- Nokia showed off some of its radio research at the Brooklyn 6G Summit
- The AI receiver that Nokia has turned can help deploy 6G at 5G sites
- The radio operates at 7 GHz and above
BROOKLYN 6G SUMMIT 2025 – Nokia kicked off the annual 6G event in New York City showing off its latest radio research with Rhode & Schwarz.
Dani Korpi, a researcher at Nokia Bell Labs who worked on the project told Fierce that the test radio operates from 7 GHz and above, depending on the country. Korpi noted that, as a researcher, he couldn't really say when the radio might come out. 6G is expected to become commercially available in 2030.
Korpi said that R&D designed the radio with "an AI receiver" to help operators deploy and use the technology in existing cell sites.
"The operators don't want to deploy a new base station," Korpi said. "They want to keep the existing site, designed for 5G frequencies."
That's where the so-called "HybridDeepRX: 6G AI Receiver for Distorted Signals" project comes in.
"This is an AI-enabled receiver which can detect higher transmit powers, which are distorted," Korpi explained. "And with that we can get a few dBs of improvement," he said.
Radio futures
Nokia is not the only telecom vendor working on radio research. We can expect more signals and noise from vendors like Ericsson, Huawei and Samsung.
For instance, Samsung showed off some of its massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radio arrays back at Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona. Larger MIMO arrays will definitely be some of the 6G story but new tricks like AI receivers will also be part of the tale.