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“Bridge to 6G: Spotlight on 3GPP Release 20”, authored by ABI Research and commissioned by InterDigital, explores how 3GPP Release 20 serves as the pivotal link between 5G-Advanced and the next-genera ...

Media over Wireless: Networks for Ubiquitous Video explores the escalating demands and trends around consumer behavior for video and immersive experiences over wireless networks. XR applications are p ...

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC), or the convergence of telecoms and sensing data, has the potential to turn every cell phone into a functional radar device, capable of mapping and detectin ...

As the 6G vision becomes clearer, researchers continue the critical work of innovation and exploration of the technologies that will make 6G capabilities real. Among its novel capabilities, 6G will in ...

The futures of AI and wireless networks are intricately intertwined. On the one hand, AI is a potent tool for automating the deployment and management of wireless networks. The next-generation wireles ...

Deep learning based automatic modulation classification (AMC) has received significant attention owing to its potential applications in both military and civilian use cases. Recently, data-driven subs ...

While advances in Machine Learning have revolutionized certain areas (computer vision, robotics, natural language processing, etc.), the application in wireless communications has been less dramatic. ...

"Compressed beamforming algorithm is used in the current Wi-Fi standard to reduce the beamforming feedback overhead (BFO). However, with each new amendment of the standard the number of supported ante ...

5G has excelled in the consumer domain and 5G-Advanced is now being designed with enterprise-specific features that will allow enterprise success. These include Reduced Capability (RedCap), ambient In ...

The challenging propagation environment, combined with the hardware limitations of mmWave systems, gives rise to the need for accurate initial access beam alignment strategies with low latency and hig ...

"The future wireless networks look forwards to proving ubiquitous connection with reduced power consumption. Benefits from the development of programmable and softwaredefined metamaterials, the reconf ...

"The geographic data and timestamps of subscribers held by mobile carriers have long been used by law enforcement and intelligence agencies to conduct legal investigations, largescale surveillance, or ...

The ubiquitous deployment of 4G/5G technology has made it a critical infrastructure for society that will facilitate the delivery and adoption of emerging applications and use cases (extended reality, ...

Following the publication of the State of 5G Advanced report, written by ABI Research and commissioned by InterDigital, this webinar will introduce some of the exciting news and opportunities 5G Advan ...

"Industrial applications and Extended Reality vertical sectors have expressed the need for dedicated Quality of Service considerations by 3GPP to support time-sensitive and bursty high throughput comm ...

"Abstract—3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 18 has initiated a comprehensive study of Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) use cases for Air Interface, e.g., Channel Stat ...

5G has reached significant commercial and technical milestones. However, so far, its focus remains primarily on Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) and fixed wireless applications. As per the IMT-2020 vi ...

The system behind global standards, such as 5G, is one of the great commercial success stories of the modern industrial age. The process of collaboration, which brings together innovators from around ...

Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) is one of today’s most widely discussed and anticipated technologies. The promise of automation and intelligent enhancement of functions and operat ...

What defines a good versus a bad sensory experience –particularly if you want to charge a premium for it? That’s a difficult question when physical, digital and virtual worlds merge. It depends on a h ...

A recent whitepaper from InterDigital and ABI Research whitepaper argues that AI and 5G are cornerstone technologies that will together enable new levels of automation, optimization, and potential for ...

5G and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are the breakthrough technologies of this decade. The combination of these technologies will serve as a catalyst to many other emerging areas and will pave the way ...

Featuring engineers, developers, and analysts at various junctions of the 5G innovation ecosystem, InterDigital’s webinar, “The State of 5G: Opportunities at the Edge,” hosted with Fierce Wireless, wi ...

5G is now a mainstream technology and a global success with nearly 1 billion subscribers already enjoying the high speeds the new generation offers. Previous generations created the applications and t ...

"5G new radio (NR) sidelink (SL) is envisioned as a key enabler of high speed, low latency applications like automated driving. To meet the high data rate requirements for such applications, SL suppor ...

