Samsung R&D Institute India–Bangalore (SRI-B) and the Indian Institute of Technology Patna (IIT Patna) today marked a key milestone in their ongoing research collaboration through a virtual R&D Agreement Exchange Ceremony. The event celebrated joint accomplishments in 5G and artificial intelligence (AI) research and formally launched a new project focused on intelligent 5G New Radio networks.

Samsung R&D Institute India–Bangalore is Samsung’s largest R&D center outside South Korea and India’s No. 1 patent filer. Through collaborations with leading academic institutions, SRI-B is advancing next-generation technologies in areas such as AI, 5G and 6G, while helping strengthen India’s innovation ecosystem.

The virtual ceremony was attended by Mohan Rao, Corporate Vice President & Managing Director, SRI-B, Dr. T.N. Singh, Director, IIT Patna, Dean of R&D, Prof. Preetam Kumar from IIT Patna, Heejun Song, Lakshminarayanan Ramachandran, Amritesh Srivastava from the University Collaboration Team, SRI-B, and Dr. Sukhdeep from the Network Control Intelligence Team at SRI-B.

“When we combine academic foundational research and creative problem-solving with industry scale, compute infrastructure and real-world deployment challenges, we nurture local scientific talent and solidify India’s position as a global hub for advanced 5G and AI research,” said Mohan Rao, Corporate Vice President, and Managing Director, SRI-B.

“Our partnership with SRI-B exemplifies how academic research can directly shape future-ready industrial solutions,” said Dr. T.N. Singh, Director, IIT Patna. “By uniting our research talent with SRI-B’s technical depth and scale, we are driving breakthrough innovations in AI and 5G that elevate India’s standing in global technological leadership.”

The ceremony recognized the successful completion of two projects undertaken by IIT Patna in collaboration with SRI-B’s Network Control Intelligence Team:
• AI-Driven Multi-Scale Unified Robust SSB Channel Estimation in 5G and Beyond, which explored multi-scale AI models to enhance the resilience of channel estimation in complex 5G wireless environments.
• Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Call Quality Enhancement in O-RAN, which applied advanced reinforcement-learning techniques to optimize real-time user experience and voice-call quality across Open RAN architectures.

The two projects resulted in two research papers accepted at IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan, reinforcing the potential of industry-academia collaboration to create globally relevant research and intellectual property.

Building on these achievements, SRI-B and IIT Patna also announced the launch of AI-Driven Bearer Orchestration (PAIBO) for 5G New Radio Networks, a new joint project led by SRI-B’s Network Modem Team.

PAIBO will explore dynamic, AI-driven radio-bearer orchestration to improve network performance, efficiency and Quality of Experience (QoE) in real time. The initiative is designed to address emerging challenges in intelligent radio-resource management as 5G networks evolve toward 6G.

Other members of this project include: Rahul Saini, Manish Kumar Soni and Sukhdeep Singh from SRI-B, Ankit Kumar, Adarsh Ravi from IIT Patna.

Through this partnership, SRI-B and IIT Patna will continue to pursue impactful research, foster high-value intellectual property and contribute to the technologies and telecom standards that will define the next generation of connectivity.