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Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

Volume 2019, Article ID 8202048, 2 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/8202048

Editorial
Recent Advances in 5G Technologies: New Radio
Access and Networking

Shao-Yu Lien ,1 Chih-Cheng Tseng,2 Ingrid Moerman ,3 and Leonardo Badia4

1
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi 62102, Taiwan
2
Department of Electrical Engineering, National Ilan University, Ilan 26041, Taiwan
3
Department of Information Technology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
4
Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, 2-35122 Padova, Italy

Correspondence should be addressed to Shao-Yu Lien; [email protected]

Received 16 January 2019; Accepted 19 January 2019; Published 10 February 2019

Copyright © 2019 Shao-Yu Lien et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

In Sept. 2015, the International Telecommunication Union- implementation, and the promising technical options to
Radiocommunications Standardization Sector (ITU-R) has boost, practice, and deploy the NR.
released the service recommendations of the fifth genera- In the paper titled “Exploiting Impacts of Intercell
tion (5G) mobile networks known as International Mobile Interference on SWIPT-Assisted Non-Orthogonal Multiple
Telecommunications 2020 (IMT-2020). Instead of solely Access,” the influence of intercell interference (ICI) on the
boosting the data rates, like the past evaluations from IMT- system outage behavior with important derived results in
2000 to IMT-Advanced, an IMT-2020 system shall support the proposed model of simultaneous wireless information
three categories of wireless scenarios, including enhanced and power transfer (SWIPT) together with NOMA using
mobile broadband (eMBB), ultra-reliability and low latency the amplify-and-forward protocol is examined. The authors
communication (URLLC), and massive machine-type com- further derive the closed-form expression of coverage prob-
munication (mMTC), to sustain the 20 Gbps peak data rate, ability for two NOMA users as a function of the signal-
100 Mbps user experienced data rate, 10 Mbps/m2 area traffic to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) and investigate the
capacity, 106 devices/km2 connection density, 1 ms latency, average outage probability by considering impacts of the
and 500 km/hr mobility. To compete for being an IMT- reasonable number of participating ICI.
2020 system, 3GPP consequently launched the normative In the paper titled “MC-GiV2V: Multichannel Allocation
works of “New Radio (NR)” in Release 15 and Release 16. in mmWave-Based Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks,” a Giga-
In Jun. 2018, Phase I normative work of NR (i.e., Release V2V (GiV2V) network is proposed, in which vehicles query
15) has completed, and Phase II (i.e., Release 16) has subse- and deliver high quality video and sensor data of smart
quently begun. The feature technologies in NR thus include and self-driving cars using mmWave communications instead
communications using millimeter/centimeter wave carriers of current dedicated short-range communications (DSRC).
(spectrum above 6 GHz), nonorthogonal multiple access Vehicles probably form a grid topology along lanes of a road,
(NOMA), advanced vehicle-to-everything (V2X), directional which leads to align mmWave beams of the vehicles and cause
transmission/reception, software-defined network (SDN), mutual interference among them. As channel diversity can
etc. resolve effectively the interference between mmWave beams,
To service the urgent needs in normative works of NR, several heuristic algorithms for channel assignment of each
this special issue thus aims at bringing together the state-of- beam in the GiV2V networks are also proposed.
the-art innovations, research activities (both in academia and In the paper titled “Micro Operator Design Pattern in 5G
industry), and the corresponding standardization impacts SDN/NFV Network,” the authors discuss the deployment of
of NR, so as to comprehend the inspirations, requirements, Micro Operator (𝜇O) to reduce network latency in response
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to the low-latency applications for future 5G edge computing

environment. The authors consequently address the design
pattern of 5G micro operator and propose a Decision Tree
Based Flow Redirection (DTBFR) mechanism to redirect the
traffic flows to neighbor service nodes. The proposed DTBFR
mechanism thus allows different 𝜇Os to share network
resources and speed up the development of edge computing
in the future.
In the paper titled “Energy-Efficient Uplink Resource
Units Scheduling for Ultra-Reliable Communications in NB-
IoT Networks,” the issue of how to guarantee the reliable
communication and satisfy the quality of service (QoS)
while minimizing the energy consumption for IoT devices is
studied. The authors model the problem as an optimization
problem and prove it to be NP-complete and then propose an
energy-efficient, ultra-reliable, and low-complexity scheme.
Extensive simulation is also conducted to show that the
provided scheme can serve more devices with guaranteed
QoS while saving their energy effectively.
In the paper titled “Genetic Algorithm-Based Beam
Refinement for Initial Access in Millimeter Wave Mobile
Networks,” the initial access issue in 5G networks operating
at carrier frequencies is investigated. The authors extend the
proposed genetic algorithm- (GA-) based beam refinement
scheme to include beamforming at both the transmitter and
the receiver and compare the performance with alterna-
tive approaches in the millimeter wave multiuser multiple-
input-multiple-output (MU-MIMO) networks. The effect
of different parameters such as the number of transmit
antennas/users/per-user receive antennas, beamforming res-
olutions, and hardware impairments on the system perfor-
mance employing different beam refinement algorithms is
investigated and shows that the proposed GA-based approach
performs well in delay-constrained networks with multi-
antenna users.
In the paper titled “RF Driven 5G System Design for
Centimeter Waves,” the authors describe their experiences
in developing a centimeter waves mobile broadband concept
satisfying future capacity requirements. The first step in the
process is the radio channel measurement campaign and
statistical modeling. Then the link level design is performed
tightly together with the radio frequency (RF) implemen-
tation requirements to allow as large scalability of the air
interface as possible. The authors started the concept develop-
ment at 10 GHz frequency band and during the project World
Radiocommunication Conference 2015 selected somewhat
higher frequencies as new candidates for 5G. The main
learning is to gain insight of interdependencies of different
phenomena and find feasible combinations of techniques and
parameter combinations that might actually work both in
practice and in theory.

Conflicts of Interest
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Chih-Cheng Tseng
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