5G Wireless Technology

3GPP to study 5G in unlicensed as part of accelerated standard schedule. Qualcomm leading the effort. Unlicensed bands up to 60 GHz will be studied.

AT&T debuts 5G channel sounder ‘Porcupine’ with NI | FierceWireless. Good start. Perhaps future generations will have an antenna architecture more representative of the narrower and electronically steerable beams that will be used in actual …

Towards a City-scale Laboratory for Advanced Wireless Research | Research | UW–Madison. RCN co-PI Xinyu Zhang will be co-leading this effort as part of the UW2020 research awards just announced. Congratulations Xinyu!

FCC launches new system for experimental licensing | FierceWireless. FCC press release

NI touts public demo at 28 GHz using Verizon’s 5G spec | FierceWireless. Related: the first real-time demonstration of a 28 GHz multi-beam (4×2) multliuser MIMO prototype was done at the UW-Madison a year earlier on May …

Ericsson, SoftBank 5G trial in Tokyo to include mobility at 28 GHz | FierceWireless.

T-Mobile busy testing 5G but not on the fixed wireless bandwagon: CTO | FierceWireless.

FCC’s Pai: We will implement ‘Section 7’ to evaluate any new technology or service, including above 95 GHz | FierceWireless.  

Mobile World Congress 2017: 5 Major 5G Announcements – Page: 1 | CRN.

NSF awards $6.1 million to accelerate advanced wireless research, push beyond 5G | NSF – National Science Foundation.