Strategic investment analysis for migration beyond 3G wireless networks

Gunasekaran, Vinoth; Harmantzis, Fotios C.; Ryan, Kevin

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“…Particularly, few papers discuss the economic impact of specific technologies potentially involved in 5G deployments: [15] studies the techno-economic aspects of ultra-dense femtocell-based deployment and distributed antenna systems technology, [17] analyses several solutions of optical fiber based 5G back/fronthaul, [33] provides tools for selecting the most appropriate radio access technologies (RAT) in future 5G network ecosystems, [37] proposes a techno-economic analysis approach for upgrading 4G to 5G and points out that the reuse of existing sites could have a large impact on reducing costs, and [19] includes a complex and detailed analysis of 5G network deployment in Britain for the period 2020-2030, developing several spatial and temporal rollout scenarios. In contrast, the literature is rich in techno-economic studies for previous wireless networks (i.e., 3G or wireless local access) [22], [24], [31]. Therefore, it is worth studying the new mobile generation with this proposed approach.…”

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Towards 5G: Techno-economic analysis of suitable use cases

2019

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The evolution of mobile networks towards the Fifth Generation (5G) introduces many concerns from the technical and economic points of view. Expected new applications exceed mobile networks' current capabilities, and 4G networks will have to evolve into 5G networks to provide some with a proper service. With regard to the ambitious intended performance of 5G networks, a huge process is required which will need to be faced up to both technically and economically. The 5G "ready system" standard is scheduled for 2020. However, only a few studies have carried out techno-economic evaluation of 5G. This paper presents a techno-economic analysis to foresee some feasible technical architectures leading to suitable and affordable use cases. The paper presents a new approach based on different evolving technical scenarios, establishing combined 4G/5G technical solutions and a roadmap that could provide useful insights about the most suitable use cases by scenario. Moreover, it analyses these possible use cases to determine their feasibility by optimizing their deployment costs. The study is based on the standardization process, integration of different views of key industrial players and mathematical modelling to address the new applications that 5G will provide. Finally, conclusions are drawn from the analysis and a recommendation score is established, providing useful advice to support the strategic decisions of the different stakeholders, technologists and investors involved in deployment of 5G networks.

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Towards 5G: Techno-economic analysis of suitable use cases

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Techno-economic modeling of value network configurations for public wireless local area access

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A Demand Model for Mobile Data Traffic in the 5G Era

Katsigiannis

2018

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This chapter examines how to estimate and forecast the market demand of mobile data traffic in the 5G era. The research objective is to develop a demand model for forecasting the market price and quantity of traffic in the Finnish mobile data communications market for the period between 2016 and 2020. The market price of traffic unit (GB/month), quantity, revenue, and profits are empirically estimated and forecast. The results show that the improvements of network performance, reflected by the user experienced data rate, cause a drop in the price from 0.8 to 0.27 € per GB/month between 2016 and 2020 (tenfold traffic growth). Also, a more than threefold increase is shown in mobile data revenues, whereas the profitability remains at a high level for the minimum marginal cost of 0.08 €.

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Strategic investment analysis for migration beyond 3G wireless networks

Abstract: HSDPA, UMTS, Wi-Fi, 3G, Migration, Strategy, Forecasting, Net present value (NPV),

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Towards 5G: Techno-economic analysis of suitable use cases

Towards 5G: Techno-economic analysis of suitable use cases

Techno-economic modeling of value network configurations for public wireless local area access

A Demand Model for Mobile Data Traffic in the 5G Era

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