Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi has developed solutions in telecommunications technologies to overcome spectrum shortages in future wireless communication applications. The researchers at IIT Mandi consider cognitive radio technology as one of the best ways to optimise spectrum use, given the fixed-spectrum allocation policy by many governments around the world

The work is on a technology in which the wireless device at the SU end is not equipped with a SSSR, but rather transmits the received parts from the spectrum band to a data-fusion centre (DFC).

The CSR chip can be used with any handheld mobile wireless communication device for accessing the unused spectrum. Specifically, it can be used in future 5G and 6G wireless communication technologies for enhancing spectral efficiency.