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5G NR: The Next Generation Wireless Access Technology
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5G NR: The Next Generation Wireless Access Technology

by Erik Dahlman, Stefan Parkvall, Johan Skold
August 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
466 pages
13h 56m
English
Academic Press
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Chapter 1

What Is 5G?

Abstract

The chapter gives background to 5G mobile communication, describing the earlier generations and the justification for a new generation. It describes the high-level 5G use cases, eMBB, mMTC, and URLLC. It also describes the 3GPP process for developing the new 5G/NR radio-access technology.

Keywords

5G; NR; 3GPP; eMBB; URLLC; mMTC; machine-type communication

Over the last 40 years, the world has witnessed four generations of mobile communication (see Fig. 1.1).

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Figure 1.1 The different generations of mobile communication.

The first generation of mobile communication, emerging around 1980, was based on analog transmission ...

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ISBN: 9780128143247