JMA Wireless, MIT professor to work on 5G research partnership

SYRACUSE — Syracuse–based JMA Wireless Inc. (JMA) is involved in a three-year research partnership with a professor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to deliver true ultra-reliable low-latency (URLLC) wireless service.

Muriel Médard is the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering at MIT and a “leading voice” in reliable network communications, per a JMA Wireless news release issued on July 25.

“Historically the industry has traded performance to achieve reliability — making wireless URLLC impossible. MIT and JMA are working to make URLLC a reality without sacrificing performance — delivering wirelessly what could previously only be done with a hard-wired connection,” JMA contended.

The collaboration will focus on two key research areas. The first is how to deliver ultra-reliable low-latency wireless service to make mission-critical applications. Médard and JMA will also research how to make wireless networks “greener and more efficient without sacrificing performance.”

Smart applications such as autonomous driving are “promising in their ability to change lives for the better,” but their adoption has been “limited due to a lack of reliability,” JMA Wireless said. Médard’s research has created techniques that simultaneously improve reliability and reduce latency.

“Together with JMA, we will drastically reduce the types of legacy inefficiencies that currently stymie URLLC,” Médard contended in the release. “These lead not only to delays, but also to wasteful energy consumption through needless retransmissions and palliative measures such as over-use of bandwidth. We are teaming up with JMA’s unique expertise in radio networks to apply network coding in a 5G standard-compatible way, also opening the way for 6G innovation in the area.”

“Today, nearly seven out of ten 6G patents belong to countries other than the U.S.,” Joe Constantine, JMA’s chief technology and strategy officer, said. “With Professor Médard, we are working to advance critical R&D right here in the U.S. with one of the greatest minds in our field, as we restore wireless leadership to this country and control our technology future.”

This partnership builds on Médard and Constantine’s panel at Mobile World Congress Barcelona, where they discussed the power of network slicing, JMA Wireless said.         

SYRACUSE — Syracuse–based JMA Wireless Inc. (JMA) is involved in a three-year research partnership with a professor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to deliver true ultra-reliable low-latency (URLLC) wireless service.

Muriel Médard is the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering at MIT and a “leading voice” in reliable network communications, per a JMA Wireless news release issued on July 25.

“Historically the industry has traded performance to achieve reliability — making wireless URLLC impossible. MIT and JMA are working to make URLLC a reality without sacrificing performance — delivering wirelessly what could previously only be done with a hard-wired connection,” JMA contended.

The collaboration will focus on two key research areas. The first is how to deliver ultra-reliable low-latency wireless service to make mission-critical applications. Médard and JMA will also research how to make wireless networks “greener and more efficient without sacrificing performance.”

Smart applications such as autonomous driving are “promising in their ability to change lives for the better,” but their adoption has been “limited due to a lack of reliability,” JMA Wireless said. Médard’s research has created techniques that simultaneously improve reliability and reduce latency.

“Together with JMA, we will drastically reduce the types of legacy inefficiencies that currently stymie URLLC,” Médard contended in the release. “These lead not only to delays, but also to wasteful energy consumption through needless retransmissions and palliative measures such as over-use of bandwidth. We are teaming up with JMA’s unique expertise in radio networks to apply network coding in a 5G standard-compatible way, also opening the way for 6G innovation in the area.”

“Today, nearly seven out of ten 6G patents belong to countries other than the U.S.,” Joe Constantine, JMA’s chief technology and strategy officer, said. “With Professor Médard, we are working to advance critical R&D right here in the U.S. with one of the greatest minds in our field, as we restore wireless leadership to this country and control our technology future.”

This partnership builds on Médard and Constantine’s panel at Mobile World Congress Barcelona, where they discussed the power of network slicing, JMA Wireless said.