"In a free space optics (FSO) based drone assisted mobile network, a drone mounted base station (DBS) can be rapidly deployed over a place of interest to relay traffic between mobile users and a macro ...

5G networks will become commonplace within the next five years, expected to deliver on multiple promises of gigabit speeds, ultra-low latency, higher reliability and improved density in device connect ...

With the increasing number of commercial 5G deployments, research on Beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G has started in earnest. Although it is too early to safely claim what 6G systems will look like or how they ...

The future of manufacturing industry highly depends on digital systems that convert existing production and monitoring systems to autonomous systems with stringent requirements in terms of availabilit ...

Cellular technology evolution across multiple generations has consistently sustained the global economic growth. Each of these generations has uniquely contributed to boosting the world Gross Domestic ...

We propose XRC, an explicit rate control algorithm that overcomes the poor performance of commonly used TCP variants in cellular networks. XRC exploits an explicit feedback from the radio access netwo ...

Based on the foundation of current video coding and distribution standards, the France-based 3EMS project funded by the Brittany Region aims to deploy the first end-to-end 5G Versatile Video Coding (V ...

Techniques which leverage channel state information (CSI) at a transmitter to adapt wireless signals to changing propagation conditions have been shown to improve the reliability of modern multiple in ...

In this work, we propose a novel deep learning-based framework for the adaptive configuration of DMRS used for MIMO CCE. Specifically, a neural network architecture is proposed at the terminal side wh ...

The topic of sustainability has never been higher on the societal agenda than it is today. On one hand, the United Nation’s (UN) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all of its 195 memb ...

Open radio access network (Open RAN) technology has emerged as an important focus for the mobile industry over the past 18 months. Its rapid rise to prominence reflects strong interest from many mobil ...

Next generation Terabit per second (Tbps) wireless communication systems aim for sub-THz and THz bands where noise and hardware impairments are known to be dominantly non-linear and lack accurate clos ...

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have the ability to steer the electromagnetic waves to a desired direction. This enables the improvement of the wireless link performance by allowing the illu ...

Low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs) bring exceptional networking capabilities that will enable the massive roll-out of the Internet of Things (IoT). Among these capabilities are the support of ultra ...

This article proposes multiple multi-domain solu­tions to deploy private SG networks for vertical industries. Dif­ferent models of deploying SG private networks are presented, covering deployment on l ...

Building upon on a digital transformation, Industry 4.0 (I4.0) aims to build the factories of the future, which feature additional flexibility, increasingly connected infrastructures and automated pro ...

Intelligent radio surface (IRS) is a programmable structure that can be used to control the propagation of electromagnetic waves by changing the electric and magnetic properties of the surface. By pla ...

InterDigital’s AdvantEDGE is an open edge emulation platform that offers an experimentation environment that enables application developers and network architects to explore new edge application model ...

Joint communication and sensing allows the utilization of common spectral resources for communication and localization, reducing the cost of deployment. By using 5G New Radio (NR) (i.e., the 3rd Gener ...

New Radio (NR) supports operations at high frequency bands (e.g., millimeter wave frequencies) by using narrow beam based directional transmissions in order to compensate high propagation losses at su ...

In total, new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things will save approaching 1.8 PWh of electricity in 2030, and an additional 3.5 PWh of (hydrocarbon) fuel use, resulti ...

Telecoms represents one of the wealthiest industries today, boasting more than 5.3 billion users and earning $1.38 trillion in service revenues. The pursuit of new generations of wireless has for deca ...

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for real-time radar-based human activities detection and classification. In this approach, first, the radar transceiver is mounted on the room’s ceiling lead ...

Sustainability and the impact of energy consumption on the climate are becoming urgent issues for the wireless industry. To assess how energy considerations will affect mobile networks and whether eme ...

