For 5G, researchers need city-sized playgrounds in sequence to scrupulously exam and rise their technologies. That’s because a National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today that it will muster dual Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research.
The dual PAWR (pronounced “power”) exam beds will be in Salt Lake City, Utah, and New York City. For a Salt Lake exam bed, a NSF will partner with a University of Utah and Rice University (in Houston, Texas) to manage a platform. In New York, Rutgers University, Columbia University, and New York University will have that responsibility.
The perfect scale of these exam platforms will concede for investigate options formerly taken to researchers. “We’ve done singular measurements in a laboratory,” says Sundeep Rangan, a executive of NYU WIRELESS, “but zero during this scale.” Rangan says a platforms will concede some-more consummate contrast of some of a large promises of 5G, including applications such as VR/AR and unconstrained vehicles.
These exam beds are about some-more than contrast 5G, though. “What we are meditative is after 5G,” says Thyaga Nandagopal, a emissary multiplication executive for a Division of Computing and Communication Foundations during a NSF. In years to come, these exam beds will promote investigate into bands of spectrum that have never been used for telecommunications.