05/22/2025
The O-RAN ALLIANCE and the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern University have successfully concluded the seed funding initiative, launched by O-RAN ALLIANCE in November 2023 to support research and development of next generation open Radio Access Network (RAN) infrastructure.
02/27/2025
The AI-RAN Alliance has announced that Northeastern University’s Open6G experimental platforms are now part of the first wireless laboratories endorsed by the organization. These state-of-the-art platforms offer a unique range of solutions for AI-RAN research, development, and testing—from large-scale hardware-in-the-loop emulation and over-the-air software-defined radios to continuous testing of RAN workloads and a private 5G network built on open and programmable software.
08/08/2024
We are excited to announce our collaboration with Tech Mahindra, to further develop innovative and industry-leading solutions in ORAN and 6G. This collaboration will focus on end-to-end testing and system integration in virtual and real-world environments, using innovative technologies such as digital twins and large-scale wireless network emulation systems, driving the fast-paced adoption of open, programmable and AI-powered RAN solutions.
The in-person read-out for the Joint North American O-RAN PlugFest is scheduled for May 29th at 9am-12pm at the Northeastern University campus in Burlington, MA.
Address: 147 S Bedford St, Building 5, Burlington, MA 01803
The Northeastern University campus in Burlington is about 30 minutes driving North of Boston. There are several convenient accommodation options around the campus. Northeastern operates a shuttle between the main campus in Boston and Burlington.
Remote participation will be arranged through an O-RAN ALLIANCE WebEx, the link can be found in the O-RAN ALLIANCE wiki.
05/14/2024
The Open6G Open Testing and Integration Center (OTIC) at the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT) at Northeastern University announces the general availability of testing and integration solutions for Open RAN, including conformance, interoperability, and end-to-end testing based on the O-RAN ALLIANCE specifications. The Open6G OTIC supports the testing for performance and interoperability requirements that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has highlighted as priorities in the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund (PWSCIF) NOFO 2 on Open Radio Commercialization and Innovation.
04/11/2024
Students from the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things showcased their research at the 2024 RISE Expo hosted by Northeastern University. The presented posters, shown below, explored topics such as robotic mapping and digital twins for 5G communications.
04/04/2024
Viavi Solutions Inc. today shared milestones in 6G and AI research based on the company’s 6G Forward Program. As 6G is the first AI-native generation of wireless communications, data sources such as a 6G city-scale digital twin will be vital for training other elements of the network such as the 6G AI-Native Air Interface.
04/03/2024
The Open6G Open Testing and Integration Center (OTIC) at the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT) at Northeastern University today announced entering into a partnership and contractual agreement with AmpliTech Group, Inc., a NASDAQ company, to perform 5G interoperability testing (IoT) and conformance testing of AmpliTech’s newly released, leading-edge O-RAN CAT B 64T64R MIMO radio unit (O-RU).
2/27/2024
At the GSMA Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024, Northeastern University and the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a partnership on research and development on next-generation wireless networks.
11/17/2023
The O-RAN ALLIANCE has awarded the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT) at Northeastern University the first round of nGRG seed funding. This will support platforms for research and development of next-generation open Radio Access Network (RAN) infrastructure.
11/16/2023
Researchers at WIoT, in collaboration with Purdue University, conducted the first in-depth measurement study of the mobile networks of all three major US carriers while driving across the continental US.
10/31/2023
WIoT start-up DeepCharge – led by Yousof Naderi, Kaushik Chowdhury, and Ufuk Muncuk – is receiving notable media attention. Watch the full ABC News interview here.
9/28/2023
Researchers Unveil ‘Multiverse’ Approach for Vehicle-Mounted Millimeter-Wave Radios, Employing Real-Time Digital Twins to Optimize Beam Selection in Dynamic Environments.
9/27/2023
The Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things presents the 5G Training and Certification for Students in collaboration with the Qualcomm Wireless Academy (QWA) 5G University Program.
9/21/2023
The future of wireless technology is taking a giant leap into the world of sub-terahertz and terahertz technologies. Read how WIoT researchers are actively exploring this emerging field.
9/21/2023
A visionary research initiative from WIoT Institute researchers, now supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), could reshape the spectrum landscape above 100 GHz.
9/20/2023
Learn how the WIoT Institute nurtured their experience as the next generation of tech innovators shaping the future of technology.
9/13/2023
This cutting-edge network features a fully virtualized and automated Radio Access Network (RAN) using OpenAirInterface (OAI) and a cloud-native mobile core by A5G.
8/29/2023
This paper was awarded at WiOpt 2023, the 21st International Symposium on Mobile, Ad-hoc, and Wireless Networks held in Singapore.
8/25/2023
The Global OTIC Summit brought together the Open RAN ecosystem’s experts, researchers, and industry leaders.
8/22/2023
This initiative will build the fundamental science underlying the next generation of data-driven cellular networks and aims at making these networks operating with the swiftly proliferating Open RAN framework secure by design against cyberthreats.
8/21/2023
This seminar will focus on non-terrestrial connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT) and, more specifically, on radiofrequency (RF) based non-terrestrial Machine-Type Communication (MTC).
