5G System Design

15Performance, Energy Efficiency and Techno‐Economic Assessment

Michał Maternia¹, Jose F. Monserrat², David Martín‐Sacristán², Yong Wu³, Changqing Yang³, Mauro Boldi⁴, Yu Bao⁵, Frederic Pujol⁶, Giuseppe Piro⁷, Gennaro Boggia⁷, Alessandro Grassi⁷, Hans‐Otto Scheck⁸, Ioannis‐Prodromos Belikaidis⁹, Andreas Georgakopoulos⁹, Katerina Demesticha⁹ and Panagiotis Demestichas¹⁰

¹ Nokia, Poland

² Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

³ Huawei, China

⁴ Telecom Italia, Italy

⁵ Orange Labs, France

⁶ iDATE, France

⁷ Politecnico di Bari, Italy

⁸ Nokia, Sweden

⁹ WINGS ICT Solutions, Greece

¹⁰ University of Piraeus, Greece

15.1 Introduction

In the race towards the 5^th generation (5G) of mobile and wireless communications, many stakeholders are involved with their own proposals for technologies, algorithms and procedures. Especially in the current phase of definition of the new system, the right choice between these proposals is essential to secure the success and widespread adoption of 5G. In particular, it is expected that the new generation will enable novel business opportunities, as stressed in Chapter 2, and provide a performance leap that will justify expenses related to its development and deployment.

The introduction of the new standard is a very long and expensive process and, additionally, major design agreements are extremely difficult to revert once the system is mature. Hence, the need to quantify the performance of key design concepts long before any type of hardware implementation is available ...