THE GENERATION GAME : THE FUTURE OF 5G AND BEYOND

WRITTEN BY : LAURA BERRILL

Hot on the heels of 5G , incoming mobile generations including 5.5G and 6G are in development . Here ’ s what you need to know

At the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference in March , Dr Peiying Zhu , Senior Vice President of Wireless Research at Huawei , delivered a keynote address describing a vision of 5.5G networks . In it , he assigned the technology three new capabilities : faster uplink , real-time broadband and what he called harmonisation .

So what is 5.5G ? Current 5G has been exemplified by three use cases : enhanced mobile broadband , massive machine-type communications and ultrareliable , low-latency communications . Huawei ’ s vision of 5.5G builds upon these by adding

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