Antti Tölli (M’08–SM’14) is a Professor with the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), University of Oulu, Finland. He received the D.Sc. (Tech.) degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oulu in 2008. From 1998 to 2003, he worked at Nokia Networks as a Research Engineer and Project Manager in both Finland and Spain. In 2014, he was awarded a five-year Academy Research Fellow position by the Research Council of Finland. During 2015–2016, he was a Visiting Researcher at EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France, and from August 2018 to June 2019, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He has contributed extensively to the field of wireless communications through numerous publications in leading international journals, conference records, and book chapters, and he also holds several patents. His research focuses on signal processing for wireless networks, communication, and information theory. From 2017 to 2019, he served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and is currently serving as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
Current and past projects
"Cache-aided mmWave Access for Immersive Digital Environments" funded by Academy of Finland, 1.9.2021 - 31.8.2025. Multipoint coded caching tailored for immersive experience.
"5G standards research on mm-wave access" funded by Nokia, 3/2019 - 12/2021. New physical layer concepts targeted for 3GPP Rel’17-18 NR standard are investigated.
"Directional Data Delivery for Wireless Immersive Digital Environments" post-doctoral researcher funding by Finnish Research Impact Foundation (Dr. MohammadJavad Salehi), 1/2021 - 12/2022.
"Device-Centric Low-Complexity High-Frequency Networks" H2020-MCSA-IF-2019 funding by EU (Dr. Italo Atzeni), 7/2020 - 6/2022.
"Coded Collaborative Caching for Wireless Energy Efficiency" funded by Academy of Finland, 1.9.2018 - 31.8.2022. Coded caching to increase the overall energy efficiency of networks.
"5G Enhanced Mobile Broadband Access Networks in Crowded Environments" funded by European Union, 01.07.2018 - 31.12.2020. Large scale trials on actual testbeds in EU and Japan.
"Positioning-aided Reliably-connected Industrial Systems with Mobile mmWave Access" funded by Academy of Finland (AoF), 1.1.2018-31.12.2019.
"WiFiUS - Millimeter Wave-based Wearable Networks in High-end IoT Applications" jointly funded by AoF and National Science Foundation (NSF), 12.4.2017-31.12.2019.
"Distributed Multidimensional Signal Processing in Heterogenous Networks", 01.09.2014 - 21.09.2019. Academy of Finland Research Fellow project.
"Innovation of Transmission Technologies towards 5G Networks" jointly funded by AoF and National Science Foundation of China, 01.02.2015 - 31.12.2017.
"Energy-Efficient Wireless Networks and Connectivity of Devices - Densification" funded by TEKES, 01.05.2013 - 30.04.2015. Joint project with Aalto University and Tampere University of Technology.
"Interference Management for Wireless Networks Beyond Present Horizon+" funded by TEKES, 01.07.2011 - 30.06.2013. Joint project with Aalto University.
"Interference Management for Wireless Networks Beyond Present Horizon" funded by TEKES, 01.07.2010 - 30.06.2011. Joint project with Aalto University.
Capacity of wireless channels, multiuser communications, adaptive modulation and coding, equalization, point-to-point MIMO communications and space-time coding.
The course introduces frameworks and systematic guidelines to handle mathematical optimization problems. The students will be able to recognize the role of convex optimization in various engineering applications including signal processing, wireless communications, networking, and machine learning.
Point-to-point MIMO communications, multiuser multiple antenna communications in uplink and downlink, opportunistic communications, massive MIMO, beamforming for mmWave, scheduling and interference management, coordinated multi-cell transmission.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Senior Research Fellow
Now with Nokia, Oulu, Finland
PhD Candidate
PhD Candidate
Now with Qualcomm Inc. Espoo, Finland
PhD Candidate
PhD Candidate
Now with Solmu Technologies, Oulu, Finland
PhD Candidate
PhD Candidate (currently employed by Nokia)
Now with Mediatek Inc, Oulu, Finland
Now with Huawei, China
Now with Nokia, Oulu, Finland
Now with University of Oulu, Finland
Now with Altair, Oulu, Finland