5G research into a global competition focus

At present, the European Union, Japan, South Korea, and China have established 5G related promotion organizations. Although the future 5G technologies and standards are still being explored, the path of unified development is not yet clear, and commercial deployment will take longer. However, with the development of mobile services, the surge in data traffic will surely aspire to a new generation of mobile communication systems. Being the focus of the communications industry will once again enrich our communications life.

The proliferation of mobile data has spawned a new mobile communication system. 5G will achieve faster, more energy-efficient, and more comprehensive coverage of 5G. It is generally said that the fifth-generation mobile communication technology is different from the cross-over development from 2G to 4G. 5G is not a Independent, new wireless access technology is the general term for the evolution of existing wireless access technologies, as well as some new complementary wireless access technology integrated solutions.

For ordinary users, the most intuitive impact brought by 5G networks is the tremendous increase in speed. Currently, the peak transmission rate of 4G/LTE networks can reach 100M per second, while the theoretical value of 5G will reach 10G per second. This means that in a 5G network environment, downloading a high-definition movie is almost a blink of an eye.

From a technical point of view, 5G networks solve the real need for the development of future communications networks. With the popularity of mobile services and the "Internet of Everything" becoming a reality, mobile data traffic has exploded. Forecasts show that mobile data traffic will grow spurt in the next few years, and traffic will increase by 1000 times by 2020. The emerging 5G communications are also often referred to as "a new generation of mobile communications systems for 2020."

It is estimated that the terminal capacity of the mobile communication network is now around 5 billion, and the number of terminals in the future 5G era will at least increase 10 times to over 50 billion. Wearable smart terminals, massive Internet of Things terminals, and car networking terminals will be an important part of the 50 billion connections.

ZTE communications experts said that in order to meet future communications needs, in addition to ultra-high-speed transmission, 5G also need to meet the requirements of large bandwidth, ultra-high capacity, low energy consumption, ultra-short delay. The communications industry generally expects that the service delay of 5G networks should be less than 5 milliseconds. For highly demanding scenarios such as car networking and smart grids, it is even necessary to control latency within 1 millisecond and achieve high speeds up to 450 kilometers per hour. Communication in a mobile environment.

The energy consumption of mobile communication networks is huge, and the industry expects that the energy consumption of 5G in the future will be at least 10 times lower than it is now, and communication will become more “green”. In addition, the 5G era is expected to comprehensively address some mobile coverage scenarios such as indoor, remote areas, and distant oceans at the present stage, enabling anytime, anywhere access.

The 5G network will take the user experience as the core of research, and the drive for information consumption growth of 5G will be people's demand for future mobile communication bandwidth. The real driving force for its development lies in the rapidly growing information consumption market. Statistics from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology show that in 2012, China’s information consumption market reached 1.7 trillion yuan, an increase of 29% year-on-year, and the related industries’ new output was nearly 930 billion yuan. It is expected that by 2015, the final scale of information consumption in China is expected to exceed 3.2 trillion yuan.

A better communication network in turn also stimulates the development of information consumption. Take Korea as an example, because it is the first to achieve 4.5G network replacement in the world, this move has greatly driven its domestic information consumption. Mobile communication experts stated that based on the characteristics of information consumption, the new generation of communication methods will serve the concept of "human experience" compared to 4G networks and pay more attention to technology integration and user experience. To a certain extent, 5G will be a A truly integrated network.