"Kumu has conducted successful field trials of a miniature version which can be incorporated into a mobile phone. That could have a huge impact on the communication industry. The duplex radio connected to any network, can double the network's performance," says Bharadia.
"India has much denser users when it comes to cellular data connectivity and very few cellular towers. This technology can be used easily to build relays which can listen to the signal from the cellular tower and transmit it instantaneously, which would help us to extend the range very easily in India. This means we don't need to put in entire infrastructure for the cellular towers," he says.
According to Radha Krishna Ganti, assistant professor, department of electrical engineering, IIT Madras, people have been talking about full duplex for some time. "There are a lot of other techniques for self-interference cancellations. But the MIT researcher is one of the earliest to come up with the technique, as a team began work when he was in Stanford. Until now, there is no commercial deployment of this technique. Full duplex can be a candidate for 5G technology, but it may take another 10 to 15 years," he adds.
The duplex radio has a number of new applications, from improving internet connectivity to motion tracking, says Bharadia. He is now researching on how to use the radio to build an indoor navigation device for the blind as well as enable humans to communicate with wi-fi devices.
No comments:
Post a Comment