Creative Tech Award for the full-duplex demo in the NYC Media Lab's Annual Summit

A demo presented in the 2018 NYC Media Lab's Annual Summit by FlexICoN M.S. and undergraduate students Guy Farkash and Jackson Welles received the Creative Tech Award in Engineering (selected from about 100 demos presented). 

The demo, titled "Open-Access Full-Duplex Wireless in the ORBIT Testbed", presents a practical open-access full-duplex radio enabling simultaneous transmission and reception on the same frequency channel for 5G wireless communications. The full-duplex radio was integrated in the ORBIT testbed and the full-duplex experiment is one of the pioneer experiments for the NSF PAWR COSMOS project. This demo is based on the testbed that was demonstrated by FlexICoN Ph.D. student Tingjun Chen at IEEE INFOCOM'18 in April, 2018.

View the full list of award winners.

For more details see the Columbia Engineering news item.

Useful links:

• Columbia FlexICoN project
• Technical report
• ORBIT full-duplex experiments instructions
• GitHub webpage for the source code