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| Host Organization(s) | Lab Name | Lab Type | Brief Description of Research Areas |
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| Texas A&M University | Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center (ITEC) | Academic | Interoperability, standards conformance, 4G/5G Research and Testing, Critical Communications |
| Northwestern University | Communications and Networking Laboratory | Academic | Network modeling, analysis, optimization, and implementation, with emphasis on wireless networks and time-sensitive traffic. Research interests include: beyond-5G networks, millimeter-wave, full-duplex, Dynamic Spectrum Access, machine learning, and Software Defined Radios. |
| CableLabs | Advanced Wireless Lab | Other | *Spectrum-focused analysis and simulations targeting shared spectrum and access mechanisms. * Open RAN; System Integration, Test, Validation and Development. * 5G/6G Architecture; Internal research and external contributions through standardization groups such as 3GPP. * Mobile and cable network converging architectures |
| University of Colorado | Wireless Interdisciplinary Research Group | Academic | The WIRG views improving radio frequency (RF) spectrum availability as a crucial challenge to address. Spectrum availability for wireless internet access (cellular, Wi-Fi, etc.), for weather observing via Earth Observing Satellites (EOS), for Radio Astronomy scientific observations investigating the formation of the Universe, and for aircraft and military operations truly pervade every aspect of daily life. Our research focus is on the intersection of wireless communications, passive and active spectrum sharing, spectrum policy, and hardware security in support of secure spectrum sharing for communications and scientific purposes. Several of the lab’s ongoing projects are supported by the National Science Foundation and by NASA. |
| Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. | Qualcomm Labs | Industry | As one of the world’s most innovative companies doing research and advancing standards related to wireless, and the world’s leading company developing and supplying advanced semiconductors for wireless, Qualcomm Technologies has many laboratories focused on wireless innovation. This includes research on antennas, RF technologies, basic communications techniques for 5G, 6G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and other advanced communications technologies. In addition to R&D on communications technologies, Qualcomm also does R&D in a myriad of other areas including multiple types of processors, multimedia codecs, security, location, autonomous driving, AI, and XR. While Qualcomm is centered in San Diego, California, we have labs in multiple locations in North America and around the world. |
| InterDigital | InterDigital – Wireless, Advanced Media, and Applied Artificial Intelligence Lab | Industry | As one of the world’s largest pure research, innovation, and licensing companies, InterDigital’s leadership in wireless, video, AI and emerging technologies enables and enhances the devices and connected industries of tomorrow. We develop the technologies and contribute to wireless and video standards at the core of devices, networks, and services worldwide. We actively collaborate with industry partners, startups, governments, and academia to jointly develop new technologies that enable new product capabilities. We represent a global research organization with key centers of competence in the United States, France, Canada, and UK and leadership representation in critical global standards organizations like 3GPP, ITU, and MPEG. |
| Remcom | R&D | Industry | EM simulation modeling with fullwave and asymptotics (ray tracing and physical optics). |
| Purdue University | NextG Center for Communications and Sensing | Academic | Involved in all areas of 6G research, including: – Massive MIMO and cell-free MIMO – RIS – ML for wireless communications and networking – Millimeter wave and terahertz – Security – Hardware-inspired waveforms – Integrated sensing and communications – Spectrum sensing – Software radio – Rural and precision agriculture – Intelligent transportation |
| University of California San Diego | WiSeCom Lab (Wireless Sensing and Communication Lab) | Academic | Prof. Gonzalez Prelcic works in signal processing for wireless communication, from the fundamentals of signal processing and wireless communications all the way to their applications in cellular systems for people, vehicles and factories. Her research group has made important contributions in millimeter wave wireless communications, solving fundamental problems related to configuring the hybrid MIMO architectures using signal processing and machine learning techniques. She has also pioneered techniques in integrated sensing and communications including the concepts of sensor-aided communications. Her current research focuses on wireless communications for next generation cellular systems. Her group is developing new localization techniques that leverage the wireless communication to perform localization. This work enables devices to localize in satellite-denied environments in urban canyons or indoors. Another line of research is on full-duplex for next generation multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communications. Her group is developing methods that allow full exploitation of communication and sensing capabilities thanks to full-duplex. Finally, her group is working on communication and radar sensing in the upper midbands, milimeter waves and terahertz frequencies. These spectral frontiers offer higher bandwidths and work with larger arrays, supporting higher data rates and more accurate sensing. She is excited about applications to vehicular systems. |
