5G cellular user equipment: From theory to practical hardware design

IEEE Access

Volumn 5, Issue , 2017, Pages 13992-14010

  Huo, Yiming ^a   Dong, Xiaodai ^a   Xu, Wei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

5G; beamforming; distributed phased array; hardware; massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO); millimeter wave (mmWave); spectral efficiency; system on chip (SoC); user equipment (UE)

Indexed keywords

5G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; BEAMFORMING; BUDGET CONTROL; CHANNEL CODING; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; COMPUTER HARDWARE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EQUIPMENT; FREQUENCY BANDS; HARDWARE; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN; MILLIMETER WAVES; MIMO SYSTEMS; MODULATION; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK LAYERS; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOLAR CELLS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; SYSTEM-ON-CHIP; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MILLIMETER WAVES (MMWAVE); MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE HANDSETS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; SPECTRAL EFFICIENCIES; SYSTEM ON CHIPS (SOC); USER EQUIPMENTS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 85028886441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21693536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2727550     Document Type: Article

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