5G (From "5th Generation") Is The Latest Generation of Cellular Mobile
5G (From "5th Generation") Is The Latest Generation of Cellular Mobile
Contents
Overview
Performance targets
Usage scenario
Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB)
Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC)
Massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC)
Advantages
Speed
Low communication latency
New use cases
Standards
Air interface
5G NR
Pre-standard implementations
NB-IoT/eMTC
Deployment
Spectrum
5G devices
Resistance
Technology
New radio frequencies
Frequency range 1 (< 6 GHz)
Frequency range 2 (> 24 GHz)
Massive MIMO
Edge computing
5G cell
Beamforming
Wifi-cellular convergence
NOMA (non-orthogonal multiple access)
SDN/NFV
Operation in unlicensed spectrum
Confusion
Regional progress
Other applications
Digital television
Automobiles
Healthcare
Automation (factory and process)
Public safety
See also
History
References
External links
Overview
Like the earlier generation 2G, 3G, and 4G mobile networks, 5G networks are digital cellular networks, in which the
service area covered by providers is divided into a mosaic of small geographical areas called cells. Analog signals
representing sounds and images are digitized in the phone, converted by an analog to digital converter and
transmitted as a stream of bits. All the 5G wireless devices in a cell communicate by radio waves with a local antenna
array and low power automated transceiver (transmitter and receiver) in the cell, over frequency channels assigned by
the transceiver from a common pool of frequencies, which are reused in geographically separated cells. The local
antennas are connected with the telephone network and the Internet by a high bandwidth optical fiber or wireless
backhaul connection. Like existing cellphones, when a user crosses from one cell to another, their mobile device is
automatically "handed off" seamlessly to the antenna in the new cell.
Their major advantage is that 5G networks achieve much higher data rates than previous cellular networks, up to
10 Gbit/s; which is faster than current cable internet, and 100 times faster than the previous cellular technology, 4G
LTE.[7][8] Another advantage is lower network latency (faster response time), below 1 ms (millisecond), compared with
30 - 70 ms for 4G.[8] Because of the higher data rates, 5G networks will serve not just cellphones but are also
envisioned as a general home and office networking provider, competing with wired internet providers like cable.
Previous cellular networks provided low data rate internet access suitable for cellphones, but a cell tower could not
economically provide enough bandwidth to serve as a general internet provider for home computers.
5G networks achieve these higher data rates by using higher frequency radio waves, in or near the millimeter wave
band[7] from 30 to 300 GHz, whereas previous cellular networks used frequencies in the microwave band between
700 MHz and 3 GHz. A second lower frequency range in the microwave band, below 6 GHz, will be used by some 5G
providers, but this will not have the high speeds of the new frequencies. Because of the more plentiful bandwidth at
millimeter wave frequencies, 5G networks will use wider frequency channels to communicate with the wireless device,
up to 400 MHz compared with 20 MHz in 4G LTE, which can transmit more data (bits) per second. OFDM
(orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) modulation is used, in which multiple carrier waves are transmitted in
the frequency channel, so multiple bits of information are being transferred simultaneously, in parallel.