Designing a Narrowband 28 GHz Band-pass Filter for 5G applications
(Room Ballroom G)
17 Oct 18
4:25 PM
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4:55 PM
5G represents the next milestone in mobile communications, targeting more traffic, increased capacity, reduced latency, and lower energy consumption than its predecessors. To achieve these goals, networks will need to increase bandwidths through carrier aggregation and a push into millimeter-wave spectrum, all while improving spatial efficiency with base station densification, massive multiple-in-multiple-out (MIMO) and beam-forming antenna arrays. These enabling technologies will place new demands on the underlying RF front-end components, particularly the vast number of filter designs required across a heterogeneous network of base-stations (of varied cell sizes) and mobile devices. This paper takes a look at the filter challenges brought on by adopting these new technologies, the factors driving the physical, electrical and cost restraints for 5G filters as well as the supporting simulation technology that will help designers physically realize these components.