10.1109/6GSUMMIT49458.2020.9083786
https://zenodo.org/records/4428381
oai:zenodo.org:4428381
Lagén, Sandra
Sandra
Lagén
Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
Patriciello, Natale
Natale
Patriciello
Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
Giupponi, Lorenza
Lorenza
Giupponi
Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
Cellular and Wi-Fi in Unlicensed Spectrum: Competition leading to Convergence
Zenodo
2020
5G
6G
Wi-Fi
unlicensed spectrum
2020-03-17
eng
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
In order to look into the future, it is essential to review the history. Traditionally, the unlicensed spectrum has been widely dominated by Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11-based) technologies. However, in current deployments, due to the recent cellular (3GPP LTE and NR-based) technologies operation expansion to the unlicensed spectrum, IEEE and 3GPP technologies compete for the access. In this paper, we review the history of IEEE and 3GPP technologies operation in the unlicensed spectrum and highlight future trends. We will show that, as a result of the competition, both technologies are converging to use similar features in the radio access, such as large bandwidth operations and efficient designs. Then, we will expose options for their future convergence, including cellular and Wi-Fi interworking, as well as the combination of cellular and Wi-Fi connections in unlicensed bands. Finally, based on current competition-based deployments, we present a system-level evaluation of NR-U and Wi - Fi coexistence in the 60 GHz unlicensed spectrum bands.
Grant numbers : 5G-REFINE - Resource EfFIcient 5G NEtworks (TEC2017-88373-R) and ID-NRU - Standalone and non Standalone NR-U for coexistence and operation in unlicensed spectrum (01 October 2018 - 10 June 2019) projects.© 2020 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.