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Indoor environments present a significant challenge for wireless connectivity, as immense data demand strains traditional solutions. Public Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), utilizing outdoor macro base stations (BSs), suffer from poor…
Indoor high-capacity connectivity is frequently constrained by significant building penetration loss and the inherent uplink power limitations of a typical outdoor macro-cell deployment. While Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) must optimize…
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the U.S. has made the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band (3.55 - 3.7 GHz) available for commercial wireless usage under a shared approach using a three-tier hierarchical architecture,…
The 3.7 - 3.98 GHz frequency band (also known as C-band) was recently allocated in the US for the deployment of 5G cellular services. Prior to this, the lower adjacent band, 3.55 - 3.7 GHz, had been allocated to Citizens Broadband Radio…
The desirability of the mid-band frequency range (1 - 10 GHz) for federal and commercial applications, combined with the growing applications for commercial indoor use-cases, such as factory automation, opens up a new approach to spectrum…
Private network deployment is gaining momentum in warehouses, retail, automation, health care, and many such use cases to guarantee mission-critical services with less latency. Guaranteeing the delay-sensitive application in Wi-Fi is always…
Cellular operators have begun deploying 5G New Radio (NR) in all available bands: low (< 1 GHz), mid (1 - 6 GHz), and high (> 24 GHz) to exploit the different capabilities of each. At the same time, traditional 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE)…
Spectrum sharing is a critical strategy for meeting escalating user demands via commercial wireless services, yet its effective regulation and technological enablement, particularly concerning coexistence with incumbent systems, remain…
Citizen Broadband Radio Service band (3550 - 3700 GHz) is seen as one of the key frequency bands to enable improvements in performance of wireless broadband and cellular systems. A careful study of interference caused by a secondary…
New spectrum allocations in the 4--8 GHz FR1(C) and 7--24 GHz FR3 mid-band frequency spectrum are being considered for 5G/6G cellular deployments. This paper presents results from the world's first comprehensive indoor hotspot (InH)…
The millimeter wave spectra at 71-76GHz (70GHz) and 81-86GHz (80GHz) have the potential to endow fifth-generation new radio (5G-NR) with mobile connectivity at gigabit rates. However, a pressing issue is the presence of incumbent systems in…
Sharing spectrum with incumbents such as radar systems is an attractive solution for cellular operators in order to meet the ever growing bandwidth requirements and ease the spectrum crunch problem. In order to realize efficient spectrum…
As the number of user equipments increases in fifth generation (5G) and beyond, it is desired to densify the cellular network with auxiliary nodes assisting the base stations. Examples of these nodes are integrated access and backhaul (IAB)…
In the US, people spend 87% of their time indoors and have an average of four connected devices per person (in 2020). As such, providing indoor coverage has always been a challenge but becomes even more difficult as carrier frequencies…
Heterogeneous networks have been studied as one of the enablers of network densification. These studies have been intensified to overcome some drawbacks related to propagation in millimeter waves (mmWaves), such as severe path and…
The Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) recently adopted in the U.S. enables two tiers of commercial users to share spectrum with a third tier of incumbent users. This sharing can be further assisted by Environmental Sensing Capability…
The upper midband, spanning 7 to 24 GHz, strikes a good balance between large bandwidths and favorable propagation environments for future 6th Generation (6G) networks. Wireless networks in the upper midband, however, will need to share the…
The upper mid-band - roughly from 7 to 24 GHz - has attracted considerable recent interest for new cellular services. This frequency range has vastly more spectrum than the highly congested bands below 7 GHz while offering more favorable…
Private fifth-generation (5G) networks are increasingly becoming the industrys' choice of wireless communication networks for accelerating production processes. In this context, the role of 5G in providing precise positioning services in…
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has allocated the 6 GHz band (5.925 - 7.125 GHz) for unlicensed, shared use in the US. Incumbents in the band are protected via Low Power Indoor (LPI) rules that do not require the use of an…