Archive for 2019

The automotive industry is going through a major change with more than 270 ambitious startups revving up the electric vehicle industry. There were more than 43 confirmed model launches in 2019 – 25 battery EVs (BEVs) and 18 plug-in hybrid EVs (PHEVs). Electric mobility options are becoming more prominent in ride-sharing and micro-mobility solutions. In […]

This is the era of databases involving a lot of transactions. Often a database administrator is involved in routine management tasks, security, backups, updates, database tuning, managing ETL tools, monitoring disk utilization, troubleshooting errors, creating schemas and managing, scheduling and applying patches, etc. These tasks are automated using the decades of database automation, automating database [...]

Partnership/ Deals KDDI names trio of 5G suppliers KDDI, the second largest mobile operator in Japan, selected Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung as its main 5G equipment suppliers, as it gears up to launch commercial 5G service in March 2020. In March 2018, KDDI and Samsung completed a 5G field trial at a baseball stadium in […]

Non Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) is proposed technology for future wireless communication. In the evaluation of telecommunication technologies there were different multiple access techniques implemented. In previous generation of wireless technologies time, frequency and coding scheme is used as source of multiple access technique. Time division multiple access (TDMA) implemented in second generation of communication […]

802.11n and 802.11ac came into being, aiming to achieve higher data rates with the introduction of the MAC and PHY layer enhancements. Though Wi-Fi is a resilient technology but not necessarily the most efficient technology owing to the half-duplex nature of the medium only one radio transmits at a particular time. As more users participate in […]

Cellular communication has been evolving a lot in the last decades through massive technological advancement. Experiencing a data speed of few kbps to accessing a bunch of data via video streaming, gaming or video call, totally different experience for a user. Development from the third generation to the fourth generation, the multi-input multi-output (MIMO) concept […]

While taking a phone call with Bluetooth wireless headphones on or typing notes using a Bluetooth keyboard or even checking emails on the Smartwatch have you ever thought that your information is accessible to hackers?   Research in recent times identifies a fundamental flaw  in the Bluetooth standard, affecting every device having Bluetooth capabilities covering a huge […]

5G auction this year in India: “5G spectrum auction will be held this year and the trials for 5G services with radiowaves allotted by the ministry will commence in the next 100 days” according to IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. 5G is predicted to create a cumulative economic impact of $1 trillion in India by 2035. Global telecom industry […]

Semiconductor technology is deeply embedded in today’s digital economy. It has played a major role in spurring innovation, productivity and economic growth. Intellectual Property (IP) has been the lifeblood of semiconductor industry in the past four decades. In the first of a series of upcoming articles, we will take a deep dive into the role […]