Antennas for 5G Application

Mobile communication is considered one of the paramount innovations of the last few decades as it has played a significant role in the social and economic development of the countries. Due to the rapid upsurge in connected devices, the growth of data traffic is remarkable. The latest traffic anticipated by Cisco Systems, Inc., due to the increase in mobile devices is illustrated in Figure 2. It is noted that the number of global mobile devices is predicted to grow from 8.8 billion (in 2018) to 13.1 billion by 2023, with an 8% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) [16]. Due to this anticipated growth of connected devices and also due to the more value-added services such as virtual reality, ultra-high-definition video, cloud services, smart vehicles, etc., the industry progressed towards the 5G networks to provide the 1000x more capacity as compared to 4G, so that the incessantly growing data rates requirement can be met.