MIT and Ericsson have come together to collaborate on two research projects that seek to help build a new network infrastructure needed to empower the use cases the next generation of mobile networks will bring.
Ericsson announced this from its official blog. It said the new mobile network generations bring ultra-fast speed, low latency, and superb reliability to the end user. However,large, feature rich networks are complex structures to manage for network operators.
That’s why Ericsson is working to research cognitive networks, which rely on artificial intelligence (AI) to enable a secure, highly automized, data-driven network operation. The collaboration is to improve the compute power, speed and energy efficiency of cognitive networks. The two will be looking into new research into new designs in lithionic chips enabling neuromorphic computing, offering exponentially more energy efficient AI processing. This could enable fully cognitive networks with reduced operation complexity and energy consumption compared to today.
In addition to research on lithionics, Ericsson and the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) are also collaborating on research of mobile networks that connect trillions of sensors and other “zero-energy” devices around us. The research may show how devices can harvest energy from radio signals and other sources, as well as how systems can be designed to utilize this low power to accomplish simple tasks, including how a mobile network may be designed to connect and control these devices.
“5G is leading to a fully-realized IoT and bringing us closer to a truly connected world,” said Magnus Frodigh, Head of Ericsson Research in a written statement. “Massive amounts of tiny IoT devices and AI-driven, cognitive networks are two drivers of the next leap forward. Working with the brilliant teams at MIT, we hope to develop the hardware that will make that possible.”
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