5G Features

5G simply stands for the fifth generation and refers to the next and newest mobile wireless standard based on the IEEE 802.11ac standard of broadband technology, although a formal standard for 5G is yet...

Enhancements to existing technologies such as LTE-Advanced and WiFi are expected to meet the demand for mobile data capacity and throughput to the end of this decade and these technologies will continue to be a fundamental part of the 5G ecosystem beyond that. However, there will be a need for new approaches on a number of fronts, including:

• new wireless technology, to support the dense deployment of high-speed low-latency services;
• improved utilization of current frequency bands (up to 6GHz) and exploitation of new frequencies in the centimeter/ millimeter wave bands (somewhere between 6GHz and 100GHz), to deliver the necessary capacity and coverage;
• novel techniques for radio resource control, antennas, protocols, and architecture, to improve spectrum utilization, reduce latency and increase flexibility