NEW YORK: A team of Columbia University researchers led by an Indian-American engineer has invented a technology that may double radio frequency data capacity.
The new 'full-duplex radio integrated circuits' (ICs) can be
implemented to enable simultaneous transmission and
reception at the same frequency in a wireless radio.
Up to now, this has been thought to be impossible:
transmitters and receivers either work at different times or
at the same time but at different frequencies.
"This is a game-changer," said associate professor Harish
Krishnaswamy who led the team.
"By leveraging our new technology, networks can
effectively double the frequency spectrum resources
available for devices like smartphones and tablets,"
Krishnaswamy added.
In the era of Big Data, the current frequency spectrum
crisis is one of the biggest challenges researchers are
grappling with and it is clear that today's wireless networks will not be able to support tomorrow's data deluge.
Today's standards support 40 different frequency bands,
and there is no space left at radio frequencies for future
expansion.
At the same time, the grand challenge of the next-
generation 5G network is to increase the data capacity by
1,000 times.
So the ability to have a transmitter and receiver re-use the same frequency has the potential to immediately double
the data capacity of today's networks.
Krishnaswamy noted that other research groups and start-
up companies have demonstrated the theoretical
feasibility of simultaneous transmission and reception at
the same frequency, but no one has yet been able to build
tiny nano-scale ICs with this capability.
http://m.timesofindia.com/tech/computing/New-technology-for-Wi-Fi-network-developed/articleshow/46584780.cms
The new 'full-duplex radio integrated circuits' (ICs) can be
implemented to enable simultaneous transmission and
reception at the same frequency in a wireless radio.
Up to now, this has been thought to be impossible:
transmitters and receivers either work at different times or
at the same time but at different frequencies.
"This is a game-changer," said associate professor Harish
Krishnaswamy who led the team.
"By leveraging our new technology, networks can
effectively double the frequency spectrum resources
available for devices like smartphones and tablets,"
Krishnaswamy added.
In the era of Big Data, the current frequency spectrum
crisis is one of the biggest challenges researchers are
grappling with and it is clear that today's wireless networks will not be able to support tomorrow's data deluge.
Today's standards support 40 different frequency bands,
and there is no space left at radio frequencies for future
expansion.
At the same time, the grand challenge of the next-
generation 5G network is to increase the data capacity by
1,000 times.
So the ability to have a transmitter and receiver re-use the same frequency has the potential to immediately double
the data capacity of today's networks.
Krishnaswamy noted that other research groups and start-
up companies have demonstrated the theoretical
feasibility of simultaneous transmission and reception at
the same frequency, but no one has yet been able to build
tiny nano-scale ICs with this capability.
http://m.timesofindia.com/tech/computing/New-technology-for-Wi-Fi-network-developed/articleshow/46584780.cms
