Communication Bandwidth for Emerging Networks: Trends and Prospects

TL;DR

This paper reviews current bandwidth usage, trends, and future prospects across various communication domains, emphasizing the importance of efficient bandwidth utilization amid rising demand from emerging services like IoT.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of bandwidth trends in optical and wireless communications and discusses future challenges and opportunities for emerging services.

Findings

Increasing bandwidth demand due to new services

Trends in optical and wireless communication bandwidth usage

Implications for future bandwidth provisioning

Abstract

Bandwidth is one of the essential resources for communication. Due to the emergence of large number of new services in different types of communications and their value added entities, the demand for bandwidth has gone up more than ever before. The Internet and its allied services are one of the main users of the global bandwidth. With this increasing demand, effective usage of the available bandwidth and the discovery of new bands become very important. In this article, we show current bandwidth usages and their utilities in different application domains. We show the present trends of bandwidth used for global communication by taking the international bandwidth of the core networks in to account. We analyzed the bandwidth trends in optical and wireless communication domains. Emerging services such as Internet of Things and their bandwidth provisioning too have been discussed in this article.