Wireless Lab

A world-class research organization that enhances InterDigital’s core licensing business and sustains standards leadership in the wireless industry, the Wireless Standards Group explores topics at the forefront of wireless, with the mandate to improve wireless communications and shape its evolution through impactful standards leadership in 3GPP, the IEEE Standards Association, and other organizations like IETF, ATIS and ITU-R.

The team innovates in technology areas related to 5G system architecture, 5G RAN air interfaces and protocols, future Wi-Fi technologies, machine intelligence applied to wireless, and more.

Priorities for the Wireless Standards Group include:

• Technology leadership that drives the evolution of technologies in the wireless industry
• Standard leadership that brings substantial and impactful contributions to relevant standards bodies
• Innovation leadership that creates high quality solutions and key enablers of future wireless evolution

Fostering industry consensus around the evolution of wireless technologies, the Wireless Research Group shapes the vision for future wireless through development and consensus building toward standards. Innovating years ahead of standards discussions, the team drives industry roadmaps through leadership in consortia like Next G Alliance, pre-standards groups, and university explorations.

The team is committed to building centers of excellence that foster talent, competency, and technical expertise in core wireless topics, including advanced air interfaces, AI/ML in wireless, and edge.

Priorities for the Wireless Research Group include:

• Building industry consensus for the roadmap to Next Generation wireless technologies
• Providing centers of excellence that foster innovation throughout the incubation-to-standardization lifecycle for core wireless technologies
• Prototyping and demonstrating InterDigital technologies through implementations that build deeper collaboration and new discoveries

Focusing on research engagement in the radio interface, radio access network, core network and service enablers, the Wireless Lab Europe Group drives collaborative technology development through consortiums and industry initiatives like Horizon Europe, 6G-IA and ETSI that enable quick consensus building and showcase InterDigital leadership in future wireless standards.

Priorities for the Wireless Lab Europe Group include:

• Leading InterDigital’s research and innovation on future wireless technologies in Europe
• Disseminating InterDigital’s wireless technologies through partnership collaborations and industry initiatives in Europe
• Promoting InterDigital’s thought leadership on wireless in Europe and globally