Tommaso
Melodia
William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Tommaso Melodia in the Press
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3G must die so 5G can live
“The number of 3G devices has been decreasing steadily,” Tommaso Melodia, the director of Northeastern’s Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things, told Recode. “Now it’s at the point where carriers are starting to say, ‘It doesn’t make a lot of sense for us to continue to use these precious frequency channels for 3G. Let’s turn […]
Northeastern wireless project gets federal designation as ‘innovation zone’
Professor Tommaso Melodia, founding director of Northeastern’s Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things, poses for a portrait at the “Colosseum” facility in Burlington, MA, in July 2021.
The future of transportation: Self-driving cars? Try self-driving everything
“Already, flight control could be completely automated,” said Tommaso Melodia, Director of the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern University, in a recent interview. But humans are the X factor, he noted. “I think a lot of people still feel like they want an additional degree of human interaction with a machine instead of relying […]






