Huifa Lin

Huifa is a Staff Engineer at Ofinno, focusing on 5G and 6G physical layer technologies, including unlicensed operation, sidelink, and AI/ML for air interface. He earned his B.E. in Information Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, and began his career as a RAN Optimization Engineer at Motorola China, where he spent five … Read more

Stanislav Filin

As a Senior Staff Engineer, Stanislav develops new technologies for RAN and wireless devices, with a focus on applying AI and machine learning to RAN, RRC, and the air interface. He earned his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Voronezh State University and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science … Read more

Mohammad Ghadir Khoshkholgh Dashtaki

Mohammad’s research focuses on the design and analysis of wireless communication systems, non-terrestrial networks, and applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Mohammad has authored 26 IEEE Transactions papers and 22 IEEE conference papers, including a journal paper featured in IEEE ComSoc Best Readings on Cognitive Radio. In 2017, he was recognized as an Exemplary … Read more

SungDuck Chun

SungDuck has been active in 3GPP standardization since 2003, contributing to working groups SA1, RAN2, SA2, and SA3. He has played a key role in radio architecture and protocol design for HSxPA and LTE, as well as defining system and service requirements for 5G. He has served as rapporteur for several 3GPP work items, including … Read more

Ali Cagatay Cirik

Ali’s primary research at Ofinno focuses on advancing beam management and radio access network technologies for 5G and next-generation wireless systems. Before joining Ofinno, he held research positions at the University of Oulu, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of British Columbia, and worked as an industrial postdoctoral researcher at Sierra Wireless. His experience … Read more

An Introduction to Lower-layer Triggered Mobility (LTM)

Handover (mobility) is a process of transferring an ongoing communication session of a user equipment (UE) from one cell (i.e., base station or gNodeB (gNB)) to another cell in connected state. The primary motivation behind handover is to ensure seamless connectivity and continuity of service for the user, especially while the user is on the … Read more

Top Takeaways from the 2022 6G Symposium

The 6G Symposium of Fall 2022 was held on the 11th and 12th of October at the Hotel Washington in Washington, DC. The symposium was organized in partnership with NextG Alliance – of which Ofinno is a founding and full member – together with Interdigital, Northeastern University, and Keysight. Thought leaders across industry, government, and … Read more

3GPP Rel-19 Toward 6G

SungDuck Chun Author Overview The 5G system achieves a breakthrough increase in the key performance indicator of communication systems, compared to the previous generation 4G system. In addition, the 5G system introduced new functionalities supporting various emerging application scenarios. Based on the success of the 5G system, the 6G system is likely to emerge around … Read more

State of Satellite Access Network Standardization in 3GPP

Mohammad G. Khoshkholgh D. Author This paper provides an overview of the current standardization progress in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) targeting integration of the satellite access network with New Radio (NR). It also discusses several impacted areas of NR, particularly in the physical layer and MAC layer, for incorporation of the satellite access … Read more

One Step Closer to Universal Connectivity

Reliable access to broadband services for every person (and everything) everywhere has been a reoccurring discussion for developing any modern cellular technologies. Despite substantial successes of 4G and 5G cellular systems, there are still unserved and underserved populations. Measurements reveal up to 400 million people around the world still encounter difficulties to enjoying stable and … Read more

Internet of Things (IoT) with Flying Base Stations

Non-terrestrial network (NTN) is an umbrella term that encompasses cellular communication networks served by base stations floating in air. Low orbit flying objects, such as drones and uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAV) to higher orbit satellites make up the majority of NTN enablers. NTN may also include flying end-users, for example, airplanes in an air-to-ground (ATG) … Read more

U.S. Department of Commerce Announces Strategy to Drive and Protect Innovation

The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) recently announced their 2022-2026 Strategic Plan. This plan centers around five key goals, the first of which is to drive U.S. innovation and global competitiveness. The strategy aims to “equip workers and companies to compete across the globe and attract foreign investment,” and solidify the country’s leadership in emerging … Read more

Unified Beam Management

Beam management has been one of the key enabling technologies employed in 5G new radio (NR) systems. This article discusses how the beam management mechanisms in 5G NR have been evolved, the current paradigm shift toward unified/common beam management, and other application scenarios jointly, to be optimized with the common beam management technology in Rel-17 … Read more