8/14/2023
In a recent conversation with IEEE Spectrum, WIoT’s Principal Research Scientist, Michele Polese, discusses solutions for the data-hungry wireless society of the 6G era.
8/10/2023
This article is an analysis of the rapidly evolving 5G networks and the implications on the deployment of terahertz wireless communications.
8/09/2023
This achievement, announced on August 8th, was awarded to the WIoT Institute project “Toward Energy Efficiency Testing in Open RAN.”
8/04/2023
Researchers at WIoT at Northeastern University study whether today’s ultra-fast 5G mmWave networks can support latency-critical multi-user AR applications.
8/02/2023
The Terahertz Communications Special Interest Group (SIG) at IEEE aims to advance research and development in Terahertz (THz) communications for 6G and beyond.
8/01/2023
Researchers at WIoT Institute present a comprehensive tutorial exploring techniques and scenarios to facilitate active/passive sharing above 100 GHz while maximizing the benefits for all users.
7/31/2023
We celebrate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury’s outstanding achievement as one of the top 10 finalists at the 2023 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists in the Physical Sciences and Engineering category.
7/26/2023
Researchers at WIoT Institute present a comprehensive analysis of the state-of-the-art in electromagnetic nanoscale communication and networks, employing a meticulous bottom-up approach.
7/19/2023
Prof. Yeh’s patent is a data-centric computing framework integrating joint computation, caching, and request forwarding. It includes a virtual control plane operating on request counters and an actual plane handling computation and data requests.
7/06/2023
WIoT Institute at Northeastern University announces the establishment of an Open Testing and Integration Center (OTIC) in Burlington, MA, to promote research, development, and testing of next-generation Open Radio Access Networks (Open RAN).
6/29/2023
Davide Villa, a Ph.D. candidate and researcher at the WIoT Institute, joined forces with Open Air Interface Software Alliance to showcase the O-RAN over the air demos.
6/13/2023
During the most recent edition of NI Connect, Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and other influential leaders delved into the significance of long-term investments in critical technologies for the future of testing at NI Connect.
5/31/2023
A Reservation-based Adaptive MAC Protocol for OFDM Physical Layers in Underwater Networks” is one of the most recent in a series of works by WIoT researchers intended to test the limits of solutions for underwater networking.
5/26/2023
WIoT Institute researchers tested SC2430 signal conditioners in a private 5G deployment, evaluating them under diverse conditions and loads, showcasing Northeastern University’s expertise in testing next-gen wireless network devices.
5/22/2023
WIoT Institute was pleased to host Marc Sanchez Net, Telecommunications Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who introduced us to deep space communications systems, technologies, and practices currently used at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to operate missions across the solar system.
5/19/2023
Researchers demonstrated a 16 Gbps communication link using a custom-built, fully re-configurable software-defined radio (SDR). How they made it possible? Learn the details
5/12/2023
Professor Josep Jornet explains in an interview with “New Day” at Arirang TV, a Korean TV network, what will happen with the introduction of 6G, the current state of this technology, and its future.
5/3/2023
Researchers at WIoT Institute have recently developed SignCRF, a scalable, channel-agnostic, data-driven radio #authentication platform with unmatched precision in wireless #fingerprinting devices.
4/24/2023
Prof Melodia discusses the status of 6G research and the challenges associated with its full development.
4/24/2023
heir definitions describe the equipment and methods required to implement spectrum-driven embedded wireless networks utilizing deep learning in real time.
4/21/2023
This paper explains how modular Machine Learning (ML)-based neural networks can be used to replace the channel estimation, demapping, and decoding operations in the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) receiver.
4/19/2023
The FutureG Working Group will provide a collaboration forum to discuss the key technological advances needed in 5G technologies.
4/18/2023
WIoT Institute and its Open6G R&D Center announce the availability of the first production-ready private 5G network fully automated through Artificial Intelligence (AI).
4/13/2023
WIoT researchers apply the digital twin (DT) concept to large-scale wireless systems to address, obviate or minimize the impact of errors of emulation models.
4/7/2023
WIoT Institute Professors Salvatore D’Oro, Tommaso Melodia, and Francesco Restuccia were recently awarded a patent for “Device and method for reliable classification of wireless signals.”
4/6/2023
Professor Josep Jornet and Ph.D. student Sherif Badram were awarded the Best Demo Award at the 24th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (ACM HotMobile ’23) for their work “Adversarial Aerial MetaSurfaces.”
09/3/2023
We are happy to announce Professor Josep Miquel Jornet’s participation as keynote speaker during the IEEE WCNC Wireless Communications and Networking Conference #WCNC2023 next March 27th in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
09/3/2023
A new spectrum best practices document has been published by the National Spectrum Consortium MIL-CIV Task Group and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) with the participation of Professor Tommaso Melodia as Task Group co-chair.
07/3/2023
WIoT Institute will be featured in the “A Bridge to 6G – Aerial Research and Innovation Platform” session, with the latest research in wireless systems and applications based on artificial intelligence and machine learning.
02/3/2023
WIoT Institute director Tommaso Melodia was named honorary director of Hanscom Air Force Base Communications and Information Division with nine directors and commanders.
