IEEE Launches 5G Plan

IEEE has recently launched an IEEE 5G initiative to promote the development of 5G by calling on global industry leaders, policy makers and academics to collaborate through a neutral forum.

IEEE said the launch of the IEEE 5G Initiative aims to bring together professionals around the world to work with 5G related challenges, and to seize the many opportunities to lay the foundation for 5G. With the establishment of different working groups, IEEE is looking for volunteers from the industry and academia.

"5G is not only the evolution, offering higher bandwidth and lower latency than contemporary technology, and more importantly, 5G is revolutionary, because it is expected to be able to meet higher requirements for latency and bandwidth, so as to support new applications." IEEE 5G Initiative co-chair and AT&T key technician Ashutosh Dutta said. "5G should be able to help solve the last mile problem and provide broadband access to the next billion users of the earth at a lower cost, because it will use the new spectrum and improve spectrum efficiency."

Another IEEE 5G Initiative co-chair, a senior research scientist at the International Computer Science Institute, and Vodafone chief professor Gerhard Fettweis, says the haptics of the Internet are faster than the speed of light. “The IEEE 5G Initiative is bringing together IEEE's worldwide membership and new entrants to achieve WiFi terabytes per second, 10Gbps for cellular networks, 1 millisecond latency, and a AAA battery for 10 years 25 bytes per 100 seconds to transmit the target by 2025.

The activities of the IEEE Working Group include the 5G line project - short term (3 years), medium term (5 years) and long term (10 years) studies, communication ecosystem innovations and technology trends.