Appendix B: Additional Information on 5G-Related Research Projects

Appendix B: Additional Information on 5G-Related Research Projects

B.1 Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly)

The consortium is developing advanced technologies toward 5G, concentrating on developing smart and more cost-effective wireless infrastructure utilizing advances such as small light antennas with directional beamforming capable of bouncing signals off buildings using millimeter-wave spectrum. Also targeted is the development of smaller, smarter cells with devices that cooperate for spectrum bandwidth, rather than compete for it.

The move to the relatively unused and inexpensive millimeter-wave spectrum is led by Professor Theodore (Ted) Rappaport, who recently joined the NYU and NYU-Poly faculty. The NSF’s Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology (WICAT) at NYU-Poly is where most of the project’s research will be conducted. The industrial partners’ labs will also conduct research.

Other WICAT faculty researchers involved in the project include Associate Professor Sundeep Rangan, co-founder of Flarion Technologies (acquired by Qualcomm), who leads the team’s work on limiting the interference in small (femto) cells. Professor Elza Erkip is a pioneer in relaying and cooperative communications and a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society. Research Assistant Professor Pei Liu implemented one of the first cooperative systems in a university test bed. NYU-Poly Industry Professor Michael Knox, founder of Asension Laboratories, will lead research into full duplex antenna technology that enables simultaneous transmission and reception on the same RF carrier frequency while operating through a patented single antenna element, effectively doubling capacity.

Hardware and software from NI will serve as the test bed for these 5G research initiatives to be proved quickly through rapid iteration capabilities.

More details are available at the project website: http://engineering.nyu.edu/

B.2 Intel Strategic Research Alliance (ISRA)

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  Dramatic Increase in Network Capacity. 5G technologies must provide dramatically increased capacity to address a projected 100x increase in mobile traffic over the next 10 years. In particular, this increased capacity is critical for addressing the rising demand for rich multimedia content and the expectation that billions of diverse, machine-type devices will require network connectivity.
  
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  Uniform Connectivity Experience Throughout the Network. If 5G technologies are to support a uniform service experience, they must address the inconsistent quality of user connectivity as evident in the high degree of variability in data rates. Such variability follows from temporal variations in channel conditions, user location, the interference environment, network congestion and the type of service desired.
  
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  High Level of Service Quality and User Experience. Beyond communication links, 5G technologies must also account for application data characteristics and user context to guarantee an overall high service quality. Our goal should be to deliver good application-specific service quality while maximizing the efficiency of information transfer based on available context information.
  

Program research in candidate 5G technologies addresses a large number of technical areas, including:

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  Millimeter wave channel measurements, modeling, and capacity analysis
  
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  Massive MIMO algorithms and architectures
  
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  Orbital angular momentum multiplexing in millimeter wave
  
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  Feasibility and system design aspects of indoor millimeter wave wearable networks
  
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  Radio environment map algorithms and spectrum sharing
  
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  Self-interference cancellation and full duplex
  
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  Soft radio access network architectures
  
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  Integrated cellular and device-to-device communications
  
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  Automated compute and connectivity sharing frameworks
  
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  Analysis of smartphone energy drain and context aware solutions
  
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  Asynchronous random access using superimposed codes
  
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  Topological interference management and information theoretic approaches to device-to-device