Elsevier Physical Communication, 18 (2016): 64-84.

A Survey on 5G: The Next

Generation of Mobile
Communication
Nisha Panwar1, Shantanu Sharma1, and
Awadhesh Kumar Singh2
1 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
2 National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India
 Outline
• Introduction
• Desideratum of 5G Networks
• Challenges in the Development of 5G Networks
• Architectures for the Future/5G Mobile
Cellular Networks
• Implementation Issues in 5G Networks
• Methodologies and Technologies
• Applications of 5G networks

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 Introduction
• What will be done by 5G and how?
• The increase of 3D (‘D’evice, ‘D’ata, and
‘D’ata transfer rate)
• Features
– Ubiquitous connectivity
– Zero latency
– High-speed Gigabit connection

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Requirements,
Technologies, Densification, FDD,
CRN, mMIMO, D2D
Multi-RAT, self-heal,
densification, CRN,

and communication, full

duplex radio
NFV, SDN, C-RAN,
RANaaS, CONCERT,

Applications Cache, fast

Increased
data rate Ubiquitous NFV, SDN,
handoff, D2D & connectivity C-RAN,
communication, network RANaaS,
mobile small- capacity CONCERT
cells, self-heal Low latency
Scalability
5G
Networks
SIC, CRN, Interference & Environmental C-RAN, VLC,
advance receiver, handoff friendly & less mmWave,
joint management money mMIMO, small-
detection/decodi cells, D2D
ng Security & QoS communication,
Inter-tier, intra- privacy user separation
tier, and
multi-RAT
handoff,
Monitoring and Delay-bound QoS,
encryption-decryption Quality management
equipment, multi-links
The inner, middle, and outermost layers with multi-flow and
present requirements, solutions, and multi-QoS
applications of 5G networks, respectively.
Two colored wedges highlight primary
features of 5G networks.
Who are developing 5G?

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 Why not 4G is enough?
• No support for bursty data traffic
• Inefficient utilization of processing capabilities
of a base-station
• Co-channel interference
• No support for heterogeneous wireless networks
• No separation of indoor and outdoor users

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Desideratum of 5G Networks
• Dramatic upsurge in device scalability
• Massive data streaming and high data rate
• Spectrum utilization
• Ubiquitous connectivity
• Zero latency

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 Challenges in the Development of 5G
Networks
• Data rate and network capacity expansion with energy
optimization
• Scalability and flexibility
• Single channel for both UL and DL
• Handling interference
• Environmentally friendly
• Low latency and high reliability
• Network performance optimization
• Economical impacts
• High mobility and handoff
• Self-healing infrastructures
• QoS
• Security and privacy of the network and UEs
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Architectures for the Future/5G Mobile
Cellular Networks

How 5G networks will look like?

What technologies and methodologies

will be included in 5G networks?

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Architectures for the Future/5G Mobile
Cellular Networks

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Implementation Issues in 5G Networks

• However, the implementation of 5G networks is

challenged by the following issues:
– Interference
– Handoff
– QoS
– Load balancing
– Channel Access Control Management
– Security and Privacy

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 Increasing network capacity

Massive device support

Increasing data rate

Security and privacy

Energy-efficient

Mobility support
Metho

Interference
Low latency
dologi Methodologies/

Economic
P

Technologies

es and Small-cells P P P P

Mobile small-cells
Techn CRN
D2D
ologie C-RANs P
P P

s
Full duplex radio
Advance receiver
SIC
DUD
P: partial support
 Applications of 5G Networks
• Personal usages
• Virtualized homes
• Smart societies
• Smart grids
• The tactile Internet
• Automation
• Healthcare systems
• Logistics and tracking
• Industrial usages

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 Presentation is available at
http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~sharmas/publication.html

Nisha Panwar1, Shantanu Sharma1, and

Awadhesh Kumar Singh2
1 Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev, Israel
{panwar,sharmas}@cs.bgu.ac.il
2 Department of Computer Engineering, National Institute of Technology
Kurukshetra, India
aksingh@nitkkr.ac.in