Guest Editors
Engr. Saad Hassan Kiani, City University of Science and Information Technology, Pakistan.
Dr. Mujeeb Abdullah, Bacha Khan University, Charsadda, Pakistan.
Dr. Naeem Ahmad Jan, Iqra National University, Pakistan.
Dr. Azam Mehbon, University of West Australia, Australia.
Summary
5G will support significantly faster mobile broadband speeds, low latency and reliable communications, as well as enabling the full potential of the Internet of Things (IoT). This will open up the possibility for new services such as tactile communications, smart manufacturing and cities, in addition to enhanced broadband connectivity. Pivotal to 5G is the use of the millimeter wave band, which will support a network of small cells enabling hotspot zones of high capacity and area efficiency. The forthcoming 5G system will truly be a mobile multimedia communication platform that constitutes a converged networking arena that not only includes legacy heterogeneous mobile networks, but advanced radio interfaces and the possibility to operate at mm wave frequencies to capitalise on the large swathe of available bandwidth. This will set in place extensive design requirements that even build on the latest 5G roll-out in the sub 6GHz band.
Future emerging handsets and base stations will require antenna technology that is multimode in nature, energy efficient, and above all able to operate on the mm wave band in synergy with legacy 4G and sub-6GHz 5G. Antennas should be compact in nature, but with engineering requirements that include increased power, larger bandwidth, higher gain, and insensitivity to the hand-held effect of human users. This requires very innovative solutions in antenna design, which can operate in single and MIMO/Array configuration.
This Special Issue aims to bring together academic and industrial researchers to identify and discuss technical challenges and new results related to the design of 5G antennas.
Keywords
• Antenna design techniques and measurement for 5G systems
• Multiple antennas for advanced 5G transceivers
• Multiband 5G antenna
• 5G Dielectric Resonator antennas
• Antennas on flexible substrates for medical applications
• Wearable and implantable antennas
• RFID antennas
• Antennas for wireless power transmission and harvesting
• Reconfigurable antennas and devices
• Mutual coupling and isolation techniques between antenna elements
• UWB antennas
• mmwave antennas
• Origami Antenna
• Chiral Materials
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