5GSPECTRUM: Advanced Spectrum Management in 5G and Beyond Systems

Spectrum is, and with the 5G deployment will become more and more, a very important asset in wireless telecommunication networks. The way that spectrum is allocated to different technologies and services, most of the time even in non-contiguous bands, varies a lot according to the geographic area in focus and to the different operators’ policies. The diverse usage of spectrum and the forthcoming availability of new bands in the mmWave domain will free a huge amount of new bandwidth that will allow for new services and application, not effectively deployable so far. A special session on advanced spectrum management in 5G and beyond systems, held in Venice, Italy. Two papers are presented, one discusses CoMP for 5G and another address the handover in 4G systems. Keywords—5G, Spectrum, CoMP, handover, LTE-U, WiFi