Two-way wireless breakthrough unveiled by research team

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Groundbreaking two-way wireless technology resulting in vastly superior voice and data services has been developed by a Waterloo Engineering research team led by Amir K. Khandani, the Canada Research Chair in Wireless Systems.The new technology enables wireless signals to be sent and received at the same time on a single radio channel frequency. 

"This means wireless companies can increase the bandwidth of voice and data services by at least a factor of two by sending and receiving at the same time, and potentially by a much higher factor through better adaptive transmission and user management in existing networks," said Khandani, a Waterloo electrical and computer engineering professor. Next steps requires industry involvement by including two-way in forthcoming standards to enable wide spread implementation.