| Rice University | Rice Wireless | Academic | sub-THz wireless networking, sensing, and security |
| North Carolina State University | NSF AERPAW Platform and North American OTIC in the RTP Area | Academic | Use Cases: – 4G/5G SDR Experiments with autonomous vehicles – Open RAN – 3D spectrum measurements and dynamic spectrum sharing – Autonomous UAV trajectory optimization – Smart agriculture – Wireless localization – Flying base stations – Advanced aerial mobility – AI/ML enabled wireless networks A digital twin is used to develop real-world UAV and radio software remotely in software containers. Experiments can be moved back and forward between the digital twin and the outdoor physical twin (5+ square miles of outdoor flying field with 5 AERPAW towers) for iterative development and testing. AERPAW also hosts the North American OTIC in the Raleigh-Durham Research Triangle Park Area. Testing, certification, and badging services are summarized at: https://www.o-ran.org/otics/north-american-otic-in-the-raleigh-durham-research-triangle-park-area-aerpaw |
| George Mason University | Mason Innovation Laboratory | Academic | NextG security and applications application area: Transportation, Defense and Intelligence Red teaming, reverse engineering and offensive cyber |
| Florida Atlantic University | Center for Connected Autonomy and AI | Academic | The Center for Connected Autonomy and AI research focuses on creating the future of Networked-AI and Connected Autonomous Systems (in the oceans, ground, air, space) supported by 1) Autonomous resilient and secure machine-to-machine communications; 2) robust team (multi-agent) AI training; 3) real-time operational stage monitoring, all executed on software-defined continuously self-optimizing joint radio/computing platforms. Selected ongoing projects at FAU CA-AI include the development of: a first-of-its-kind testbed for connected AI robotics; ocean IoT infrastructure for coastal monitoring, conservation, and education; connected unmanned aerial systems for distributed synthetic aperture radar imaging; interference-avoiding and secure communications for swarm robotics; training dataset curation for learning in the presence of missing/faulty data. |
| Northwestern University | Communications and Networking Lab.oratory | Academic | Distributed learning over networks Interference Mitigation and Management for Spectrum Coexistence Integrated Sensing and Communications using Millimeter-Wave Systems Learning and control for advanced wireless networks MAC layer protocols for cellular vehicular networking (C-V2X) Network control algorithms for mission-critical / time-sensitive applications Network economic modeling of spectrum sharing for Next Generation (6G+) wireless networks |
| University of Toronto | Wireless Communications Research | Academic | Machine learning for wireless communications. Joint sensing and communications. Massive random access. |
| Northeastern University | Open6G | Academic | A Federal-Industry-University cooperative research, development, and testing hub to jumpstart foundational 6G research across future spectrum sharing and exploitation, Open RAN, AI/ML for inference and control, mmWave and Terahertz, dataset curation, Digital Twins Modeling, Augmented and Virtual Reality, Web 3.0, among others. |
| Virginia Tech | Synergistic Networking And Intelligence Lab (SNAIL) | Academic | next-generation wireless networks, machine learning, security and privacy, and spatial computing |
| Iowa State University | Center for Wireless, Communities and Innovation (WiCI) | Academic | The mission of the Center for Wireless, Communities and Innovation (WiCI) at Iowa State University is to advance the frontiers of wireless systems and applications while addressing the broadband gap between rural and urban regions at the same time. To this end, WiCI has been leading the National Science Foundation Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (NSF PAWR) project on rural broadband — ARA rural wireless living lab. WiCI has also been collaborating with 65+ public-private partners from industry, academia, government, and communities to drive ARA-enabled wireless and applications technology development, deployment, and adoption, and it serves as a neutral entity in wireless research, education, and innovation. WiCI is a member of the O-RAN Alliance, Next G Alliance, and Linux Foundation, and it has led the establishment of the ARA O-RAN Open Testing and Integration Center (ARA OTIC) to focus on Open RAN for rural America. ARA deploys advanced wireless, edge, and cloud equipment across the Iowa State University (ISU) campus, City of Ames (where ISU resides), and surrounding research and producer farms as well as rural communities in central Iowa, spanning hundreds of square miles of rural area. Wireless platforms featured by ARA have demonstrated promising performance so far, for instance, up to 3 Gbps wireless access throughput, up to 10 km effective cell radius, and close to 10 Gbps throughput across a wireless backhaul link of over 10 km. Building upon ARA, WiCI is leading the ARA National Radio Dynamic Zone (ARA-NRDZ) project to focus on spectrum sharing and innovation for rural America. More information about ARA and WiCI can be found at arawireless.org and wici.iastate.edu respectively, and inquires can be emailed to e2@arawireless.org. |
