Qualified organizations can now join WWRF as provisional member. This exciting new opportunity enables academics, universities and research institutes from developing countries to join WWRF for two years without needing to pay membership fees. The provisional members have all the voting rights, access to member-only information, travel grants, and free registrations for meetings that full members have. Many new members…
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) recently published a report on “Future technology trends of terrestrial International Mobile Telecommunications systems towards 2030 and beyond”. This report is based on contributions from a wide range of organizations, including significant input from WWRF as an ITU Sector Member. WWRF contributed to its creation through inputs created by experts in non-terrestrial networks, new radio…
Recently, WWRF hosted a reception at ITU headquarters to celebrate ITU’s continued momentum towards IMT-2030 and WWRF’s partnership with ITU. Those present included Mr Mario Maniewicz, Director of the Radiocommunications Board at ITU and Mr Uwe Löwenstein, Counsellor ITU-R Study Group 5, and many members of the WWRF Steering Board and participants in the ongoing WP5D meeting. This was an…
Recently, WWRF renewed its Memorandum of Understanding with ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute). ETSI, through its leading role in the 3GPP partnership and its groundbreaking standards on cybersecurity, IoT and many other topics, is an organization that WWRF is very happy to work with on cybersecurity, reconfigurable radio systems and other areas to be decided. Each organization is entitled to…
The Chairman of WWRF, Nigel Jefferies visited Aarhus University in July and signed an MoU between WWRF and CGIC (CTIF Global Capsule) which the international organization that Prof. Ramjee Prasad heads. WWRF hopes it will lead to increased exchanges of information between the two outfits, including promotion of each other’s events.
Developing Countries’ Needs Countries with a tradition of telecoms technology development – often the greatest economies in the world, especially in North America, Europe, and parts of Asia – have overwhelmingly had the biggest role in setting up international standards. For example, at the recent ITU workshop on its vision for mobile networks beyond IMT-2020, there were no representatives from…
The 6G Vision and Technologies Group focuses on research that looks five to ten years ahead in order to meet the requirements of the networks in the year 2030 time-frame. The group looks into the gaps in 5G that would need to be filled, resulting into incremental changes to 5G, called B5G until such time that clear requirements of 6G…
Motivated by the potential of THz technologies to transform the future of ICT, this workshop aimed reveal and discuss the critical technology gaps as well as the appropriate enablers, in terms of baseband processing RF frontend, channel models and waveforms, signals and coding, beam-patterns and medium access control schemes. Most importantly, this workshop attempted to shed some light on the…
WWRF organised the workshop at IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems in December 2021. Four papers were presented at the workshop followed by a panel on Impact of 5G and 6G on Connected Vehicles.
A team from WWRF has been taking part in the evaluation of candidate technologies to be recognised as compliant with the ITU IMT-2020 requirements. One of these was submitted by ETSI TC DECT and the DECT Forum, and following its successful evaluation, has now been announced as the world’s first non-cellular 5G technology. The other Outlook covers evaluation of the technology…