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VIT Nokia 5G Lab
Overview
The 5G Lab, established under the School of Electronics Engineering (SENSE), is a unique lab developed through the VIT-Nokia collaboration. This 5G lab will provide an integrated environment for designing, implementing, testing, and validating IoT and wireless sensing applications. It will support simulation and emulation of 5G and future networks, with research focused on AI-enabled RAN and smart network management. The lab is well equipped with radios and antennas from Nokia connected to their core through a dedicated base station and optical fiber connectivity. The lab will investigate ways to reduce bandwidth constraints and improve spectrum sharing while providing reliable 5G core connectivity for end-to-end experiments. By combining these capabilities with Massive MIMO, the lab will enable students and researchers to assess network performance under controlled conditions and develop solutions for real-world applications. The facility of the lab provides an opportunity to extend the 5G capabilities to implement and test IoT and sensing-based IoT test cases. The lab provides a highly flexible and open architecture to perform learning and research. Into various domains where 5G can be exploited to enhance their functionality, like weather monitoring stations, biomedical applications, and Industry 4.0 based operations. The lab is also equipped with testbeds to deploy and test various use cases and applications in these domains.
Objectives
- To develop and evaluate machine-learning methods for optimizing 5G mobility, resource allocation, interference, and energy use against conventional baselines.
- To analyse 5G sensor-network performance in latency, reliability, device density, and sensing accuracy under controlled conditions.
- Ti implement and assess end-to-end 5G services, including registration, QoS, network slicing, and edge access, using 3GPP architecture as the reference.
- To quantify how antenna configuration and beamforming affect coverage, spectral efficiency, throughput, and multi-user interference.
- To create reproducible experiments combining AI-RAN, IoT sensing, 5G core, and Massive MIMO, with documented methods and measurable results.
5G Radios & Antenna
5G Microclimate Weather Monitoring Station
5G & IoT Enabled Industry 4.0 Test Bed
5G & IoT Enabled Biomedical Applications Test Bed
Key Focus Areas
- AI-enabled RAN: Apply and evaluate AI for radio resource management, mobility, interference, and energy efficiency.
- Smart network management: Develop adaptive networks that respond to changing traffic, users, and channel conditions.
- IoT implementation and testing: Build and validate 5G-connected IoT devices, services, and applications.
- Wireless sensing applications: Develop and test sensing solutions using connected devices and wireless signals.
- 5G and future-network simulation and emulation: Model and emulate network architectures, traffic patterns, and operating conditions.
- Bandwidth and spectrum sharing: Study methods to improve spectrum utilization and address capacity bottlenecks.
- Reliable 5G core connectivity: Implement and assess end-to-end core connectivity, service continuity, and quality of service.
- Massive MIMO and beamforming: Evaluate how antenna arrays and beamforming affect coverage, capacity, and interference.
- End-to-end system validation: Integrate RAN, core, IoT, and sensing components and measure performance in controlled experiments
