Intel, Universities Explore 5G Wireless Communication Technologies

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. has formed a research collaboration with leading universities to explore technologies for next-gen wireless networks. Initially, the world’s largest chipmaker will invest at least $3 million to support wireless research at more than 10 universities including Stanford, ITT Delhi and Pompeu Fabra. The work focuses on topics including how to improve quality of service via context awareness, wireless device power efficiency and enabling new radio spectrum.

As 4G standards have completed in 2011 and networks are beginning to be deployed, the attention of the mobile research community is shifting towards what will be the next set of innovations in wireless communication technologies which we will refer to collectively as “5G” (5th generation technologies). Given a historical 10-year cycle for every generation of cellular advancement, it is expected that networks with 5G technologies will be deployed around 2020.

While 4G standards were designed to meet requirements issued by the International Telecommunications Union-Radio (ITU-R), no definition for what comes beyond 4G is available yet. The most salient requirement for 4G standards has been peak service rates of 100Mb/s for high mobility users and 1Gb/s for low mobility users. Experts vary in opinion whether the next generation of cellular networks will continue to enhance peak service rates further, or move to newer metrics such as area spectral efficiency or energy efficiency, or even define new metrics around service quality and user experience.

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