Enabling 5G mobile wireless technologies

Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Volumn 2015, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Le, Long Bao ^a   Lau, Vincent ^b   Jorswieck, Eduard ^c   Dao, Ngoc Dung ^d   Haghighat, Afshin ^e   Kim, Dong In ^f   Le Ngoc, Tho ^g  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d Ottawa R and D Wireless Research   (Canada)

^e INTERDIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

^f Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

5G waveform; 5G wireless; C RAN; Dense networks; HetNets; Massive MIMO; mmWave; Software defined networking; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942783662     PISSN: 16871472     EISSN: 16871499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13638-015-0452-9     Document Type: Editorial

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