Nokia Bell Labs Partners With Finland University for 5G Research and Training Center

Nokia Bell Labs and the University of Oulu, Finland, established a research and training center for wireless infrastructure for 5G and beyond, they said in a Wednesday announcement. An aim of the center is to train talents for the needs of a digital society and to develop future technologies for an era where networks have more capacity, energy efficiency, application awareness and built-in self-optimization, they said. Early research efforts will target new radio technologies for 5G, they said, and a project focusing on 5G radio frequency integrated circuit design, a 5G test network and system development activities has begun.