| Purdue University | KTK Lab | Academic | We are particularly interested in 5G/NextG ajar/open RAN architectures, open edge platforms, implementation aspects of digital communications, real-time wireless networking protocols and large-scale distributed computing, and machine learning in the realms of wireless system design. Our research is primarily focused on providing feasibility studies for cutting-edge theoretical breakthroughs in wireless communications and networking through experimentation with 5G and NextG wireless systems. |
| UT Austin | 6G@UT | Academic | ML for 6G, pervasive sensing, LEO and new topologies, ORAN and open networks |
| T-Mobile USA | T-Mobile 5G Hub | Industry | T-Mobile’s 5G Hub is an innovation center and co-lab facility located at T-Mobile’s national technology labs in Bellevue, WA. The 5G Hub enables and supports innovative proof-of-concept (PoC) and projects for early feasibility, concepting and validation of new wireless solutions, and partner demonstrations of use case application and value add. It’s here T-Mobile deploys the latest in wireless network hardware and software (core, RAN, applications, etc.) for development, integration, and testing with technologies such as network slicing, private networks, edge computing, Network based API’s and more. The 5G Hub facility is a large, open-concept facility with meeting rooms, collaboration spacs, makerspace for prototype creation, and large presentation stage for ecosystem gatherings and events. |
| AT&T | Industry | New spectrum bands Spectrum sharing/coexistence AI/ML ISAC/JSAC Open RAN |
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| University of California, San Diego | Wireless Systems Innovations Lab | Academic | The Wireless Systems Innovations Lab is Professor Robert W Heath Jr's research lab at the University of California, San Diego. His group is exploring new directions in wireless communications with an emphasize on MIMO communication systems. |
| University of California San Diego | Wireless Communication Sensing and Networking Group | Academic | Our lab has 50+ SDR N310 high-end four antennae, each connected to the high-performance switch and rack of servers. The switch is also connected to the national research platform, super computer, and internet2. We have 10+ plus user equipment devices, from Telit to smartphones and various UE devices. We have four CBRS outdoor 4 antenna units, one indoor unit with satellite backhaul. The lab has several robots, telesurgery devices, and AR/VR headsets with 5G tethering. We also have several test equipment from top vendors for ORAN-compliant testing. We have developed our own emulation framework, which uses digital twin or real-world channel traces and can emulate any number of UE devices, connect to multiple gNBs, create real traffic, and enable application developers to test things before they conduct over-the-air testing. |
| University of California San Diego | Professor Xinyu Zhang's Lab | Academic | * Intelligent reflecting surfaces for 6G communication and sensing * Millimeter-wave communication and network systems * Joint communication and sensing systems * Sub-THz communication and sensing * 6G upper mid-band communication networks * 6G experimental testbed design, implementation, and deployment * AI-native 6G communication networks |
| Department of Energy, Idaho National Laboratory | Idaho National Laboratory | Government | Engineering, analysis, workforce development, and testing of full scale communications systems. Supported by our 890 sq mile experimental complex; INL provides national level expertise in cyber security, waveform development, head to head testing, and full-scale immersive and interconnected testing environments. |
| University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Cyber-physical Networking Lab | Academic | mmWave channel modeling in agricultural fields, mmWave spectrum sharing for public safety communications, Nebraska's largest city-wide wireless experimental testbed NEXTT – Nebraska Experimental Testbed of Things, leasing and resource allocation in Private Cells, agricultural IoT, connected barrier systems for autonomous vehicles, wireless underground communications, O-RAN, 6G wireless. |
| Department of Commerce | Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) | Government | Research, development, testing, and evaluation leading to engineering solutions that enable spectrum sharing between federal and non-federal, like and unlike services; Test and Demonstration Networks to facilitate accelerated development of standards for emerging communications devices and analysis and resolution of interference issues. |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) | Bo Tang Lab | Academic | Develop xApp for O-RAN networks |
| University at Albany, SUNY | MESA Lab | Academic | Machine Learning for Future Wireless Communication |