This document describes the winning solution to the GNN Challenge 2020 organized by the Barcelona Neural NetworkingCenter for the ITU Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning in 5G Challenge. We first ...

Blockchain technology is a technology that jointly leverages and builds on top of a few existing techniques such as cryptography, hashing, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networking, smart contract, and consensus ...

For Internet operators, on-line service providers and end-users, representative operational measurements are crucial to monitor and diagnose the performance of networks and on-line services. While num ...

This paper investigates the task management for cooperative mobile edge computing (MEC), where a set of geographically distributed heterogeneous edge nodes not only cooperate with remote cloud data ce ...

In this presentation we’ll talk about the development of Beam Management and describe the system attributes related to performing the initial beam establishment. We will also review the supported 3GPP ...

The emergence of edge computing introduces new complexity in the creation of distributed mobile applications. Application designers can now deploy application functionality in three or more tiers of c ...

The mobile telecommunications industry is one of the richest business sectors in recent times. With 5.3 billion users and US$1.38 trillion service revenues, ABI Research estimates that the sector cont ...

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is an emerging paradigm that integrates computing resources in wireless access networks to process computational tasks in close proximity to mobile users with low latency. ...

In this paper, a simple compact radiation pattern reconfigurable patch antenna is presented. The proposed design is composed of two back-to-back identical patches surrounded by a conductive strip, etc ...

5G promises to bring back value to the network operator and not only serve as a data pipe solution anymore. Operators have started to adopt cloud-native paradigms for the deployment of the 5G core arc ...

Zero-forcing precoding is a commonly-used multiple-user, multiple-input multiple-output beamforming technique. Applying such precoding, the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) statistics wi ...

5G will go beyond today’s consumer-oriented enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) services to enable use cases for vertical industries that will leverage Massive Machine-type Communication (MMTC) and Ultra ...

5G promises new service enablement, lower costs, higher productivity and lower latency. But how and when will the promise become reality?Technically, virtualization is the biggest revolution in 5G and ...

This paper presents a novel planar compact integrated four-sector antenna for sub-6GHz 5G indoor access and content distribution over 2.45GHz/ 5.5GHz dual-band WiFi in 2x2 MIMO configuration. The four ...

In a newly-released white paper, ABI Research estimates the total value unlocked by 5G will reach $6.5 trillion within ten years of the standard being adopted, growing to an astounding $17 trillion by ...

The fifth generation of mobile networks, commonly known as 5G, holds a lot of promise. Historically, 2G brought us mobile voice, while 3G introduced us to mobile data. 4G and LTE enabled usable mobile ...

The global economy is experiencing rapid changes during the first years of the 21st century, with new technologies, concepts, and behaviors now changing the way we live and work. Blockchain, self-driv ...

See how InterDigital’s Service-based Architecture (SBA) platform is currently being deployed and evaluated in Bristol and Barcelona in multi-partner initiatives such as the Horizon2020 FLAME and the U ...

Join Ravikumar Pragada, Senior Principal Engineer at InterDigital, as he discusses what’s happening in 5G Standards, and what's coming next for Beyond 5G technology. ...

Don Tian, Senior Principal Engineer at InterDigital, discusses the importance of video standards as it relates to 5G live from the InterDigital booth at MWC19 in Barcelona. ...

Join Alan Carlton, VP InterDigital Labs, as he discusses Edge Computing at MWC19. ...

This demonstration hosted by Robert Gazda, Senior Director of Engineering at InterDigital, highlights the benefits of Edge Computing combined with 5G Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC) ...

This demonstration hosted by Charles Turyagyenda, Staff Engineer at InterDigital, highlights the benefits of micro-services based distributed computing at the extreme edge of the 5G network. Experienc ...

This simulation from InterDigital showed how an edge platform might be used to take telemetry from drones and use it to control the flight paths of drones in real time, to avoid collisions. It’s impor ...

