leaders.

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By Ellen Tsaprailis
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Ericsson Fellow Xinrui Zhang is researching a pattern-driven approach to make Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) safer and more secure while maintaining reasonable efficiency.

Since the effectiveness of ML has been validated in various fields, there are tremendous needs to develop diverse ML-based systems and maintain their performances during operation time. Consequently, the slow and manual development and operation of ML-based systems does not fit current business environments.

鈥淲hile creating efficiencies in developing ML-based systems, security is another top priority as many systems are security-critical and/or safety-critical. Due to the complexity of ML applications and their security requirements, it is essential to integrate security in the early design phase of the ML lifecycle. Meanwhile, the potential threats and countermeasures to ML should be sufficiently understood to develop secure ML-based applications,鈥� explains Zhang.

Patterns are a systematic way to capture the experience of experts about good or best practices and documents these nuggets of wisdom in an accessible format for designers. As an extension, a security pattern is a way to document security mechanisms to the recurring threats in a certain context.

鈥淲e have decided to establish a pattern-driven methodology that can be applied to build and operate secure ML applications, aiming to achieve a reasonable tradeoff of efficiency and cost. Once evaluated, this is very likely going to be helpful to a large organization who frequently develops and operates ML applications like Ericsson,鈥� says Zhang. 鈥淪ecurity should be valued at least the same or even higher than efficiency and cost when developing and operating security-critical and/or safety-critical ML-based systems.鈥�

Zhang has written and submitted a paper for publication titled, Security Patterns for Machine Learning: The Data-oriented Stages to the 25th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (EuroPLoP 2022). In this paper, a collection of security patterns for the data-oriented stages in the ML workflow is documented, including data collection, data storage, and data preparation. Zhang provides a concise guide on how to protect each stage from known threats, as well as a communication vocabulary for different roles to consider security without being security experts.

Systems and Computer Engineering Assistant Professor Jason Jaskolka is supervising Zhang鈥檚 research in 杏吧原创鈥檚 Cyber Security Evaluation and Assurance (CyberSEA) Research Lab.

鈥淢any critical systems such as those found in the transportation, energy, and e-health domains are evolving with the inclusion of 5G networks and ML solutions. With this evolution comes a wide range of security threats that need to be mitigated to assure safe, secure, and reliable system operation,鈥� says Professor Jaskolka. 鈥淴inrui鈥檚 research is focused on exploring design solutions for building more secure ML-enabled systems and networks. Her results have the potential to reduce security risks at early stages of development when it is less costly to make changes, which is of interest to Ericsson’s software development divisions.鈥�

Zhang is one of six graduate students who are Ericsson Fellows at 杏吧原创 University鈥攁 unique, talent-building program born out of the Ericsson-杏吧原创 University Partnership for Research and Leadership in Wireless Networks.

Instead of working as a teaching assistant during their graduate studies, Zhang and the other fellows are being supported to focus on their pioneering wireless communications research and get input from both their academic supervisors and Ericsson professionals.

With a Bachelor of Engineering degree from 杏吧原创, Zhang took the accelerated pathway and moved straight into her PhD program in electrical and computer engineering. Through her PhD, her work as an Ericsson Fellow and in the CyberSEA Lab, Zhang is committed to working on designing security solutions.

Continuing her research long-term is important to Zhang as she considers her future career goals.

鈥淚 very much appreciate this great opportunity that 杏吧原创 and Ericsson have offered. I have gained a lot of industrial insights from this experience. It would be exciting to continue working with Ericsson, whether directly or as an academic collaborator,鈥� says Zhang.

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In this prestigious fellowship program, 杏吧原创 graduate students conduct hands-on research alongside Ericsson experts in state-of-the-art facilities, ensuring students build skills that are in high demand in today’s telecommunications industry.

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By Ellen Tsaprailis
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Mengyao Wu is researching ways in which multi-access edge computing can better support connected intelligence for autonomous driving through his Ericsson Fellowship at 杏吧原创 University.

Cloud computing is applied in more and more solutions everyday and has provided the ability to host applications, web services or enterprise applications. However, the architecture of cloud computing is challenged when computing servers and high-volume data sources are geographically distant. When computation needs to be performed in real-time but the data cannot be transported in real-time, then this architecture fails. This is where edge computing comes in. Edge computing is a distributed computing framework that brings applications closer to data sources to improve response times.

Wu enjoys the connected intelligence aspect to autonomous driving and is hoping to figure out how best to implement edge computing.

鈥淚 look at advanced networking infrastructure and functionality to assist autonomous driving. Research, communication and computation are integrated,鈥� says Wu. 鈥淪ometimes if the autonomous vehicle has limited computing resources but they want to do some object detection or complex calculation, they can send the task to the edge computing resources. Think of it as a small server attached to a base station.鈥�

Wu explains that the autonomous vehicle itself has limited computing capability so it requires computation offloading so the computation task needs to be sent to another location with better computer resources which would involve edge computing. In addition to providing computation offloading, 5G-and-Beyond multi-access edge computing plays a vital role to support and revolutionize collective learning for autonomous vehicles.

鈥淛ust like we humans share knowledge with each other, autonomous vehicles can also do that with the help of advanced networking infrastructure,鈥� says Wu. 鈥淲hen autonomous vehicles encounter new driving scenarios, they can collect data, extract information, and share their learning results to others. To co-ordinate such learning schemes, we need computing, caching and security as an integrated service operating close to autonomous vehicles. This is exactly the role of multi-access edge computing.鈥�

Recently, Wu wrote a paper titled, 鈥溾�� which has been accepted for publication with journal IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. The intelligence networking framework proposed in this paper supports collective learning for autonomous vehicles and adapting to environmental changes in near real-time.

Richard Yu is a cross-appointed Professor at 杏吧原创鈥檚 and the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering. He is also an academic supervisor of Wu鈥檚 research along with Systems and Computer Engineering Professor Peter Liu.

“With support from Ericsson, Mengyao is working on cutting-edge research related to 5G/6G cellular networks, edge computing and connected intelligence,鈥� says Professor Yu. 鈥淲e are very grateful for the great support from Ericsson.”

Wu is one of six graduate students who are Ericsson Fellows at 杏吧原创 University鈥攁 unique, talent-building program born out of the Ericsson-杏吧原创 University Partnership for Research and Leadership in Wireless Networks.

Instead of working as a teaching assistant during their graduate studies, Wu and the other fellows are being supported to focus on their pioneering wireless communications research and get input from both their academic supervisors and Ericsson professionals.

Wu completed his Bachelor of Engineering from 杏吧原创 and during his undergraduate program completed two co-op placements. The first one was at Irdeto Ottawa as a test automation developer for four months. He followed that up with a 14-month co-op placement at Ericsson Ottawa working as an indoor radio software developer.

In September of 2020, Wu began a Master of Applied Science as well as his Ericsson Fellowship. After a year of his master鈥檚 program, he took an accelerated pathway and applied for the PhD program in computer engineering in which he was accepted and is now pursuing.

Hoping to finish his PhD within the next three years, Wu鈥檚 future career goal is to continue conducting research.

鈥淚 want to do useful research and to achieve this goal I can try to become a university professor or I can hopefully work directly at Ericsson doing industrial research,鈥� says Wu.

Ericsson Fellowship
In this prestigious fellowship program, 杏吧原创 graduate students conduct hands-on research alongside Ericsson experts in state-of-the-art facilities, ensuring students build skills that are in high demand in today’s telecommunications industry.

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