01/3/2023
The WIoT Institute is at the #MWC23 in Barcelona, presenting the end-to-end framework that enables the automated deployment of O-RAN services and network intelligence at the virtual exhibition.
01/3/2023
Professor Francesco Restuccia was recently awarded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Office of Naval Research with the Young Investigator Awards.
27/2/2023
WIoT recently contributed to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) request for comments regarding the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Implementation.
27/2/2023
The latest research paper, ‘Breaking Through the Air-Water Interface with Software-Defined Visible Light Networking’ has been published in IEEE Internet of Things Magazine.
23/1/2023
The first detailed tutorial on Open RAN discusses the major research challenges researchers and practitioners in the wireless community face. It also presents early research results and a deep dive into the O-RAN specifications to describe the network architecture, design principles, and interfaces.
18/1/2023
Explore NeutRAN is a zero-touch framework based on the O-RAN architecture for improved performance with fewer infrastructure and spectrum resources.
12/30/2022
Professor Jornet and his team, in collaboration with NASA, the United States Air Force, and Amazon, have demonstrated for the first time that high-speed, high-bandwidth wireless communication can be performed over long distances using the terahertz frequency.
12/2/2022
ECE Associate Professor Yanzhi Wang will organize the First Workshop on DL-Hardware Co-Design for AI Acceleration to be held in February 2023 at the 2023 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023).
11/23/2022
ECE Principal Research Scientist Michele Polese received the Mario Gerla award for research in computer science at the ISSNAF Young Investigators Award ceremony.
11/15/2022
The Institute of Wireless Internet of Things (WIOT) at Northeastern University and The Beyond 5G Promotion Consortium (B5PC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to accelerate the global efforts toward implementing beyond 5G and 6G technologies.
ns-O-RAN is the first open-source platform for end-to-end simulation of 5G wireless networks driven and optimized by Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) components, part of the OpenRAN Gym framework.
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09/27/2022
Northeastern University’s Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT) launches OUSD(R&E) Funded Open6G Cooperative Research and Development Center.
06/28/2022
ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia received a patent for creating a “Reconfigurable implantable medical system for ultrasonic power control and telemetry.”
06/28/2022
ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia and ECE Research Assistant Professor Emrecan Demirors were awarded a patent for designing a “method and apparatus for wireless communications.
05/31/2022
In a world where humans and intelligent machines will soon be working side-by-side, companies are working to ensure that human beings—not their hardware-built friends—remain in the driver’s seat.
05/26/2022
An idea that was once considered science fiction, is now closer to becoming a reality thanks to Northeastern professors who have successfully tested a method that could allow telecommunication providers to move beyond 5G and into higher bandwidths.
05/18/2022
ECE Professor Edmund Yeh was awarded a patent for a “network and method for delivering content while minimizing congestion costs by jointly optimizing forwarding and caching strategies.”
05/10/2022
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia was awarded a $500k NSF grant for creating “A Software-Defined Edge Infrastructure Testbed for Full-stack Data-Driven Wireless Network Applications.”
05/10/2022
DeepCharge, founded by ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and Research Assistant Professor Yousof Naderi, was featured in the Forbes article “DeepCharge Develops Universal Wireless Charging“. DeepCharge is a NU startup and part of the accelerator program at the Roux Institute.
05/04/2022
ECE Associate Professor Josep Jornet received the 2022 IEEE Radio Communications Committee (RCC) Early Achievement Award for his pioneering contributions to the field of terahertz communications.
05/04/2022
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia and William L. Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia received the best paper award at the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM), for their work “ChARM: NextG Spectrum Sharing Through Data-Driven Real-Time O-RAN Dynamic Control.”
04/22/2022
Professor Edmund Yeh will give an invited seminar titled “Data-Centric Networking: Theory, Algorithms and Applications” in the Electrical Engineering Seminar Series at Harvard University John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
02/25/2022
ECE Associate Professor Stratis Ioannidis and Professor Edmund Yeh were awarded a patent for “Joint routing and caching method for content delivery with optimality guarantees for arbitrary networks.”
02/22/2022
The Institute Director, Professor Tommaso Melodia, joins the Driving 6G Research Priorities Panel in a discussion.
02/07/2022
The Institute Director, Professor Tommaso Melodia, explains the importance of wireless 5G service in broadcasting events like the Olympics.
02/01/2022
Professor Tommaso Melodia discusses how 5G technology works and why a reliable wireless network is essential in this age of streaming games and entertainment on the go.
02/01/2022
The Institute Director, Professor Tommaso Melodia, was awarded a patent for designing an “Ultrasonic multiplexing network for implantable medical devices.”
02/01/2022
The Institute Director, Professor Tommaso Melodia, was awarded a patent for creating a “Distributed wireless network operating system.”
02/02/2022
Wireless providers will shut down 3G throughout the year, leaving an unknown number of devices without service.
01/26/2022
What is the cause of 5G signal disturbances at U.S. airports that led to the flight cancellation crisis, and how does it affect 5G’s future?
The emergence of 5G service near U.S. airports has led to the cancellation of flights by international carriers.
Director Tommaso Melodia is being interviewed on France 24 Tech 24.