WWRF – Wireless World Research Forum

The Wireless World Research Forum is the place where the global wireless research community meets to explore and develop the research challenges that confront us as we look beyond current 5G deployments. On the newly launched WWRF website, you can find out more about our current, future and past activities. This includes important information on upcoming events and special workshops. The ongoing effort to roll out 5G technologies, and the ongoing debate on how to meet the requirements of the various vertical industries that will make use of 5G are also being studied, with WWRF members closely involved in all these discussions, and publications such as our Outlook series are a good guide to them. But the mission of WWRF is to look beyond current technology and businesses to identify the key research trends that will impact our world in the next 5-10 years.

With over 50 members from across 4 continents, WWRF brings together a wide range of industry and academic players, and has a particular focus on the contribution of newly emerging market sectors and developing regions. As an example, the Vertical Industry Platform (VIP) programme of working groups focuses on vertical industry requirements, including business models, connected vehicles, ehealth, rail networks and the water industry, while new technical working groups have been set up to address key technology questions, such as the use of higher frequencies above 5GHz and the impact of AI technologies on communication networks. Lots of results and information from our most recent events are available, and, of course, the website also contains all the required information for prospective members, including application forms and details of membership fees and benefits.

WWRF Chairman's 2025 Outlook

Dear WWRF Members,

2024 was a busy year for WWRF, with three successful meetings and an excellent Huddle in Berlin. We’ve run workshops, made major contributions to the ITU and published the first edition of WWRT, with the second edition now available online. I’d like to thank all our members, and our colleagues at partner organizations, for all your help and contributions to these efforts. In 2025, we are running the RAFCATH workshop at IEEE CCNC in January, have our 53^rdmeeting in Hyderabad, India, and are planning the Huddle for September and our 54^th meeting in November. Watch for further details soon. We’ll also be concluding our evaluation work with ITU and contributing to a number of their working parties. This year marks the beginning of the standardization phase of 6G, with the 3GPP taking up the baton with their 6G workshop, and we will emphasizing this by releasing the 6G position papers that many of you have been working on, the culmination of over seven years work in WWRF on defining the key technologies impacting on 6G. I’m glad to see that, year on year, we are increasing our membership. If you are not already a member, we would like to welcome you on board!