WIOT News
Sep 18, 2024
Understanding the Causes and Implications of Hezbollah Pager Explosions
ECE Professor and Interim Chair Josep Jornet explains what led thousands of explosive-filled pagers planted by the militant group Hezbollah to detonate in parts of Lebanon and Syria, citing a tampered fail-safe mechanism within the pagers as the likely cause.
Jun 26, 2024
Leading the Charge in Building the Next Generation of Wireless Communication
ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia oversees the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern University. With a specific focus on wireless network technologies like 5G and 6G, he is helping Northeastern lead wireless communications into the future.
Jun 05, 2024
Best Paper Runner-Up for X5G Open Testbed
ECE PhD students, and ECE and WIOT faculty and research staff received the Best Paper Runner-Up for their paper, “An Open, Programmable, Multi-Vendor 5G O-RAN Testbed With NVIDIA ARC and OpenAir Interface,” at the 2nd Workshop on Next-Generation Open and Programmable Radio Access Networks (NG-OPERA).
Apr 04, 2024
2024 U.S. National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Research Fellowship
Andrew Ashdown, PhD’27, electrical engineering, was selected as one of the recipients of the U.S. Department of Defense National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Research Fellowship. A highly competitive fellowship, it is awarded to promising U.S. scientists and engineers to encourage them to pursue doctoral degrees in designated research disciplines of military importance.
Feb 26, 2024
Northeastern Joins New Global AI Alliance as a Founding Member
Northeastern joined the AI-RAN Alliance and is the only U.S. university and research institute to serve as a founding member. The alliance will examine and study emerging technology and develop new AI-based mobile networking systems that could shorten development times, increase data speeds, and enable new mobile experiences for consumers.
Feb 23, 2024
Widespread AT&T Outages May Have Had Multiple Possible Causes
ECE Assistant Research Professor Michele Polese and ECE Professor Josep Jornet suggest many possible causes of the widespread AT&T cellphone outages Thursday morning.
Nov 13, 2023
WIoT Team Wins Best Paper Award at IEEE Globecom 2023
Several College of Engineering faculty and students affiliated with the Institute for Wireless Internet of Things, together with the IMDEA Networks Institute of Madrid, received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2023.
Aug 11, 2023
Everything To Know About the 5G Revolution—and How It Will Usher in 6G
Northeastern’s Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things is working on improving 5G operability and developing 6G technology, which will enable faster speeds and more reliable connections.