Read the latest addition of our newsletter, The Pulse. July 2017 In this issue: Welcome to Our New Affiliates NYU WIRELESS to Bring Ultra-Speed Wireless Connectivity to First Responders The NYU Tandon School of Engineering Dante Youla Award Given to George MacCartney NYU WIRELESS-Led Paper Wins Neal Shepherd Propagation Prize NI Donates Nearly $1 …
Tandon Graduate Student Honored by the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society
Rapidly increasing demands for higher mobile data rates and ubiquitous data access have led to a spectrum crunch over the traditional wireless communication frequency bands. Luckily, Tandon doctoral candidate Shu Sun explains that new spectrum allocations in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequency bands are helping to alleviate the shortage and allowing for the development of the fifth-generation (5G) wireless …
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NYU WIRELESS-Led Paper Wins Neal Shepherd Propagation Prize

The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society board of directors recently announced that the NYU WIRELESS-led paper, “Investigation of Prediction Accuracy, Sensitivity, and Parameter Stability of Large-Scale Propagation Path Loss Models for 5G Wireless Communications,” is the winner of the 2017 Neal Shepherd Propagation Prize. The May 2016 paper, led by NYU WIRELESS graduate student Shu Sun, compared three …
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NYU WIRELESS Researchers Discuss NIST Award with RCR Wireless News

In an interview with RCR Wireless News, NYU WIRELESS Director Sundeep Rangan, Program Director Marco Mezzavilla, and researcher Aditya Dhananjay spoke about how the recent NIST award they received will be put into action to help first responders. “There’s been a lot of interest in using cellular technologies for the purpose of public safety — …
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Federal government puts money behind NYU Tandon’s 5G cellular program
The federal government likes what’s going on at NYU Tandon, a $2.2 million grant to the university’s 5G wireless program would suggest. The grant comes from the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which announced earlier this week grants totaling $38.5 million to 33 universities and corporations to help research and design …
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The Quest Begins to Bring Ultra-speed Wireless Connectivity to First Responders

Researchers met in San Antonio, Texas yesterday to jump-start technology that could enable first responders to relay video in moving ambulances, employ virtual reality in emergencies, receive high-definition images from drones in real time, or control robots in restricted indoor environments too dangerous for humans. Although the technology of ultra-fast fifth-generation, or 5G, wireless communication …
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NIST Awards $38.5 Million to Accelerate Public Safety Communications Technologies

The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded $38.5 million to 33 research and development (R&D) projects aimed at advancing broadband communications technologies for first responders. The awardees and their projects are: Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) – $782,280 An Infrastructure-Free Localization System for Firefighters Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) …
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OPPO advances 5G research and development
Smartphone brand OPPO is teaming up with American research centre NYU WIRELESS at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering to sponsor research aimed at creating the next generation of wireless technologies. OPPO will collaborate with NYU WIRELESS on 5G network technology and work with students and faculty on 5G related research projects. NYU WIRELESS is …
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Microwave Journal Offers 5G mmWave Communications Course and eBook from Ted Rappaport

Microwave Journal is now providing Professor Ted Rappaport’s 2-day online course, slides and eBook. Previously recorded by IEEE Com Soc, the course covers the fundamental communications, circuits, antennas and propagation issues surrounding emerging 60 GHz wireless LAN and mmWave cellular/backhaul applications. The course was developed and delivered by Professor Theodore (Ted) Rappaport, a pioneering researcher …
NYU WIRELESS and Sprint Join Forces to Advance 5G Mobile Technology

NYU WIRELESS and Sprint today announced they are working together to further the development of mobile 5G. Sprint joins the university research center at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering as an industry affiliate sponsor. As an industry affiliate, Sprint will gain early access to NYU WIRELESS’s internationally recognized research, work with students and faculty …
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