Join Fred Schreider, Senior Director of Engineering at InterDigital as he discusses how mmWave is a continuing part of the 5G evolution, from testbeds to new standards initiatives. Take a remote look ...

Light Reading, Heavy Reading, and ATIS are excited to present the results of a study we executed in collaboration with our sponsors. We joined forces to explore the key factors that will empower the f ...

What makes 5G different from all other Gs? After efforts to develop specifications, technology and research, the industry has an initial view of how the next generation of 5G services will look. What’ ...

As part of the first 5G-CORAL trial, Nov. 2, 2018, Charles Turyagenya, Staff Engineer, InterDigital demonstrates virtual reality in the form of adaptive 360-degree video streaming over the 5G-CORAL so ...

Alain Mourad, Director, InterDigital Europe, provides an overview of the first 5G-CORAL trial, Nov. 2, 2018. A series of demos, conducted by InterDigital and other members of the 5G-CORAL consortium t ...

As operators prepare for 5G service launch around the globe, the industry has a reasonable view of how the initial generation of 5G products and services will look and is moving forward with confidenc ...

To research the future of the Internet of Things (IoT), Mobile World Live conducted an online survey of 393 people in the mobile industry – one of the largest IoT surveys to date - on behalf of InterD ...

Originally conducted in the Spring of 2018, The TelecomTV 5G EVOLVED AND DEFINED survey highlights to what extent CSP/telco opinions depart from those of Network Equipment Providers (NEPs) and softwar ...

The Mobile Operator Innovation Map showcases how the world’s top operators are fostering, investing in and supporting innovation. After surveying and researching top operators from across the globe, w ...

This paper presents a novel compact, wideband, four directional radiation patterns, antenna. The radiating element topology is inspired from the Annular Slot Antenna (ASA) and printed wideband monopol ...

This paper presents a novel compact hybrid monopole- Annular Slot Antenna (ASA). The proposed antenna combines the advantages of an ASA with the broadband feature of a wideband monopole. The antenna s ...

A fully functional ‘5G’ network will involve a wide variety of technologies and capabilities. In this video, InterDigital's Alan Carlton walks us through six key arguments that position the Edge as mo ...

In this MWC18 demonstration, InterDigital's Dirk Trossen and Sebastian Robitzsch showcase how our FLIPS platform provides a SW-based solution on top of proliferating 5G technologies (SDN and NFV). ...

During MWC18, InterDigital's Yong He demonstrated an end-to-end 360 video live streaming platform with AR capabilities that is built upon a series of state-of-the-art video standards, including MPEG O ...

In this MWC18 demonstration, InterDigital's Phil Leithead and Lisa Lam show some of the fundamental concepts enabling millimeter wave 5G integration with the existing LTE standard in nonstandalone mod ...

5G, more than any previous generation, promises to enable a diverse range of applications, services, and user experiences: from ultra-high definition video, fiber-quality mobile broadband, massive IoT ...

5G is happening now, and the upcoming years will see many new testbeds and trial networks. The testbeds will lay and validate the foundation of 5G, but will also set opportunities for new research ini ...

In this MWC18 interview, Robert "Bob" DiFazio gives The Mobile Network an inside look at the new technologies that InterDigital is trialling right now in operator test beds. ...

InterDigital's CCO Patrick Van de Wille takes us on a tour of the MWC 2018 InterDigital booth and provides insight into technology demonstrations, the InterDigital studio space, and other happenings t ...

In this MWC18 interview with The Mobile Network, Dirk Trossen outlines why networks need an intelligent edge, and describes new routing technologies that can enable it. He also says that edge compute ...

This MWC18 panel debate features industry leaders from China Telecom, Affirmed Networks, 3GPP, Qualcomm, ECI Telecom, ZTE and InterDigital discussing core versus edge; what evolution will be more impo ...

In order for network slicing to deliver on its promise as an effective tool to generate new revenues and profitability, new business models must match the dynamic technical and operational changes tha ...

