Csaba Antal, Ph.D.

Head of Technology UnitEricsson Hungary R&DDevelopment Unit NetworkFunctions & Cloud

University-industry collaboration best practicesin Ericsson Hungary

  

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Established in

1996

one of most important R&D sites in Ericsson WORLD wide

Complete R&D chain represented in HUNGARY

Development of

HW and SW products

~ 100 PhD degreeS

~ 1200 employees

University Cooperation

Innovation

Ericsson R&D Hungary

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Win3

Innovation

Industry driven projects

Strategic thinking

Technology

leadership

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EÖTVÖS LÓRÁND UNIVERSITY (ELTE)founded in 1635, the largest and the principal university in Hungaryin science, law and humanities, with a strong computer science faculty

Faculty of Science, Institute of PhysicsCommunication NW Lab

Faculty of InformaticsSoftware Technology Lab

Strategic university partnersBest Hungarian universities in education and researchin technology and informatics

BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS (BME)founded in 1782, the most significant university of technology in Hungaryand one of the oldest institutes of technology in the world.

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and InformaticsHigh Speed Networks LabComplex HW Lab

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Mode of operation

Wider communityR&D group active in a field

Definition of projects

Consulting during projects

Receiver of results

Open source contribution

Standard contribution

Publication

Demoes on public events

Propose projects

Vertical teams

Integrated in education & research

Selection of topics is key

PROJECTS

Internship Industry talks

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Useful technical results: prototypes, algorithms, simulations, open source SW

Build on world-class competence

Recruitment of top talent

Innovation

Industry pre-competitive, pre-standardization harmonization (EU projects)

Branding

benefits of university cooperation for Ericsson

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› CodeCompass is a tool for reducing maintenance costs of complex products via visualizing and analyzing C++ , Java and Python code.The tool is used by >100 designers.

› CodeChecker is a tool to quantify and improve product quality during design and maintenance via coding rule checking.

– Helps check if coding rules are followed, architectural principles are upheld, whether anti-patterns are present, whether unsecure code patterns have been used.

– The tool is used in multiple product development– CodeChecker was open sourced in 2015. External users include Google,

Apple, Sony and Mozilla.

Source Code analysis

THESE TOOLS WERE CO-CREATED BY ELTE SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY LAB AND ERICSSON

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Model Based Software EngineeringPapyrus Industry consortium

RuntimeValidationTeam

supportPLMDeploymentSimulationTesting

Trace &

Debug

ModelChecking

Code Gen

DSML

…

Everybody focused on a common objective

Development of a complete MBE solution

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› Using model driven design and test, we have supported product development in producing new functionality

› 40-50% saving in design effort

› University and their spin-off companies entered the consortium developing the open source Papyrus based tool chain

› New innovations / publications from ELTE in textual modeling area

› We established a formalized system development methodology in a product development unit

› Textual system modeling innovation: from university co-operation

Model based Software engineering

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Benefits for universityImpact on industry

development

•Focus on mainstream industry challenges

•Possibility to impact industry development via open source development, standardization, prototypes

•Exploitation and marketable product

International exposure

•Open source

•Ericsson’s international network

•Publications

A new learning environment

•Vertical teamwork: Involvement of BSc, MSc, PhD students and university supervisors

•Soft skills: communication, language proficiency, project management

•Possibility to contribute to world class development

Motivating for students

•Graduates meet labor market demands

•Motivation to continue learning on MSc and PhD level

•Real tasks

•State-of-the-art research topics

•Increase “market value”

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Best practices

Industry defined R&D projects

Selection of topics based on industry need, university competence and university interest

Vertical projects with participation of BSc, MSc, PhD students and professors

Primary outcome is working prototype software but there is room for publication

Industrial follow-up of projects to make technology transfer happen

Open source contributions