August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
466 pages
13h 56m
English
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.
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).

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