Base Stations for 5G: Soon in Our Homes and On Wheels?
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[url]http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131022091517.htm[/url]
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[QUOTE][B]In a few years, our mobile network will have to deal with a thousand times more the traffic it has to today. One possible solution is to place small base stations in our homes or cars. This is one of several proposals being examined at Chalmers University of Technology, in the work being performed for the next generation wireless system – 5G.[/B]
The need to densify the cellular network will increase dramatically in the coming years. The sharp increase is driven by growth in smartphone subscriptions, and at the same time we are consuming more mobile services as an increasing number of services are made available. A very large number of new devices are also expected to communicate in the mobile network, in areas such as infotainment, transport and new industrial applications.
“We see that traffic capacity in the long term needs to increase a thousandfold to meet this rapid development. Theoretically, we could provide the capacity by increasing the number of big base stations, but this option is not economically viable,” says Associate Professor Tommy Svensson at Chalmers University of Technology.
Chalmers is taking part in the 5G initiative Metis – the first international and large-scale research initiative on the 5th generation wireless systems. The Department of Signals and Systems is examining the possibility of densifying the cellular network by supplementing the infrastructure with simple, low power and small base stations. These can be positioned, for example, next to lampposts, facades and in indoor environments. Another proposal is to place small mobile base stations in vehicles, such as cars, trucks, buses and trains.
With these additions to the mobile network, data transfer from big base stations will become ​​more efficient, and the distance to users will decrease – which will benefit high speed data traffic and result in increased battery life for mobile devices. When small base stations are located closer to users, radio signals can be used more efficiently and thereby be transmitted with less power, which means exposure to radiation from mobile communications can be reduced.
Placing base stations in vehicles can offer smart and flexible densification, which partially addresses the current problem of mobile access in crowded areas – where there are many people, there are generally also vehicles.
“Small mobile base stations can also contribute to secure communication between vehicles for traffic and road safety applications,” says Professor Erik Ström at Chalmers University of Technology.
In fact, the future wireless network will form the foundation for an intelligent society where people and equipment can be connected anywhere, anytime – with anything. A high degree of connectivity will be a key enabler for new innovative technologies and applications that can benefit from information sharing. Achieving this within an integrated wireless network is a complex challenge for 5G.[/QUOTE]
Just make the world Wifi enabled. Seems a lot simpler if you ask me
[QUOTE=A_Pigeon;42646087]Just make the world Wifi enabled. Seems a lot simpler if you ask me[/QUOTE]
How is that any easier when any commercially available access point will crap itself if there's more than 10 devices connected to it?
Why, in the picture, does the cat contribute to the network?
[QUOTE=dingusnin;42646171]Why, in the picture, does the cat contribute to the network?[/QUOTE]
it's a roaming connection called "MOBILE PUSSY"
powered by lil b
"Meh, my neighbor should have one so there's no need for me to get this."
[QUOTE=dingusnin;42646171]Why, in the picture, does the cat contribute to the network?[/QUOTE]
Pet tracking chips.... or cyborg cats. Yeah it is cyborg cats, the first possibility was just dumb.
But why not just put a router in the planet's core so we all get internet?????
[QUOTE=Kebab;42648242]But why not just put a router in the planet's core so we all get internet?????[/QUOTE]
"Who's downloading?! Is you again Russia? Fuck me, you already have every movie and series, even the fucking miniseries. How am I meant to play PRISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
[editline]26th October 2013[/editline]
But on a serious note though, it'd be easier to go through air and vacuums than solid rock.
The conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day.
Not in my car you won't.
Hooray, I have access to all this mobile data
let's modify this device and steal all the encrypted data because fuck me, right?
[QUOTE=iwancoppa;42650082]Hooray, I have access to all this mobile data
let's modify this device and steal all the encrypted data because fuck me, right?[/QUOTE]
The fuck you gonna do with encrypted data? It's encrypted.
[QUOTE=nikomo;42650677]The fuck you gonna do with encrypted data? It's encrypted.[/QUOTE]
Erm.... decrypt it?
[QUOTE=dingusnin;42650859]Erm.... decrypt it?[/QUOTE]
easier said than done...
[QUOTE=dingusnin;42650859]Erm.... decrypt it?[/QUOTE]
Yeah cya in a thousand years after you've decrypted the first packet.
[QUOTE=DrDevil;42651009]Yeah cya in a thousand years after you've decrypted the first packet.[/QUOTE]
You should know better than actually assume they have the slightest chance of managing to do this right
By all odds its gonna be a data security disaster if they actually do this
Why not make WiFI better by enabling it to handle a shitload of connected device and [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network"]mesh networking[/URL]
Create some new standard or someshit.
And then have master devices here & there to act as bridges between the WiFi network and 5G
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;42649303]Maybe put them on streetlamps or things no one cares about[/QUOTE]
Actually makes sense.
In any town and city there's often streetlights in even lightly populated areas.
Not sure how the technology works, but wouldn't mobile base stations make it difficult to traingulate someone's location (theoretically, for surveillance purposes)?
[QUOTE=snookypookums;42651127]Not sure how the technology works, but wouldn't mobile base stations make it difficult to traingulate someone's location (theoretically, for surveillance purposes)?[/QUOTE]You don't really triangulate people, you just know in which cell they're in. (Cells are smaller in cities than out in the rural areas)
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