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Research & Development Projects

Research & Development Projects

Our researchers engage in a wide variety of exciting and technically challenging projects. Each project pushes the envelope of what is possible today paving the way for the products of tomorrow.

Videos
Documents
Podcasts

Open Femto Demo Video

This video demonstrates the mobility of a user between femto-to-femto handovers in Qualcomm’s ...
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UltraSON™ Feature – Mobile Assisted Self Configuration (MASC)

An incomplete Neighbor Cell List (NCL) can cause call drops as the femto mobile moves away from ...
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Documents

A New kind of network: Open indoor femtos for both indoor and outdoor coverage

This presentation features an overview of the new network model based on neighborhood femtos ...
PDF | 2.51 MB

A Comparison of LTE Advanced HetNets and WiFi

For an LTE operator that needs to significantly increase network capacity, there are two ...
PDF | 519.25 KB
Heterogeneous Networks 13:47 Feb 2010 Download mp3 (15.8MB)
LTE-Advanced Heterogeneous Network 10:45 Mar 2010 Download mp3 (10.3MB)
Sponsored Wireless Conncetivity 16:49 Nov 2009 Download mp3 (15.4MB)