NTU and NI Join Hands to Produce Next Generation Wireless
Communication Technologies
SINGAPORE, March 10 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Good
news for users of mobile devices who enjoy accessing multimedia
content and social networking applications on the move!
Researchers at NTU are exploring ways to
bring the speed and quality of wireless network communications up
to par with that of wired communications. Better yet, their goal is
to develop wireless devices that offer ultra-high-speed mobile
broadband services at virtually zero cost to the user!
All these could become possible as Nanyang
Technological University (NTU) and National Instruments (NI) join
hands to develop the next-generation wireless communication
technologies which are cheaper, faster, more reliable and more
pervasive.
Both parties formalised the partnership by
inking a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) at NTU today.
Under the NTU-NI Wireless Research Programme,
NI will provide $2.07 million worth of equipment that will be
installed at the Positioning and Wireless Technology Centre (PWTC),
a centre under NTU's School of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering (EEE). One key goal of the NTU-NI Wireless Research
Programme is to develop future wireless communication protocols.
The research team will be using the equipment to research into the
practicality and performance of various wireless
techniques.
PWTC's Programme Director for wireless
network research, Assistant Professor Ting See Ho, explained, "One
of the major problems faced worldwide currently is the increasing
shortage of usable frequency spectrum, which is further aggravated
by current spectrum allocation regulations. My research team aims
to address these issues by developing the next generation of
wireless communication technologies that are able to relay radio
signals and scan for available 'holes' in airwaves without
interfering with the incumbent users. This would mean that users
can enjoy the highest quality, best performance and most
cost-efficient networks."
"This project will not only bring about a
technology breakthrough; it will also have a profound impact on
current business models and inspire new designs for various
wireless applications for the benefit of both mass-market and
military users," added Assistant Professor Ting.
"Wireless communication research is gaining
tremendous interest from the industry and NTU is a top-notch
technological university with strong international standing in this
field," said Chandran Nair, managing director for NI ASEAN. "We are
pleased to equip PWTC with NI's technologies and support NTU's
research efforts towards developing wireless technologies that will
impact everyday life."
"This partnership demonstrates NTU's active
collaboration and sharing of resources and expertise with our
industry partners," said Professor Kam Chan Hin, Chair of EEE, NTU.
"We look forward to leveraging on NI technologies in our
research centre to expand our research and training capabilities at
NTU. We will also make good use of the equipment for teaching
purposes to prepare our graduates for professional careers in
high-tech industries and to expose them to advanced research."
"The NTU-NI collaboration is a testament to our
long-term community engagement. We look forward to helping enhance
science, technology and engineering education and research through
partnerships that will take academic research to a whole new
level," said Victor Mieres, NI's vice president of sales for
Asia.
About Nanyang Technological
University
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a
research-intensive university ranked among the world's top 100
universities. The Yunnan Garden campus, NTU's main campus, is
located in the south-western part of Singapore and will be the
Youth Olympic Village of the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in 2010.
The [email protected] campus, home to educational and alumni clubhouse
facilities, is located near Singapore's biomedical research hub,
Biopolis; and the new engineering and physical sciences hub,
Fusionopolis. For more information, visit http://www.ntu.edu.sg
About National Instruments
National Instruments (http://www.ni.com) is
transforming the way engineers and scientists design, prototype and
deploy systems for measurement, automation and embedded
applications. NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf software
such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware, and sells
to a broad base of more than 25,000 different companies worldwide,
with no one customer representing more than 3 percent of revenue
and no one industry representing more than 10 percent of revenue.
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 5,000 employees
and direct operations in over 40 countries. For the past eleven
years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies
to work for in America.
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