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Ultra-Dense Network Architecture and Technologies for 5G

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In recent years, with the growing popularity of smart device, our daily life has come to revolve around with spectacularly successful mobile Internet services, which lead to the explosion of data traffic in mobile communication networks. The requirement on communication networks has become a critical issue. By 2020, the global mobile traffic volume will have about 1000 times growth compared to that of 2010. Recent research on 5G requirements indicates that the traffic density in crowded city or hotspot area will reach 20~Tbps/Km2. Ultra dense network(UDN) has been introduced to meet the traffic capacity requirement of 5G. as a most promising method. Challenges, network architectures, key technologies will be discussed in this section.

This work was supported in parts by the National Natural Science Foundation of China for Distinguished Young Scholar under Grant 61425012.

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The authors would like to give special thanks to Dr. Ming Ai and Mr. Zhonglin Chen of CATT for their kind reviews and revisions.

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    Shanzhi Chen, Fei Qin & Jiamin Liu

  2. Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing, China

    Bo Hu & Xi Li

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Chen, S., Qin, F., Hu, B., Li, X., Liu, J. (2017). Ultra-Dense Network Architecture and Technologies for 5G. In: Xiang, W., Zheng, K., Shen, X. (eds) 5G Mobile Communications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34208-5_15

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