Research Council of Finland grants funding for Finnish-American research in telecommunications technology
The Research Council of Finland (RCF) has awarded nearly €750,000 in funding for research on intelligent wireless technologies for future 6G networks. FORMULA3 is a collaborative research project between Tampere University and Aalto University. Both universities have received separate funding allocations for their respective contributions to the project. Tampere University's allocation amounts to €388,489.
The research is being conducted in collaboration with partners in the United States: Tennessee Technological University, Texas A&M University and New York University. The collaboration forms part of the US National Science Foundation's (NSF) VINES programme, with the NSF funding the US research teams and the RCF funding the Finnish teams.
The FORMULA3 project investigates how programmable wireless environments, including reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, metallic reflector arrays and stacked intelligent metasurfaces, can enhance indoor and outdoor-to-indoor connectivity. By combining integrated sensing and communication with AI-native resource management, FORMULA3 aims to predict changes in the wireless environment and proactively adapt beams, surfaces and network resources. The objective is to enable reliable, high-capacity and low-latency wireless connections for emerging 6G services in dynamic real-world environments.
“The project combines AI, sensing and programmable wireless technologies to help future 6G networks maintain fast and reliable connections as people move and their surroundings change in the emerging Frequency Range 3 (FR3) band,” says Professor and Head of the Wireless Systems Group Ertugrul Basar.
