From air-interface foundations to AI-native providers, Qualcomm’s MWC expertise demonstrations present how they’re engineering 6G for intelligence and effectivity
What it is best to know:
- As 3GPP’s 6G examine actions outline necessities, KPIs and analysis approaches, 6G methods are transferring from idea to prototype by way of early, multi-vendor RF alignment.
- Qualcomm Applied sciences is designing 6G as an AI-native system that permits new agentic AI and augmented actuality experiences, not simply peak information charges.
- We’re increasing 6G past connectivity by way of sensing, digital twins and bodily AI, creating new service alternatives.
Wi-fi connectivity continues to evolve as units, providers and networks develop into extra clever and extra important to day by day life. As AI raises expectations on the edge, future wi-fi methods should ship greater than increased information charges. They have to enhance effectivity, adapt to context and help new lessons of providers throughout units and infrastructure.
At MWC Barcelona 2026, Qualcomm Applied sciences is showcasing cutting-edge wi-fi analysis that strengthens the foundations of 6G and advances AI-native experiences, sensing-enabled providers and system-wide effectivity enhancements. Please go to our stand at Corridor 3 at Sales space 3E10 to expertise our newest improvements and be taught extra from our staff.
This 12 months’s demonstrations join round three themes: foundational 6G evolution, AI-native design for brand new experiences, and sensing-enabled digital twin platforms for effectivity and new providers.
Foundational 6G evolution: new spectrum, new strategies, early ecosystem alignment
6G begins with system design decisions that scale: how huge bandwidths are used, how spectral effectivity improves and the way the air interface evolves towards clever operation.
Finish-to-end 6G prototype system
A central system-level prototype this 12 months explores how new spectrum use, huge bandwidth and superior strategies can ship the following leap in wi-fi efficiency. The prototype showcases Giga‑MIMO, probabilistic shaping and sub‑band full duplex, combining increased spectral effectivity with improved uplink and downlink throughput. These foundational improvements level towards a better, extra environment friendly 6G system designed to help future information‑intensive functions.
Watch the end-to-end 6G prototype system demo ⯈
6G RF alignment and interoperability testing
In parallel, our early ecosystem validation is advancing by way of 6G RF alignment and interoperability testing with main infrastructure distributors. By validating new spectrum use, huge bandwidths and key entrance‑finish efficiency targets, these exams mark an necessary step towards realizing the efficiency leap anticipated from 6G.
Watch the 6G RF alignment and interoperability testing demo ⯈
AI-based joint supply and channel coding
A complementary proof-of-concept, developed by way of a collaboration between Qualcomm Applied sciences and Nokia Bell Labs, applies AI-based joint supply‑channel coding to HARQ suggestions. By studying real-world community situations and adapting suggestions signaling in actual time, the system reduces errors and pointless retransmissions. This improves reliability and effectivity immediately whereas laying the groundwork for clever, AI-native air interfaces in future 6G networks.
Watch the AI-based joint supply and channel coding demo ⯈
AI-native experiences and providers: when connectivity adapts to intent, context and compute wants
As AI-driven functions evolve, the system problem shifts from transporting bits to sustaining constant experiences. This brings a brand new emphasis on distributed compute, collaborative communications and context-aware adaptation.
Agentic AI and AR experiences
Agentic AI and augmented actuality (AR) experiences depend upon steady notion, reminiscence and recall. Supporting these capabilities at scale requires rethinking how units compute and join. This demonstration exhibits an AI recall use case enabled by distributed compute, permitting AI workloads (reminiscent of creating and retrieving visible recollections) to shift between units and the community edge primarily based on hyperlink situations and energy constraints. It additionally exhibits a “see‑what‑I‑see” use case enabled by collaborative communications, the place a number of cellular-connected units collectively help the expertise to enhance reliability, protection and latency. Collectively, these capabilities illustrate how 6G can help AI-driven AR experiences whereas managing gadget constraints and community sources extra successfully.
Watch the agentic AI and AR experiences demo ⯈
AI-enabled context-aware communications
A second demonstration explores AI-enabled context-aware communications for 6G, the place on-device AI helps connectivity adapt to intent, context and altering situations. The course is towards AI-native protocols that allow extra adaptive efficiency for functions reminiscent of video calling and cloud gaming, with out relying solely on conventional QoS conduct. The aim is responsiveness aligned with the expertise being delivered.
Watch the AI-enabled context-aware communications demo ⯈
Community compute and inference providers at scale
As fashions scale in functionality, future connectivity should do greater than transport information. It should assist intelligence circulation to the place it’s wanted. This demonstration supplies perception into how 6G may allow units to entry higher AI capabilities whereas balancing vitality, latency and reliability — by distributing intelligence throughout the gadget and edge community. It additionally factors to new service alternatives for operators with privateness and safety concerns remaining central.
