Advance in Electronic and Electric Engineering.

ISSN 2231-1297, Volume 3, Number 5 (2013), pp. 569-574

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5G - The Future of Mobile Wireless

Communication Networks
Sanskar Jain1, NehaAgrawal1 and Mayank Awasthi2
1

IET, Mangalayatan University

ECE Department, IET, Mangalayatan University.

Abstract
Today wireless services are the most preferred services of the world.
The rapid increase in the service is due to the advancement of
technology consecutively. The worldwide revolution in mobile and
internet technology have changed our way of living life. Every new
technology has come to hide the drawbacks of previous technology. In
this paper we throw a light on the various generations of mobile
wireless technologies (1G to 5G) and also presents an overview of 5G
technology trends in the wireless technology market, a comparative
overview of 5G v/s all other previous generation technologies and the
major improvements which could be made to 5G technology.
Keywords: 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, Mobile Communication, Wireless
Communication, VOIP.

1. Introduction
In this era of communication where we have huge number of devices and a vast
technology, we see improvement day by day.In early 1980s when the wireless
communication just started, it started with the zero 0G technology commonly known
as radio wireless transmission technology. This technology was wide spread but
further it provided facility of voice call only but not data transfer, that was the
drawback of 0G technology. Then came 0.5 G with bit more improvement in voice
clearity after that there came a grand 1st generation technology commonly known as
1G, which not only provide the voice call facility but it also provided the data transfer
facility with a maximum speed of 10kbps. 1G used the analog signals as its means of
data transfer, whereas its successor 2G used digital signals as means of its

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communication and 2G served as a revolutionary work done if field of wireless

communication as it provided a very good voice clearity and even increased the data
transfer speed up to 64kbps as the increment in 2G, there came 2.5G which provided a
speed of 144kbps[3]. As the advancement in technology there came 3G which
provided facility of video calling as it gave a very high speed of data transfer that is up
to 3 mbps and then the advancement moved on to 3.5G which gave the speed of 14.4
Mbps. Further technology moved to 4G which provided streaming of high definition
video and provided a speed of 100 Mbps. Now the technology which will be there in
the market and will be a future generation technology will be 5th generation technology
and it provides speed up to 1 gbps.
5G [1][2] will make an important difference and will add more services and
benefits to the world over 4G. It will be more advanced that will interconnect the entire
world and it will give birth to worldwide wireless web. We can even hook our phone
with our laptop for broadband internet access. 5G technology will provide very high
band width that the users have never experienced before. The 5G technology has all
type of advanced features which makes it a most powerful tool of wireless
communications.With 5G pushed over a VOIPenableddevice, people will experience a
level of call volume anddata transmission never experienced before. 5G technology
willoffer the high quality of services in the field of Product Engineering,
Documentation,supporting electronic transactions (e-Payments, e-transactions)etc. now
a days u can find most of the cell phone having mp3player with huge storage memory
and a camera. You can evenuse the new 5G cell technologies to hook your phone to
yourlaptop for broadband Internet access. The modern day cellphone resembles a hand
held computer more than it does aphone, as most of them contain cameras, video
players, MP3recording, and much more.
The rest of paper is organized as follows.In the section II we have compared 5G
technologywith 1G,2G, 3G,4G technologies.Finally, the conclusions are given in
Section III.

2. Comparison of 5G with other wireless technologies

In this section we will compare the various features of 5G with other wireless
technologies which are as follows:
2.1. Comparison between 1G &5G[8][9]
1G
5G
1) it is the first generation 1) 5G is the fifth generation technology
technology that exists in 1980s
and it will be completely available in the
market by 2020
2) It works on analog signals
2) It is based on virtual private network
3) It supports data band width in 3) It support data band width up to 1GB
kbps

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4) It is based on basic mobility

4) It is based on IPv6

5) It is time consuming

5) Its a very fast means of communication

6) During 1G wireless phones are 6) In 5G technology phones have HD

used for voice calls only.
streaming, large memory, MP3 recording,
camera and all advanced features
7) It has no security
7) It has very high security
8)Poor carrier aggregation
8)Multiple carrier aggregation
9) Band width per frequency 9) Band width per frequency channel of
channel of 1G is up to 30Khz
5G is up to 28Ghz
This comparison shows that the 1G technology is much more back behind 5G
technology as 5G provides a very broad coverage network area and even safest and the
fastest means of communication. The mobility quality of 5G is thousand times better
than the old 1G technology as 1G provides only voice communication and on the other
hand 5G provide the fastest internet communication.
2.2. Comparison of 2G &5G[7][9]
2G
1) It came in 1990
7) It is successor to 1G
2) It is based on digital signals
3) It is mainly used for mobile
communication
4) No quality of service
5) Handsets are provided with
messaging facility (SMS, MMS
and picture message)
6) Cannot take multiple parties
simultaneously
7)Band width per frequency
channel of 2G is up to 200Khz
8) Core network is PSTN
9) Maximum speed is up to
64Kbps

