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28/May/2024 Japanese Consortium Achieves World's First Demonstration of 5G Communication from Altitude of 4km Using 38GHz Band    8/Jun/2022 Successful Japan-Europe Joint Experiment on Integration of Satellite Links in Japan-Europe Long Distance 5G Network   

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NEWS 28/May/2024 Japanese Consortium Achieves World's First Demonstration of 5G Communication from Altitude of 4km Using 38GHz Band

A groundbreaking achievement in 5G communication was announced today by a collaborative effort involving SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation, NTT DOCOMO, INC., Panasonic Holdings Corporation (Panasonic HD), and NICT.

In a pioneering demonstration, these industry leaders successfully conducted a 5G test at 4km altitude using the 38GHz band. This marks a significant milestone in telecom tech, aiming to showcase of terrestrial 5G.

This demo represents a major step in advancing 5G for high-altitude comms, highlighting collaboration to innovate telecom.

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8/Jun/2022 Successful Japan-Europe Joint Experiment on Integration of Satellite Links in Japan-Europe Long Distance 5G Network

NICT has conducted a Japan-Europe joint experiment for connecting satellite and 5G, including Japan-Europe long-distance network. Successful transmission of 5G control-plane signal, 4K video, and IoT data was achieved in January and February of 2022 for the first time in Japan.

For details, please visit the following webpage.

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24/Mar/2022 New jobs announced (Researcher positions)

We are now looking for researchers who are motivated in creating a future by advanced wireless communication technologies.

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7/Jan/2022 Interview with Dr. Kolev Dimitar

The interview with Dr. Kolev Dimitar has been released. As a senior researcher in the Space Communication Systems Laboratory, he talks about his job and impressions of working at NICT through his experiences.

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NICT has a long history of studying wireless communication systems. It began with the study of radio telegraphy in 1896 at the Electricity Test Site of the then Ministry of Communications and Transportation. This was the starting point of the study on wireless communications in Japan.
Since then and up until today, wireless communication technologies have remarkably evolved from radios and televisions to cell phones and satellite communications, enabling us to communicate with each other and transfer data from various places and environments.

When the 5th-generation mobile communication system (generally called “5G”) becomes widespread, the Internet of Things (IoT) where everything will be tied to the Internet, and the artificial intelligence (AI) will be commonly used. This is expected to revolutionize our society.
Meanwhile, various issues may arise; the depletion of frequency resources caused by an explosive growth of traffic in the field of wireless communications, ensuring communication during a major disaster on land or from the sea, and the digital divide between cities and rural areas.

Looking ahead to “Beyond 5G” and “6G”, and focusing on “Society 5.0,” a concept of a future society that Japan should aspire to, the Wireless Networks Research Center of NICT is engaged in R&D of wireless networks under any circumstances or environments on land, in the sea, up in the air and in outer space.

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With the social innovation through digital transformation within sight, Wireless Networks Research Center aims at creating value and unprecedented security within an ultra-smart society by promoting need-based R&D with following missions;
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*IoE: Internet of Everything

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