InterDigital’s Arman Shojaeifard Elected Chair of New ETSI Industry Specification Group on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
October 04 2021 - 4:30AM
InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ:IDCC), a mobile and video technology
research and development company, today announced that Arman
Shojaeifard, Research and Innovation Lead Researcher, has been
elected Chair of ETSI’s newly developed Industry Specification
Group (ISG) on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS).
The Chair election was held at the inaugural ETSI ISG RIS
meeting on September 30, and also saw the election of Vice Chairs
Richie Leo from ZTE and Professor Marco Di Renzo from CNRS. The
group features diverse participating members from across industry
and academia, including BT, Orange, CNRS, University of Oulu, Sony,
Motorola, ZTE and Huawei, and will focus on defining use cases,
covering identified scenarios, and clearly documenting the relevant
requirements around the implementation of this new technology.
RIS corresponds to an entirely new type of system node that
utilizes smart radio surfaces that may have properties of
electromagnetic reflection, refraction, and absorption through
small antennas or metamaterial elements. Made up of a large number
of sub-wavelength cells that can be controlled using a programmable
controller, RIS applications turn the wireless environment into a
service and drive enhancements to various wireless KPIs. The chair
election follows on the ETSI Director General approval of the
establishment of the new RIS ISG proposal, spearheaded by
InterDigital.
“I’m honored to lead this new and important research endeavor,
especially as it represents the first time InterDigital has driven
the creation of an ETSI research group,” said InterDigital’s Arman
Shojaeifard, the new elected ETSI RIS ISG Chair. “RIS will create
innovation opportunities and progressively impact the evolution of
wireless system architecture, access technologies, and networking
protocols, especially for 6G.”
“We are thrilled to start this new group in ETSI,” said David
Boswarthick, Director New Technologies at ETSI. “ETSI works at the
forefront of emerging and developing technologies and RIS is
considered as one potential building block technology for 6G. It is
excellent to welcome such a wide community of members from
research, academia and industry in the new ISG.”
“We congratulate Arman for this esteemed leadership position,
and the important work this new group will lead to make RIS viable
and impactful future wireless technologies,” said InterDigital
Chief Technology Officer Henry Tirri. “There are many technical
issues that must be adequately addressed before RIS can be adopted
into future standards, and the ETSI ISG RIS is equipped to address
these challenges.”
Using real-time control signaling, RIS technology can adapt to
the environment in a dynamic and goal-oriented way. Critical for
6G, RIS can be deployed for both indoor and outdoor usage,
including offices, airports, shopping centers, lamp posts, and
advertising billboards, and take any shape or be integrated onto
objects. Using mostly passive components with low energy
consumption and hardware costs, RIS are both cost-effective and
environment friendly, and will improve systems KPIs and enable new
services and an array of new applications in wireless 6G
networks.
About InterDigital®
InterDigital develops mobile and video technologies that are at
the core of devices, networks, and services worldwide. We solve
many of the industry’s most critical and complex technical
challenges, inventing solutions for more efficient broadband
networks, better video delivery, and richer multimedia experiences
years ahead of market deployment. InterDigital has licenses and
strategic relationships with many of the world’s leading technology
companies. Founded in 1972, InterDigital is listed on NASDAQ.
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