A white paper from the Wireless Infrastructure Association’s (WIA) Innovation & Technology Council (ITC) explores the need for additional bandwidth and offloading techniques as next-generation 5G wireless services begin to roll out. “The 5G Paradox: The Need for More Offloading Options in the Next-Generation Wireless Era,” explains wireless networks need to be prepared for the tremendous increase in devices and connections brought about by 5G.
The authors conclude more offloading will be needed to manage additional data capacity. The ITC report was written by Greg Najjar, Advanced RF Technologies Inc.; Mark Reynolds, the University of New Mexico; Don Bach, Boingo Wireless; and Luke Lucas, T-Mobile USA. Jim Lockwood of Aero Solutions and Don Bach of Boingo Wireless chair the ITC group.
“Even as 5G networks will bring more spectrum to market, the massive amounts of new connections that will be available could overwhelm networks once billions of diverse devices connect to the 5G networks. So even as new spectrum comes to market, operators will continue to need to use offloading techniques to keep the macro cellular network operating efficiently,” write the authors in the white paper.
WIA President/CEO Jonathan Adelstein said, “Mobile data traffic continues to skyrocket, a trend that the arrival of 5G will drive even faster. The paradox is that while 5G provides vastly more bandwidth, it will also drive so much more demand that increased offloading is concurrently needed as an efficient, win-win solution for service providers, infrastructure providers, and customers.”
February 15, 2019
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