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Four ways AI/ML is used in Wi-Fi systems

The Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Standing Committee is tasked with exploring AI/ML use cases that will apply to Wi-Fi systems and devices Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are being applied everywhere and to everything; and according to Purva Rajkotia, who serves as the lead...

What is the global status of 6 GHz Wi-Fi?

IDC predicts that 807.5 million 6 GHz Wi-Fi devices will ship in 2024, up 66% in 2023 In April 2020, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) officially opened up the 6 GHz band for unlicensed Wi-Fi use, resulting in the introduction of Wi-Fi 6E, and in...

What is the role of mmWave in Wi-Fi 8?

The use of mmWave links in Wi-Fi 8 is expected to deliver higher bandwidth and data rates Even though the certification for Wi-Fi 8, or 802.11bn, is still several years away, vendors and standards bodies are already formulating plans around what Wi-Fi 8 will be...

What is Multi-Access Point Coordination (MAPC) in Wi-Fi 8?

MAPC builds upon the network management improvements of previous generations of Wi-Fi Wi-Fi 7, or 802.11be, was only certified in January and its adoption is just beginning to ramp up; however, whispers of Wi-Fi 8, or 802.11bn, are beginning to circulate, with some of its...

What is Multiple Resource Unit (MRU) in Wi-Fi 7?

MRU in Wi-Fi 7 builds off OFDMA, a feature first introduced in Wi-Fi 6 Multiple Resource Unit (MRU) is a new feature in Wi-Fi 7 that builds off another feature first introduced in Wi-Fi 6: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access, or OFDMA. OFDMA establishes independently...

Three Wi-Fi 6E deployments in the US

Forty-four percent of service providers, technology vendors and enterprises plan to adopt Wi-Fi 6E in the next 12-18 months: Report In October, the Wireless Broadband Alliance released its Annual Industry Report for 2023 and found that 53% of service providers, technology vendors and enterprises have...

Is AFC the answer to Wi-Fi’s low-power problem?

Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC) is a spectrum use coordination system designed specifically for 6 GHz operation In order for unlicensed Wi-Fi 7 (or 802.11be) devices to play nice in the 6 GHz band with the licensed users already occupying that band, the Federal Communications Commission...

The top testing challenges in 6 GHz Wi-Fi operation: Part 1

'Wi-Fi 7 breaks most testing equipment out there': LitePoint exec Wi-Fi 7, designed with the 6 GHz band in mind, has a host of exciting new features that promise higher spectrum and power efficiency, better interference mitigations, higher capacity density and higher cost efficiency. But many...

Enabling multi-user: How Wi-Fi 7 addresses Wi-Fi 6 pitfalls

'We didn’t quite realize the magnitude of taking a well-adopted, single-user technology and making it multi-user,' says LitePoint exec Certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance in 2019 and based on the IEEE 802.11ax standard, Wi-Fi 6 is designed for high-density, multi-user environments and features uplink and...