5G technology has a theoretical peak speed of 20 Gbps, while the peak speed of 4G is only 1 Gbps. 5G also promises lower latency, which can improve the performance of business applications as well as other digital experiences (such as online gaming, videoconferencing, and self-driving cars).
While earlier generations of cellular technology (such as 4G LTE) focused on ensuring connectivity, 5G takes connectivity to the next level by delivering connected experiences from the cloud to clients. 5G networks are virtualized and software-driven, and they exploit cloud technologies.
Dear Alyaa,
1) ITU is a good source for your research interest.
https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/backgrounders/Pages/5G-fifth-generation-of-mobile-technologies.aspx
2) Following is the excerpt taken from Qualcom website.
Q: How is 5G better than 4G?
A: There are several reasons that 5G will be better than 4G: • 5G is significantly faster than 4G • 5G has more capacity than 4G • 5G has significantly lower latency than 4G • 5G is a unified platform that is more capable than 4G • 5G uses spectrum better than 4G 5G is a unified platform that is more capable than 4G. While 4G LTE focused on delivering much faster mobile broadband services than 3G, 5G is designed to be a unified, more capable platform that not only elevates mobile broadband experiences, but also supports new services such as mission-critical communications and the massive IoT. 5G can also natively support all spectrum types (licensed, shared, unlicensed) and bands (low, mid, high), a wide range of deployment models (from traditional macro-cells to hotspots), and new ways to interconnect (such as device-to-device and multi-hop mesh). 5G uses spectrum better than 4G. 5G is also designed to get the most out of every bit of spectrum across a wide array of available spectrum regulatory paradigms and bands—from low bands below 1 GHz, to mid bands from 1 GHz to 6 GHz, to high bands known as millimeter wave (mmWave). 5G is faster than 4G. 5G can be significantly faster than 4G, delivering up to 20 Gigabits-per-second (Gbps) peak data rates and 100+ Megabits-per-second (Mbps) average data rates. 5G has more capacity than 4G. 5G is designed to support a 100x increase in traffic capacity and network efficiency.1 5G has lower latency than 4G. 5G has significantly lower latency to deliver more instantaneous, real-time access: a 10x decrease in end-to-end latency down to 1ms.1
Just politics.
1. People think that using the same frequency as a microwave oven will cause our brains to be cooked.
2. The FCC failed to put a large enough guard band between the aviation instrumentation band and the 5G band.
Just for your good learning, the evolution of the cell phone network is continuous. At a point in the development of the system we stop and clean up the work. We stop adding features. Features which are not finished are pushed to the next months. We have to stop and publish the tested improvements and new features. We assure that the documentation is clean and we stop. We do editorial updates and release that version. We start again, now calling the next version system - Version 17.
Then while we are working on version 17 marketing people decide to take version 16 and advertise it as 5G!!!!!!! After version 17 or 18 is complete they will advertise 5G Advanced! or 5G Ulra! or 6G is out!!!
Hope that helps. 5G is simply our version 16. It's a continuation of version 15. Version 17 adds new use cases and some performance improvements.
I would like to take the link in the discussion and to address some social and political aspects of the subject. In Brazil there are many important gaps between 4G and 5G, I cite a few examples. First, is the connectivity and broadband access gap: the internet is not everyone's benefit. Second, the problems arising from the weaknesses of Public Policies, which through implicit policies, which go against explicit policies, to quote the famous Latin American author Amílkar Herrera (1973), prevent the proper functioning of wireless communication networks. Third, the lack of coordination among the actors of the National Innovation System, makes it difficult to properly formulate these Policies. And, finally, summarizing, the institutional fragility in the formulation of Science and Technology Policies; the technological dependence of foreign nations in the formulation of Telecommunications Policies; the difficulty of catching up, referring to the problems with Industrial Policy and the binarisms arising from the discussions on Innovation when one intends to think about Innovation Policies. I am doing a Ph.D. paper about everything this, in soon I am going to put it here. Thank you very much for your attention.
The best place to find the weaknesses in 5G is to look at the work plan for 3GPP Release 17.
https://www.3gpp.org/release-17
5G is Release 16 (like Software Version 16) of the mobile network. After widespread deployment, some performance issues were discovered and Release 17 will fix that and add some new material The work plan for Release 17 will clearly define what is being done.
in 5G radio we need every 15 km EnodeB which increases SNR which affects directly the UE device if there's no filter to convert this signal into Redicuation use .
A good source of information is the 3GPP standards committee work plan. After the wide spread deployment of 5G, a number of inefficiencies and flaws were found. The committee is addressing those and they will be updated in 5G "Advanced:". This is likely Rel. 17.
Eng -Abduljabbar Al-sharif. Do you mean that the maximum spacing for eNodeB is 15 KM? Can you help me understand? In 3G, the average spacing is about 4 KM, or the UE battery dies too quickly.
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