Northeastern University has received one of the first grants from the CHIPS and Science Act’s $1.5 billion Wireless Innovation Fund to test approaches to building open and interoperable next-generation wireless networks.
“We’re very excited to be here today, and to have this opportunity to partner with government and industry as the leading research institution in Open RAN,” Tommaso Melodia, the William Lincoln Smith Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the director of the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (WIOT) at Northeastern, said at Tuesday’s announcement event with officials from the U.S. Commerce Department on Northeastern’s Boston campus.
The development of open and interoperable wireless equipment is part of a push by the Biden administration to drive competition, strengthen global supply chain resiliency and…
