Managing and orchestrating the complexities of next-generation mobile networks including 5G and future wireless protocols

Mobile communication has been one of the most mass-deployed technologies in human daily life. The demand for mobile wireless systems with the ability to provide universal, omnipresent broadband services is rapidly increasing, and vested efforts to achieve this goal have materialized as a succession of mobile network generations ranging from 1G to the latest 3.5/4G. The imminence of such a requirement becomes more obvious as an ever-increasing number of vendors show their confidence in the commercial successes of future mobile technologies, which would be worth trillions of dollars in the market. Following this path, the research field has progressed through the tidy track laid down by the need for practical solutions for the next-generation mobile networks lying ahead of the current evolution pathway, including the finalized 2020+ 5G technology, “B5G” (i.e., Beyond 5G), and NR-U (Unlicensed 5G New Radio).

The condition for the 3GPP specifies three usage scenarios: Enhanced Mobile Broadband, Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications, and Dense Deployment of the IoT. It explicitly defines three technological capabilities named Enhanced Mobile Broadband, Ultra-Reliable Extremely Low-Latency Communications, and Large-Scale Connection of the Massive Volume of Devices to support three market objectives. While the large-scale bandwidth requirement for next-generation devices increases and varies based on their various usage purposes, with the growing demand for versatile communication capabilities to support the enhanced data access experience in the 5G era, conventional filtering techniques may face their bottlenecks.