Wireless 100Gb/s and beyond: Challenges and approaches to achieve ultra-high speed wireless communications

Ultra-high speed wireless communication will enable next generation internet access with an unbelievable comfort and service. According to predictions the requirement for speed will increase according to the ITRS roadmap of NVM storage. This leads to wireless multi-gigabit access already in the next years for short range networks and to cellular systems in the next 5-10 years. The talk will highlight the challenges in developing ultra-high speed wireless systems of 100Gb/s and beyond. The different sub-systems will be shortly analyzed like antennas, RF front-end, baseband-processor and MAC-processor. The German research community has launched a special priority program to investigate different wireless 100 Gb/s approaches. Thus, the talk will briefly address the different individual project approaches. Special focus will be the discussion of a potential paradigm shift towards more analog signal processing. This might be interesting since it promises a reduction in circuit complexity and power consumption.