Secure 5G-Enabled Twin Transition for Europe's TIMBER Industry Sector

Deliverables

Initial integration report of 5G NPN lab implementation
Initial data management report
Initial specification of functional and technical requirements of 5G NPN implementations for pilots and beyond

Initial specification of functional and technical requirements of 5G NPN implementations for pilots and beyond - first version of report focusing on pilots UC

Initial 5G TIMBER data flow architecture for the circular material and production process management
5G TIMBER Market analysis report
Initial KPIs definition report
Initial descriptions of use cases with expected outcomes and impact projections to 3 target domains
Data and ethics management plan
Initial AI-driven edge computing and precise localization demonstrator
Dissemination, Communication and Clustering Plan

Dissemination, Communication and Clustering Plan. This report will describe the dissemination and communication strategy as well as engagement plan with other “sister” projects. It will also outline the dissemination materials including website development and social media accounts.

Intermediate report on Dissemination, Communication and Clustering activities

Intermediate report on Dissemination, Communication and Clustering activities. This report will summarise all dissemination and communication activities undertaken by the 5G-TIMBER consortium members in task T6.1 (i.e. scientific papers, attendance at various events and conferences, newsletters, press releases, social media activities, website) in the first 18 months of the project. In addition, this report will give an overview of the networking and joint activities (as described in task T6.4) completed by the 5G-TIMBER consortium in the first 18 months of the project in order to generate enhanced collaborations with other relevant international organisations and projects in the are of 5G and smart manufacturing.

Input database for selected wood parts and timber components: material properties, representative environmental conditions and loads

Initial wood product chain data exchange software prototype
Initial digitalized predictive lifecycle analytic services and hardware demonstrator for selected timber processing local platforms
Initial operational DT AR solution for piloting

Publications

Adaptive Low-Complexity Multiple Access Scheme for Green Downlink Multi-User Multi-Antenna Systems

Author(s): Osama Elgarhy, Luca Reggiani, Muhammad Mahtab Alam
Published in: IEEE Future Networks World Forum 2025 (IEEE FNWF2025), 2025
Publisher: IEEE

Energy Efficiency and Connectivity Maximization for Massive Machine Type Communication in Multi-Cell NOMA

Author(s): Aamir Latif, Osama Elgarhy, Yannick Le Moullec, Muhammad Mahtab Alam
Published in: 2024 19th Biennial Baltic Electronics Conference (BEC), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/BEC61458.2024.10737950

Tight Coupling of GNSS and IMU using Extended Kalman Filtering

Author(s): Usman Muhammad Babri, Muhammad Irfan Haider Jillani, Rizwan Ahmad, Muhammad Mahtab Alam
Published in: 2024 19th Biennial Baltic Electronics Conference (BEC), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/BEC61458.2024.10737945

Enhanced Decision Mechanism for RAN Subslicing in Management Closed Control Loop

Author(s): M. Kulmar, I. Müürsepp, M. M. Alam
Published in: The International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing Workshops (FMECW2023): The International Workshop on Cellular and Industrial Edge AI (CIEAI 2023), Tartu, Estonia, 2023, ISBN 979-8-3503-1697-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/FMEC59375.2023.10306223

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in Dynamic Rich Scattering Environments: BiLSTM-Based Optimization for Accurate User Localization

Author(s): Anum Umer, Ivo Müürsepp, Muhammad Mahtab Alam
Published in: 2024 3rd International Conference on 6G Networking (6GNet), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/6GNET63182.2024.10765779

Automatic NLOS Classification from Virtual 3D City Models

Author(s): I. Müürsepp, M. M. Alam
Published in: The International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing Workshops (FMECW2023): The International Workshop on Cellular and Industrial Edge AI (CIEAI 2023), Tartu, Estonia, 2023, ISBN 979-8-3503-1697-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/FMEC59375.2023.10306158

Inertial and positioning sensors fusion for indirect location tracking in warehouse inventory management

Author(s): Aleksei Fjodorov, Sander Ulp, Muhammad Mahtab Alam, Alar Kuusik
Published in: International Conference on Control, Automation and Diagnosis (ICCAD’23), Rome-Italy, 2023, ISSN 2767-9896
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICCAD57653.2023.10152404

Enhancing Fingerprinting-Based 5G Positioning Accuracy with Directionally Transmitted Synchronization Signals

Author(s): Ivo Müürsepp, Muhammad Mahtab Alam
Published in: 2024 19th Biennial Baltic Electronics Conference (BEC), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/BEC61458.2024.10737987

Performance Evaluation of UWB Active-Passive Two-Way Ranging Distance Estimation Matrix Weighting Methods

Author(s): Laadung, Taavi; Ulp, Sander; Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Le Moullec, Yannick
Published in: Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation 2022 (IPIN 2022), 2022, ISSN 1613-0073
Publisher: CEUR-WS.org
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7716718

Hygro-thermal modeling of timber bridge decks considering the effect of solar radiation

Author(s): Fortino, Stefania, Hradil, Petr, Avikainen, Timo, Koski, Keijo
Published in: Forum Wood Building Nordic 2022, Helsinki, Finland, 2022
Publisher: FORUM HOLZBAU
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10206229

Integrated Approach to Predict Deterioration of Mechanical Properties of Decaying Wood

Author(s): Petr Hradil; Stefania Fortino
Published in: World Conference on Timber Engineering 2023, 2023, ISBN 978-1-71387-327-3
Publisher: WCTE
DOI: 10.52202/069179-0073

Energy Consumption Evaluation of NOMA-based Sustainable Scheduling in 6G O-RAN

Author(s): Aamir Latif, Osama Elgarhy, Yannick Le Moullec, Muhammad Mahtab Alam
Published in: 2024 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IWCMC61514.2024.10592553

