Ericsson has introduced the ‘India 6G’ program and assembled a research team dedicated to 6G technology within its Chennai R&D Center. This India-based team will collaborate with Ericsson’s research units in Sweden and the US to steer the development of future telecommunication technology.
The ‘India 6G’ team, constituted by senior research leaders and a group of proficient researchers specializing in Radio, Networks, AI, and Cloud, will focus on creating fundamental solutions tailored for the telecommunications sector’s advancement. Ericsson operates three R&D Centers in India located in Chennai, Bengaluru, and Gurgaon.
Magnus Frodigh, Ericsson’s Research head, highlighted the team’s establishment as an endeavor to integrate India’s specific requirements into the evolution of telecommunications technology on a global scale. The research will concentrate on building technology aimed at delivering essential services, immersive communications, and omnipresent IoT while upholding data integrity.
The India-based 6G research team will partner with Ericsson’s global research divisions to craft innovative solutions. They will focus on several projects, including channel modeling, low-energy networks, cloud evolution, AI algorithms, autonomous agents, man-machine communication, and edge-computing cloud offload.
Additionally, Ericsson is collaborating with various Indian institutes for research in Radio, AI, and Cloud technologies. A recent partnership with the Indian Institute of Technology Madras’ Centre for Responsible AI (CeRAI) underscores the company’s emphasis on AI research, critical for the future of 6G networks, which are expected to be driven autonomously by AI algorithms. Ericsson aims to engage with other leading engineering institutions in India for research linked to 6G technology.
