Required Restrictions on Characteristics of 4G/5G Mobile (Cellular) Communications to Ensure their Safety for Users
https://doi.org/10.35596/1729-7648-2022-20-3-54-62
Abstract
Implementation of intensive development of technologies, systems, and services of mobile (cellular) communications (CC) of the fourth (4G) and fifth (5G), and by 2030 also the sixth (6G) generation, implying an increase by many orders of magnitude in the data transmission rates over radio channels of user interfaces, without adopting special measures and restrictions may be accompanied by a significant increase in the power of electromagnetic radiation of subscriber devices. This power, the upper limits of which are determined at the level of 23–26 dBm, that exceeds the safe levels for the population, determines the degree of acceptability of voluntary environmental risks from the penetration of 4G/5G/6G technologies and services into all spheres of human activity. The goal of the work is to assess the expected limitations on system characteristics of 4G/5G mobile communications when using population friendly electromagnetic radiation power levels of the user's radio equipment. As the analyzed characteristics of mobile communication systems, the maximum communication range, the maximum allowable data transmission rate and the allowable relative level of intranet interference are considered. A quantitative systemic analysis of these limitations, the results of which are presented in this work, makes it possible to substantiate the necessary system, technical and organizational solutions aimed at ensuring the necessary level of electromagnetic safety for consumers of 4G/5G/6G services in the context of the rapid development of these systems without compromising the efficiency of technologies of information services for modern society.
About the Author
V. I. Mordachev
http://emc.bsuir.by
Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
Belarus
Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
Belarus
Mordachev Vladimir Ivanovich, Cand. of Sci., Associate Professor, Leading Researcher
220013, Minsk, P. Brovka St., 6
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Mordachev V.I. Required Restrictions on Characteristics of 4G/5G Mobile (Cellular) Communications to Ensure their Safety for Users. Doklady BGUIR. 2022;20(3):54-62. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.35596/1729-7648-2022-20-3-54-62
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