5G Cellular Communications

Course Overview

5G Cellular Communications covers next major phase of wireless and mobile telecommunications standards beyond the current 4G/IMT-Advanced standards. The evolving fifth generation (5G) cellular wireless networks are envisioned to provide higher data rates, enhanced end-user quality-of-experience (QoE), reduced end-to-end latency, and lower energy consumption.

This course presents several emerging technologies, which will enable and define the 5G mobile communications standards. The major research problems, which these new technologies breed, as well as the measurement and test challenges for 5G systems are also highlighted.

Course Schedule

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Target Audience

Engineering professionals involved in the planning, deployment, O&M of LTE radio access network, backhaul and the core networks.

Course Prerequisites

A general understanding of mobile technologies with some work experience is preferable.

Expected Accomplishments

On completing this course, participants will be able to understand:

Development towards the 5G: key technologies

HetNet architecture

Femto and small cells

Multi-RAN mobile terminals and technologies

Personal user-centric mobile Internet

Mobile cloud computing

Future mobile broadband services

Business and regulation challenges for the future mobile broadband Internet

Course Outline

Introduction

Recap, pre-cellular

Concept of cellular communications

History of cellular communications (2G, 3G, 4G)

Fundamental concepts of 5G

Definition of 5G in literature

Mobile communications in 2020

Green technology

Low cost communications

Organizations working on 5G

The 5G standardization

Mobility and Interoperability

Full duplex

Coverage mobility

Interference cancelation / utilization

Cognitive radio and network

Truly autonomous SN

Inter-RAT (LTE – Wi-Fi)

Internet of things

Interconnected devices

Machine to Machine (M2M)

Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V)

Device to Device (D2D)

IPv6

Fundamentals of 5G

Basic architecture – Network design

Enhanced Physical and Data link layers

Pervasive Networks

Network Capacity challenge

Spectrum management

High Frequency bands (6-60 GHz)

Increased spectrum

Dynamic spectrum allocation

Spectrum sharing

Cellular technology

Is 5G a cellular communication system?

Macro cells –Coverage vs Capacity

Increased number of cells

Small cells and Indoor cells

Smart small cells

Wireless backhaul – Millimeter wave (up to 90 GHz)

Network Design

Relaying Communications

Relaying strategies

Relaying MIMO

Optimum relaying operation

Dynamic resourcing

Group operative relay

Mesh network topology –Cooperative networks

Network architecture

Connected devices

Cost effective communications

Wireless Mesh Networks

Scenarios

Ad Hoc Relaying

Concept of ad hoc relaying

Single cast vs multicast

Dynamic Ad hoc Wireless Networks (DAWN)

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET)

Scenarios

Physical and Data Link Layers

MIMO

Higher spectral efficiency due to MIMO

Diversity Gain vs Spatial Multiplexing

MU-MIMO

Concept of Beamforming

Massive Distributed MIMO

Massive MIMO

3D MIMO / 3D Beamforming

Multi-user power allocation (waterfilling technique)

Smart Antennas

Multiple access

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA)

OFDMA limitations

Non Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA)

Benefits of NOMA

Filter bank multicarrier

NOMA

MAC

Lighter MAC

Adaptive MAC

Flexible and efficient forms of modulating

Lower latency – a few milliseconds end-to-end