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A Sneak Peek into 5G Communications

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The world of mobile communications is poised for yet another disruptive transformation – the introduction of 5G. It will change the way mobile phones communicate. New technologies at the device level and novel network architectures to manage them will be soon seen everywhere. This article explores what 5G is all about. It also talks briefly about the preparations underway across the globe to deploy 5G by 2020.

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  1. School of Computer Engineering, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar, 751 024, Odisha, India

    Udit Narayana Kar & Debarshi Kumar Sanyal

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Udit Narayana Kar is a doctoral scholar in the School of Computer Engineering at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Bhubaneswar. His research focuses on wireless communications.

Debarshi Kumar Sanyal is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Engineering at KIIT. He is also a Research Consultant for the National Digital Library of India project at IIT Kharagpur. His research interests include mobile communications and digital library technologies.

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Kar, U.N., Sanyal, D.K. A Sneak Peek into 5G Communications. Reson 23, 555–572 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-018-0649-4

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