08 February 2024
Ericsson has signed long-term co-operation agreement with Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) for joint research in tech areas including AI and edge compute to contribute to development of 6G.
Ericsson and IIT Kharagpur have signed two agreements that they say will allow researchers from both organizations to push the boundaries of fundamental and applied research in the radio domain.
Among the planned research initiatives, one will explore resource optimization, dynamic observability and sustainable distributed and edge computing technologies. Another highlighted initiative will explore causal AI methods for joint communication and sensing (JCAS), including RL-based beamforming.
AI and compute research is instrumental to 6G, as compute offload must be managed dynamically at edge and the policies would primarily be driven by AI to help 6G networks run faster and more efficiently.
The co-op agreement with IIT Kharagpur comes several months after Ericsson set up an ‘India 6G’ research team in its R&D Center in Chennai to supplement its global efforts to develop 6G technologies.
“In the 6G era, IIT Kharagpur aims to contribute to radio access technology and network, core network, RF and device technologies, VLSI design, neuromorphic signal processing, services and applications,” said IIT Kharagpur director Virendra Kumar Tewari. “The institute also looks forward to participate in telecommunications standardization process, developing test beds, prototype development and commercialization along with training and manpower development.”
