5G行业无线专网技术与业务需求模型

5G行业无线专网已成为运营商基于5G技术赋能垂直行业的最重要产品服务之一。虚拟化、多接入边缘计算、网络切片等技术的逐渐成熟为5G行业无线专网的发展提供了关键技术保障。介绍了5G行业无线专网的发展现状、关键技术、需求模型、面临挑战和发展建议。对5G行业无线专网的概念和分类进行归纳,对实现5G行业无线专网的关键技术进行分析,并针对业务需求模型提出了设计思路和主要参考指标,最后对运营商开展5G行业无线专网类业务当前面临的挑战进行了总结并给出发展建议。     

A seamless context-aware architecture for fourth generation wireless networks

The integration of a multitude of wireless networks is expected to lead to the emergence of the fourth generation (4G) of wireless technologies. Under the motivation of increasing the levels of user satisfaction while maintaining seamless connectivity and a satisfactory level of QoS, we design a novel cross-layer architecture that provides context-awareness, smart handoff and mobility control in heterogeneous wireless IP networks. We develop a Transport and Application Layer Architecture for vertical Mobility with Context-awareness (Tramcar). Tramcar presents a new approach to vertical handoff decisions, which is not exclusively based on network characteristics but also on higher level parameters which fall in the application and transport layers. Tramcar is tailored for a variety of different network technologies with different characteristics and has the ability of adapting to changing environment conditions and unpredictable background traffic. Furthermore, Tramcar allows users to identify and prioritize their preferences. Tramcar is a smart and practical system, which is more capable of dealing with 4G challenges. Simulation results demonstrate that Tramcar increases user satisfaction levels and network throughput under rough network conditions and reduces overall handoff latencies.     

Leveraging AI-enabled 6G-driven IoT for sustainable smart cities

Many scholastic researches have begun around the globe about the competitive technological interventions like 5G communication networks and its challenges. The incipient technology of 6G networks has emerged to facilitate ultrareliable and low-latency applications for sustainable smart cities which are infeasible with the existing 4G/5G standards. Therefore, the advanced technologies like machine learning (ML), block chain, and Internet of Things (IoT) utilizing 6G network are leveraged to develop cost-efficient mechanisms to address the issues of excess communication overhead in the present state of the art. Initially, the authors discussed the key vision of 6G communication technologies, its core technologies (such as visible light communication [VLC] and THz), and the existing issues with the existing network generations (such as 5G and 4G). A detailed analysis of benefits, challenges, and applications of blockchain-enabled IoT devices with application verticals like Smart city, smart factory plus, automation, and XR that form the key highlights for 6G wireless communication network is also presented. In addition, the key applications and latest research of artificial intelligence (AI) in 6G are discussed facilitating the dynamic spectrum allocation mechanism and mobile edge computing. Lastly, an in-depth study of the existing open issues and challenges in green 6G communication network technology, as well as review of solutions and potential research recommendations are also presented.     

Adaptive CMOS analog circuits for 4G mobile terminals—Review and state-of-the-art survey

The fourth-generation (4G) of cellular terminals will integrate the services provided by previous generations second-generation/third-generation (2G/3G) with other applications like global positioning system (GPS), digital video broadcasting (DVB) and wireless networks, covering metropolitan (IEEE 802.16), local (IEEE 802.11) and personal (IEEE 802.15) areas. This new generation of hand-held wireless devices, also named always-best-connected systems, will require low-power and low-cost multi-standard chips, capable of operating over different co-existing communication protocols, signal conditions, battery status, etc. Moreover, the efficient implementation of these chipsets will demand for reconfigurable radio frequency (RF) and mixed-signal circuits that can adapt to the large number of specifications with minimum power dissipation at the lowest cost.Nanometer CMOS processes are expected to be the base technologies to develop 4G systems, assuring mass production at low cost through increased integration levels and extensive use of digital signal processing. However, the integration in standard CMOS of increasingly complex analog/RF parts imposes a number of challenges and trade-offs that make their design critical.These challenges are addressed in this paper through a comprehensive revision of the state-of-the-art on transceiver architectures, building blocks and design trade-offs of reconfigurable and adaptive CMOS RF and mixed-signal circuits for emerging 4G systems.     

基于毫米波传输的光纤无线融合架构研究

通过对毫米波生成技术的研究以及光纤/无线融合方案主流架构的分析,提出基于毫米波传输的光纤/无线融合架构设计。相比以往的网络融合方案,它可以实现一种在垂直方向从上往下依次包括业务层、控制层、媒体传输层和接入层,在水平方向覆盖核心网和接入网乃至用户驻地网的新型网络融合。     

基于IP无线网络中的移动性

基于IP的无线网络将成为下一代移动网络的核心。在全IP无线网络中。移动性对于多媒体应用起着十分重要的作用。探讨了基于IP的无线网络中的一些重要问题，包括移动IP、移动IPv6和其它相关的一些技术。同时还讨论了WLAN、WWAN、2G以及3G蜂窝网和下一代混合移动网络中关于移动性支持等问题。     

