MWC2015 report (Arvani Group): MNOs, 5G, NFV-SDN, IoT, Phones, Regulation, Mobile Payment, Wearables By arrangement with respected independent consultancy organization Arvani Group, we provide their insightful report from the Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, March 2-5, 2015. According to the organizers GSMA, over 93,000 delegates from 200 countries attended the show. Hard to believe that this was the tenth year that Barcelona hosted the show. Globally, mobile penetration stands around 50%, with over 3.5 billion unique mobile subscribers in the world. By 2020, Mobile Broadband 3G coverage will grow from 70% to 80% of world population…
NGMN 5G White Paper A deliverable by the NGMN Alliance NGMN outlines in the White Paper its vision for 5G empowering value creation through new use cases and being enabled by sustainable business models. Therefore, the capabilities of the network need to be expanded to support much greater throughput, lower latency and higher connection density. To cope with a wide range of use cases and business models, 5G has to provide a high degree of flexibility and scalability by design. In addition, it should show foundational shifts in cost and energy efficiency. On the end-user…
5G is Coming (Alcatel-Lucent strategic white paper) INTRODUCTION Are you prepared? With the anticipated growth of Internet of Things (IoT) during the next few years, there will be more users, more devices and a more diverse range of device types than ever before. Additionally, other new services and applications will require reduced latency, improved reliability, longer battery life for devices and more consistent user bit rates. 4G LTE, with all its evolution, will not be enough to handle this new wave of heterogeneous data traffic. What is needed is 5G. Learn what is driving 5G,…
5G Radio Access System Design Aspects Nokia Networks white paper Summary 5G will be an ultra-fast and ultra-flexible communication network including different technologies, but will be transparent for the end user and easy to manage for the operator. Additionally, 5G needs to address the predicted large increase in data traffic and will have to fulfil the capacity, data rate and latency requirements of next- generation devices. To enable the capacity and data rate requirements for 5G, new spectrum bands are required, along with the massive densification of small cells. Ultra dense small cells will be…