About Us

The Rakuten Mobile Innovation Studio is Rakuten Mobile's research laboratory, housed in the AI and Autonomous Networks Division. Our main purpose is to research, and ultimately, achieve a truly autonomous network.

User demand drives networking, communication, and data center innovation, which in turn has led to a revolution in Telecommunications. With the daily addition of new services and user devices to the telecommunications network, the demands upon the network constantly increase and the range of configuration and adaptation options grow explosively. Our goal, thus, is to build a network that handles and adapts itself to unforeseen changes autonomously; in other words, we are building a network that embraces and integrates new technologies as they become available and utilize them efficiently without the need of manual intervention.

Traditional networking and communications research is only a part of this journey. To achieve our goal, we must embrace knowledge from other fields, such as cognition, ontologies, systems research, control theory, and cybernetics. This is, without a doubt, a multi-disciplinary effort, which we warmly invite contributors from various fields.

We search for academic and industrial partners who share our vision and who are willing to collaborate with us in an open and mutually beneficial research environment. Our position within Rakuten Mobile gives us the unique opportunity to provide access to our highly practical data and production network to our partners for research purposes. The only constraints we will impose are those needed to protect the privacy and security of our customers, which is Rakuten Mobile’s top priority.