Huawei named key member of new 5G Association

BARCELONA, SPAIN: Huawei was named as a key member of the European Commission's new 5GPPP (5G Public-Private Partnership) Association formed at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2014.

5GPPP is a flagship research program for the European Union's "Horizon 2020" research and innovation framework. At the same time the company announced it had achieved a 115 Gbps transmission speed over the air with a 5G wireless technology prototype in one of its research facilities.

The announcement of Huawei's breakthrough 5G research achievement sets a benchmark for realizing the company's vision of providing to individual mobile subscribers a fiber-like 10 Gbps speed, more than 100 times faster than what is currently possible on smartphones and smart devices. The 5G prototype utilized a novel transceiver architecture operating on the 70-90GHz spectrum band.

Advanced transmission technologies for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) were used in conjunction with an innovative multi-antenna precoding technology. The prototype demonstrated it could overcome out-of-band emission leakage for flexible spectrum utilization, while also reducing peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) for improved energy efficiency, which allows for longer terminal battery life.

The prototype also demonstrated a multipath-resistance, single-frequency full-duplex radio transmissions 5G radio architecture that will double spectrum resource savings and will start to unify conventional TDD and FDD spectrum usage for 5G.