Key techniques for 5G wireless communications: network architecture, physical layer, and MAC layer perspectives

Science China Information Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Ma, Zheng ^a   Zhang, Zheng Quan ^a   Ding, Zhi Guo ^b   Fan, Ping Zhi ^a   Li, Heng Chao ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

5G; cognitive radio; device to device communications; full duplex; massive MIMO; millimeter wave communications; non orthogonal multiple access; software defined network

Indexed keywords

4G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COGNITIVE RADIO; COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; MILLIMETER WAVES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK CODING; PHYSICAL LAYER; RADIO BROADCASTING; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING;

DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATIONS; DEVICETO-DEVICE (D2D) COMMUNICATION; FULL-DUPLEX; MILLIMETER-WAVE COMMUNICATION; MULTIPLE ACCESS; MULTIPLE INPUT AND MULTIPLE OUTPUTS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

5G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84922723545     PISSN: 1674733X     EISSN: 18691919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11432-015-5293-y     Document Type: Review

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