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Cooperation
Taking advantage of our location within China, DOCOMO Beijing Labs actively engages in local cooperation and promotes technical exchanges and industrial cooperation between China and Japan in the field of wireless communications. Our partners include the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology and China's three major operators (China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom), as well as domestic mainstream equipment manufacturers. DOCOMO Beijing Labs is a Board member of the China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) and serves as the Deputy Director of the FuTURE Mobile Communication Forum. DOCOMO Beijing Labs has carried out comprehensive cooperation and exchange with its partners in Sino-Japanese 5G spectrum harmonization, 5G deployment strategy, 5G experiments, 6G research and other fields. At the same time, we actively carry out joint research with well-known universities in China, including Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing Institute of Technology, Southeast University and Peking University, to advance fundamental, cutting-edge wireless technology innovations and cultivate numerous outstanding Ph.D. and Master's degree candidates.
In the field of artificial intelligence, DOCOMO Beijing Labs has joined the China Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation Alliance (AIIA), the China-Japan-Korea Strategic Cooperation Framework Artificial Intelligence Working Group (SCFA AI-WG), and other related organizations, actively contributing and sharing DOCOMO's technological innovations and experiences in the field of artificial intelligence. Furthermore, DOCOMO Beijing Labs has established extensive collaborative research in artificial intelligence with scientific institutions such as Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Awards and Honors
Since its inception, DOCOMO Beijing Labs has been committed to fundamental innovation in wireless technology and has played an important role in academia and industry. In the early stages of 4G standardization, researchers at DOCOMO Beijing Labs conducted extensive pre-research and experimental work on MIMO-OFDM, a key 4G technology. Relevant outcomes were collected and published in a special issue of NTT DOCOMO Technical Journal in 2009, which laid the technical groundwork for subsequent standardization and promotion and evolution of mobile network functionalities. Over the past several years, academic papers from DOCOMO Beijing Labs has won numerous awards for best paper at international academic conferences.
Special issue of the NTT DOCOMO Technical Journal based on Beijing Labs' research results
Best Paper Awards & GTI AWARDS 2024
At the same time, DOCOMO Beijing Labs has garnered many achievements in domestic technical exchanges and cooperation: As the only foreign operator that participated in the second phase of the IMT-2020 5G trial, DOCOMO Beijing Labs was responsible for drafting some test specifications, and drove the trial of the 4.9 GHz frequency band forward. As the first group of foreign-invested enterprises participating in the National 863 Program, it participated in the overall technical research of 5G mobile communication systems, and was responsible for multi-antenna technology research in ultra-dense networks. It was one of the founding members of the FuTURE Mobile Communication Forum, and participated in writing several white papers on major topics including Massive MIMO, NOMA, mmWave and RIS. Researchers also serve as corporate mentors at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, providing guidance to graduate students completing research projects that integrate engineering and practice.
In 2017, DOCOMO Beijing Labs was even awarded the “R&D Special Award” by DOCOMO, making it the first overseas branch company to win this award in its entirety in 13 years, marking a milestone. Since then, DOCOMO Beijing Labs has been at the forefront of global innovation, winning the 2020, 2021 and 2023 R&D Innovation Awards, playing a pivotal role in DOCOMO R&D system.
