Future of radio access

Summary form only given, as follows. In the future everything that benefits from being connected will be connected. In this networked society, communication will expand from today´s human-centric needs to a large variety of machines and ´things´ being connected. Wireless connectivity will be a key enabler in the global communication infrastructure and will have to support not only the heavy increase in traffic but also a more diverse range of requirements. This imposes considerable technology challenges where advancements within areas like multi-antenna technologies, spectrum utilization, air-interface design and co-ordination techniques will be of utmost importance in order to fulfill the requirements on future wireless networks. Technology evolution has however to be tuned for and targeting the propagation characteristics that will dominate future deployments.