Wednesday, September 16, 2015

EMEA: 5G Innovation Centre opens in the United Kingdom


The University of Surrey has officially opened its 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) in partnership with Huawei and other industry players. In separate announcements, both organizations spoke of their commitment to the topic of 5G.


The Innovation Centre will house more than 170 researchers and has already received over $108 million (£70 million) of investment. This is the world’s largest academic research center focusing on next generation mobile and wireless connectivity. The participants not only include academic experts, but major industry partners who are also providing investment along with resources in the form of 5G infrastructure and industry expertise. They have already developed technology that enables speeds of one terabit per second. To put this in perspective, this is more than 1,000 times faster than the highest 4G speed. They have also filed over 15 patents.


Professor Rahim Tafazolli, Director of the 5GIC, said: “While we have already achieved record-breaking speeds, 5G is not only about delivering faster mobile internet. It is a transformative set of technologies that will radically change our private and professional lives by enabling innovative applications and services, such as remote healthcare, wireless robots, driverless cars and connected homes and cities, removing boundaries between the real and cyber worlds. These capabilities make 5G a ‘Special Generation’ of connectivity.


Huawei announced its participation in the 5GIC along with the investment of £5 million to the program as part of its $600m commitment to 5G research and innovation globally between 2014 and 2018. During yesterday’s opening ceremony Huawei streamed Ultra-High-Definition (Ultra-HD 4K) video along with a range of IoT applications over a 5G air interface on the test bed it helped to install on the University’s campus. The video was streamed to a mobile device over an enhanced outdoor mobile network.


The 5G radio network architecture utilized during the test makes use of radio computing architecture (RCA). This technology can use a single resource pool and slice it to accommodate different 5G applications. These applications could support such functionality as self-driving vehicles, remote healthcare, smart city services and Ultra-HD video streaming via end-to-end “network slicing”. As 5G deployments look to support use cases instead of general network connectivity, this type of functionality becomes extremely important.


Dr. Tong Wen, IEEE fellow, Huawei wireless CTO and 5G principal scientist said: “Huawei is very pleased to be working as part of the team at the 5GIC. We are committed to researching and developing future technologies that help build better connected societies, businesses and economies, and ensuring 5G is a success is essential in achieving this. Globally we will work closely with research institutions, operators and small enterprises, to turn the 5G dream into reality. The 5GIC will play an important role in this by helping us start testing foundational 5G technologies as early as possible.”


Learn more about the 5GIC in the following video.



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