Beijing: The 5G wireless internet is the 5th generation of the mobile networks. It is the successor of the 4G mobile networks that is taking place nowadays. Be aware that 5G networks are not present yet.
Researchers are now tighten to anticipating how software-defined mobile networking competence be used to give smartphone users a subsequent era of super-super-fast broadband – 5G.
Since it is not standardized, it is not sure how 5G will really work, but it must bring lots of great improvements. Of course it must bring much higher speed in the wireless mobile networks, but besides this it needs to add more benefits to the end users and mobile operators.
5G will be super efficient mobile network. The mobile network operators will get much better performance for lower cost. The 5G technology will offer a much higher number of simultaneously connected mobile devices. What is maybe most important, especially for the end users, higher speeds in larger areas, lower battery consumption, lower latency, better quality and reliability of mobile connection.
One vision of the new wireless standard is going to be a convergence of fiber and wireless network. The 5G wireless internet will include short wireless links at the end of the optical cables. With very high frequencies (20-60 GHz) it will enable speeds up to 10 Gbps. This kind of networks would be more like local Wi-Fi networks than today’s wide area mobile networks – 3G and 4G.
The 5G wireless technology could be a combination of all three different views. For sure they will bring much higher speed. But the question is the following. Is 5G mobile network will be consisted of great number of small dense cells, or the future mobile wireless technology will be able to bring very high speeds and very big coverage containing in small number of the big cells.
The team is currently building a demonstration system that will allow them to utilize several promising technologies in their architecture for 5G including cloud computing, network virtualization, network functions virtualization and dynamic service chaining.
The paper was published in the International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems.
