Ericsson has three R&D Centers in India: in Chennai, Bengaluru and Gurgaon.

The backbone of the program is the India 6G team comprised of senior research leaders and team of experienced researchers across radio, networks, AI, and cloud who are tasked to develop solutions.

India’s research team will work with Ericsson’s research teams in Sweden and US to deliver “a cyber -physical continuum” where networks will provide critical services, immersive communications, omnipresent IoT.

They will work on projects including channel modelling and hybrid beamforming, low energy networks, cloud evolution, sustainable compute, trustworthy, explainable and bias-free AI algorithms, autonomous agents for intent management functions, integrated sensing and communication functions for man-machine continuum and compute offload to edge-computing cloud among others.

“Our views on 6G are aligned with the views of ubiquitous connectivity, sustainable networks and affordable communications from Bharat 6G vision statement of the Government of India,” stated Ericsson India head Nitin Bansal.

Ericsson environs 6G as a network platform that merges physical and digital worlds to enable interaction and experiences.

The launch of the 6G program coincides with Ericsson’s recently five-year signed partnership with Indian Institute of Technology Madras’ (IIT Madras) Centre for Responsible AI (CeRAI) last September 2023.

The CeRAI is an interdisciplinary research centre that monitors the impact of deploying AI systems in the Indian ecosystem.