The seamless and ubiquitous wireless communication anywhere, anytime, anyhow and between anybody and anything is expected to render daily lives easier. This will continue to grow, increasing at the same time, demand on wireless mobile connectivity between people, machines, processes and so on. There is an opinion that this will be achieved by invoking the fifth generation (5G) mobile networks. ...

The fifth generation (5G) wireless network technology is to be standardized by 2020, where main goals are to improve capacity, reliability, and energy efficiency, while reducing latency and massively increasing connection density. An integral part of 5G is the capability to transmit touch perception type real-time communication empowered by applicable robotics and haptics equipment at the netwo...

The increasing stress on mobile radio access performance in a context of declining revenues for operators is requiring the evolution of transport networks (backhaul and fronthaul), which currently work decoupled. The heterogeneity of the nodes and transmission technologies inter-connecting the fronthaul and backhaul segments makes the network quite complex, costly and inefficient to manage flex...

BACKGROUND The PAI-1 gene promoter 4G/5G polymorphism was found to be associated with plasma PAI-1 activity in white but not yet in Chinese patients. Hypertension might exaggerate the 4G/5G genotype effect on plasma PAI-1. METHODS The 4G/5G genotypes and plasma PAI-1 levels were determined in 565 Chinese, 211 with and 354 without hypertension to study the genotype effect and the mode of gene-...

The satellite industry is clearly committed to revisit and revamp the role of satellite communications within the 5G ecosystem. Central technologies being adopted in 5G networks such as Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are also anticipated to become key technological enablers for improved and more flexible hybridization of both satellite and terrestria...

The fifth generation (5G) wireless communications brag both high spectrum efficiency and high energy efficiency. To meet the requirements, various new techniques have been proposed. Among these, the recently-emerging index modulation has attracted significant interests. By judiciously activating a subset of certain communication building blocks, such as antenna, subcarrier and time slot, index ...

This Special Issue originates from the international conference EuCNC2016, which was held in June 2016 in Athens, Greece. Initially, it publishes some key contributions presented at the conference describing different aspects in the most recent 5G (5th generation) activities in the areas of Air Interfaces and Management Technologies. The series continues with further articles in the context of ...

Exponential growth of number of mobile users has led to the increasing demand for bandwidth and channel capacity. Thus 5G has to support new multitude of various mobile applications.The 5G networks not only has capacity constraints but also existing challenges such as network reliability, coverage, energy efficiency and latency with current communication systems. Visible light communication pro...

Date of publication: 1 February 2016 There has been active research worldwide to develop the next-generation, i.e., fifth-generation (5G), wireless network. The 5G network is expected to support a significantly large amount of mobile data traffic and a huge number of wireless connections and achieve better costand energy-efficiency as well as quality of service (QoS) in terms of communication d...

Two vital challenges arise in the next generation 5G networks: scarcity of spectrum and the aspect of energy efficiency (EE). In this letter, we first formulate the prime issue, i.e., energy harvesting (EV) for 5G wireless networks, in which spectrum and energy resources are efficiently received and resourcefully managed. Thereafter, we introduce a medium access control (MAC) scheme for dual ti...