RF Innovation and the Transition to 5G Wireless Technology

 

5G Network

Can you imagine a cellular technology capable of delivering up to 100 times faster data rates compared to the current 4G network? Well, that is 5G for you. 5G is promising to deliver speeds in the order of Gb/s which is much greater than 4G is capable of. The idea of 5G  Wireless Technology first came into the picture in 2008 when NASA partnered with Geoff Brown and M2Mi Corp to come up with 5G. It was not until 2019 when 5G was 5G was ready for deployment. 5G may be at its early stages of definition but it is certainly receiving a lot of visibility.




Vision for 5G

Like any new mobile network advancement, the advancement from 4G to 5G is envisioned to bring with it a lot of positive changes. 5G is envisioned to deliver dramatic performance improvements in data rates, network capacity, latency, mobile connections, cost, and coverage.

Greater network capacity

The demand for wireless network connectivity for both IoT and mobile devices has been growing tremendously in the past decade. It is estimated by 2021 there will be 26 billion devices transmitting data over wireless networks. To meet such a huge demand 5G envisions to offer the following:

  • 10 GB/s data rate transfers for static users
  • 1GB/s data rate for low mobility users
  • 100Mb/s minimum, inn urban areas

As such, 5G is envisioned to deliver 10,000 times the capacity of the existing networks.
Better coverage

5G comes with a higher frequency spectrum of above 6GHz and potential up to 300Ghz.  Such high frequencies present coverage challenges as signal strengths drop rapidly. 5G will be accompanied by more radiation points to ensure that a heterogeneous network is delivered.

Latency

There is a growing market demand for real-time interactive applications and machine-to-machine interactions. There is also increasing penetration of interactive applications like augmented reality and multi-user games. All these demands extremely low latency. 5G is targeting a latency of less than 1msec. Given that the average LTE latencies in the U.S are within the range of 70-85 msec, this might sound like a very ambitious vision. 


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