TY - GEN
T1 - 5G on the Cheap
T2 - 2022 International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering, ICECCME 2022
AU - Grohmann, Andreas Ingo
AU - Seidel, Mauri
AU - Lehmann, Christopher
AU - Höschele, Thomas
AU - Reisslein, Martin
AU - Fitzek, Frank H.P.
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the project 5G Insel, grant 16KIS0956K; the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) as part of the joint French-German project 5G-Opera, grant 01MJ22008A; the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany in the programme “Souverän. Digital. Vernetzt.”; the Joint Project 6G-life, ID. no. 16KISK001K; and the German Research Foundation (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) as part of Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC 2050/1 – Project ID 390696704 – Cluster of Excellence Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (CeTI) of Technische Universität Dresden.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - 5G legacy communication systems from commercial vendors are 'all-rounders' in terms of performance in that they can support large numbers of nodes with high Quality of Service (QoS), but they are costly. On the contrary, WiFi networks are cheap, but can only support small numbers of nodes with low QoS. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) typically have only a small set of homogeneous communications use cases, but operate under tight cost constraints. We propose 5G on the Cheap (5G Cheap) as a highly customizable open-source 5G communication system. We describe a range of configuration options for the open-source Core Network (CN) and the Radio Access Network (RAN) for 5G Cheap. A low-end 5G Cheap configuration can serve the specific needs typical SMEs and costs only roughly one tenth of the cost of a commercial 5G legacy system.
AB - 5G legacy communication systems from commercial vendors are 'all-rounders' in terms of performance in that they can support large numbers of nodes with high Quality of Service (QoS), but they are costly. On the contrary, WiFi networks are cheap, but can only support small numbers of nodes with low QoS. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) typically have only a small set of homogeneous communications use cases, but operate under tight cost constraints. We propose 5G on the Cheap (5G Cheap) as a highly customizable open-source 5G communication system. We describe a range of configuration options for the open-source Core Network (CN) and the Radio Access Network (RAN) for 5G Cheap. A low-end 5G Cheap configuration can serve the specific needs typical SMEs and costs only roughly one tenth of the cost of a commercial 5G legacy system.
KW - 5G Campus
KW - Industry 4.0
KW - Low-cost
KW - OpenRAN
KW - Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)
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U2 - 10.1109/ICECCME55909.2022.9988703
DO - 10.1109/ICECCME55909.2022.9988703
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85146431811
T3 - International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering, ICECCME 2022
BT - International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering, ICECCME 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 16 November 2022 through 18 November 2022
ER -