Access networks for the development of mobile communication systems

Cuenca, martes 29 noviembre 2016
Andrés Leonardo Ortega (middle) with Ryuji Kohno, professor at Yokohama National University (right) and Yuji Inoue (left)
Andrés Leonardo Ortega (middle) with Ryuji Kohno, professor at Yokohama National University (right) and Yuji Inoue (left)

Currently, the development of information and communication technologies advance at a very fast pace. Particularly, in the field of telecommunications there are talks of 5G technology, which refers to the fifth generation of mobile phone technology. Today, companies and scientists around the world are developing their prototypes and conducting studies to provide users this technology.

The university's telecommunications research group (El Grupo de Investigación de Telecomunicaciones GITEL), is conducting its own research regarding 5G technology. In this regard, UPS professor and researcher Andres Leonardo Ortega presented his research "Performance Evaluation of GFDM over non linear Channel" in the International Conference on ICT convergence – ICTC 2016, held in South Korea.

 In his presentation Professor Ortega, explained that his research shows one of the latest tendencies of access networks for the development of 5G in mobile communications systems. GFDM has proven to be a system that significantly exceeds the characteristics of access systems such as OFDM and FBMC.

This application is one of the candidates for the access infrastructure in 5G. However, there are some techniques to determine and standardize a network that could provide service at high speed and absolute connectivity not only to mobile users, but to different types of users. Nowadays, there is a high demand of data and if there is no adequate support for the increase of users, there could be problems of connectivity.

307 papers and 144 posters from 29 countries were presented during the conference which was also attended by the Presidents of multinational companies that are leaders in telecommunications, like Samsung, LG, Huawei, Ericsson – LG SK Telecom, National Instruments, ETRI, Inter Digital and Toyota.