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[email protected] www.taltech.ee 5882640 428625 0 0 -3175 466725 0 0 Telia Eesti AS DOCPROPERTY delta_recipientName Mustamäe tee 3 20.04.2020 nr 11-40/IE/598-1 15033 Tallinn Overview of cooperation between Telia Eesti AS and Tallinn University of Technology Dear members of the Board of Telia Eesti AS We are happy to summarize the results of cooperation between TalTech and Telia Eesti AS. The biggest success so far has been in the area of NB-IoT and 5G, where we have got a chance to gain deeper knowledge about the technical aspects of NB-IoT technology: practical tests gave valuable insight for theoretical analyses and as an outcome, network optimization proposal was presented to Telia. Needless to say that many PhD and MSc students were involved, so the number of new talents who know more about NB-IoT is larger than ever. As the result of the R&D collaboration on NB-IoT topic 2 Master ’s thesis defended in June 2019, 2 PhD students are doing research and are currently in 2nd year, 2 more Master ’ 2 these s are on-going and expected to defend this year. This collaboration resulted in number of high quality research and impact publications, for example published in: IEEE Magazine ( https://www.etis.ee/Portal/Publications/Display/757b6854-be4c-44aa-882b-ebc21bd6e8b2?lang=ENG ) ; IEEE Journals ( https://www.etis.ee/Portal/Publications/Display/87fee021-728d-4dc5-a319-fdc8b0cd1315?lang=ENG ); IEEE conference proceedings ( https://www.etis.ee/Portal/Publications/Display/d3a2c7a7-7099-4d79-97db-301921f3bc56?lang=ENG ); book chapter https://www.etis.ee/Portal/Publications/Display/c76ec111-5f4c-4bd9-a96f-f6b155df8b1a?lang=ENG ) etc. Cooperation resulted also in two new project i) for 5G, collaborative efforts have resulted in a successful bid of „5G-ROUTES“ project of European Commission Under framework programme H2020 and call „ICT-53 - 5G PPP – 5G for Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM)“ ; ii) Estonian IT academy funded project „ Internet o f Intelligent Things “. Our cooperation has clearly demonstrated the importance of dialogue between the industry and academia. We have recognized the matters both in research and in teaching that need more attention in order to support both local and global industry needs. E.g., jointly addressing m atters related to 5G up to the p arliamentary hearings level. The future of research in EU is through partnership programs: universities need partners and so do the industry representatives. We shall improve our cooperation by jointly implementing EC financed projects that address the needs of society - safer, wealthier, more sustainable communities. It will not mean just research projects, but also well aligned study programmes, industrial joint PhD proposals, on-job trainings for students, youth programmes (to gain more attention to telecom, to get more students, to have more competent engineers and researchers for the future). Sincerely ( Signed digitally ) Laur Lemendik 0 7399655 0 0 D ire ct or ( Signed digitally ) Muhammad Mahtab Alam 0 7399655 0 0 Professor