Wireless Local Connectivity

This team accomplishes the mission of value-adding creative solutions through wireless local connectivity. It accomplishes by executing high-quality research in the area of short-range and local radio technologies as well as applications and services utilizing those technologies.

The team creates new solutions and develops improvements for the existing technologies. It also demonstrates the developed concepts, and drives them into standards and products. The focus areas of the team are wireless device-to-device connectivity solutions and Internet of Things technologies and services that benefit both developers and end-users.

Some of the team's achievements are:

Wibree low power sensor radio technology (currently Bluetooth low energy wireless technology)
Power save scheme adopted to IEEE 802.11s WLAN mesh standard draft
EPC RFID reader integrated to a mobile phone

Research topics

Bluetooth low energy wireless technology
WLAN ad hoc device-to-device connectivity
WLAN subsystem optimization
Transport independent local connectivity
Internet of Things technologies, applications and services
WiMedia UWB
60 GHz wireless technologies

Resources

Presentations

Kauppinen, Hannu 'Internet of Things - Seeing from both sides of the window' (keynote speech), Internet of Things 2008 conference, March 26-28, 2008, Zürich, Switzerland (video)

Henriksson, Jukka, 'Opportunities with DVB-T2', Digitag 2007 seminar, December 4, 2007, Geneva, Switzerland

Salokannel, Juha, 'Ultra low power Bluetooth - use cases and profiles', Bluetooth Evolution Conference, November 2, 2007, London, UK

Honkanen, Mauri, 'Wireless Technologies for Local Interaction' (keynote speech), IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, June 20th 2007, Helsinki, Finland

Demos

Bluetooth initiated WLAN object transfer

Wireless Audio-Visual Interface on WiMedia UWB

Library Tracking Service

Mobile identification platform - Combined EPC/NFC reader and camera as barcode reader in a mobile device (pdf)

Micropolicies (in collaboration with ETH Zürich)

Lost & Found (in collaboration with ETH Zürich)

Press releases

Wibree forum merges with Bluetooth SIG

Publications

Guinard, Dominique; Michahelles, Florian; Iraji, Sassan; Hirvola, Harri and Fleisch, Elgar (ETH Zurich, Nokia Research Center Helsinki), 'EPCFind: Implementing a Mobile Lost and Found Infrastructure'. Ninth Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile 2008), Napa Valley, CA, USA, February 25-26, 2008.

Hui, Ping and Iraji, Sassan, 'Design Considerations for UHF RFID Antennas for Mobile Phones', 2007 Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, December 11-14, 2007.

Cui, Wei; Tervonen, Janne and Ranta, Pekka, 'Video Streaming over UWB vs WLAN', Global Mobile Congress, Shanghai, China, October 10-12, 2007.

Cui, Wei, 'Wireless Video Streaming over UWB', IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB 2007), Singapore, September 24-26, 2007.

He, Xiaoben; Salokannel, Juha and Kaaja, Harald, 'On the Performance of CSMA/CA Based Prioritized Channel Access (PCA) for WiMedia UWB'. The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM2007), Shanghai, China, September 21-23, 2007.

Mansikkamäki, Pauliina; Mäntysalo, Matti; Honkanen, Mauri and Rönkkä, Risto, 'Personal Technology Orientation in R&D - Case Study of Wibree'. Proceedings of MEI 2007 Conference, Orlando USA, 2007.

Collaborators

Contact

Mauri Honkanen, Team Leader

Team members

Nokia Research Center