Key Technologies for 5G Wireless

Communication Networks: a Physical

Layer Approach
Cesar Azurdia Meza, Joaquín Chávez, Hernán Arraño, José Novoa
Universidad de Chile
General Diagnostic in Latin America
Current status: 2G and 3G Coverage as
a Percentage of the Population in 2010

Source: CEPAL, con datos de la Unión Internacional de Telecomunicaciones (TUI),

World Telecommunications Indicators Database 2012
What’s 5G?
What is 5G going to do?
What we tend to think!!
1G and 2G
3G and 4G
Source: Cisco VNI Mobile, 2015
4G leans on 2G and 3G:
OFDMA
SC-FDMA
2G 3G MIMO
+ new
4G
tech.
But for the future we want
to achieve the following:
Higher data rates

Spectrum
Devices/machines crunch
connected to the
network

Old and
Automatization rigid
networks
Machines interacting
with our bodies and
environment
To do so, we need the
following!
More
Bandwidth
spectrum is
re-allocation
required

New
networks
5G?
5G
How are we
going to make it
work?
Will 5G just be
an evolution of
4G?
5G
5G is not an enhaced replacement for 4G!
 Proposals
1. Device-centric Architectures.
2. Millimeter Wave Technologies.
3. Massive MIMO.
4. Smarter Devices.
5. Native Support for M2M.
Device-centric Architecture
• Traditional radio access networks have been
designed in “cells”.

• 5G  device-centric architecture: devices should

be able to communicate by exchanging multiple
information flows through several possible sets of
heterogenous nodes.
5G Flexible Cell Technology
 Millimeter Wave
(mmWave) Technologies

Fuente: Samsung DMC R&D Communications Research Team 2013

mmWave Experimental Bands
 mmWave Channel
Propagation

Fuente: Samsung DMC R&D Communications Research Team 2013

mmWave Beamforming

Fuente: Samsung DMC R&D Communications Research Team 2013

 System Parameters & Test Results

Fuente: Samsung DMC R&D Communications Research Team 2013

 Massive MIMO
• Large array of antenna elements to provide
diversity and compensate for path loss.

• Allows high resolution beamforming.

• Energy efficiency
Challenges for Massive MIMO
• Channel Estimation/Feedback.

• Fast Processing Algorithms.

Smarter Devices
• Better Feedback Information to Base Station.

• Allows Device to Device Communication.

• Allows use of Heterogeneous Networks.

(Multiple RAT)
Challenges for
Smarter Devices
• Inter-cell Interference.

• Efficient Medium Access Control.

• Device Discovery and Link Setup.

• Energy Efficiency.
M2M
• Machine to Machine Communications.

• Optimization and automatization of processes.

• Smart Grids, Smart Cities.

• E-Health.
Challenges for M2M
• Massive Access.

• Inter-Device Interference.

• Big Data.

• Security and Privacy.

• Energy Efficiency.
 Conclusion
• 5G is the KEY to meet our long-term vision
of FUTURE  COMMUNICATE PEOPLE
AND THINGS!!

• There are huge challenges to overcome in

the next 5 years.

• The research required for the development

of 5G is now well underway.

• 5G IS COMING…