Название: 5G for the Connected World
Автор: Devaki Chandramouli, Rainer Liebhart, Juho Pirskanen
Издательство: Wiley
ISBN: 111924708X
Год: 2019
Страниц: 505
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 22.2 MB

Comprehensive Handbook Demystifies 5G for Technical and Business Professionals in Mobile Telecommunication Fields.

Much is being said regarding the possibilities and capabilities of the emerging 5G technology, as the evolution towards 5G promises to transform entire industries and many aspects of our society. 5G for the Connected World offers a comprehensive technical overview that telecommunication professionals need to understand and take advantage of these developments.

The book offers a wide-ranging coverage of the technical aspects of 5G (with special consideration of the 3GPP Release 15 content), how it enables new services and how it differs from LTE. This includes information on potential use cases, aspects of radio and core networks, spectrum considerations and the services primarily driving 5G development and deployment.

The text also looks at 5G in relation to the Internet of Things, machine to machine communication and technical enablers such as LTE-M, NB-IoT and EC-GSM. Additional chapters discuss new business models for telecommunication service providers and vertical industries as a result of introducing 5G and strategies for staying ahead of the curve. Other topics include:

Key features of the new 5G radio such as descriptions of new waveforms, massive MIMO and beamforming technologies as well as spectrum considerations for 5G radio regarding all possible bands
Drivers, motivations and overview of the new 5G system – especially RAN architecture and technology enablers (e.g. service-based architecture, compute-storage split and network exposure) for native cloud deployments
Mobile edge computing, Non-3GPP access, Fixed-Mobile Convergence
Detailed overview of mobility management, session management and Quality of Service frameworks
5G security vision and architecture
Ultra-low latency and high reliability use cases and enablers, challenges and requirements (e.g. remote control, industrial automation, public safety and V2X communication)
An outline of the requirements and challenges imposed by massive numbers of devices connected to cellular networks

With the advent of 5G, we have the ingredients for something equally profound to happen. You see, the introduction of 5G as a wireless technology is more or less coinciding with adoption of both cloud computing and Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) by operators. Looking back, we can certainly be satisfied with the improvements that 3G and 4G brought as mobile communication technologies, as well as the new device paradigms, pricing models and business models that were introduced in parallel with them. But 5G can become a much bigger step for the humankind, relatively speaking, than 3G and 4G did at their time of introduction and adoption. With the extreme mobile broadband aspects of 5G, we have so much speed and capacity that it is difficult to see how we could run out of it with applications and use cases known today. With design criterion of one million connected objects per square kilometer, we can say that 5G has been designed for the Internet of Things (IoT) from the outset.

While some familiarity with the basics of 3GPP networks is helpful, 5G for the Connected World is intended for a variety of readers. It will prove a useful guide for telecommunication professionals, standardization experts, network operators, application developers and business analysts (or students working in these fields) as well as infrastructure and device vendors looking to develop and integrate 5G into their products, and to deploy 5G radio and core networks.