4G中的新技术及其与3G的比较

第四代移动通信系统(4G)是多种无线技术的综合系统，它融合了现有第三代移动系统(3G)的增强型技术，集3G网络技术和无线LAN系统为一体。首先简述了4G的特点，然后将4G与3G系统进行了比较，并详细讨论了4G中采用的新技术，最后介绍了国内外对4G的研究现状。     

Defining 4G technology from the users perspective

The ever-increasing growth of user demand, the limitations of the third generation of wireless mobile communication systems, and the emergence of new mobile broadband technologies on the market have brought researchers and industries to a thorough reflection on the fourth generation. Many prophetic visions have appeared in the literature presenting 4G as the ultimate boundary of wireless mobile communication without any limit to its potential, but in practical terms not giving any design rules and thus any definition of it. In this article we give a pragmatic definition of 4G derived from a new user-centric methodology that considers the user as the "cornerstone" of the design. In this way, we devise fundamental user scenarios that implicitly reveal the key features of 4G, which are then expressed explicitly in a new framework - the "user-centric" system - that describes the various level of interdependency among them. This approach consequently contributes to the identification of the real technical step-up of 4G with respect to 3G. Finally, an example of a potential 4G application is also given in order to demonstrate the validity of the overall methodology.     

无线数字新技术及网络数据安全

当前,以第六代移动通信技术（6th-generation mobile communication tenchnology, 6G）为代表的无线数字新技术正在塑造着这个信息新时代,在积极发展并应用这些技术的同时,必须高度重视网络数据安全。为此,就网络通信发展态势、6G演进及数据安全、网络数据安全及挑战进行简要评述。     

基于5G移动通信网络的城市轨道交通PIS系统应用探究

5G移动通信网络采用新一代蜂窝移动技术,其数据传输速率高于第四代移动通信网络的十倍之多,将第五代移动通信网络应用于城市轨道交通PIS无线系统中,可改善目前基于无线局域网构建的PIS系统中通讯信号易干扰、故障多等弊端。本文从LTE-A技术、MIMO增强技术、MEC技术等5G移动通信关键技术为切入点,从城市轨道交通系统的核心层、接入层、应用层出发,构建全新的智慧轨道交通系统。     

一种基于速度感知的垂直切换算法

 未来的4G网络不是由单一的接入方式构成,而是采用不同的无线接入技术的多种网络的融合.不同网络接入技术间的切换称为垂直切换.本文提出了一种基于速度感知的垂直切换算法,不需确切的节点坐标和速度信息,利用接收信号强度的历史测量数据来表征节点运动速度的影响,提高对切换触发时机的准确判断.该算法可以自动调整以适应不同的节点运动速度,有效提高垂直切换的效率.仿真试验表明该算法能有效提高垂直切换的性能.     

Overview on intelligent wireless communication technology

In recent years,artificial intelligence (AI) has been applied to wireless communications,in order to address the challenges introduced by data explosion and Internet of everything.Firstly,three core technologies of AI were introduced,including deep learning,deep reinforcement learning,and federated learning.Then,an overview of their applications on wireless communications was provided,from the aspects of wireless transmission,spectrum management,resource allocation,network access,network and system optimization.Based on the overview,the principle,applicability,design methodology,pros and cons on applying AI technologies to solve wireless communication problems were analyzed and summarized.Regarding the existed limitations,the future development trends and research directions on intelligent wireless communication technologies were pointed out,to hopefully provide useful help and reference for the future research in this field.     

Service-aware 6G: An intelligent and open network based on the convergence of communication,computing and caching

With the proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT), various services are emerging with totally different features and requirements, which cannot be supported by the current fifth generation of mobile cellular networks (5G). The future sixth generation of mobile cellular networks (6G) is expected to have the capability to support new and unknown services with changing requirements. Hence, in addition to enhancing its capability by 10–100 times compared with 5G, 6G should also be intelligent and open to adapt to the ever-changing services in the IoT, which requires a convergence of Communication, Computing and Caching (3C). Based on the analysis of the requirements of new services for 6G, this paper identifies key enabling technologies for an intelligent and open 6G network, all featured with 3C convergence. These technologies cover fundamental and emerging topics, including 3C-based spectrum management, radio channel construction, delay-aware transmission, wireless distributed computing, and network self-evolution. From the detailed analysis of these 3C-based technologies presented in this paper, we can see that although they are promising to enable an intelligent and open 6G, more efforts are needed to realize the expected 6G network.     

