The fifth generation of mobile communication networks will support a large
set of new services and applications. One important use case is the remote area
coverage for broadband Internet access. This use case ha significant social and
economic impact, since a considerable percentage of the global population
living in low populated area does not have Internet access and the
communication infrastructure in rural areas can be used to improve agribusiness
productivity. The aim of this paper is to analyze the performance of a 5G for
Remote Areas transceiver, implemented on field programmable gate array based
hardware for real-time processing. This transceiver employs the latest digital
communication techniques, such as generalized frequency division multiplexing
waveform combined with 2 by 2 multiple-input multiple-output diversity scheme
and polar channel coding. The performance of the prototype is evaluated
regarding its out-of-band emissions and bit error rate under AWGN channel.Comment: Presented in 2018 European Conference on Networks and Communications
(EuCNC),18-21 June, 2018, Ljubljana, Sloveni