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What accounts for the difference in these figures? Is it understandable for someone without in depth knowledge or not really?!
by jakecopp 8y ago
What accounts for the difference in these figures? Is it understandable for someone without in depth knowledge or not really?!
- gsich 8y agoLatency in LTE is, I think 5 ms. The rest from the delay is normal network delay and not an issue of LTE. So with 5G (with everything else being the same) will reduce the delay by about 4 ms.
- doikor 8y agoNot really a network engineer so cant really help with that. The 20ms is just my experience and the 1 to 2ms is the theorical number given by the people designing 5G. Found this writeup but still not really sure beyond improvements to the slot-based framework and higher frequency as being the reasons https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/5g-waves/4460346/5G--The-road-to-low-latency https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/5g-waves/4460346/5G--T... All these latency numbers vary a lot based on connection quality. As I understand you basically need line of sight for 5G to work at its maximum frequency and will fallback to what is basically 4G when such a connection is not possible. But then again the antennas/stations for 5G should be much smaller and thus easier to deploy closer to the end users.