The path to 5G standardization is a long one with a very busy and tight schedule. Several milestones towards IMT-2020 submission have been reached in various standards organizations. After releasing t ...

End-to-end network slicing holds promise as the key to unlocking new business opportunities with 5G to drive revenue growth. So exactly how will service providers benefit from slicing? And how can the ...

Smart city technologies could save enterprises, governments and citizens globally over US $5 trillion annually by 2022. This is the conclusion reached by ABI Research in this new white paper, which an ...

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are currently moving from the phase of standardization to that of early proliferation and adoption as common 5G base technol ...

MEC and other edge computing initiatives address the need to place processing and storage where appropriate, whether a central location or the network’s edge, depending on factors such as applications ...

A survey and analysis of service providers' trials, timelines and implementations of 5G technologies spanning across Asia, Europe and North America is the focus of the January 31st release of TIA's 5G ...

Light Reading's Ray Le Maistre discusses 5G and IoT with InterDigital's Alan Carlton at Mobile World Congress 2017. ...

InterDigital's Yong He demonstrates a personalized virtual reality platform at Mobile World Congress 2017. ...

InterDigital's Fred Schreider talks through a real-time 3D “Remote Surgery: 4G vs. 5G” game application and explains the technology powering the application, Crosshaul with InterDigital’s EdgeLink™ 60 ...

Within the next two decades, it is predicted that every person, industry, and service provider will be using 5G systems. The fifth generation wireless standard is expected to underpin new technology d ...

InterDigital's CCO Patrick Van de Wille takes us on a tour of the MWC 2017 InterDigital booth and provides insight into the technology demonstrations presented at the show. ...

MEC and other edge computing initiatives address the need to place processing and storage where appropriate, whether a central location or the network’s edge, depending on factors such as applications ...

Looking at various research and standardization forums leading the development of 5G, such as 5G-PPP, NGMN, 3GPP, IEEE, ITU, IETF, ETSI, etc., all seem to align on the vision that the fronthaul and ba ...

Today's networks have an atomic, discrete architecture, but as technology develops and more users and devices become a part of the equation, they are evolving into more user-centric and pervasive netw ...

Today's networks have an atomic, discrete architecture, but as technology develops and more users and devices become a part of the equation, they are evolving into more user-centric and pervasive netw ...

MEC is a foundational network architecture concept, which will help 5G networks live up to their potential as “living networks”, while delivering significant capability gains required for IoT, enhance ...

The Olympic games are a global phenomenon that draw in millions of viewers every two years, and wireless technology developers are working endlessly to keep up with the demands of the mobile audience. ...

In designing the next generation of mobile communications technology for 5G, developers are expected to include multiple radio technologies in order to address the broad range of use cases and their d ...

Check out this free report, published by Telecoms.com Intelligence and co-sponsored by InterDigital and Mitel, that analyzes and presents the findings of an in-depth questionnaire answered by over 800 ...

The evolution from LTE to 5G will be the most profound transformation on the wireless industry since the transition from analog to digital. In order for the 5G networks of the future to become truly “ ...

Check out this demonstration for the H2020 5GPPP 5G-Crosshaul consortium that integrates InterDigital's EdgeLink™ system into an integrated fronthaul and backhaul trial at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hert ...

With the recent finish of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, there is huge interest in how the 2018 Winter Olympics and 2020 Summer Games will be the launchpad for the latest generation of mobile te ...

The key differentiator for IoT is the data collected and the use of this data to improve business operations, products, support, and customer experience. Many companies have already connected their eq ...

You might be wondering, “who is InterDigital?” What do we do, and how have we impacted the technology of today – and tomorrow? Check out this video to learn the answers and more! ...

The polarization of the BSC(γ 1 ) with a BSC(γ 2 ) is characterized explicitly for γ 1 , γ 2 ∈ [0, 1/2]. The polarization yields a channel W - which is a BSC(λ), and a channel W + which is composed of ...

