Towards Enhanced Mobile Broadband Communications: A Tutorial on Enabling Technologies, Design Considerations, and Prospects of 5G and beyond Fixed Wireless Access Networks

There has been a growing interconnection across the world owing to various multimedia applications and services. Fixed wireless access (FWA) is an attractive wireless solution for delivering multimedia services to different homes. With the fifth-generation (5G) and beyond mobile networks, the FWA pe...

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Autores principales:	Isiaka A. Alimi, Romil K. Patel, Nelson J. Muga, Armando N. Pinto, António L. Teixeira, Paulo P. Monteiro
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	5G 6G beamforming enhanced mobile broadband radio access network fixed wireless access Technology T Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TA1-2040 Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Physics QC1-999 Chemistry QD1-999
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:fa891a04361347e9a817b2644f73c8062021-11-11T15:24:10ZTowards Enhanced Mobile Broadband Communications: A Tutorial on Enabling Technologies, Design Considerations, and Prospects of 5G and beyond Fixed Wireless Access Networks10.3390/app1121104272076-3417https://doaj.org/article/fa891a04361347e9a817b2644f73c8062021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/21/10427https://doaj.org/toc/2076-3417There has been a growing interconnection across the world owing to various multimedia applications and services. Fixed wireless access (FWA) is an attractive wireless solution for delivering multimedia services to different homes. With the fifth-generation (5G) and beyond mobile networks, the FWA performance can be enhanced significantly. However, their implementation will present different challenges on the transport network due to the incessant increase in the number of required cell-sites and the subsequent increase in the per-site requirements. This paper presents a comprehensive tutorial on the enabling technologies, design considerations, requirements, and prospects of broadband schemes. Furthermore, the related technical challenges of FWA are reviewed, and we proffer potential solutions to address them. Besides, we review various transport network options that can be employed for FWA deployment. In this regard, we offer an in-depth discussion on their related requirements for different use cases. Moreover, we give an insight into the 3GPP RAN functional split implementations and implications on the 5G FWA transport network solutions. The concepts of virtualized RANs for attending flexibly to the dynamic nature of different use cases are also presented.Isiaka A. AlimiRomil K. PatelNelson J. MugaArmando N. PintoAntónio L. TeixeiraPaulo P. MonteiroMDPI AGarticle5G6Gbeamformingenhanced mobile broadbandradio access networkfixed wireless accessTechnologyTEngineering (General). Civil engineering (General)TA1-2040Biology (General)QH301-705.5PhysicsQC1-999ChemistryQD1-999ENApplied Sciences, Vol 11, Iss 10427, p 10427 (2021)
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spellingShingle	5G 6G beamforming enhanced mobile broadband radio access network fixed wireless access Technology T Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TA1-2040 Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Physics QC1-999 Chemistry QD1-999 Isiaka A. Alimi Romil K. Patel Nelson J. Muga Armando N. Pinto António L. Teixeira Paulo P. Monteiro Towards Enhanced Mobile Broadband Communications: A Tutorial on Enabling Technologies, Design Considerations, and Prospects of 5G and beyond Fixed Wireless Access Networks
description	There has been a growing interconnection across the world owing to various multimedia applications and services. Fixed wireless access (FWA) is an attractive wireless solution for delivering multimedia services to different homes. With the fifth-generation (5G) and beyond mobile networks, the FWA performance can be enhanced significantly. However, their implementation will present different challenges on the transport network due to the incessant increase in the number of required cell-sites and the subsequent increase in the per-site requirements. This paper presents a comprehensive tutorial on the enabling technologies, design considerations, requirements, and prospects of broadband schemes. Furthermore, the related technical challenges of FWA are reviewed, and we proffer potential solutions to address them. Besides, we review various transport network options that can be employed for FWA deployment. In this regard, we offer an in-depth discussion on their related requirements for different use cases. Moreover, we give an insight into the 3GPP RAN functional split implementations and implications on the 5G FWA transport network solutions. The concepts of virtualized RANs for attending flexibly to the dynamic nature of different use cases are also presented.
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author	Isiaka A. Alimi Romil K. Patel Nelson J. Muga Armando N. Pinto António L. Teixeira Paulo P. Monteiro
author_facet	Isiaka A. Alimi Romil K. Patel Nelson J. Muga Armando N. Pinto António L. Teixeira Paulo P. Monteiro
author_sort	Isiaka A. Alimi
title	Towards Enhanced Mobile Broadband Communications: A Tutorial on Enabling Technologies, Design Considerations, and Prospects of 5G and beyond Fixed Wireless Access Networks
title_short	Towards Enhanced Mobile Broadband Communications: A Tutorial on Enabling Technologies, Design Considerations, and Prospects of 5G and beyond Fixed Wireless Access Networks
title_full	Towards Enhanced Mobile Broadband Communications: A Tutorial on Enabling Technologies, Design Considerations, and Prospects of 5G and beyond Fixed Wireless Access Networks
title_fullStr	Towards Enhanced Mobile Broadband Communications: A Tutorial on Enabling Technologies, Design Considerations, and Prospects of 5G and beyond Fixed Wireless Access Networks
title_full_unstemmed	Towards Enhanced Mobile Broadband Communications: A Tutorial on Enabling Technologies, Design Considerations, and Prospects of 5G and beyond Fixed Wireless Access Networks
title_sort	towards enhanced mobile broadband communications: a tutorial on enabling technologies, design considerations, and prospects of 5g and beyond fixed wireless access networks
publisher	MDPI AG
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/fa891a04361347e9a817b2644f73c806
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Towards Enhanced Mobile Broadband Communications: A Tutorial on Enabling Technologies, Design Considerations, and Prospects of 5G and beyond Fixed Wireless Access Networks

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