17-11-2016 13:27 via telecoms.com

Telefónica and Huawei unveil ‘user centric, no cell’ 5G proof of concept

Telefónica and Huawei are hyping a novel 5G RAN architecture that claims to end the fixed cell paradigm and disruption associated with cell handover, but at this stage it remains pretty abstract.
The cunning bit is something to do with associating certain base stations with certain devices and then using Hyper-Cell network architecture to coordinate all this. Thus the device dictates which base stations it uses, not the other way around, thus supposedly eliminating the current cell centri
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