Wi-Fi is the preferred way of accessing the Internet for many devices at home, but it is vulnerable to performance problems. The analysis of Wi-Fi quality metrics such as RSSI or PHY rate may indicate ...

At 5G World, InterDigital's Dirk Trossen demonstrates and explains our Next Generation Networks platform. The platform is a hybrid of pure ICN and IP, to leverage the best of both: re-introducing mult ...

In practice, making existing cities smart is proving hard. Many different stakeholders need to be involved, while sensors, controls and connectivity can be difficult to install in dense urban environm ...

Hopes are sky-high for what 5G may enable, from 20 Gbps speeds to extremely low latency to connections for billions of IoT new devices. But there are still many unknowns. This FierceWireless eBook spo ...

Hopes are sky-high for what 5G may enable, from 20 Gbps speeds to extremely low latency to connections for billions of IoT new devices. But there are still many unknowns. This FierceWireless eBook spo ...

Standardization of mobile technology is a critical step in bringing together industry views and ideas, while ultimately ensuring that devices and networks are able to communicate with each other and m ...

The wireless industry is working towards the fastest, smartest network to date – 5G. The demand for low latency and high availability required for 5G networks and services is driving the emergence of ...

At MWC ’16, we utilized our millimeter wave 5G technology to live stream a tour guided by Patrick Van de Wille, Chief Communications Officer in which he interviewed some of our subject matter experts ...

InterDigital Europe's Dirk Trossen provides his view on the role of NFV and SDN in the 5G space in this episode of RCR Wireless' NFV/SDN Reality Check. ...

TIA NOW’s Abe Nejad moderates a 5G panel discussion with Gabriel Brown, Senior Analyst at Heavy Reading and author of the 5G Operator Survey and White Paper; Shawn Covell, VP of International 5G Advoc ...

Discover the benefits of a policy driven intelligent connection management solution, such as InterDigital's Smart Access Manager, from the perspective of subscribers and service providers. ...

Public Wi-Fi is increasingly important for the business models of communications service providers and for consumers, but it will not fulfil its full potential unless it is seamlessly integrated with ...

Within the next two decades, it is predicted that every person, industry, and service provider will be using 5G systems. The fifth generation wireless standard is expected to underpin new technology d ...

Nowadays, agile operators view unlicensed spectrum as a tool that can be used to help build a heterogeneous network that offers users a homogenous experience. Wi-Fi is no longer considered the competi ...

The Smart City concept is predicted to provide safer, more efficient and environmentally conscious living corridors for a large and growing urban population. The migration of a city’s energy grid, tra ...

The next major shift in mobile broadband – 5G – will enable innovative services through emerging wireless core technologies and a programmable infrastructure designed to meet new requirements. One of ...

In wireless networks such as those based on IEEE 802.11, packet losses due to fading and interference are often misinterpreted as indications of congestion, causing unnecessary decrease in the data se ...

Packet losses due to fading and interference are often misinterpreted as indications of congestion, causing unnecessary decrease in the data sending rate due to congestion control at higher layer prot ...

With the growth rate of new-device mobile data traffic significantly greater than the growth rate of users, Wi-Fi wireless data delivery currently accounts for 20 times more of data delivery than cell ...

The Future of Wi-Fi Promises up to a 4-Fold Capacity ImprovementMobile data traffic is growing at an annual rate of more than 60%, and Wi-Fi usage is already 20x greater than cellular systems for wire ...

A REVOLUTION IN MOBILE OPERATOR NETWORK ECONOMICS Data demand is predicted to maintain its steep growth curve for the indefinite future. This growth isn’t being fueled simply by adoption, so there’s ...

With the growth rate of new-device mobile data traffic significantly greater than the growth rate of users, Wi-Fi wireless data delivery currently accounts for 20 times more of data delivery than cell ...