A Study of Fifth Generation Wireless Cellular Technology

Abstract

In near future, the major demands from wireless cellular technologies should be high data rate, more capacity to handle users, and lower latency along with better quality of service. To meet all these requirements a vast improvement should be made in wireless cellular network architecture. This thesis is a study over fifth generation (5G) cellular network architecture and some key technologies of 5G cellular network architecture. These emerging technologies should help to improve the architecture meeting the demands of users. When come to the technologies there is more focus on massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) technology, and device-to-device (D2D) communication. Together with these other different technologies are studied. These technologies include spectrum sharing with cognitive radio, interface management, ultra dense networks, full duplex radios, multi radio access network technologies, and millimeter wave solution 5G cellular networks, along with cloud technologies for 5G radio access network. In this thesis a general 5G network architecture is studied consisting different technologies. Apparently it is expected that 5G will give a higher data rate up to 50 Gbps with low battery consumption. It will provide improved coverage cell edge with multiple concurrent paths for data transmission. Different artificial intelligent mobile applications can be designed as it has higher speed. 5G also have the feature of VPN and remote diagnostics. 5G will provide protection for private data, which is being reviewed in standardization bodies like 3GPPP, IETF.