France Telecom RD France Telecom RD the France Telecom Group\'s research and development center drives innovation for all Group units in France and worldwide. The center anticipates technological revolutions and paradigm shifts in usage. The center focuses on innovation that provides customers with best-in-class communications solutions paving the way for technologies that will become ubiquitous in the future. The performance of France Telecom RD makes it Europe\'s leading telecom research and development center. NTT DoCoMo 4G Technology NTT DoCoMo Inc. announced today that high-speed packet transmission with 1 Gbps data rate in the downlink was achieved successfully in a laboratory experiment using fourth-generation (4G) mobile communication radio access equipments on August 20 2004 considering field experiments in the early next year. The implemented 4G radio access equipments employ variable-spreading-factor spread orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (VSF-Spread OFDM) radio access method and multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) multiplexing technique using new signal detection algorithm in order to achieve 1Gbps data transmission with 100MHz bandwidth in the downlink. DoCoMo achieved 100Mbps and 20Mbps data rate transmission in the downlink and uplink respectively in the outdoor environments with the moving speed of about 30 km/h in July 2003. NTT DoCoMo is currently conducting indoor tests with various radio conditions as preparation for future field tests to develop a 4G global standard in coor |
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