PhD Research

Research

Proposed doctoral research at the University of Oulu's Center for Ubiquitous Computing — investigating emergent collective intelligence in sovereign multi-agent systems at the 5G edge.

Proposed supervisor: Dr. Lauri Lovén · Future Computing Group · CWC
PhD Proposal

The Cognitive Mesh

Emergent Collective Intelligence through Sovereign Agent Interaction, Signal-Native Learning, and Autonomous Resource Economies at the 5G Edge.

A = (I, P, S, G, π, C, R)  ·  FLTrust aggregation  ·  Sealed-bid double auction  ·  WiFi CSI HAR benchmark

FOUR-YEAR PLAN

Work Plan

Phase 1Active
Year 1

Theoretical Foundations + Signal Architecture

  • ·Formal agent model A = (I, P, S, G, π, C, R)
  • ·Systematic literature review
  • ·WiFi CSI pipeline for HAR
  • ·CWC 5G testbed configuration
Phase 2Planned
Years 1–2

Interaction Protocol Design + Federated Learning

  • ·CMOP protocol suite design
  • ·FLTrust Byzantine-robust aggregation
  • ·Non-IID gradient handling
  • ·First emergence measurement
Phase 3Planned
Years 2–3

Sovereign Identity + Resource Economy

  • ·Ed25519 cryptographic identity
  • ·Sealed-bid double auction engine
  • ·Reputation + trust propagation
  • ·Adversarial stress testing
Phase 4Planned
Years 3–4

Deployment + Emergence Measurement

  • ·Full CWC 5G testbed deployment
  • ·Heterogeneous hardware validation
  • ·Open-source stack release
  • ·Thesis + 4 publications

PROOF OF CONCEPT

Working Prototype

Cognitive Mesh Orchestration Framework v0.1

Rust5 crateszero warnings

Unified orchestration layer bridging I2C, BLE, and TCP/IP with federated ML gradient exchange.

✓ 98.2% loss reduction in 8 federated rounds

GitHub ↗
cargo run --bin cm-sim

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║  COGNITIVE MESH LAB — MVP v0.1    ║
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║  iot-node (I2C) · mobile (BLE)    ║
║  laptop (TCP)   · FedAvg          ║
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Round 8/8  avg loss: 0.171 ✓

PUBLICATIONS & THESES

Works

Proposal2026Submitted to Supervisor

The Cognitive Mesh: Emergent Collective Intelligence through Sovereign Agent Interaction, Signal-Native Learning, and Autonomous Resource Economies at the 5G Edge

PhD Research Proposal — University of Oulu

Thesis2024Completed

Dynamics of Contextual Emotion Recognition: Multimodal Fusion Across Audio, Visual, and Text Modalities

MSc Thesis — University of Oulu

PROJECT RESEARCHER

UBICOMP Lab — Future Computing Group

Contributing to edge AI orchestration research at the Center for Ubiquitous Computing, University of Oulu. Work spans resource-aware inference, distributed edge AI deployment, and QoS-aware adaptive systems — the foundational infrastructure for the Cognitive Mesh PhD programme.

UBICOMP Lab ↗