NYU WIRELESS announced that CableLabs, the nonprofit research consortium for the cable industry, has joined its research center as it drives development of the next super-fast generation of mobile technology, 5G. CableLabs is the 12th industry affiliate sponsor of the research center, joining Intel, Samsung, Qualcomm, and others, as the industry starts to look beyond 4G and LTE-A, in pursuit of faster connections and greater access.
The rapid consumption of wireless data continues to outpace the industry’s ability to meet demand. By 2020, an estimated 50 billion devices will be connected to wireless networks worldwide. In order to keep pace with demand, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently began exploring the potential of mobile services in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) radio spectrum—an area in which NYU WIRELESS is developing fundamental science and mathematical channel models needed to create 5G equipment. CableLabs’ research also lies at the heart of wireless: With more than half of all broadband traffic across all technologies initiated over Wi-Fi, new technologies and new spectrum policy supporting wireless broadband are of strategic importance for the cable industry and broadband subscribers.
Researchers around the world envision that new technology using the mmWave spectrum could increase today’s wireless data capacity by a thousand-fold or more—essential for meeting demand growth that will exceed 60 percent annually for decades to come. The use of the mmWave spectrum is emerging as practical through the pioneering radio propagation and system simulation work at NYU WIRELESS.
The New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering launched NYU WIRELESS in August 2012. Focused on mass-deployable wireless devices across a wide range of applications and markets, NYU WIRELESS is the first university center to combine wireless, computing, and medical applications research. NYU WIRELESS includes more than 20 faculty members and 100 graduate students from the NYU School of Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and the NYU Langone School of Medicine.
