5G6GLab

About Me

Hi, I'm Manas — the author behind 5G 6G Technology Forum (5G6GLab). This site is where I break down 5G, 6G, Open RAN, and AI-in-telecom concepts into clear, practical write-ups: the kind of explanations I wish I had while learning this material myself.

I've spent 25+ years as a software engineer in wireless telecom, building cellular modem protocol stacks from UMTS and LTE through to 5G, alongside M2M and IoT. That has meant end-to-end modem development for smartphones, smartwatches and automotive platforms — protocol stack implementation, system specification and direct customer interfacing — at Nokia, Intel, ST-Ericsson and other world leading companies. I hold 2 unique granted patents across the USA, Europe and China, with inventor designation at the European Patent Office.

Day to day that work is RTOS and Linux, multi-threaded design, and a great deal of protocol debugging — which is where the material here comes from. 5G6GLab is now 30 long-form articles on 5G NR, the 5G core, Open RAN and 6G research, with more than 640 diagrams drawn specifically for them, and written against the 3GPP and O-RAN Alliance specifications rather than summarised from other blogs.

Background

Experience
Nokia · Intel · ST-Ericsson · Sasken
Education
M.Eng, Software Engineering for Embedded Systems
RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
Patents
Methods and devices for circuit-switched fallback proceduresUS10448287B2 · issued 15 Oct 2019
Device and method for recovering services from network rejections to wireless communication devicesUS10143029B2 · issued 27 Nov 2018
Certifications
Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)Microsoft Certified: Azure FundamentalsAgile Project LeadershipPython for Data Science (IBM)

Selected from 22 licences and certifications.

What you'll find here

  • 5G NR and 5G Core fundamentals, explained from first principles
  • 5G Advanced topics: beamforming, scheduling, QoS, RedCap, NTN, AI-RAN
  • 6G research: AI-native networks, ISAC, THz, digital twins, semantic comms
  • Open RAN architecture and hands-on tutorials
  • Interview preparation for telecom and RAN engineering roles

Get in touch

Have a topic you'd like covered, spotted an error, or want to collaborate? Reach out via the contact page or at 5g6glab@gmail.com.