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Peraton Labs has received a Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships to advance low-latency wireless extended reality for remote medical collaboration. The effort will develop XR-based medical applications alongside networking innovations to enable practically deployable, low-latency wireless service. Program leaders say the next-generation networking advances are application-independent and could support use cases across transportation, security, utilities, industrials, and civil and military defense.
Titled “Democratizing Low Latency Wireless for Remote XR Medical Collaboration,” the project is part of the NSF Ideas Lab on Breaking the Low Latency Barrier for Verticals in Next-G Wireless Networks (Breaking Low), which aims to accelerate new technologies that contribute to the growth of the U.S. economy in advanced wireless communications. The university–industry collaboration comprises two separate awards—one to the University of Illinois and one to Peraton Labs.
XR technologies such as virtual and augmented reality can extend the reach of specialists when they are urgently needed. Achieving real-time shared experiences, however, depends on low-latency wireless networking that is not yet widely deployed.
Peraton Labs will lead development of techniques and technology for low-latency wireless networking, with innovations spanning the networking stack. The work includes a new method to adaptively control fine-grained Radio Access Network resource allocation.
“By applying Peraton Labs’ expertise in radio resource/spectrum optimization and scheduling techniques for mobile networking to 5G latency-sensitive and bandwidth-focused services, we can make more efficient overall use of the wireless spectrum,” said Christine Zhang, Director and Chief Research Scientist at Peraton Labs and principal investigator for the Peraton Labs award.
As the research and development arm of Peraton, a next-generation national security company, Peraton Labs focuses on 5G and beyond with a portfolio of 5G and FutureG projects, solutions, and capabilities. Its work uses AI, intelligent agents, and sensors to provide secure, resilient, and reliable 5G and FutureG services, addressing applications in autonomy, logistics, tactical communications, virtual and augmented reality, and critical infrastructure.
