Today, when palm-sized devices can connect people to nearly anyone they wish, from almost anywhere in the world, one might be excused for thinking amateur, or “ham”, radio is a thing of bygone days, buried behind old copies of “Dick Tracy” and “The Hardy Boys.” Not so. Amateur radio operators are more important now than ever, particularly since …

Following this year’s Brooklyn 5G Summit, I’m still wondering whether there will be a “killer app” for 5G networks. For 4G LTE, it’s easy to argue that the most important use case turned out to be video, which went from about zero on earlier generations of wireless networks to making up the majority of traffic. But as in …

While I was at the Brooklyn 5G Summit, I had the chance to catch up with Martin Cooper, who while working for Motorola led the team that created the first portable mobile phone in 1973 and, using that device, made the first mobile call. Cooper was at the event to deliver a keynote, and, as he …

A couple of weeks ago, I attended the Brooklyn 5G Summit at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, where I was struck by the progress that’s been made toward building 5G networks and the uncertainly that still exists about the uses and economics of 5G in general. Many attendees assured me that I would actually be using …

In 2014, when the first Brooklyn 5G Summit was held at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, many were skeptical. It had been just a year since Theodore “Ted” Rappaport, the founding director of the multidisciplinary academic research center NYU WIRELESS, first advocated for the potential of the millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum with the publication of his seminal paper …

Sponsored by NYU WIRELESS, a research center at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Nokia and IEEE ComSoc, the Brooklyn 5G Summit was the very first get-together of the industry on 5G starting back in 2014 and has been spearheading innovation in 5G New Radio and 5G architecture. From day one, the Summit has been …

The NYU Tandon School of Engineering today will preview Brooklyn’s first cleanroom, where scientists and engineers from across greater New York will fabricate advanced materials and devices on the micro- and nano-scale in order to push the boundaries of established scientific principles and future technology. Such fabrication facilities are essential to experiments in nanotechnology, quantum …

Prof. Ted Rappaport, founding director of NYU WIRELESS, presented the keynote address for the first millimeter wave systems (mmSys) workshop at the 2018 IEEE INFOCOM conference in Hawaii on April 16, 2018, commemorating the 5 year anniversary since the publication of NYU’s landmark paper “Millimeter Wave Mobile Communications for 5G cellular: It will work!” Rappaport’s …

Earlier this week, Ted Rappaport, founding director of NYU WIRELESS, sat down with Marketplace to discuss the race to 5G. “The winners are going to be the leaders of the global economy,” said Rappaport. Rappaport predicts new business centers will flock to whichever telecommunications company develops the most robust 5G network first. Listen to the …