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An Overview of 5G Technologies

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Since the development of 4G cellular networks is considered to have ended in 2011, the attention of the research community is now focused on innovations in wireless communications technology with the introduction of the fifth-generation (5G) technology. One cycle for each generation of cellular development is generally thought to be about 10 years; so the 5G networks are promising to be deployed around 2020. This chapter will provide an overview and major research directions for the 5G that have been or are being deployed, presenting new challenges as well as recent research results related to the 5G technologies. Through this chapter, readers will have a full picture of the technologies being deployed toward the 5G networks and vendors of hardware devices with various prototypes of the 5G wireless communications systems.

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Quy Tran, H., Van Phan, C., Vien, QT. (2018). An Overview of 5G Technologies. In: Arya, K., Bhadoria, R., Chaudhari, N. (eds) Emerging Wireless Communication and Network Technologies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0396-8_4

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