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News
June 15, 2026
Accurately predicting and modeling the impacts of terrain,...
November 26, 2025
The key to successful Open RAN deployments — the ability of subsystems from different vendors to seamlessly interoperate — is also the greatest challenge.
Commercial Tier 1 radio access networks (RANs) deployed today...
February 25, 2025
Adam Hicks (l.) and Robert Achatz (r.) prepare to leave for McMurdo Station. (Photo credit: USAP)
In December 2024, ITS electronics engineers Robert Achatz and Adam Hicks travelled from ITS’s Boulder laboratory...
Recent Research Publications
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Jeffery A. Wepman et al., “Measured Out-of-Band Emissions in the 36–37 GHz Band from an n260 (37–40 GHz) Millimeter-Wave 5G Base Station,” Technical Report NTIA TR-26-582, June 2026
Out-of-band emissions (OOBE) measurements in the 36–37 GHz band were performed on a commercially available outdoor 5G millimeter-wave (mmWave) gNodeB operating in the n260 band (37–40 GHz). The 5G mmWave gNodeB is part of the Institute for Telecommu...
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Jaden Pieper and Stephen D. Voran, “Unseen but not Unknown: Using Dataset Concealment to Robustly Evaluate Speech Quality Estimation Models,” Conference Paper, May 2026
We introduce Dataset Concealment (DSC), a rigorous new procedure for evaluating and interpreting objective speech quality estimation models. DSC quantifies and decomposes the performance gap between research results and real-world application requir...
This Month in ITS History
June 1910: Congress Passes First American Radio Law
On June 28, 1910, Congress passed the Wireless Ship Act (PL 262, 61st Congress). The legislation was prompted by the 1909 wreck of the SS Republic. When the Republic sank, a radio distress call saved 1,200 lives. This law was first in the U.S to regulate radio and applied only to ships carrying 60 or more pa...