5G
1) It will come till 2020
7) It is successor to 4G
2) It is based on internet protocol IPv6
3) It is for mobile communication and
also for wireless internet
4) Very high quality of service
5) Handsets are provided with ultrahigh
HD video calling
6) It can take unlimited number of
parties simultaneously
7) Band width per frequency channel of
5G is up to 28Ghz
8) Core network is internet
9) maximum speed is up to 1Gbps

As the successor of 1G 2G was far better than 1G but still it lags very much to
compete with 5G. 2G provides facility of messaging as well as data transfer. But the
speed of 2ginternet was very slow as compared to 5G, the 2G did not allow the high
data transfer rate for streaming multimedia whereas 5G provides a HD video
streaming.

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2.3. Comparison between 3G &5G[6][9]

3G
1) It is also called as tri band 3G

5G
1) It is fifth generation mobile
communication technology
2) It is based on high capacity broad 2) It is based in internet protocol 6
band data
3) The maximum data transfer speed is 3) The data transfer speed is up to 1
up to 3.1 mbps
gbps
4) It provides digital navigation
4) It provides virtual private network
5) It provides video access
5) It provides high resolution and bi
directional large band width shaping
6) 3G is successor to 2G
6) 5G is successor to 4G
7) Seamless roaming
7) IP based mobility
8) high data rates
8) very high data rates
9) Band width per frequency channel is 9) Band width per frequency channel is
up to 20Mhz
up to 28Ghz
3G is successor of 2G technology. 3G allows the video calling facility and some
additional features that are not present in 2G and also the data transfer speed is higher
than 2G,but in comparison to 5G it is very low. 5G allows the very fast internet i.e, in
Gbps
2.4. Comparison between 4G &5G[4][5][9]
4G
5G
1) 4G is present since 2000
1) 5G will come completely in
2020
2) 4G is the fourth generation of mobile 2) 5G is the revolution in 4G
communication technology
mobile communication technology
3) 4G provides dynamic information 3)
5G
provides
dynamic
access, wearable devices
information
access,
wearable
devices with AI capabilities
4) It supports data band width in Mbps
4) It supports data band width in
Gbps
5) Speeds for 4G are further increased to 5) 5G will provide very high speed
keep up with data access demand used by as well as efficient use of available
various services
band width to the consumers
6) 4G provide high definition streaming 6) 5G includes large phone
and some additional features such as memory, dialing speed, and much
multimedia
Newspaper
and
ultra- more and also we can hook our 5G
broadbandinternet access which were not cell phones with laptop to get
present in 3G
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7) Band width per frequency channel is up 7) Band width per frequency

to 100Mhz
channel is up to 28Ghz
8) In 4G concatenated codes are used for 8) The high quality of service of 5G
error detection
technology based on policy to
avoid error
9) CDMA multiple access
9) CDMA & BDMA multiple
access
4g is the fourth generation of mobile communication but 5G is a revolution to 4G.
5G provides perfect real world wireless or called worldwide wireless web. It allows
data transfer in Gbpsand whereas the uploading speed is much higher than 4G. 5G
includes all advance features and it is un-imaginable technology. It will be more
demanding in future.

3. Conclusions
In this paper we have focused on 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th generations of mobile
communication technology and predicted about upcoming 5th generation. 1G was
based on analog signal and usually used for voice call only with speed up to 10kbps.
The 2nd generation is based on digital signal. In 2G one additional feature of text
messaging is present in context to 1G with speed up to 64kbps. Further 3G is
introduced and in comparison to 2G it is much better because of faster speed than 2G
i.e, up to 3.1Mbps. 3G is based on high broad band data and provides digital
navigation as well as video access. After 3G 4G is introduced with HD multimedia
streaming with speed up to 40Mbps. Further In this paper we conclude that the
upcoming 5G technology will be the most important and the fastest technology of the
wireless communication world for an example a movie can be downloaded within a
seconds. It is a real wireless world with no more limitation with access and zone
issues.

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