This paper provides an overview of the features of fifth generation (5G) wireless communication systems now being developed for use in the millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency bands. Early results and key concepts of 5G networks are presented, and the channel modeling efforts of many international groups for both licensed and unlicensed applications are described here. Propagation parameters and channel models for understanding mmWave propagation, such as line-of-sight (LOS) probabilities, large-scale path loss, and building penetration loss, as modeled by various standardization bodies, are compared over the 0.5–100 GHz range.

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Overview of Millimeter Wave Communications for Fifth-Generation (5G) Wireless Networks—With a Focus on Propagation Models

Cellular systems of the fourth generation (4G) have been optimized to provide high data rates and reliable coverage to mobile users. Cellular systems of the next generation will face more diverse application requirements: the demand for higher data rates exceeds 4G capabilities; battery-driven communication sensors need ultra-low power consumption; and control applications require very short response times. We envision a unified physical layer waveform, referred to as generalized frequency division multiplexing (GFDM), to address these requirements. In this paper, we analyze the main characteristics of the proposed waveform and highlight relevant features. After introducing the principles of GFDM, this paper contributes to the following areas: 1) the means for engineering the waveform's spectral properties; 2) analytical analysis of symbol error performance over different channel models; 3) concepts for MIMO-GFDM to achieve diversity; 4) preamble-based synchronization that preserves the excellent spectral properties of the waveform; 5) bit error rate performance for channel coded GFDM transmission using iterative receivers; 6) relevant application scenarios and suitable GFDM parameterizations; and 7) GFDM proof-of-concept and implementation aspects of the prototype using hardware platforms available today. In summary, the flexible nature of GFDM makes this waveform a suitable candidate for future 5G networks.

Generalized Frequency Division Multiplexing for 5th Generation Cellular Networks

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Reversibility and Stochastic Networks

What is index modulation (IM)? This is an interesting question that we have started to hear more and more frequently over the past few years. The aim of this paper is to answer this question in a comprehensive manner by covering not only the basic principles and emerging variants of IM, but also reviewing the most recent as well as promising advances in this field toward the application scenarios foreseen in next-generation wireless networks. More specifically, we investigate three forms of IM: spatial modulation, channel modulation and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) with IM, which consider the transmit antennas of a multiple-input multiple-output system, the radio frequency mirrors (parasitic elements) mounted at a transmit antenna and the subcarriers of an OFDM system for IM techniques, respectively. We present the up-to-date advances in these three promising frontiers and discuss possible future research directions for IM-based schemes toward low-complexity, spectrum- and energy-efficient next-generation wireless networks.

Index Modulation Techniques for Next-Generation Wireless Networks

The long-term ambition of the Tactile Internet is to enable a democratization of skill, and how it is being delivered globally. An integral part of this is to be able to transmit touch in perceived real-time, which is enabled by suitable robotics and haptics equipment at the edges, along with an unprecedented communications network. The fifth generation (5G) mobile communications systems will underpin this emerging Internet at the wireless edge. This paper presents the most important technology concepts, which lay at the intersection of the larger Tactile Internet and the emerging 5G systems. The paper outlines the key technical requirements and architectural approaches for the Tactile Internet, pertaining to wireless access protocols, radio resource management aspects, next generation core networking capabilities, edge-cloud, and edge-AI capabilities. The paper also highlights the economic impact of the Tactile Internet as well as a major shift in business models for the traditional telecommunications ecosystem.

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5G-Enabled Tactile Internet

In this letter we report a new OFDM signalling format characterized by a precoder that renders the emitted signal's phase and amplitude continuous. It achieves superior out-of- band power characteristics at the price of a slightly reduced receiver sensitivity.

N-continuous OFDM

In this letter we show that judicious modulation of non-data subcarriers renders a transmitted OFDM signal and a few of its higher-order derivatives continuous at the OFDM symbol boundaries. This novel approach results in reduced out-of-band emission: typically, it achieves over 30 dB power suppression at adjacent-channel center-frequencies.

Out-of-Band Power Suppression in OFDM

Methods and nodes, for assignment of uplink control channel resources for providing HARQ feedback for data transmitted on a downlink data channel associated with a downlink control channel. The downlink control channel comprises at least a set of downlink control channel resources, which is configurable over a subset of available time frequency resources. The method comprises dividing the set of downlink control channel resources into at least two subsets of references, comprising indices to the respective downlink control channel resources. Also, the method comprises defining, for each such subset of references, an associated subset of references comprising indices to unique uplink control channel resources. Furthermore, the method comprises associating each element in the subset of references with a subframe and an element in the subset of references. Additionally, the method further comprises transmitting data on the downlink data channel associated with the downlink control channel.

Methods and nodes in a wireless communication system

In this paper, we describe the signal design for primary synchronization channel adopted for E-UTRA cellular system. By designing the signal to be centrally symmetric in the time-domain, the symmetric samples can be added prior to multiplication with the replica sample, thereby saving one multiplication per two received samples. Furthermore, a pair of centrally symmetric P-SCH signals can be generated such that one signal is a complex conjugated version of the other signal. The multiplication complexity of detecting both these signals can be reduced to that of just one of the signals.

Primary Synchronization Signal in E-UTRA

This contribution addresses the potential of N-continuous OFDM signals in systems where the receiver is unaware of the transmitter precoder operation. First, we present a memoryless precoder render ...

Fredrik Berggren

Papers

N-continuous OFDM

Out-of-Band Power Suppression in OFDM

Methods and nodes in a wireless communication system

Primary Synchronization Signal in E-UTRA

EVM-Constrained OFDM Precoding for Reduction of Out-of-Band Emission