Abstract
Research on 5G mobile wireless technologies has been very active in both academia and industry in the past few years. While there has been certain consensus on the overall requirements of 5G wireless systems (e.g., in data rate, network capacity, delay), various enabling wireless technologies have been considered and studied to achieve these performance targets. It has been quite clear, however, that there would be no single enabling technology that can achieve all diverse and even conflicting 5G requirements. In general, many fundamental changes and innovations to re-engineer the overall network architecture and algorithms in different layers and to exploit new system degrees of freedom would be needed for the future 5G wireless system. In particular, we may need to consider other potential waveform candidates that can overcome limitations of the orthogonal frequency multiple access (OFDM) waveform employed in the current 4G system, develop disruptive technologies to fulfill 5G rate and capacity requirements including network densification, employment of large-scale (massive) multiple input multiple output (MIMO), and exploitation of the millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum to attain Gigabit communications. In addition, design tools from the computer networking domain including software defined networking, virtualization, and cloud computing are expected to play important roles in defining the more flexible, intelligent, and efficient 5G network architecture. This paper aims at describing key 5G enabling wireless mobile technologies and discussing their potentials and open research challenges. We also present how papers published in our special issue contribute to the developments of these disruptive 5G technologies.
Highlights
Research and development activities on 5G mobile wireless technologies have attracted lots of interest in both academia and industry worldwide over the last several years
software defined networking (SDN) and virtualization provide mechanisms and tools to efficiently utilize the network resources with better traffic management, which results in improvements in the capital expenditures (CAPEX) and operational expenditures (OPEX) costs
Virtualization techniques can enable to exploit the cloud computational resources in the cloud radio access networks (C-RAN) and to shape the ways both wireless access and core networks are engineered in the 5G mobile wireless network
Summary
Research and development activities on 5G mobile wireless technologies have attracted lots of interest in both academia and industry worldwide over the last several years. SDN and virtualization provide mechanisms and tools to efficiently utilize the network resources with better traffic management, which results in improvements in the capital expenditures (CAPEX) and operational expenditures (OPEX) costs All these technologies play vital roles in ensuring successful deployment of the 5G wireless systems, which lead to significant benefits in the mobile communications as well as many other application sectors. Virtualization techniques can enable to exploit the cloud computational resources in the C-RAN and to shape the ways both wireless access and core networks are engineered in the 5G mobile wireless network. All together, these enabling technologies provide many fertile and exciting research areas for further research.
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