Watch the community compute and inference providers demo ⯈
Enhancing mobile expertise with on-device AI brokers
On-device agentic AI additionally factors towards a extra proactive mannequin for continuity of experiences. This demonstration highlights how units can mix app conduct, community situations and environmental context to determine efficiency points and apply preemptive changes, bettering continuity in on a regular basis cell eventualities.
Watch the on-device AI brokers mobile expertise demo ⯈
Sensing plus digital twins: increasing service functionality whereas bettering effectivity
Built-in sensing and communications (ISAC) extends wi-fi past connectivity into notion. ISAC, along with AI and radio digital twins, creates a path to new service alternatives whereas additionally creating new methods for environment friendly wi-fi system operation.
6G sensing and clever classification
This demonstration highlights real-time detection, monitoring and classification by way of three stay eventualities: detection and classification of drones, detection of automobiles at giant distances inside outlined zones, and exact monitoring of a automobile. The work extends cell networks past connectivity to allow functions for security, safety and smart-city intelligence, and it opens the door to new providers and new potentialities for digital twin platforms.
Watch the 6G sensing demo for drones and automobiles in a big space⯈
Watch 6G sensing demo for automobile detection in a parking zone ⯈
Scalable radio digital twin by way of sensing and AI
Sensing-powered, high-fidelity radio digital twins might be leveraged for steady tuning of community efficiency, discount of system overheads and enablement of recent lessons of providers. This demonstration exhibits how network-integrated RF sensing mixed with AI allows the creation of scalable and constantly up to date radio digital twins in 6G.
Watch the scalable radio digital twin demo ⯈
Digital twin-based AI/ML mannequin coaching
As wi-fi environments develop into extra dynamic, AI fashions utilized by units, for instance for beam prediction, should adapt effectively with out counting on large-scale over-the-air information assortment. This demonstration highlights using artificial coaching information from a radio digital twin to coach environment-specific AI fashions at scale, lowering community visitors, vitality consumption and operational overhead. Combining these pre-trained fashions with light-weight on-device adaptation helps a extra environment friendly wi-fi AI mannequin lifecycle course for 6G.
Watch the digital twin-based AI/ML mannequin coaching demo ⯈
6G community and gadget vitality financial savings
Vitality effectivity is a foundational requirement for 6G. This demonstration highlights how ISAC and radio digital twins can optimize energy consumption throughout each community and gadget. By combining RF sensing and AI, digital twin aided radio modeling, and device-level low-power working strategies reminiscent of wake-up receiver, 6G methods can dynamically adapt sources, scale back vitality waste and preserve a robust expertise.
Watch the 6G community and gadget vitality financial savings demo ⯈
Evolving NTN: extending broadband past terrestrial boundaries
Non-terrestrial networks proceed to evolve because the 3GPP ecosystem extends mobile connectivity past the attain of conventional terrestrial methods. This demonstration explores how millimeter-wave NTN can help high-performance hyperlinks and improve entry to dependable broadband communications.
Broadband NTN evolution
This demonstration explores how next-generation broadband entry terminals can make the most of millimeter-wave spectrum to ship high-performance satellite tv for pc connectivity. By leveraging compact {hardware}, superior beam agility and real-time adaptation to a transferring satellite tv for pc, the outcomes level towards strong, high-speed broadband entry from a wider vary of places.
Watch the broadband mmWave NTN evolution demo ⯈
Realizing mmWave satellite-to-device NTN
This demonstration highlights how millimeter-wave NTN can increase international connectivity, enabling high-speed hyperlinks for telephones, automobiles, drones and extra. By demonstrations of satellite-to-handheld gadget communication, it exhibits what turns into doable when higher-frequency spectrum, superior antenna applied sciences and 6G-era system design converge to ship quick, dependable entry throughout a broader vary of situations.
Watch the realizing mmWave NTN on the street to 6G demo ⯈
What’s subsequent?
The momentum is actual. Along with actively taking part in 3GPP research on new capabilities and architectures for 6G, at Qualcomm Applied sciences we’re proving how quickly the expertise can transfer from idea to prototype implementations by way of our superior expertise demonstrations. We’re driving 6G progress to allow methods which might be extra adaptive, extra clever and extra environment friendly, backed by end-to-end prototypes and early interoperability work. In parallel, we’re advancing AI-native experiences, sensing-enabled infrastructure and radio digital twins. We’re driving this work with engineering self-discipline and confidence earned by way of a number of generations of cell communications. Please be a part of us at MWC Barcelona 2026 in Corridor 3, Stand 3E10, and keep tuned for extra insights into how connectivity, compute and AI will form the last decade forward.
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