Place Time Capacity- A novel concept for defining challenges in 5G networks and beyond in India

Ever since India has stepped into cellular wireless communications, serving the hotspot areas has always been a critical challenge for the service providers. Typical Indian hotspot areas are usually densely packed by both concrete/brick/stone old structures and potential subscribers, thereby creating a tug-of-war between need of more and more sites and suitability of locations for installation of these sites. Somehow, the Indian service providers are managing to install the required sites, however, these capacity dwellers are not static in nature and often are found in motion. The problem exceeds when these subscribers roam in groups, thereby further deepening the capacity need at every spot and problem is increasingly high when the technology is upgraded from mere 2G to 4G and further excepting 5G by the year 2020 that have and will immensely increase per subscriber capacity allocation. We have coined a new concept for this high chunk capacity-in-motion and is termed as “Place Time Capacity”. This paper describes about the challenge and the possible alternative to this Place Time Capacity problem.