Engineers Look Beyond 5G

The worldwide race to deploy 5G wireless networks is still in its early stages, but Professor Jeyanandh Paramesh and his students in Carnegie Mellon University’s Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) are looking. The massive interconnected web of the Internet of Things (IoT) and personal devices enabled by 5G will increase demand for higher data rates and lower latency. To support this beyond-5G network of the future, Paramesh, ECE Ph.D. student Susnata Mondal, and recent ECE