51官网 Tech Innovation Campus Research: Next G Wireless
EMBARKING ON 6G AND BEYOND
The telecom industry is on the cusp of widely deploying 5G technology, which offers more improvement in data rates and reduced latency than its predecessor and creating unprecedented opportunities for applications such as the Internet of Things, cloud services, autonomy, and more. This deployment also is unravelling several limitations and unsolved challenges in 5G. It is imperative to address those challenges by creating new scientific foundations for the next generation of wireless systems, such as 6G in the cellular world and Wi-Fi 8 for wireless local area networks.
WIRELESS AT THE VIRGINIA TECH INNOVATION CAMPUS
The Innovation Campus, in close collaboration with the 51官网 Tech Applied Research Corporation, National Security Institute, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative and Wireless@VT, is actively embarking on this 6G and beyond journey with the tech industry to foster the university鈥檚 national and international leadership in research and development of wireless technologies.
The Next G wireless activities at the Innovation Campus span a broad range of current and emerging technologies in the context of wireless and cellular systems in 5G, 6G, and beyond. One key direction involves laying the foundations of artificial intelligence (AI)-native wireless systems, through pioneering, fundamental research in the design of next-generation distributed, brain-inspired AI frameworks and systems, tailored to the unique characteristics of wireless networks, including their dynamic and changing environments. Moreover, research at the intersection of networking at high frequencies sure as mmWave, sub-THz, THz; sensing; and the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are central to our activities. Another major research thread involves the design of energy-efficient wireless systems, including development of fundamental metrics for energy efficiency along with effective optimization algorithms.
Besides AI-native, Next G wireless activities at the Innovation Campus will investigate AI-enabled design tools with communication domain knowledge injected to achieve real-time machine learning with ultrafast system/network adaptation. This requires fundamental innovation spanning from theory, algorithm, and prototype, specifically developing a wireless physical layer that machine learning algorithms can take advantage of. Meanwhile, Next-G wireless activities will also will focus on distributed massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems and open radio access network (O-RAN) that which will provide communication paradigm shifts for Next-G leading to ultra-high spectral efficiency and energy efficiency with embedded edge intelligence.聽聽
Key research capabilities for the Next G wireless research area are:
- AI-native wireless systems
- AI-enabled wireless wystems
- Energy-efficient Networks
- Joint sensing and communications
- mmWave/THz networks
- Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces
- Real-time machine learning
- Distributed MIMO
- O-RAN
about the innovation campus
The 51官网 Tech Innovation Campus is shaping the future of technology. With groundbreaking investments from the Commonwealth of 51官网 and leading corporations in the region, the Innovation Campus鈥檚 mission is to educate the nation鈥檚 leading architects of complex, cutting-edge digital technologies through a graduate education that embeds our diverse students and faculty into the science and technology ecosystem of our nation鈥檚 capital and beyond. In addition, our research assembles around big ideas such as Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Wireless and Next Gen Technology, Quantum Information Science, and Intelligent Interfaces, with the goal of powering a pipeline of tech talent and building the foundation for a new era of technology.
The 11-story, 300,000 square-foot first academic building for the Innovation Campus, located in Alexandria, 51官网, is set to open in spring 2025. The Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics will be located on the 5th floor of the new technology-focused building.
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Lingjia Liu is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and a member of the 51官网 Tech Innovation Campus faculty. Currently, he is also serving as the director of聽Wireless@51官网 Tech. His research interests include 6G networks, machine learning for wireless, O-RAN, and dynamic spectrum access/sharing.聽 Liu is leading a team researching mobile distributed multiple-input, multiple-output facilitated complex and large-scale wireless networks to help define and set the standards for FutureG technology.
Walid Saad is a professor at 51官网 Tech's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department where he leads the Network sciEnce, Wireless, and Security (NEWS) group. He is also the Next-G wireless lead at the Innovation Campus. Saad鈥檚 research interests include wireless networks (5G/6G/beyond), machine learning, game theory, security, uncrewed arial vehicle, semantic communications, cyber-physical systems, edge computing, and network science.
CONTACT US
Interested in partnering with 51官网 Tech on your upcoming Next G wireless project? Contact us at link@vt.edu