An End-To-End Approach for Transparent Mobility Across Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

With the advent of a myriad of wireless networking technologies, a mobile host today can potentially be equipped with multiple wireless interfaces that have access to different wireless networks. It is widely perceived that future generation wireless networks will exhibit a similar trend in supporting a large variety of heterogeneous wireless access technologies that a mobile host can choose from. In this paper, we consider such a multi-homed mobile host and propose an end-to-end solution that enables the seamless use of heterogeneous wireless access technologies. The unique features of the proposed solution include: (i) a purely end-to-end approach to handle host mobility that requires no support from the underlying network infrastructure, (ii) seamless vertical handoffs when the mobile host migrates from one access network to another, (iii) ability to support different congestion control schemes for a live connection traversing different interfaces, and (iv) effective bandwidth aggregation when the mobile host has simultaneous access to multiple networks. We present the design and details of the proposed approach, and evaluate its performance through simulations and real-life field experiments.     

未来无线通信领域的新技术

文章讨论了影响未来无线通信的重要新技术,如建筑物内无线通信、CDMA在向4G演进中面临的挑战等;探讨了提高频谱利用率的措施,如OFDM、UWB、空时调制编码、Ad hoc网络和网络跨层优化设计.     

Evolution towards fifth generation (5G) wireless networks: Current trends and challenges in the deployment of millimetre wave,massive MIMO,and small cells

The exponential increase in mobile data traffic is considered to be a critical driver towards the new era, or 5G, of mobile wireless networks. 5G will require a paradigm shift that includes very high carrier frequency spectra with massive bandwidths, extreme base station densities, and unprecedented numbers of antennas to support the enormous increase in the volume of traffic. This paper discusses several design choices, features, and technical challenges that illustrate potential research topics and challenges for the future generation of mobile networks. This article does not provide a final solution but highlights the most promising lines of research from the recent literature in common directions for the 5G project. The potential physical layer technologies that are considered for future wireless communications include spatial multiplexing using massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques with millimetre-waves (mm-waves) in small cell geometries. These technologies are discussed in detail along with the areas for future research.     

Transparent IP radio access for next-generation mobile networks

Advances in network architecture, enhancements in signaling protocols, provisioning of end-to-end QoS, worldwide seamless mobility, and flexible service provision are among the major research challenges toward next-generation wireless networks. The integration and interoperability of all these technologies, along with new truly broadband wireless innovations and intelligent user-oriented services will lead toward the so-called 4G wireless networks. In this article we identify the key issues of an innovative transparent IP radio access system that targets 4G networks.     

Mobility support across hybrid IP-based wireless environment: review of concepts, solutions, and related issues

The 4G or Beyond 3G wireless networks is consist of IP-based heterogeneous access networks from 3G cellular, WiFi, WiMAX to other emerging access technologies such as mesh networks. The key objective of designing the next generation wireless networks is to support of mobile subscribers. To support the mobile host in the hybrid wireless access technologies, many solutions based on network protocol stack have been proposed in the literature. In this article, after review of mobility concepts, a special attention is given to some of the mobility management methods as well as handover techniques across various wireless access networks. We have also compared the major mobility protocols in each layer for their features. Finally, some of the open issues that needed to be addressed in mobility management protocol in the next generation wireless networks are outlined.     

Technology standards-setting in the US wireless telecommunications industry: A study of three generations of digital standards development

This article focuses on the evolution of technology standards-setting in the US wireless telecommunications industry during the decades of the 1980s and 1990s. The purpose of this exploratory study is to understand and model the organizational process and environmental influences employed to develop three generations (i.e. second generation (2.0) Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), second generation (2.5) Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), and third generation (3.0) Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA)) of de jure US wireless digital telecommunications standards. Through the use of a multi-case study approach, the research study focuses on inter-organizational strategic cooperation among wireless telecommunications firms proposing competitive technology designs in the standard development process. Based on data collected in these three case studies, wireless standard development models are “mapped” for the TDMA, CDMA and WCDMA technologies. Moreover, a generic, conceptual wireless technology standard development model is “mapped”, a further refinement of an earlier seminal model of telecommunications standard-setting. Finally, conclusions are reached, with both theoretical and practical implications, and suggested areas of future research (in the form of a set of research hypotheses) are presented.     

A novel modeling approach for vertical handover based on dynamic k-partite graph in heterogeneous networks

The future network world will be embedded with different generations of wireless technologies, such as 3G, 4G and 5G. At the same time, the development of new devices equipped with multiple interfaces is growing rapidly in recent years. As a consequence, the vertical handover protocol is developed in order to provide ubiquitous connectivity in the heterogeneous wireless environment. Indeed, by using this protocol, the users have opportunities to be connected to the Internet through a variety of wireless technologies at any time and anywhere. The main challenge of this protocol is how to select the best access network in terms of Quality of Service (QoS) for users. For that, many algorithms have been proposed and developed to deal with the issue in recent studies. However, all existing algorithms permit only the selection of one access network from the available networks during the vertical handover process. To cope with this problem, in this paper we propose a new approach based on k-partite graph. Firstly, we introduce k-partite graph theory to model the vertical handover problem. Secondly, the selection of the best path is performed by a robust and lightweight mechanism based on cost function and Dijkstra’s algorithm. The experimental results show that the proposed approach can achieve better performance of QoS than the existing algorithms for FTP traffic and video streaming.