5G and the War for Supremacy: The 4 Key Technologies Involved
Fifty years from now, when you’re aged and wrinkled (assuming we won’t have discovered the cure for aging) you’ll be sure to tell your grand-kids of the war for the rise of the 5G cellular network from 2016 – 2020. You’ll explain to them how the differences in spectrum efficiency, power efficiency and performance in connectivity were used to decide the ultimate victor. The challengers being MU-MIMO, D2D, NOMA and mmWave technologies. How the battles were fought, not on the ground or sea, but through the electromagnetic spectrum led by top research scientists all over the globe. You’ll remember to tell them that the puppet-masters were the telcos giants while us, the wee subscribers, could only hope for the best outcome. Better yet, direct them here for a simplified description of the technologies currently involved in the 5G revolution.