Vision for Beyond 4G broadband radio systems

Mobile communication systems have evolved over the past decades and each new generation brought new experience to the users enabled by technology innovations, while keeping some well established principles from previous generations. This trend continued up to LTE (Long Term Evolution) Advanced, the predominant 4th generation system which has just been standardized in 3GPP and is being rolled out soon. How will this trend continue to future systems which will be deployed in some 10 years from now which will be advanced enough to be called “Beyond 4G” (B4G)? This article presents how such B4G systems will look like and some key technologies they will rely on including versatile numerology, massive virtual MIMO from many base stations, both centralized and distributed architectures using fiber optics as backbone, advanced interference mitigation, cognitive self organization, and wideband RF radios.

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