Why would 5G need optical wireless communications?
| Autor: | Harald Haas, Tezcan Cogalan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Computer science
Mobile broadband 020206 networking & telecommunications 02 engineering and technology Spectral efficiency Optical wireless communications National Broadband Plan (United States) 020210 optoelectronics & photonics 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Optical wireless Electronic engineering Radio frequency 5G Visible spectrum |
| Zdroj: | PIMRC |
| DOI: | 10.1109/pimrc.2017.8292749 |
| Popis: | In the National Broadband Plan released by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 2010, it was predicted that with the ever increasing demand for data, the spectrum in 2009 will no longer be sufficient in 2013. The spectrum need was obtained based on the predicted mobile data traffic, number of cell sites and achievable spectral efficiency for the US in the FCC's report. In this study, predictions made by the FCC are compared with the achieved values from 2009 to 2016 in order to validate the required spectrum prediction. Furthermore, trends seen from 2009 to 2016 are used to predict when the required spectrum that satisfies the mobile data demand will exceed the entire radio frequency (RF) spectrum. According to the predicted mobile data traffic, number of cell sites and achievable spectral efficiency for the US, the entire RF spectrum will be fully used around 2035. Therefore, unlocking the visible light spectrum and deploying indoor/outdoor optical wireless systems would be a necessity for the next generation communication technologies in order to alleviate the spectrum crunch. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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