Five disruptive technology directions for 5G

Boccardi, Federico; Heath, R. W., Jr.; Lozano Solsona, Angel; Marzetta, Thomas L.; Popovski, Petar

doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2014.6736746

Five disruptive technology directions for 5G

Citation

Boccardi F, Heath RWJ, Lozano A, Marzetta T, Popovski P. Five disruptive technology directions for 5G. IEEE Commun. Mag. 2014 Feb 12;52(2):74-80. DOI:10.1109/MCOM.2014.6736746

Abstract

New research directions will lead to fundamental changes in the design of future 5th generation (5G)/ncellular networks. This paper describes five technologies that could lead to both architectural and/ncomponent disruptive design changes: device-centric architectures, millimeter Wave, Massive-MIMO,/nsmarter devices, and native support to machine-2-machine. The key ideas for each technology are described,/nalong with their potential impact on 5G and the research challenges that remain.