Business Case and Technology Analysis for 5G Low Latency Applications

IEEE Access

Volumn 5, Issue , 2017, Pages 5917-5935

  Lema, Maria A ^a   Laya, Andrés ^b   Mahmoodi, Toktam ^a   Cuevas, Maria ^c   Sachs, Joachim ^d   Markendahl, Jan ^b   Dohler, Mischa ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c BRITISH TELECOM   (United Kingdom)

^d ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

business models; low latency; Market drivers; tactile internet; use cases

Indexed keywords

5G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMMERCE;

BUSINESS MODELS; BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE; LOW LATENCY; MARKET DRIVERS; NEW BUSINESS MODELS; NUMBER OF SERVICES; POTENTIAL MARKETS; TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 85028047160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21693536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2685687     Document Type: Article

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