A Survey on the 5th Generation of Mobile Communications: Scope, Technologies and Challenges

The 5th Generation (5G) of mobile communications will impact the costumers Quality of Experience (QoE) by ad- dressing the current mobile networks usage trends and providing the technological foundation for new and emerging services. Additionally, 5G may provide a unified mobile communication platform, with multiple purposes, leveraging industries, services and economic sectors. In this paper, a 5G tutorial is presented, including the 5G drivers, main use cases, vertical markets and a current status of the standardization process. Furthermore, several 5G key enabling technologies are presented, concerning the Radio Access Network (RAN) and Core Network (CN) perspectives. Finally, a brief outline over the Internet of Things (IoT) concept and current research topics is presented.

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