| NIST | Communications Technology Laboratory | Government | With expertise honed over decades of research in antennas and wireless propagation, materials science and electronics testing, as well as communications network protocols and standards, CTL serves as an independent, unbiased arbiter of trusted measurements and standards to government and industry. We focus on developing precision instrumentation and creating test protocols, models and simulation tools to enable a range of emerging wireless technologies. Driving much of our work is a spectrum crunch in historically coveted wireless bandwidths. Without a new generation of extremely high-speed, sophisticated wireless systems whose capabilities and limits we’re only beginning to understand, the spectrum crunch threatens to dampen the potential of wireless data applications as diverse as mobile video, wearable devices, and public safety communications. |
| University of Notre Dame | Wireless Institute | Academic | – System design – high-level modeling, analysis, & simulation – Antenna arrays, high-frequency RF circuits – Signal processing algorithms, software-defined radio (SDR) – Radio design, manufacture, & test (COTS, prototypes, ASIC design) – Awareness of standards & products (5G/6G, WiFi 6E, …) – Large-scale measurements, data repository, & cloud infrastructure – Increasing policy emphasis, growing classified research on campus |
| NYU WIRELESS New York University | NYU WIRELESS Terahertz Lab (NSF MRI THz Measurement Facility) | Academic | he Terahertz (THz) Measurement Facility — a collaboration between New York University, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and Florida International University — is a laboratory to support basic measurements of devices, circuits, materials, and radio propagation channels at the highest reaches of the radio spectrum. While today’s cellular telephones and wi-fi networks operate at frequencies below 100 GHz, there is great promise for greater download speeds and vast new wireless applications by moving up to the underexplored sub-THz and THz frequency bands – frequencies from 100 to 500 GHz. This MRI grant provides a facility to explore wireless components and systems at these new frequencies. This grant supports three areas of measurement: a) Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit (RFIC) measurements b) radio propagation and channel modeling, and c) metrology and calibration, over the contiguous frequency range of 75 GHz to 500 GHz. A unique concept of this facility is the loan of equipment, where institutions may borrow THz components to conduct remote field measurements for wireless communications, propagation, and sensing. Evolving semiconductors and integrated circuits, as well as the next-generation electronics based on layered materials (e.g., graphene), will be measured at THz bands using the RFIC probe station. This facility will have a broad impact on the future of communications, materials, and devices. The creation of new calibration and metrology approaches are vital for accurate and repeatable measurements throughout the US research community in this underexplored range of frequencies. The study of nanotechnology devices using the RFIC probe station will unleash new capabilities in sensing, communications, and computing that may have a transformative impact on society. The radio propagation measurement systems offer vital knowledge for researchers in industry, academia and international standard bodies who will design future high-speed wireless networks for 6G, 7G and beyond. Students using this facility will gain knowledge at these new frequency bands. |
| NYU WIRELESS, New York University | NYU WIRELESS Radio Propagation and Chip Design Lab | Academic | NYU WIRELESS operates a wide range of mid-band, millimeter, and sub-THz radio propagation channel sounders, and maintains a 2 Tb database of spatial and temporal channel impulse responses from New York City in all 3GPP scenarios (e.g. UMa, UMi, InH, InF, etc.) |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Network Coding and Reliable Communications Group in the Research Lan for Electronics | Academic | Our group centers on reliable communications, low latency, security and privacy in networks. Rooted in information theory, our work advances both eh theoretical basis of understanding networks and actively translates the work, from software to hardware. |
| Google Reston Wireless Lab | Industry | – Shared spectrum incumbent sensing systems – Spectrum monitoring – Propagation measurements |
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| Commonwealth Cyber Initiative | CCI xG Testbed | Academic | Advanced wireless communication network from physical to application layer. Mainly focuses on end-to-end O-RAN. Network function virtualization, interface security, spectrum sharing, edge-cloud continuum, to mention a couple. |
| Virginia Tech | Network Science, Wireless, and Security Laboratory | Academic | Our research revolves around all facets of 6G and AI technologies including AI-native wireless networks, connected intelligence, semantic communication, wireless network design, artificial general intelligence, metaverse/extended reality, digital twins, resource management, spectrum sharing, network security, cyber-physical systems, quantum communications, and others (see our website for a full list) |
| George Mason University | NextG Wireless Lab | Academic | NextG Wireless Lab (NextG Lab@GMU) is a research group that focuses on fundamental research of next-generation wireless communications and networking with a focus on 5G/6G cellular systems, Open radio access network (O-RAN), AI/ML, cybersecurity, and spectrum sharing. We primarily focus on the experimental research and prototyping of secure, intelligent cellular communication systems, leveraging open cellular software (such as srsRAN and OAI), and software-defined radios (such as, USRP X310s and B210s). |