Detection of Cracks in a Sawblade by Eddy Current Measurements

Author(s): Olev Martens, Raul Land, Margus Metshein, Anar Abdullayev, Henri Vennikas, Yannick Le Moullec
Published in: 2024 19th Biennial Baltic Electronics Conference (BEC), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/BEC61458.2024.10737981

Inter O-DUs coordination for scheduling of massive users in O-RAN

Author(s): Aamir Latif, Muhammad Mahtab Alam, Yannick Le Moullec
Published in: 2023 European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit 2023), Gothenburg, Sweden, 2023, ISSN 2575-4912
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10206259

Integrating digital factory twin and AI for monitoring manufacturing systems through synthetic data generation and vision transformers

Author(s): Marcello Urgo; Walter Terkaj
Published in: CIRP Annals, 2025, ISSN 1726-0604
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.CIRP.2025.04.037

Adaptive Extended Kalman Filter Position Estimation Based on Ultra-Wideband Active-Passive Ranging Protocol

Author(s): T. Laadung, S. Ulp, A. Fjodorov, M. M. Alam and Y. Le Moullec
Published in: Access, Issue vol. 11, pp. 92575-92588, 2023, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/access.2023.3308696

DAAG-SNP: Energy Efficient Distance and Angulation-Based Agglomerative Clustering for Sink Node Placement

Author(s): Maria Hanif, Rizwan Ahmad, Waqas Ahmed, Micheal Drieberg, Muhammad Mahtab Alam
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, Issue 5, 2024, ISSN 2644-125X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2024.3421901

Physics-based simulation framework for Digital Twin applications: Machine parameter tuning for handling of lumber in the wood industry

Author(s): Francesco Berardinucci, Marco Rossoni, Giorgio Colombo, Marcello Urgo
Published in: Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Issue 98, 2025, ISSN 0736-5845
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.RCIM.2025.103144

Energy Efficiency and Latency Optimization for IoT URLLC and mMTC Use Cases

Author(s): Elgarhy, Osama; Reggiani, Luca; Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Zoha, Ahmed; Ahmad, Rizwan; Kuusik, Alar
Published in: IEEE Access, 2024, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3364349

Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences

Author(s): Olev Märtens; Raul Land; Margus Metshein; Anar Abdullayev; Henri Vennikas; Yannick Le Moullec; Marek Rist
Published in: Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Issue 74(2s), 2025, ISSN 1736-6046
Publisher: Estonian Academy Publishers
DOI: 10.3176/PROC.2025.2S.06

Management Closed Control Loop Automation for Improved RAN Slice Performance by Subslicing

Author(s): Marika Kulmar, Muhammad Mahtab Alam, Ivo Müürsepp
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue 12, 2024, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3433475

Heuristic Radio Access Network Subslicing with User Clustering and Bandwidth Subpartitioning

Author(s): Kulmar, M.; Müürsepp, I.; Alam, M.M.
Published in: Sensors , Issue 2023, 23, 4613, 2023, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/S23104613

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in 6G Radio Localization: A Survey of Recent Developments, Opportunities, and Challenges

Author(s): Anum Umer, Ivo Müürsepp, Muhammad Mahtab Alam, Henk Wymeersch
Published in: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2025, ISSN 1553-877X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2025.3536517

Detection of surface defects in metals: a case study

Author(s): Olev Märtens, Raul Land, Margus Metshein, Anar Abdullayev, Henri Vennikas, Yannick Le Moullec, Marek Rist
Published in: Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Issue 74, 2025, ISSN 1736-6046
Publisher: Estonian Academy Publishers
DOI: 10.3176/PROC.2025.2S.06

UWB and GNSS Sensor Fusion Using ML-Based Positioning Uncertainty Estimation

Author(s): Mihkel Tommingas; Taavi Laadung; Sander Varbla; Ivo Müürsepp; Muhammad Mahtab Alam
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2025, ISSN 2644-125X
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2025.3554352

DL-AoD Estimation-Based 5G Positioning Using Directionally Transmitted Synchronization Signals

Author(s): Ivo Müürsepp, Muhammad Mahtab Alam
Published in: Sensors, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/S25206372

UWB Positioning Integrity Estimation Using Ranging Residuals and ML Augmented Filtering

Author(s): Mihkel Tommingas; Muhammad Mahtab Alam; Ivo Müürsepp; Sander Ulp
Published in: IEEE Journal of Indoor and Seamless Positioning and Navigation, 2024, ISSN 2832-7322
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/JISPIN.2024.3418296

Towards Optimal Placement & Runtime Migration of Time-Sensitive Services of Connected and Automated Vehicles

Author(s): Elgarhy, Osama; Le Moullec, Yannick; Reggiani, Luca; Azeem, Muhammad Moazam; Taleb, Tarik; Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Elgarhy, Osama Mohamed Mostafa
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology, 2024, ISSN 2644-1330
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/OJVT.2024.3496583

X-ray tomography-based simulation of the plastic behaviour of scratched pine wood

Author(s): Fortino, S., Ronkainen, H., Balobanov, V., Harjupatana, T., & Miettinen, A.
Published in: ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Wood Mechanics – from Material Properties to Timber Structures (CompWood 2025), 2025
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17304900

Sustainable Scheduling for Ultra Massive Machine Type Communication Using NOMA in 6G O-RAN

Author(s): Latif, A., Alam, M. M., Elgarhy, O., Le Moullec, Y.
Published in: European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit 2024 (EuCNC 2024), 2024
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.13958059

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