Shanghai Research Center for Wireless Communications (WiCO) is a non-profit organization co-founded by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT), Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (STCSM), Southeast University (SEU) and Changning District Government in November 2003.
WiCO consists of a group of well-educated and active researchers and experts and is focused on the R&D of the key technologies for future broadband wireless mobile communications. WiCO has successfully undertaken many key research projects from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MOST), the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program), the European Union Framework Program, CAS, STCSM and telecom industry, covering new air-interface and wireless networking technologies, system integration and performance evaluation, field trials and demonstrations of integrated broadband wireless services,  as well as standardization activities at 3GPP and ITU. Through these projects, WiCO has established broad R&D collaborations with many national and international academic and industrial partners in the areas of wireless mobile communications.
WiCO has been authorized by the CAS to supervise PhD/MSc research projects and host visiting post-doctoral researchers. In addition, WiCO has been awarded as the International Center for Wireless Collaborative Research (by MOST), the International Collaboration Base of Science and Technology (by MOST), the Key Laboratory of Wireless Sensor Networks and Communications (by CAS), and the Shanghai Research and Engineering Center for Broadband Wireless Communication Technologies (by STCSM).
WiCO will continuously broaden and strengthen our R&D collaborations with top academic and industrial partners, in order to jointly achieve fundamental scientific breakthroughs and key technical innovations, and thus to establish ourselves as a world-leading research center for wireless communications in the near future.