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Recent rapid developments in 4G wireless communication have been motivated by breakthroughs in air interface technology, exemplified by the replacement of WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) with OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency-division Multiplexing). Although the protocol to adopt for 5G HF (High-Frequency) wireless communication—including such matters as waveform, network deployment, and frequency range—has been a controversial issue for a number of years, a common view is that there is a large gap between the rapidly increasing requirements pertaining to traffic capacity and the capabilities of current LTE (Long Term Evolution) networks in terms of spectral and power efficiency. A number of technical challenges need to be overcome in order to bridge this gap. In this paper, by briefly reviewing progress in HF technology, we summarize technical challenges ranging from propagation attenuation and the implementation of circuit devices, to signal processing and the Ka-band to offer feasible reflection on the forthcoming technological revolution.
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ZHAO Jianping was born in 1970. He received his Ph.D. in Signal and Information Processing from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 1999. He joined Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. in 2008, and is the chief expert at the Antenna and RF Capability Center. His research interests include antenna design, RF circuit design, and electromagnetic field theory. (Email: peter.zhao@huawei.com
Chenlei was born in 1983. He received his Ph.D. in Information and Communication Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology in March 2015. He is an IEEE member of Signal Processing Society and Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society, and a reviewer of IET and Elsevier publication. He has been a research engineer at Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. since May 2015, and his research interests include massive MIMO, high-frequency communication, channel calibration, remote sensing, and machine learning. (Email: lichenlei@huawei.com).
LI Xianghua was born in 1987. He received his B.S. in Electronics Science and Technology and Ph.D. in physical electronics from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2009 and 2015, respectively. He has been a research engineer at Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. since May 2015, and his research interests include high-frequency communication, high-frequency electronic circuits and systems, silicon photonics, and microwave photonics. (Email: lixianghual@huawei.com).
SHEN Long was born in 1988. He received his M.S. in Communication Engineering from Shanghai University, March 2014, Shanghai. He has been an R&D engineer at Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. since March 2014, and his research interests include antennas, high-frequency communication, and isolation of antennas. (Email: shenlong@huawei. com).
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Zhao, J., Li, C., Li, X. et al. Technical challenges for high-frequency wireless communication. J. Commun. Inf. Netw. 1, 19–28 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03391554
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