5G Leadership Must Be a ‘National Priority,’ FCC Chair Says

In a major speech given yesterday, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced the government’s contribution to 5G is to make significant amounts of radio spectrum available for new 5G technologies, a simple but highly impactful approach to fostering 5G innovation in the United States. NYU WIRELESS has been convening industry leaders and academic researchers in 5G …

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Researchers Find the Right Balance to Speed Wireless Downloads Through Judicious Use of Duplexing

In a world of 7 billion cell phones, wireless service providers are always searching for ways to maximize the efficiency of wireless spectrum to improve service. The so-called “half duplex” radios that comprise today’s cellular base stations perform two functions: They send signals and receive signals. Yet, despite a decade of dizzying advances in speed, …

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NYU WIRELESS Study Predicts Trouble For 5G Cellular, Offers Simple Solution

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), comprising seven telecommunications standard development organizations, will soon choose among channel models to adopt as testing standards for 5G cellular systems. However, a new study by Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport, the Ernst Weber/David Lee professor of electrical engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and founding director of NYU …

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Massey University researchers delve into potential health impacts of 5G

Massey University in New Zealand says it has received funding to investigate whether there will be any adverse effects of electromagnetic radiation to human health caused by 5G networks. The project “Analysing Harmful Electromagnetic Exposure due to Future Millimeter Wave Transmissions” is funded by the Lottery Health Research Fund and will be carried out over …

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NYU Team Wins ICC 2016 Best Paper Award

Sanjay Goyal, a PhD student, along with Prof. Shivendra Panwar at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, in joint work with Carlo Galiotto and Nicola Marchetti of CONNECT, Trinity College Dublin have won the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2016 Best Paper Award. IEEE ICC is the annual flagship conference of the IEEE Communications Society, …

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5G Wireless Well Within Reach

Brooklyn is now widely accepted within the telecommunications industry as a major hub of 5G wireless research, and the credit goes wholly to NYU WIRELESS. The multidisciplinary academic research center has been at the forefront of investigating the millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) spectrum and making fifth-generation wireless a commercial reality, and now, industry leaders predict that consumers …

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NI’s mmW Radio Speeds 5G Research

National Instruments (NI) announced a software defined radio (SDR) for the millimeter wave (mmW) spectrum. The transceiver system can transmit and/or receive wide-bandwidth signals at 2 GHz real-time bandwidth, covering the 71-76 GHz spectrum. The system comes with accompanying software. The mmW transceiver system includes PXI Express modules that collectively function as a mmW access …

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The Brooklyn 5G Summit Displays Progress toward Next Communications Revolution

It’s a bitter pill to swallow, knowing that we’re still about three and a half years or so off from the commercial release of 5G capability. This is especially true knowing just what it can do. In fact, a great place to find out is at the third annual Brooklyn 5G Summit April 20-22, 2016, …

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