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IEEE recognizes Sundeep Rangan for 5G breakthrough
He was recognized for the landmark 2014 paper “Millimeter Wave Channel Modeling and Cellular Capacity Evaluation.”
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Malvika Choudhary - Sat, 13, Sep 2025
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Sundeep Rangan / X ( NYU Wireless)
Indian-origin researcher Sundeep Rangan was awarded the 2025 IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication for his role in developing millimeter wave technology that made today’s 5G networks possible.
Rangan, director of NYU WIRELESS and professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, was recognized alongside Theodore S. Rappaport, founding director of NYU WIRELESS, Elza Erkip, faculty member at NYU WIRELESS, and their former doctorate students for the landmark 2014 paper “Millimeter Wave Channel Modeling and Cellular Capacity Evaluation” published in the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
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The award, considered a “test of time” honor, is given to papers published within the last 15 years that have fundamentally advanced communications engineering by opening new lines of work and reshaping the field.
The team’s research provided the first detailed statistical models for mmWave based on extensive measurements in New York City at 28 GHz and 73 GHz. Their findings demonstrated that the frequencies—once dismissed as impractical—could enable reliable mobile communications in dense urban environments.
The study showed that advanced antenna techniques could overcome propagation challenges, projecting capacity gains of at least tenfold compared with 4G systems.
“This research fundamentally changed how the industry viewed millimeter wave frequencies for cellular communications,” said Rangan. “By providing accurate channel models based on real-world measurements, we demonstrated that mmWave could deliver the massive capacity increases needed for future wireless systems.”
Rangan, a fellow of the IEEE, joined NYU Tandon’s electrical and computer engineering department in 2010 and has led NYU WIRELESS since 2017. He co-founded Flarion Technologies, a Bell Labs spin-off that pioneered Flash OFDM, a precursor to 4G systems later acquired by Qualcomm Technologies.
He received his bachelors of arts and science from the University of Waterloo in Canada and his masters of science and doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining NYU, he held research positions at the University of Michigan, Bell Labs, and Qualcomm.
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