What type of communication is 5G?

5G networks are developed with the ambition to support a wide range of highly demanding services and application, by pushing the network capabilities to provide extreme performance, including the support of massively interconnected devices in the context of Machine Type Communication (MTC) [1].

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What wireless protocol is 5G?

802.11ac (aka 5G Wi-Fi) is the next step after 802.11n (aka N or Wireless-N, which is currently is the most popular Wi-Fi standard). It’s backward-compatible with N, meaning that a 5G Wi-Fi router will support N clients and 5G Wi-Fi clients will also be able to connect to an N router.

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What is a 5G base station?

This is the upgraded version of 4G LTE radio base station . It connects 4G LTE devices to the mobile network when a 5G CAN is used instead of a 4G Core network (EPC). These nodes are installed at operators’ cell sites and can be seen as cell towers, or tall masts.

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Why HTTP is used in 5G?

5G adopts HTTP/2 as application layer protocol which means all the network entities in control plane will communicate with each using HTTP/2 . However, HTTP/2 may cause new problems in the totally new designed Service-based Architecture (SBA).

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Is 5G a type of LTE?

5G vs LTE. The main difference between 5G and LTE is that 5G is the technology that came after 4G LTE to increase the speed . 5G has a radio frequency of 30 to 300 GHz, whereas LTE, which is based on 4G technology, has a radio frequency of up to 6 GHz.

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