Survey of Promising Technologies for 5G Networks

TL;DR

This survey reviews key enabling technologies like cloud computing, IoT, and SDN that are shaping the development of 5G networks, highlighting their roles in improving capacity, speed, and reliability.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of emerging technologies and architectures essential for the advancement of 5G networks, emphasizing their integration and potential benefits.

Findings

Cloud computing reduces infrastructure costs.

SDN enhances network programmability and flexibility.

IoT facilitates interaction between physical and digital worlds.

Abstract

As an enhancement of cellular networks, the future-generation 5G network can be considered an ultra-high-speed technology. The proposed 5G network might include all types of advanced dominant technologies to provide remarkable services. Consequently, new architectures and service management schemes for different applications of the emerging technologies need to be recommended to solve issues related to data traffic capacity, high data rate, and reliability for ensuring QoS. Cloud computing, Internet of things (IoT), and software-defined networking (SDN) have become some of the core technologies for the 5G network. Cloud-based services provide flexible and efficient solutions for information and communications technology by reducing the cost of investing in and managing information technology infrastructure. In terms of functionality, SDN is a promising architecture that decouples control planes and data planes to support programmability, adaptability, and flexibility in ever-changing network architectures. However, IoT combines cloud computing and SDN to achieve greater productivity for evolving technologies in 5G by facilitating interaction between the physical and human world. The major objective of this study provides a lawless vision on comprehensive works related to enabling technologies for the next generation of mobile systems and networks, mainly focusing on 5G mobile communications.