News 2024

New Sister Research Center on 6G Satellite Communications

December 22, 2024

The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) has awarded a grant of 60 million SEK to the new research center Sustainable Mobile Autonomous and Resilient 6G SatCom (SMART 6GSAT). This is the first Swedish center dedicated to satellite communications and is a collaboration between KTH, Luleå University of Technology, RISE, many Swedish companies in the telecom and satellite businesses, as well as regions and authorities. The center director is the SweWIN researcher Cicek Cavdar:

“Our goal is to provide everyone in the world with reliable and sustainable mobile connectivity, even in remote locations where today's connectivity is poor or non-existent.”

Full connectivity is made possible within the SMART 6GSAT center by seamlessly integrating terrestrial mobile network technology with space-based satellites. The center will develop network technologies that integrate terrestrial and space systems, and develop new intelligent applications that combine communication, localization, and remote sensing.

This is an exciting sister center to SweWIN (which focuses on ground-based technologies) since the goals of creating sustainable, resilient, and omnipresent wireless services are much aligned.

More information can be found in a KTH news article .

Telephone Director H.T. Cedergren's Medel to SweWIN's Director

December 19, 2024

Professor Emil Björnson, the center's director, has been awarded a silver medal from the Telephone Director H.T. Cedergren's foundation. The foundation was established in 1909 through a gift from Cedergren and normally provides scholarships for Swedish electrical engineers. The medal is awarded once every five years to "an outstanding author in the field of electrical engineering". The motivation for the award stressed Emil's authorship of textbooks and the spreading of knowledge through YouTube, podcasts, and blog posts.

“I’m deeply honored to get this medal and very surprised as I’m only 41”, says Professor Emil Björnson. “Wireless technology is more vital than ever, which is why I share my knowledge in both publications and social media.”

The award was given at KTH's diploma ceremony on December 18.

Three Major Research Environment Grants to SweWIN researchers

November 29, 2024

The Swedish Research Council assigned a total of 104 million SEK to four research projects on 6G wireless systems in a call for Research Environment Grants . Three of the projects contain research area leaders from SweWIN and will enable them to extend their research activities, while exploiting synergies with the ongoing activities in SweWIN. The new projects are:

1. Distributed MIMO with Intelligent Edge Computing Services enabling Energy- and Cost-Efficient 6G Networks (DICE-6G), with Emil Björnson, Cicek Cavdar, and their collaborators

2. Sustainable and Energy Efficient Integrated Antennas for 6G (SEE-6GIA), with Oscar Quevedo-Teruel and his collaborators.

3. Communication Efficient Decentralized Intelligence in 6G Systems, with Mikael Skoglund and his collaborators.

More information can be found in a KTH news article .

First General Meeting of the Parties

June 19, 2024

The first general meeting of the SweWIN center was held on June 19 at the KTH Campus. This is the center's highest decision-making body. The center director described the Ongoing and Planned Activities during 2024, and formal decisions were made in four matters:

• The center board members were elected.

• The budget for research and management was approved for 2024 and 2025.

• The research plans for the six research areas were approved, including visions and details for 2024-2025.

• The center's communication strategy was approved.

The research plans were created during the spring in a collaborative process involving all the partners.

The SweWIN Center is Officially Established

April 10, 2024

Today, the SweWIN research center was officially approved and created by the President of KTH on April 10. Professor Emil Björnson was selected as the center director, and the center is organizationally connected to the KTH School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The center will initially run from 2024 to 2028 and have a total budget of 90 million SEK, whereof one-third comes from academia (KTH, RISE), one-third from industry (Ericsson, Saab, ABB, Cellmax, Beammwave, Northern Waves), and one-third from Vinnova, Sweden's innovation agency, through the Advanced Digitalisation program.