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