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Watch measurements come alive with Real-Time Power Processing™ Boonton www.electronics-eetimes.com Electronic Engineering Times Europe January 2013 3 131028_VELO_MWE_EU.indd 1 10/15/13 1:58 PM Contents Editor In Chief Jean-Pierre Joosting Tel. +44-7800 548-133 engineering europe email: [email protected] engineering europe Advertising Production Lydia Gijsegom Tel +32 (0) 2 740 00 50 email: [email protected] 5 6 Circulation & Finance Luc Desimpel Comment News Tel +32 (0) 2 740 0055 email: [email protected] 4G is now, but 5G already Excessive security will kill Art Manager starts to take shape the Internet of Things Jean-Paul Speliers Tel +32 (0)2 740 0052 Weightless email: [email protected] details Accounting roadmap Ricardo Pinto Ferreira Tel +32 (0)2 740 0051 for IoT email: [email protected] devices Publisher Andre Rousselot Tel +32 (0)2 740 0053 email: [email protected] 10/11 12 European Business Press SA 7 Avenue Reine Astrid MEMS, Nanotechnology: Cover Feature: Modern 1310 La Hulpe - Belgium Tel: +32 (0)2 740 00 50 MEMS timing VNA test solutions improve Fax: +32 (0)2 740 00 59 device cracks on-wafer measurement www.microwave-eetimes.com cellphone market efficiency VAT Registration: BE 461.357.437 RPM: Nivelles Company Number: 0461357437 Micowave Materials: Prototype THz © 2013 E.B.P. 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As test companies are usually at the However, some are already planning forefront of any emerging technology, 5G 5G. To this end, last year METIS (Mobile as defined by the METIS project has one and wireless communications Enablers such company currently involved, Anite, for the Twenty-twenty (2020) Information which has just announced that it has Society) was launched. been appointed to lead the radio channel Co-funded by the European Commis- modelling Task Group within the METIS sion, METIS is a consortium of 28 key project. • Ten to one hundred times higher typical wireless industry players and the first Anite has participated in defining user data rate where in a dense urban international and large-scale research five 5G scenarios that reflect the future environment the typical user data rate activity on 5G. Its main objective is to lay challenges of wireless communications will range from one to ten Gbps, the foundation for 5G, the next genera- standards. The five scenarios, recently • One thousand times more mobile tion mobile and wireless communications made public, shape the definition of data per area (per user) where the system. 5G will address the huge surge propagation conditions and form the basis volume per area (per user) will be over predicted in mobile data consumption and of channel modelling development. METIS 100 Gbps/km2, the wide range of wireless devices. In a has derived a challenging set of require- • Ten to one hundred times more con- wireless communications world described ments from these scenarios, including nected devices, as the ‘Internet of Things’, data will one thousand times more mobile data per • Ten times longer battery life for low- become available anywhere, anytime to area compared to today’s average traffic. power massive machine communica- anyone and anything. The radio channel modelling Task Group is tions where machines such as sensors 5G has got a lot of global interest and expected to publish its first results in April or pagers will have a battery life of a one might question why 4G might not of 2014. decade, suffice? Part of the answer lies in the rapid The success of 5G radio technology de- • Support of ultra-fast application re- growth in smartphone use. METIS claim velopment requires the efficient utilisation sponse times where the end-to-end that smartphone subscriptions will grow of the radio channel. Since the early 1990s, latency will be less than 5 ms with high from 1.2 billion in 2012 to 4.5 billion by Anite’s experienced radio channel team reliability, and 2018. The second reason, 4G might not has pioneered research and development • to do all this under a similar cost and cope in five years from now is that the data of radio channel models, now incorpo- energy dissipation per area as in today’s usage per smartphone continues to grow rated into its market-leading Propsim radio cellular systems. rapidly. Future users will also rely more on channel emulator product range. their smartphones, not only for the emerg- Currently METIS defines 5G through a ing infotainment use case, but also for a challenging set of requirements, which can By Jean-Pierre Joosting wide range of use cases such as monitor- be summarized as: Editor: Microwave Engineering Europe Design and production service for obsolescent RF and microwave parts Link Microtek has introduced a design features of a product are entered into Once the parts have been made, they and production service aimed at provid- the CST Microwave Studio modelling are then fully tested at up to 40 GHz ing replacements for RF or microwave program, which enables Link to derive in Link’s own test and environmental components that have become obsolete specifications such as operating frequen- laboratories, if necessary using specially but are still critical to present operations. cy and return loss, as well as working out designed and manufactured test fixtures. The company is able to recreate parts the best way to fabricate the part. For high-power products, an in-house with the same form, fit and function as For example, some RF and microwave facility allows testing at up to 200W CW an existing product, working either from components now in the field were origi- over the frequency range 7-16 GHz.