5G Mobile Communications: The Vision for 2020 and Beyond

With barely 15% of the world’s mobile subscriptions served by 4G, the industry is already well under way in defining the next generation of wireless communications known as “5G”. Envisioned for commercialization in late 2020, 5G will be “Amazingly Fast with Great Service in a Crowd”. It will have the “Best Experience Following You with Super Real Time and Reliable Communications” and “Ubiquitous Things Communicating”. This vision outlined by the METIS consortium represents a revolution in the way we think about mobile communications. Research is still happening but some of this work has shifted now to active development while mobile operators from multiple countries are trialing early prototype systems. This presentation will cover the industry drivers, an examination of some of these enabling technologies, the current state of the industry’s development, and how measurement is critical to the process.

Speaker: Roger Nichols, Keysight Technologies