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What Will 5G Be?

arXiv 1405.2957 ↗First posted 12 May 2014cs.IT cs.NI math.ITcited by 25

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Abstract (arXiv)

What will 5G be? What it will not be is an incremental advance on 4G. The previous four generations of cellular technology have each been a major paradigm shift that has broken backwards compatibility. And indeed, 5G will need to be a paradigm shift that includes very high carrier frequencies with massive bandwidths, extreme base station and device densities and unprecedented numbers of antennas. But unlike the previous four generations, it will also be highly integrative: tying any new 5G air interface and spectrum together with LTE and WiFi to provide universal high-rate coverage and a seamless user experience. To support this, the core network will also have to reach unprecedented levels of flexibility and intelligence, spectrum regulation will need to be rethought and improved, and energy and cost efficiencies will become even more critical considerations. This paper discusses all of these topics, identifying key challenges for future research and preliminary 5G standardization activities, while providing a comprehensive overview of the current literature, and in particular of the papers appearing in this special issue.

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  2. 2025A Survey of LLM-Driven AI Agent Communication: Protocols, Security Risks, and Defense Countermeasurescited by 57
  3. 2021Vision-Aided 6G Wireless Communications: Blockage Prediction and Proactive Handoffcited by 30
  4. 2021LoRD-Net: Unfolded Deep Detection Network with Low-Resolution Receiverscited by 11
  5. 2023Message Passing Meets Graph Neural Networks: A New Paradigm for Massive MIMO Systemscited by 8
  6. 2023Camera Based mmWave Beam Prediction: Towards Multi-Candidate Real-World Scenarioscited by 7
  7. 2021CAnet: Uplink-aided Downlink Channel Acquisition in FDD Massive MIMO using Deep Learningcited by 6
  8. 2022Decentralized Stochastic Multi-Player Multi-Armed Walking Banditscited by 2
  9. 2023Asymptotic SEP Analysis and Optimization of Linear-Quantized Precoding in Massive MIMO Systemscited by 2
  10. 2024Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Offloading Cellular Communications with Cooperating UAVscited by 2
  11. 2021Joint User Association and Power Allocation in Heterogeneous Ultra Dense Network via Semi-Supervised Representation Learningcited by 1
  12. 2023Learning-Based One-Bit Maximum Likelihood Detection for Massive MIMO Systems: Dithering-Aided Adaptive Approachcited by 1
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  2. 2025Deep-Unfolded Massive Grant-Free Transmission in Cell-Free Wireless Communication Systemscited by 1
  3. 2021Assign Hysteresis Parameter For Ericsson BTS Power Saving Algorithm Using Unsupervised Learningcited by 0
  4. 2021Variational Autoencoders for Precoding Matrices with High Spectral Efficiencycited by 0
  5. 2022Adaptive Learning-Based Detection for One-Bit Quantized Massive MIMO Systemscited by 0
  6. 2023Standardized Benchmark Dataset for Localized Exposure to a Realistic Source at 10-90 GHzcited by 0
  7. 2023Cooperative Multi-Type Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Resource Management in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networkscited by 0
  8. 2023SkyCharge: Deploying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Dynamic Load Optimization in Solar Small Cell 5G Networkscited by 0
  9. 2024Structured Reinforcement Learning for Delay-Optimal Data Transmission in Dense mmWave Networkscited by 0
  10. 2025GCN-Based Throughput-Oriented Handover Management in Dense 5G Vehicular Networkscited by 0
  11. 2025Federated Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Privacy-Preserving and Energy-Aware Resource Management in 6G Edge Networkscited by 0
  12. 2025Asymptotic Analysis of Nonlinear One-Bit Precoding in Massive MIMO Systems via Approximate Message Passingcited by 0
  13. 2026Rethinking Communication Metrics: How Should We Measure Meaning?cited by 0