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The goal of facilitating the growing data-centric behaviors of global society has led to new classifications of wireless communications. One of these new classifications defined in the 3GPP Release 13 is massive machine-type communications (mMTC). A new wireless technology, known as narrow-band Internet of things (NB-IoT) was created to enable communication between large numbers of ..

The planned technical expectations of 5G services are extreme in many ways. One of the most extreme use cases is the planned enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) services, which are being designed to meet users growing demand for high speed data. The main features of eMBB are a massive increase in beak data rates, the ability ..

Many countries have yet to release, or license, mm-Wave spectrum for service providers to use or lease. The US, via the FCC, just auctioned seven 100 MHz blocks of spectrum in the FCC Auction 102. This mm-Wave spectrum covers the lower and upper 24 GHz spectrum, between 24.25 GHz and 24.45 GHz, and 24.75 GHz ..

Though the hype train of 5G may have some believing that true mm-Wave 5G will be showing up at your door any minute, the reality is that most 5G services will likely take years before they become viable. 3GPP Release 15 brought a new aspect to 5G beyond what many were expecting (other than the ..

Though there are high hopes for Millimeter-wave 5G solutions to solve all of our bandwidth woes, there will likely still be a couple, to several, years before large scale deployments of mm-Wave 5G occur. For the time being, wireless service providers are focusing on developing hardware and prototyping the new Sub-6 GHz 5G NR bands. ..

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a predicted eventually when a vast number of everyday objects are augmented with internet connectivity and accessory capabilities. They keystone to these IoT device features is the ability for sensors, controllers, actuators, and displays to communicate through the common platform of the internet. As hardline internet, such as through ..

The 5th Generation of Mobile Wireless (5G) has been a hot topic of discussion for the past several years, and is likely about to be a hot economic topic and 5G trials and rollouts begin this year and next year. Most people are familiar with the upgrade from 3G to 4G, and appreciate the ability ..

Though no single 5G requirement is yet set in stone, there has been some consensus from various industrial partnerships, standards bodies, and regulatory agencies on a vision for 5G. Some aspects of this vision are debated as to when they may be realized, but a common timeframe is to have a full 5G definition with ..