Millimeter-wave communication

Forward thinking 5G and beyond research at IMDEA Networks receives major backing

The Wireless Networking Group at IMDEA Networks, led by the Institute’s Research Director Dr. Joerg Widmer, has received major financial backing to pursue a new communication paradigm for future very high speed wireless networks. The Madrid-based team has set itself to explore communication in the extremely high frequency part of the radio spectrum, the millimeter wave band (mm-wave) from 30 to 300GHz, to vastly increase data rates of future wireless and mobile networks.

5TONIC adds ice n’ slice to 5G innovation

As 5G prepares for commercial launch, more work is necessary on the use cases that will justify the steep investment required.

Demonstrating a 5G future

The 5TONIC co-creation laboratory recently gave an impressive demonstration of future 5G use cases to Julio Linares Lopez, chair of the GSMA’s strategy group and member of its Board. A group of 5TONIC’s senior executives from the member companies attended the event and presented the latest working examples of how 5TONIC is investigating the potential of 5G technology to drive new use cases in vertical markets.

Luz Wavelabs joins 5TONIC project as industry collaborator

Innovative wireless data company Luz Wavelabs has become a new collaborator within 5TONIC’s 5G research and co-creation laboratory in Madrid. The company joins existing collaborators that include ASTI Mobile Robotics, IFEMA, and Rohde & Schwarz.

Low frequency assists high frequency in millimeter-wave networks

This video shows two technical demonstrations of current research work on mobile technologies by the Wireless Networking Group at IMDEA Networks Institute (Madrid, Spain) in collaboration with Huawei Technologies (China).

InterDigital Announces Successful Demonstration of 5G Ready mmW Wireless Crosshaul Transport

Company’s EdgeLink™ 60GHz Solution and Fast-Forward 70GHz Solution Prove New 5G Fronthaul Upper-Layer and Lower-Layer Transport Over Wireless. Trials were performed at the 5G innovation lab 5TONIC, headquartered at IMDEA Networks.

A clear path for mm-waves and 5G technology to go hand-in-hand

If they are to achieve data rates exceeding 10Gbps, 5G networks will demand an extended range of frequencies allowing for large continuous bandwidths. The solution could arise from mm-wave bands within multi-RAT deployments.

Milimeter-wave technologies, the promise of 5G wireless communications

IMDEA Networks and Huawei Technologies have recently launched a joint research project to explore the synergies of two distinctive wireless technologies, which are both key components of the present and future of mobile communications. On the one hand, the project builds on everyday mobile networks such as WiFi and LTE. On the other hand, it integrates state-of-the-art wireless networks operating in the millimeter-wave band, as envisioned for future 5G networks. Their combination is crucial to enable the evolution of mobile networks, one of the most impactful technologies driving change and progress toward the “network society”.

Ultrafast 5G mobile broadband thanks to millimeter-wave band technology

The great ambition of the networked society is to connect everything, everywhere, all the time. But the ideal of seamless communications poses fundamental challenges to legacy networks that the new 5G communication networks currently under development need to solve. One of such challenges is supporting the significant growth of traffic demands. Next generation services such as mobile cloud service, gaming, social-networking applications and 3D immersive applications require massive capacity and higher data rates than current 4G networks are unable to sustain.

Research on the implications of millimeter-wave communication on efficient network design

Dr. Joerg Widmer, Research Professor and Research Strategy Manager at IMDEA Networks Institute, is currently a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. As part of this fellowship he has been a guest of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralf Steinmetz at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology in Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany), engaging in Mobile Communication Networks research and pushing joint scientific projects forward.

The following is a questionnaire in which Dr. Widmer’s research profile and the role of the research group that hosts him are described.

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