Lok Sabha Question No. 1683 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-07-26
Subject: Research and Development in Telecom Technologies
Ministry: COMMUNICATIONS
Asked by: NARAMALLI SIVAPRASAD

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1683 TO BE ANSWERED ON 26 TH  JULY, 2017

## RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN TELECOM TECHNOLOGIES

1683. DR. NARAMALLI SIVA PRASAD:

Will the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS be pleased to state:

- (a) the  steps  taken by  the  Government to promote research studies in the area of telecom and relevant technology and the details thereof;
- (b) the steps taken by the Government to encourage research and innovation in the area  of  telecom  and  relevant  technologies  through  educational  institutions  and  other research institutes in the country and the details thereof; and
- (c) the achievement of the aforementioned steps taken by the Government so far?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE (IC) OF THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS & MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (SHRI MANOJ SINHA)

- (a) Madam, apart from Center for Development of Telematics (C-DoT) which is the Telecom Technology Development Centre of DoT under Government of India, eight Telecom Centers of Excellence (TCOEs) are established in Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode  bringing together Academic  Institutions, Telecom  Industry (Service providers) and Government with the objective of creating an eco-system for sustainable growth of telecom sector in the country and promoting development of new technologies, to generate Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), incubate innovations and promote entrepreneurship to position India as a global leader in telecom innovation and making India a hub of telecom equipment manufacturing. Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC)  an  attached  office  of  DoT  has  been  entrusted  with  the  functions  of  preparing fundamental technical plans, study papers and specification of common standards with regard to Telecom network equipment, services & interoperability.

National Telecommunications Institute for Policy Research, Innovation and Training  (NTIPRIT),  DoT  has  also  been  envisaged  to  do  research  in  Policy  and Implementation  related  activities  in  Telecom  Sector.  Moreover,  Telecom  Standards Development  Society of India (TSDSI) has also been  formed to contribute to development of next generation telecom standards and drive IPR creation.

(b) C-DOT constantly interacts with user industry sectors like Defence, IT, Telecom etc.  to  understand  their  emerging  technology  requirements  and  also  interfaces  / engages with research institutions, premier academic institutions for joint development. The detail of  C-DoT interfaces/engagement with such institutions is annexed. TCOEs has a leading telecom service provider as industry partner and receives support from the Department of Telecommunications to focus on specific areas of research, technology development  and  incubation. These  TCOEs  have  been  co-located  at  IITs  (Mumbai, Delhi, Madras, Kanpur, Kharagpur and Roorkee), IISc Bangalore and IIM Ahmadabad to facilitate constant interaction with the Educational Institutes.

(c) C-DoT has developed and transferred the technology for the products like Terabit Router,  Giga-bit  Passive  Optical  Network  (GPON)  and  100  Gbps  Optical  Transport Network  (OTN)  to  be  manufactured  in  the  country.  TCOEs  have  produced  87 technologies out of which 4 technologies have been commercialized.  Telecom Engineering  Center  (TEC)  has  prepared  27  study  papers  in  2016-17  which  includes topics like physical security of telecom network, Li-Fi (Light Fidelity) and its applications, M2M/IoT (Machine to Machine/Internet of Things) in automotive sector , CCS7 security etc.

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## Annexure

C-DOT interfaces with premier academic institutions and other research institutions to explore the possibilities of collaboration for joint working in some of the following cuttingedge technology areas. The details of such institutions is as follows:

| Institutions                                        | Technology Research Areas                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
|-----------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| IIT Madras                                          | High frequency RF Modules, Air interface Layer 1 algorithms and optimization, Massive MIMO baseband algorithms, Optimal usage of spectrum - multi-disciplinary approaches, Joint development of 5G Test Bed, Standardization in TSDSI/3GPP/oneM2M                                                                                                        |
| IIT Hyderabad                                       | LTE Base Station side - Layer 1, LTE User Equipment (UE) Layer 1 module, Layer 1 and open Air protocol stack integration, Narrow Band IOT (NB-IOT) - Base station and UE - collaboration, mmWave upto 1GHz Bandwidth, CloudRAN and Massive MIMO - algorithms, 5G NR (New Radio), Joint development of 5G Test Bed, Standardization in TSDSI/3GPP/oneM2M, |
| IISc, Bangalore                                     | Sensor for IOT - Calibration and integration of sensors with oneM2M platform, Design and development of custom indigenous sensors, 5G Layer 1 algorithm optimization, Joint development of 5G Test Bed, Standardization in TSDSI/3GPP/oneM2M                                                                                                             |
| CeWiT (Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology) | Licensing and usage of Simulator developed by CeWiT for 4G/5G, Usage of IP (patents) in air interface by C-DOT equipment and solutions, Joint development of 5G Test Bed, Training on advanced wireless technologies, Training on Layer 1 algorithms, Standardization in TSDSI/3GPP/oneM2M                                                               |
| IIT (Bombay)                                        | 5G Test Bed                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| IIT (Delhi)                                         | Image and video analytics                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |

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