Emerging 5G networks

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Emerging 5G networks
Mischa Dohler speaks:
The biggest coup however, might be reserved for the cellular community. The
underlying standardisation body here is the 3GPP, which has been standardising 3G
and 4G systems we use every day. As for 4G-- in more technical terms known as Long
Term Evolution, LTE, and Long Term Evolution Advanced, LTE-A
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Long Term Evolution LTE, Long Term Evolution Advanced LTE-A
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cellular is becoming increasingly attractive for supporting large-scale IoT
installations due to their wide coverage, relatively low deployment costs, high level of
security, access to dedicated spectrum, and simplicity of management. However, LTE
networks have historically not been designed with link budget requirements of IoT
devices in mind nor optimised for IoT traffic patterns-- which can be very, very eventdriven. Imagine a sensor measuring the occupancy of a parking spot.
Therefore, several improvements have been initiated in 3GPP aiming to augment LTE
to become more suitable for IoT applications. Given that the number of connected
machines are expected to grow dramatically-- up to 30,000, maybe 60,000 devices in
a single cell-- LTE technologies require respective mechanisms to handle a very large
number of devices. Further-- accounting for the fact that typical IoT data
transmissions are infrequent, small, et cetera-- some simplified signalling procedures
for radio establishment are needed to offer energy consumption saving for such
devices. Finally, we are currently trying to reduce complexity of these devices to zero,
mainly to keep related patent claims to a minimum and therefore minimise the actual
device cost.
If technology and data plans are affordable, cellular assistance will be a wonderful
support to the IoT ecosystem since available globally and generally very, very reliable.
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