| Virginia Tech | Lingjia Liu's Lab | Academic | Machine learning for wireless: We have deep neural network (DNN)-based MIMO-OFDM receive processing on USRP. My group also tailors the open-source software from O-RAN Alliance, srsRAN, and OAI for three O-RAN-compliant testbeds: 1) srsRANbased testbed using srsLTE and O-RAN SC for near-real-time RAN intelligent control (RIC); 2) OAI-based testbed using OAI MOSAIC5G and FlexRIC; and 3) ns-O-RAN testbed based on ns3-mmWave and Colosseum near-real-time RIC. |
| Ericsson | D-15 Labs | Industry | D-15 is a collaboration space between Ericsson and partner companies utilizing our 5G platform. We provide end to end support, including Cloud Edge, Core Network, and AI-based Management & Orchestration. Current use cases of interest include XR and network slicing. We also host the Ericsson-Intel Tech Hub with focus cloud RAN. Note that D-15 is one of several collaboration spaces for Ericsson in North America and globally. Its setup is representative of the others. Potential collaboration would also be possible with other locations depending on the match of interests and capabilities. |
| MITRE Corporation | Telecommunications Test Lab | Other | Spectrum Sharing, Security and Resilience, open programmable networking, integrated/converged networks |
| University of Manitoba, Canada | Wireless Communications, Networks, and Services (WiCoNS) Research Laboratory | Academic | Current research topics: 1. Reconfigurable intelligent surface-aided wireless systems (design, analysis, optimization, and prototyping for communications and sensing) 2. Integrated terrestrial-aerial-satellite communications systems (modeling, analysis, multiple access, resource management and optimization) 3. Wideband antenna systems and multi-band large/massive MIMO communications 3. Physical layer security in wireless communications 4. Distributed machine learning for wireless systems and security of machine learning models 5. Intelligent wireless networks, spectrum sharing, co-existence, and network economics |
| University of Maryland | Ulukus Lab | Academic | Research Information theory, wireless communications, machine learning, signal processing, networks. Recent focus: Quantum information theory Semantic communications Age of information, freshness of information Machine learning for wireless Federated multi-task and personalized learning Federated submodel learning Private read update write Private information retrieval Blockchains Group testing Distributed coded computing Physical layer security Energy harvesting communications Wireless energy and information transfer |
| UC San Diego | Wireless Systems Innovations Lab | Academic | The Wireless Systems Innovations Lab is the name for Professor Robert W. Heath Jr's research group. In January 2024, the group is moving from North Carolina State University to the University of California at San Diego (after moving from UT Austin in 2020). The group has collaborative extensively with industry in the past and has graduated 49 Ph.D. students. Current research areas including all aspects of MIMO wireless communications including large arrays, near-field communications, reconfigurable antennas, beam codebook design, metasurface antennas, low resolution MIMO communications and machine learning for beam training and beam tracking. The group is also doing exploratory work on radio-over-fiber for MIMO fronthaul and on quantum communications and sensing. |
| Nokia | Nokia Bell Labs | Industry | Throughout our 100-year history, Nokia Bell Labs has overcome some of the world’s biggest scientific challenges by bringing together the brightest minds in mathematics, physics, computing and engineering. We identify a problem, and then commit our best people to find a solution. As an industrial research lab, we innovate with purpose, pursuing responsible, sustainable technologies that will have a demonstrable impact on society. And we believe the best research is done in an inclusive, collaborative manner, taking multiple diverse points of view into account. The research areas are (1) Network Fundamentals (2) Automation (3) Semiconductors and Devices and (4) AI and Software Systems |
| Nokia | Nokia Standards | Industry | Nokia Standards lab drives standardization and fosters a favorable industry environments globally. Nokia standards is committed to deliver critical networks through technology leadership and trusted partnerships. The major areas we are involved: a. Cellular Standards : 3GPP (RAN, SA), 802 based standards, ORAN b. Multimedia Technologies c. Device Technologies d. Network Technologies e. Spectrum Technology Across Multiple sectors: Metaverse, Connected services, IoT devices, Connected vehicles, Consumer electronics, Mobile handsets Involved in various alliances : NGA, 6G-IA, Japan Beyond 5G Promotion Consortium, Korea 6G, Bharat 6G, 5G ACIA, 5GAA to name a few |
| Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation | WiSARD | Other | Our current research is in the areas of: Open RAN interoperability testing and validation, Spectrum sharing, 5G Network Security, Research studies on 5G/6G use cases such as NTN, AR/VR, IIoT, Mission critical applications, etc. |
| Old Dominion University | 5G Lab | Academic | 5G and beyond, O-RAN |
