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Featured Projects

Our researchers engage in a wide variety of exciting and technically challenging projects. Each project pushes the envelope of what is possible today and paves the way for the products of tomorrow. Explore a project, learn what it’s about, follow its progress and imagine the possibilities. There are even a few "stealth projects" we cannot talk about, but are even more exciting.

1X Advanced

The 1X Advanced program is developing technologies for the next evolution of CDMA2000 1X.

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality (AR) is the concept of superimposing digital content (such as online information and graphics) on top of a view of the real world as seen through the viewfinder of a camera. AR transforms your mobile device into what has been described as a magic looking glass.

DASH

Qualcomm’s Adaptive Streaming R&D project aims to enhance the user experience when watching video streamed over a wireless connection, by seamlessly adapting the video quality and bit rate according to available bandwidth, device capability and content characteristics.

DO-Advanced

EV-DO is a widely deployed mobile broadband technology with more than 200 million subscribers. EV-DO Advanced is an evolution that provides higher network capacity and improved user experiences under various deployment topologies.

Femtocells

The femtocell systems engineering program is focused on addressing interference management and self configuration of customer-deployed femtocells. Femtocells represent the next frontier in the evolution of cellular systems.

HSPA+ Advanced

Our HSPA+ program is focused on research into technologies that improve the performance of UMTS, a widely deployed 3G standard specified by 3GPP.

LTE Advanced

Long Term Evolution or LTE is a highly optimized and flexible mobile broadband OFDMA-based system that leverages new and wider bandwidth up to 20 MHz. It complements existing 3G networks, with well defined handover procedures between LTE and 3G.

Mobile Data Traffic Management

The ever-increasing growth of data and signaling traffic generated by smartphones is challenging current networks’ capacities. User experiences are also being affected by poor battery performance in smartphones. There is a real need for intelligent system selection and effective use of offload between 3G/LTE and Wi-Fi.

LTE Direct

As the world becomes more connected, there are more wireless devices in our proximity. Applications in different devices face major challenges in finding each other in a scalable, autonomous and power efficient manner. Qualcomm Research is currently working on addressing these challenges as part of the LTE Direct Project

Wi-Fi Advanced

IEEE has been working on the next evolution of Wi-Fi—called 802.11ac—to push throughput rates beyond the Gigabit-per-second barrier.