TY - GEN
T1 - An empirical analysis of the progress in wireless communication generations
AU - Luo, Kevin
AU - Dang, Shuping
AU - Zhang, Chuanting
AU - Shihada, Basem
AU - Alouini, Mohamed-Slim
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-08-27
PY - 2021/8/9
Y1 - 2021/8/9
N2 - The controversy and argument on the usefulness of the physical layer (PHY) academic research for wireless communications are long-standing since the cellular communication paradigm gets to its maturity. In particular, researchers suspect that the performance improvement in cellular communications is primarily attributable to the increases in telecommunication infrastructure and radio spectrum instead of the PHY academic research, whereas concrete evidence is lacking. To respond to this controversy from an objective perspective, we employ econometric approaches to quantify the contributions of the PHY academic research and other performance determinants. Through empirical analysis and the quantitative evidence obtained, albeit preliminary, we shed light on the following issues: 1) what determines the cross-national differences in cellular network performance; 2) to what extent the PHY academic research and other factors affect cellular network performance; 3) what suggestions we can obtain from the data analysis for the stakeholders of the PHY research.
AB - The controversy and argument on the usefulness of the physical layer (PHY) academic research for wireless communications are long-standing since the cellular communication paradigm gets to its maturity. In particular, researchers suspect that the performance improvement in cellular communications is primarily attributable to the increases in telecommunication infrastructure and radio spectrum instead of the PHY academic research, whereas concrete evidence is lacking. To respond to this controversy from an objective perspective, we employ econometric approaches to quantify the contributions of the PHY academic research and other performance determinants. Through empirical analysis and the quantitative evidence obtained, albeit preliminary, we shed light on the following issues: 1) what determines the cross-national differences in cellular network performance; 2) to what extent the PHY academic research and other factors affect cellular network performance; 3) what suggestions we can obtain from the data analysis for the stakeholders of the PHY research.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/670749
UR - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448891.3448894
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85112715122&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3448891.3448894
DO - 10.1145/3448891.3448894
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781450388405
SP - 425
EP - 434
BT - MobiQuitous 2020 - 17th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services
PB - ACM
ER -